Will Wilson is a photographer and trans-customary artist who spent his

formative years living on the Navajo Nation. His photography practice

centers around the continuation and transformation of customary

Indigenous cultural practice, countering the ‘archival impulse’

embedded within the historical imageries of Native peoples. Through

various methods of photography, Wilson combines digital technology,

historic photographic processes, performance, and installation around

themes of environmental activism, the impacts of cultural and

environmental change on Indigenous peoples, and the possibility of

cultural survival and renewal.

Wilson studied photography, sculpture, and art history at the University

of New Mexico where he received his Master’s in Fine Arts. Wilson has

been honored with the Eiteljorg Native American Fine Art Fellowship,

Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Sculpture, Pollock-Krasner

Foundation Grant for Photography and he was the Doran Artist in

Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery. Wilson has held visiting

professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin College, and the University of Arizona. His work is exhibited and collected internationally, and he is Head of Photography at Santa Fe Community

College.

From: Native Arts + Culture Foundation website