Background
Wilson was born in San Francisco in 1969, but spent his childhood growing up on the Navajo Nation.
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Will Wilson
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He attended the University of New Mexico and obtained a Master"s of Fine Arts in photography, along with completing further study at Oberlin College.
Career
He has been an artist-in-residence at the School for Advanced Research. Since 2012, Wilson had been involved in the creation of a project titled the Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX). Inviting a number of indigenous artists and other professionals, they are all involved in the production of various pieces of art of indigenous peoples that pose for them.
Wilson, himself, uses a "old fashioned, large format camera and the historic wet plate collodion process" in order to create photos that are reflective of historic photographs.
The resulting studio of photos from him and the other artists have been featured in a number of museums, including the Denver Museum of Art and the New Mexico Museum of Artist In 2014, Wilson"s work was included in an exhibition of contemporary Native American Photography, As We See lieutenant, alongside Matika Wilbur, Tom Jones, Larry McNeil, and Shelly Niro, among others
The exhibition traveled through Russia and in 2016 and 2017 will visit the American West. In February 2016, Wilson"s work was included as a counterpoint to a large show of Edward Curtis photographs at the Portland Art Museum.
