Paula Wilson

2024 Stepping Stone Grantee

Bio

Paula Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Carrizozo, New Mexico. Her densely layered, colorful, and often monumental works incorporate painting, collage, film, installation, performance, and printmaking. Her work is held in the collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, Yale University, Princeton University Art Museum, The Albuquerque Museum, and The New York Public Library, among others. Wilson has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, Artforum, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New Yorker. She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Artist Grant, the Bob and Happy Doran Fellowship at Yale University, and Princeton University’s Hodder Grant. Wilson co-founded the artist-run organizations MoMAZoZo in 2010 and the Carrizozo Artists-in-Residence program in 2015.

Reflected, 2020Mixed media50 × 71 inches

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