William T. Wiley
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| William T. Wiley | |
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| Born | September 10, 1937 Bedford, Indiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | drawing, painting, sculpture, film, and performance |
| Training | California School of Fine Arts |
| Awards | Purchase Prize from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1968. Honorary Doctorate at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1980. 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship Award. |
- For other persons with a similar name, see: William Wiley (disambiguation).
William T. Wiley (born October 21, 1937, in Bedford, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, and performance.
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[edit] Life and work
Raised in Indiana, Texas, and Redford, Washington, William T. Wiley moved to San Francisco to study at the California School of Fine Arts where he earned his B.F.A. in 1960 and his M.F.A. two years later in 1962.[1]
In 1963, Wiley joined the faculty of the UC Davis art department with Bay Area Funk Movement artists Robert Arneson, and Roy DeForest. During that time Wiley instructed students including Bruce Nauman and Deborah Butterfield[2]. According to Dan Graham, the literary, punning element of Nauman's work came from Wiley.[3] Wiley also acknowledges the effect Nauman had on his own work.[4]
His first solo exhibition was held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1960.
In the late 1960s Wiley collaborated with the minimalist composer Steve Reich and introduced him to Bruce Nauman.[5]
[edit] Collections[6]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Museum of Modern Art in New York
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Stedelijk van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
[edit] References
- ^ William Wiley - San Francisco Art Institute
- ^ myartspace>blog: Art Space Talk: William T. Wiley
- ^ Dan Graham, Alexander Alberro, Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art, MIT Press, 1999, p112. ISBN 0262571307
- ^ Wiley quoted by Paul J. Karlstrom in Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernstein, Ilene Susan Fort, Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, University of California Press, 2000, p100. ISBN 0520227670
- ^ Robert C. Morgan, Bruce Nauman, JHU Press, 2002, p61. ISBN 0801869064
- ^ List of Collections from http://www.magical-secrets.com/artists/wiley
