Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson is an artist who's best known for not creating art with his hands, but putting items together with a conscious idea of how the spacial arrangement with be and what the cultural statement is about. His whole artistic plan is to take kitche or sometimes racist objects and put them together in a new context.  The purpsoe for this is to show the audience how different objects can be when they're juxtaposed and make the viewer ponder on how each of these culture biases have shaped how we view history. 

An installation artist and political activist, Wilson's subject is social justice and his medium is museology. In the 1970s, he worked as a free-lance museum educator for the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Crafts Museum. Beginning in the late 1980s, Wilson used his insider skills to create a series of "mock museums" that address how museums consciously or unwittingly reinforce racist beliefs and behaviors.