Letha Wilson - Artwork etc.

Letha was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised in Greeley, Colorado. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
To get in touch with her please email her at letha@lethaprojects.com

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Education

2009	Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

1999 - 2003	Hunter College, New York, NY, MFA in Combined Media

2001	Exchange semester at the Glasgow School of Art MFA Program, Glasgow, Scotland

1994 - 1998	Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse, New York BFA in Painting; graduated with Honors, Summa cum Laude

1997	Exchange semester with Syracuse University's Division of International Programs Abroad in Florence, Italy

Current / Upcoming Exhibitions

Fall 2011:	September 13 - December 18, 2011: BAM Next Wave Art at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Dan Cameron. Opening Reception: Tuesday Sept. 13th, 6-8. Artists Talk: Sat. Sept. 17th at 5pm. May 20 - November 27: Nature Unframed at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL (outside Chicago) Nov. 18 - Dec. 17, 2011: Composite Materialism: Ethan Greenbaum, Letha Wilson, Tamara Zahaykevitch. SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine. Nov. 16 - Dec. 21, 2011: ROY G BIV at Waterhouse and Dodd. Curated by Trong G. Nguyen. Nov. 4 - Dec. 3, 2011: Project Space, Stene Projects, Stockholm, Sweden. Oct. 28 - Nov. 20, 2011 J.J. Holdings and Friends, a J.J. Holdings Affair, 94 Prince Street, 2nd Floor, NYC. November 5, 2011: Work Hard at Wildlife, organized by Jon Lutz / Daily Operation. A one night show of limited edition artworks, more info here. Sept. 27 - Dec. 17, 2011: So Different, So Appealing at Gramercy Park Hotel, Penthouse. NYC. Organized by Rachel Churner and Ryan Steadman. Sept. 21 - Dec. 1, 2011: Imprecise Geometry: Niall McClelland, Jong Oh, Letha Wilson, organized by Wendy Olsoff (P.P.O.W.) at 308at156 project space, 156 5th Avenue, NYC. Oct. 14 - 28, 2011: The Death of Affect at Art Blog Art Blog, 508 W. 26th Street, 11th Fl, NYC. October 14 - 23, 2011: Cut/Paste at Big&Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City. August 27 - September 18, 2011: This is The Same as That: Dave Murray and Letha Wilson at LVL3, Chicago, IL.

Selected Past Exhibitions

2011	Late Summer Blues at Storefront, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Sara Reisman and Ian Daniel. Matthew Brandt, Christine Nguyen, Letha Wilson: Every Photo Graph Is In Visible at Churner and Churner, New York, NY Summer Time at Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC Goodbye Space Shuttle at Curbs and Stoops, Brooklyn, NY. Always The Young Strangers at Higher Pictures, New York, NY Dawn Till Dusk at Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY New Monuments at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY Mountain Standard Time & Place at Modbo, Colorado Springs, CO. Groundwork at Storefront, Brooklyn, NY The Working Title at Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY. Organized by Progress Report Paper A-Z at Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY Mirrored Thoughts / Spaces Between, Curated by Stephanie Adamowicz, Spattered Columns an ACNY Project New York, NY Punch the Sky, (Solo exhibition) at Vox Populi Philadelphia, PA Matinee, Curated by Lauren van Haaften-Schick and Patrick Brennan, St. Cecilia's Convent Brooklyn, NY Off Camera, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery Philadelphia, PA

2010	SHOP 2010 at Tide Pool at Sara Meltzer Gallery New York, NY Greening Green at ARKO Art Center Seoul, South Korea Science Fiction at Storefront Brooklyn, NY EYTJ at Robischon Gallery Denver, Colorado MacDougal's Cave at Silvis Studio Brooklyn, NY Collective Show New York 2010 at PARTICIPANT, Inc. New York, NY Planes and lines seem to glide past one another at Kunz,Viz,Gonzalez Chicago, IL Day Glow at Nudashank Gallery Baltimore, MD Vertical at Liaison Controverse Düsseldorf, Germany Magicality at Platform Gallery Seattle, WA I Know What You Did Last Summer at St. Cecilia's Convent Brooklyn, NY Born to Die at Secondhome Projects Berlin, Germany World's Greatest a Daily Operation project, part of Bushwick Open Studios Brooklyn, NY Momenta Art Benefit Raffle and Auction at Momenta and White Columns Brooklyn and New York, NY The Hendersons Will All Be There at BravinLee Programs New York, NY

2009	Lines Through the Wilderness at Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University Hempstead, NY Chunky Monkey at Red Flagg Gallery New York, NY Scenariette at Possible Projects Brooklyn, NY Lost Horizons solo exhibition at Buffalo Arts Studio Buffalo, NY HomeBase IV New York, NY

2008	Video A: Miguel Soares and Letha Wilson at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Ridgefield, CT There's No Place Like Utopia at Five Myles Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Matt Freedman Waste Not, Want Not at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY.

2007	between to and from at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ. Curators Veronica Mijelshon and Eleanor Eichenbaum Merit Badge 2 at Rockland Center for the Arts West Nyack, NY. Curated by Jason Middlebrook Locations of Elsewhere at Peer Gallery New York, NY. Curated by Leah Oates Points of Departure: Inner and Outer Journeys in Contemporary Art at Fox Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Landscape Architects at The Arts Center of the Capital Region Troy, NY. Curated by Jennifer Moon.

2006	Heartfelt at 96 Gillespie London, UK The Searchers at White Box New York, NY. Curated by Patricia Maloney. The Peekskill Project 2006 Peekskill, NY. Selection curated by Tania Duvergne. Paradise Lost at Frederieke Taylor Gallery New York, NY. Curated by Dan Tague. The Studio Visit at Exit Art New York, NY

2005	Exit Biennial II: Traffic at Exit Art New York, NY No Apology for Breathing at Jack the Pelican Brooklyn, NY. Organized by Matthew Lusk. Red, White and Blue at Spencer Brownstone Gallery New York, NY

2004	Look Closer.... at AG Gallery Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Tomoko Ashikawa. Ignite at the Puck Building, a GenArt event New York, NY. Curated by Trong Nguyen. AIM 24 at The Bronx Museum of the Arts Bronx, New York Re:Construct at PH Gallery New York, NY. Curated by Tomoko Ashikawa.

2003	Project Room at Contemporary Artists Center North Adams, Massachusetts Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition at Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY

2001	Minute: a boxed set of miniature multiples at Artists Space New York, NY
Honors / Awards

2011	Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts March - May 2011 Artist-in-Residence

2010	Smack Mellon Hot Picks 2010, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY BRIC Rotunda Gallery Artist of the Month February 2010

2009	Nomination, Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fellowship Santa Fe Art Institute Fellowship

2004	Artist in the Marketplace Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts Nomination, Rema Hort Mann Art Grant

2000	Hunter College Exchange Scholarship

1998	Orlin Prize, Honors Thesis Project “Artspace: Art Beyond Academia”

1998	Augusta Hazard Painting Award, Syracuse University Painting Dept.

Press & Publications

	Goings On About Town: Art "Every Photo Graph is In Visible", The New Yorker, July 27, 2011. Doran, Anne. "Art Review: Always the Young Strangers: Young women photographers put a fresh feminist spin on the medium.", Time Out New York, June 28, 2011. Page 41. Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review: Always the Young Strangers", The New York Times, June 9, 2011. Page C25. Goings On About Town: Art "Always the Young Strangers", The New Yorker, June 3, 2011. Traux, Stephen. "New Monuments on the Lower East Side" www.hyperallergic.com, May 5, 2011. Gopnick, Blake. "Wall Mugs Tree", The Daily Beast, www.thedailybeast.com. April 15, 2011. Sutton, Benjamin. "Renewed Monuments: Sculpture in the Post/Un-Monumental Era", The L Magazine, April 26, 2011. Broz, Joan. "Morton Arboretum art exhibit celebrates tree forms", The Daily Herald, April 26, 2011. Maine, Stephen. "Variety Trumps Argument at the Bronx River Art Center", www.artcritical.com, April 23, 2011. Russeth, Andrew. "The Working Title at the Bronx River Art Center", www.16miles.com. April 7, 2011. Nordeen, Bradford. "Fanzine Does New York Art Week 2011", thefanzine.com, March 6, 2011. Monnier, Annette. "Letha Wilson 'Punch the Sky' at Vox Populi", onereviewamonth.com, February 27, 2011. Nathan, Emily. "Brooklyn Local", Artnet Magazine, Feb. 12, 2011. So-Young, Moon. "Environmental Art That Does More Than Alter Nature", Korea JoongAng Daily, Feb. 11, 2011. Newhall, Edith. "Artwork using photographs in unconventional ways", The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb 6, 2011. Vettese, John. "School of Life", Philadelphia Citypaper, January 20-26, 2011. MacMillan, Kyle. "Future of art, through eyes of under-33s", The Denver Post, Dec. 9. 2010. Paglia, Michael. "Two young stars of the art world are on display this month in Denver", Westword, Nov. 30, 2010. Possible Press, Issue 2. A quarterly publication of artists' writings. September 4, 2010. Kate Steciw. "Letha Wilson", The Photography Post, August 16, 2010. Boyce, Peter. "Guest Curator Offers Day Glow at Nudashank", Radar Redux, Baltimore Art and Culture, August 12, 2010. Graves, Jen. "Magical Thinking", The Stranger, Seattle. July 6, 2010. Hackett, Regina. "William Powhida's Sideshow Magic", ARTSJOURNAL weblog, July 2010. "Poul Henningsen Docet", Lighting Academy: Il Portale Della Luce, May 14, 2009. Ryzik, Melena. "At a Clinic, Artists Reflecting On Home", The New York Times, May 11, 2009. Sena, John. "Beyond a Building", The Santa Fe New Mexican, March 2, 2009 Trimarco, James. "Tracks: More Than A Pretty View", The Brooklyn Rail, July 2008 Saltz, Jerry. "Waste Not, Want Not" Critic's Pick, New York Magazine online, June 27, 2008. Dan Bischoff. “Artists take measure for its own sake”, The Star-Ledger, January 6, 2008. Benjamin Genocchio. “Art Review; A Chance to Fill Up on Visual Treats”, New York Times, April 25, 2004, p. 9. Middlebrook, Jason. "Top Ten", Artforum, February 2003, p. 55. Powhida, William. "Majority Rules", The Brooklyn Rail, Summer 2002, pp. 8-9. Paul, Christine. "Collaborative Curatorial Models and Public Curation", Switch Journal, San Jose State University, Issue 17, Feb. 2002