Art Cologne
Wilder Alison
November 7 – 10, 2024
BORN
1986, Burlington, Vermont, United States
SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
Seven-Fold-Crevice, Gaa, New York, NY (Upcoming)
2024
Art Cologne, Gaa, Cologne, Germany
2023
centrifugal plots, KAJE, Brooklyn, NY
lancunary healing, Latera Roma, Rome, Italy
vertigina, with Xio Martin, MOPS, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2022
mirror air error hunger, Gaa, Cologne, Germany
Wilder Alison + Erin Woodbrey, EXPO Chicago, Gaa Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2021
the faucethe drain breach\ a new /ife, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
/ A Ripe Blackberry Murmurs to the Wall /, FIERMAN, New York, NY
Wilder Alison + Anina Major, NADA Miami, Gaa Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2019
Slit Subjects, White Columns, New York, NY, USA
new wool drawings, Escolar, Forestville, CA, USA
new wools, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
2018
$PLIT $UBJECT, Snyder Center, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT, USA
2017
SOCK SALE SAVE!, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
2016
CHAT, A Public Space, Fisher’s Island, NY, USA
Battle & Bell: Clues & Clippings, with David Roesing, Metropolitan Structures, New York, NY, USA
2015
Battle & Bell: Watermark, with David Roesing, Culture Room, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2013
IT A BOY, SHED Projects, Oakland, CA, USA
2011
Friendship is Irresistible Work, Primetime, Brooklyn, NY, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Isn’t Life a Blast: Celebrating Real Time & Space Residency, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA (Upcoming)
San Francisco Art Fair, Personal Space, San Francisco, CA, USA
Soft Power, DAS MINSK Kunsthaus, Potsdam, Germany Circus Series, Gstaad Art Salon, Gstaad, Switzerland
Let the World In, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, USA
2023
All Meine Freunde #2, Kultur Kiosk, Stuttgart, Germany
Dallas Art Fair, Gaa, Dallas, TX, USA
XX, Lore Deutz, Cologne, Germany
Beginners, This Long Century & DUNES, Portland, ME
I Am the Passenger, MOTHER Gallery, Beacon, NY
2022
Density’s Glitch, Hudson D. Walker Gallery (FAWC), Co-curated by Angela Dufresne, Cash (Melissa) Ragona, and
Andrew Woolbright, Provincetown, MA, USA
Platform (online), FIERMAN
2021
EXPO Chicago Online Fair, Gaa
Seven Forevers, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2020
Dallas Art Fair, Gordon Robichaux, Dallas, TX, USA
A Page from my Intimate Journal, Gordon Robichaux at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
A Page from my Intimate Journal (Part II), Gordon Robichaux at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019
NADA Miami, White Columns, Miami, FL, USA
Queer Galaxies, SUBLIMATION Projects, New York, NY, USA
Circus of Books, FIERMAN, New York, NY, USA
Daddy’s Books, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT, USA
FAWC Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
2018
Original Language, curated by Natasha Llorens, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Daddy’s Books, Life Lessons, Far Rockaway, NY, USA
In Congruence, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017
Conversations in Print, Practice, New York, NY, USA
Casual Art Fair, Hester Street Fair, New York, NY, USA
STEADY MESS, BGSQD, New York, NY, USA
FAWC Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
2016
Syntagma, The New School, New York, NY, USA
Salon 57, 247365, New York, NY, USA
2015
Chat Room, 247365, New York, NY, USA
HQTBD + TABLE|TABLE, Hudson, NY, USA
MFA Thesis Show, Bard College, Red Hook, NY, USA
Old Truths & New Lies, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY, USA
Please Excuse Our Appearance, 247365, New York, NY, USA
Dallas Art Fair, 247365, Dallas, TX, USA
2014
NADA Miami, 247365, Miami, FL, USA
I Have Never Been to Heaven, Kremer, New York, NY, USA
2012
Masculinisms, Garden Party Arts, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2011
Festival of Lights, Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2010
Fabric Workshop & Museum Banner Show, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Why neutral, Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2009
Beg, Borrow or Steal, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2008
Art Raduga, Raduga, St. Petersburg, Russia
Superior Floor System, ! Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dark Entrance, Bobrinsky Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Tract House, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2023
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, USA
Vermont Arts Council Artist Development Grant
Lighton International Artists Exchange Program Grant
2022
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Fellowship, Stuttgart, Germany
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Joya Artist Residency, Velez Blanco, Spain
2021
Clay Break, The University of Arkansas, Ceramics Department, Feyetteville, AR, USA
2020
Triangle France, Residency, Marseille, France
2019
Real Time & Space, Residency, Oakland, CA, USA
2018
Fine Arts Work Center, Second Year Visual Arts Fellowship, Provincetown, MA, USA
2017
Ox-Bow School of Art, Fall Residency Scholarship, Saugatuck, MI, USA
2016
Fine Arts Work Center, Margaret Murphy Visual Arts Fellowship, Provincetown, MA, USA
Fire Island Artist Residency, Fire Island, NY, USA
Lower East Side Printshop, Keyholder Residency, New York, NY, USA
2015
Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fisher’s Island, NY, USA
2014
MFA Teaching Fellowship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
2012
Real Time & Space, Residency, Oakland, CA, USA
2011
Ox-Bow School of Art, Fall Residency Scholarship, supported by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Saugatuck, MI, USA
Seven Below Arts Initiative, Residency, Burlington City Arts, Westford, VT, USA
Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship Award, supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Johnson, VT, USA
2010
Fabric Workshop & Museum Apprenticeship, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2008
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT, USA
EDUCATION
MFA Painting, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA, 2016
BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA, 2009
Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT, USA, 2008
Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA, 2006
SELECTED PRESS + PUBLICATIONS
2024
Araks Journal, “Introducing Wilder Alison”
Monopol Magazine, “SOFT POWER” & “Out of Office”
Elle Germany, “Elle Culture: Favorite Exhibitions”
Vogue Germany, “Culture in March”
2023
Akademie Solitude Blog, “Splitting in Translation: On the Work of Wilder Alison,” Sophia Roxane Rohwetter CulturedMag,
“5 Artists You Need To See at the Dallas Art Fair,” Kenneth Turner
2022
DUNES edition, t-shirt
ArtMaze Magazine Issue 27
2021
Hyperallergic, “The Queer Feminist Agenda of Wilder Alison’s Abstract Wool Paintings,” Ksenia M. Soboleva
Pilot Press, “Now I Know, Daylight” Responses to Untitled No 1 (1981) by Agnes Martin
This Long Century, online index
2019
New Yorker, “Wilder Alison & Esteban Jefferson,” Johanna Fateman
THWACK! White Columns Online solo show
2018
Artefuse, “Original Language at CUE Art Foundation”
2017
Provincetown Banner, “Alison makes art by subverting brands,”
CALL BACK, artist book
2016
HOT LIMBS, artist book, printed at the Lower East Side Printshop
Contacts & Contracts, artist book with David Roesing
i-d VICE magazine, “The queer artists of Fire Island”
Induction Burners podcast, “Supports/Surfaces,” with Eric Mack
2015
Modern Painters, “Artists to Watch 2016”
Art in America, “Old Truths & New Lies”
Makhzin Issue #2: Feminisms, ed. by Mirene Arsanios
Art News, “Preview the 2015 Dallas Art Fair”
FD Mag, “A trio of must-see galleries at the Dallas Art Fair”
Architectural Digest, “Preview the Dallas Art Fair”
2014
Monsters & Dust, Pink/Punk
2011
Alone to be Together, ed. by Liza Corsillo
2008–9
The Bard Papers, Bard College
2007
Learning to Love You More, Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July
For the 2023 edition of the Dallas Art Fair, Gaa Gallery is pleased to present new works by Wilder Alison, Jagoda Bednarsky, Autumn, Wallace, and Wendy White. The fair runs April 20 - 23, with an opening preview (by invitation only) Thursday, April 20, from 12 - 4 pm and public days Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22 from 11 am - 7 pm and Sunday, April 23 from 11 am - 5 pm. The gallery's booth is #B12 and the fair will take place at Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present mirror air error hunger, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Wilder Alison. This will be Alison’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and first time showing in Cologne. Please join us for drinks with the artists on Saturday, September 3, from 5 - 8 pm. mirror air error hunger will be on view at Gaa Projects Cologne through November 5.
We are thrilled to announce our participation in the 2022 edition of EXPO CHICAGO with a two-person presentation by Wilder Alison and Erin Woodbrey! Our booth will be featured in the Exposure Sector curated by Humberto Moro and the fair will run from April 7 - 10, 2022, at the Chicago Navy Pier.
For the 2020 Exposure section of Expo Chicago, September 24 -27, Gaa Gallery is pleased to present new works by visual artists Wilder Ailson and Erin Woodbrey.
