PAULA WILSON [NOMINATED BY KARA WALKER]

This is my world, made of the world, and for the world.
Carrizozo, New Mexico
All photos taken by Paula Wilson with thanks to her collaborative love partner Mike Lagg.



















































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Paula Wilson is a multimedia artist whose densely layered, colorful, and often monumental works utilize a variety of painting, collage, filmic, installation, performance, and print techniques. Wilson was born in Chicago, IL and received her BFA from Washington University in 1998 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2005. Wilson’s artworks are in the collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, Yale University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, The New York Public Library, and The Albuquerque Museum. She has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Artforum, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New Yorker. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Artist Grant, Bob and Happy Doran Fellowship at Yale University, Princeton University’s Hodder Grant, and Lunder Institute Ossorio Fellowship. In 2007 she moved from Brooklyn to Carrizozo, New Mexico, (population 942) where she lives with her woodworking husband and collaborator, Mike Lagg. In 2015 Wilson and Lagg, along with Warren and Joan Malkerson, co-founded Carrizozo Artists-in-Residence program. In 2010 Wilson and Lagg also co-founded the arts organization MoMAZoZo, which hosts weekly art activities and children’s workshops.

www.paulajwilson.com