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