Pamela Helena Wilson

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Education

1995

MA, Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1978

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1976

BA Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley, Berkely, CA

1974

Boston University


Awards 

2009 

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Fine Arts 

2007 

Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose, Artist in Residence - Printmaking, San Jose, CA

1976 

Eisner Foundation Award and Grant, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA


Solo Exhibitions 

2016

Twilight, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University, Marin, CA

2015

Berlin Stories, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2013

GPS, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2011

It’s a Big Ocean, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2009

Taking In, San Francisco Arts Commission, Market Street Poster Project, San Francisco, CA 

2008

East/West, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 

2005

Hard to Remember. Easy to Forget, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004 

Before and After, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2002

Home and Away, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

1992

Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL 

1987

David Wright Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

1985 

Tower Gallery, New York, NY 


Group Exhibitions 

2017

Recollected: Photography and the Archive, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2016 

Order and Nature, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011 

Mise-en-Scene, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

Paradigm Shifts, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2009 

Auto. Dream and Matter, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain and Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain

2008 

Latent Images, Curated by Alberto Martin, Gallery Fucares, Madrid, Spain

We Remember the Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA 

2007 

The Landscape of War, Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose, San Jose, CA

Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907-2007, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skarhamn, Sweden

2006 

The Unhomely. Phantom Scenes in a Global Society, Curated by Okwui Enwesor, International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS), Seville, Spain

Particulate Matter, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY 

Air, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

2005 

Photoo, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

2003

Mixer 03, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002 

Mixer, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000 

Homewrecker, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

1996 

Plane Speak: Contemporary Abstraction in Illinois, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1995 

SKEW: The Unruly Grid, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

1995 

Content of Abstraction, Illinois Art Gallery, Thompson Center, Chicago, IL; 

Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL; Gahlberg Gallery, College of Du Page, Glen Ellyn, IL

1994

The Leaf, the Blossom or the Bole?, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

1992 

Nine Women, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL

1991

Ledis-Flam Gallery, New York NY

1987 

Ten Downtown, Tweed Gallery, New York, NY

1976 

Eisner Foundation Award Exhibit, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 


Selected Bibliography 

Seikaly, Roula, “Recollected: Photography and the Archive,” hafny.org, October, 30, 2017       

Baker, Kenneth, “Wilson Ryckman and Xie,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 7, 2013

“25 Artists to Watch,” Watercolor, Fall, 2011

Grabner, Michelle, Home and Away, Pamela Wilson-Ryckman, 2004-2010, 2010

New American Painters No. 91, Pacific Coast, Vol. 16, Issue 1, Larry Rinder, Juror, December, 2010 

Torr, Jolene, “Devastations and Behaviors,” Art-Slant.com, April 18, 2008 

Demos, T. J., "The 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville," Artforum, March, 2007 

Roth, David M., "7.07: Seven Women in the Year of the Pig" at b. sakata garo, Art Week, July/August, 2007

Baker, Kenneth, "Calamities transformed at Mills," San Francisco Chronicle, September 6, 2006

Grabner, Michelle, "Review: Pamela Wilson," Art US, Issue 12, March/April, 2006

Goodbody, Bridget L., "Air," Time Out New York, Issue 562, July 6-12, 2006

"Melee 1,” Harpers Magazine, February, 2006

Larson, Brandon, “Comments on Pamela Wilson: Hard to Remember, Easy to Forget at Monique Meloche, and a Dialogue with the Artist,” BAT—Blatantly Accumulating Targets: Art Criticism and Discussion, Issue 2, April 2006

Helfand, Glen,"Pamela Wilson, Gallery Paule Anglim," Artforum, March, 2005

"Pamela Wilson: Hard to Remember, Easy to Forget," Time Out Chicago, Issue 44, Dece,ber 29-January 5, 2005

Baker, Kenneth, "Sometimes we wish for more, sometimes less," San Francisco Chronicle, 

August 8, 2005 

"Mixer 03: an ornithological group show of work in all media," panel-house.com, August 1, 2003 

Artner, Alan, “Pamela Wilson opts for the Representational,” Chicago Tribune, February, 22, 2002

Hixon, Katherine, “Plane Speak,” New Art Examiner, March, 1996 

Riddell, Jennifer L., “The Content of Abstraction,” New Art Examiner, Summer, 1995 

Artner, Alan, “Abstract Painters Take Cue From Nature,” Chicago Tribune, April, 7, 1994

Green, Nick, “An Unnatural View of Nature,” Voices, The University of Chicago’s Arts Journal, April, 26, 1994


Public Collections 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

The MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL

San Francisco Civic Art Collection, San Francisco, CA

University of San Francisco - Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA