Letha Wilson (b. 1976 Honolulu, US) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University, and a MFA from Hunter College. Residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts.
Her solo exhibitions include: GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam (2019, 2015); GRIMM Gallery, New York (2018); deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln (2017); Center for Contemporary Art and Culture at PNCA, Portland (2017); Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (2016, 2014); Light Work, Syracuse (2015), Higher Pictures, New York (2014), Art in General, New York (2013)...
Her participation to group shows include: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2020), Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York (2019); Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover (2019); University of Texas at Dallas, TX (2019); The New York Public Library, New York (2018); SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson (2018); Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State University, Fort Collins (2018); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2017); Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb (2017); Michener Art Museum, Doylestown (2017); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (2016); University at Albany Art Museum, Albany (2016); Seventeen Gallery, London (2016); Parisian Laundry, Montreal (2016); The Hole, New York (2015); Martos Gallery, New York (2015); Anat Egbi, Los Angeles (2015); American University Museum, The Katzen Arts Center, Washington (2014); Hauser & Wirth, New York (2014); International Center of Photography, New York (2014); The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs (2013); Studio Museum of Harlem, New York (2013); G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2013); Essl Museum of Art, Vienna (2012).
Letha has been awarded a NYFA Artist Relief Grant (2020) by AWAW - Anonymous Was A Woman and a NYSCA / NYFA artist fellowship in Photography (2019) at The New York Foundation for the Art as well as a travel grant from the Jerome Foundation.
COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
New York Public Library, New York, NY (US)
Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA (US)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, NH (US)
Zabludowicz Collection, Londres (UK)
Ernesto Esposito Collection, Naples (IT)
The De Heus-Zomer Collection (NL)
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ (US)