William T. Wiley

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location = Bedford, Indiana
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nationality = American
field = drawing, painting, sculpture, film, and performance
training = California School of Fine Arts
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awards = Purchase Prize from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1968. Honorary Doctorate at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1980. 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship Award.

:"For other persons with a similar name, see: William Wiley (disambiguation)."William T. Wiley (born October 21, 1937, in Bedford, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball.

Life and work

Raised in Indiana, Texas, and Redford, Washington, William T. Wiley moved to San Francisco to study at the California School of Fine Arts where he earned his B.F.A. in 1960 and his M.F.A. two years later in 1962. [ [http://www.sfai.edu/People/Person.aspx?id=267&navID=6&sectionID=2&typeID=1 William Wiley - San Francisco Art Institute ] ]

In 1963, Wiley joined the faculty of the UC Davis art department with Bay Area Funk Movement artists Robert Arneson, and Roy DeForest. During that time Wiley instructed students including Bruce Nauman and Deborah Butterfield [ [http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2007/07/art-space-talk-william-t-wiley.html myartspace>blog: Art Space Talk: William T. Wiley ] ] . According to Dan Graham, the literary, punning element of Nauman's work came from Wiley. [Dan Graham, Alexander Alberro, "Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art", MIT Press, 1999, p112. ISBN 0262571307] Wiley also acknowledges the effect Nauman had on his own work. [Wiley quoted by Paul J. Karlstrom in Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernstein, Ilene Susan Fort, "Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000", University of California Press, 2000, p100. ISBN 0520227670]

His first solo exhibition was held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1960.

In the late 1960s Wiley collaborated with the minimalist composer Steve Reich and introduced him to Bruce Nauman. [Robert C. Morgan, "Bruce Nauman", JHU Press, 2002, p61. ISBN 0801869064]

Collections [List of Collections from http://www.magical-secrets.com/artists/wiley]

*Los Angeles County Museum of Art
*Museum of Modern Art in New York
*San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
*Art Institute of Chicago
*Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
*Whitney Museum of American Art
*Stedelijk van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

References

External links

* [http://www.williamtwiley.com Official Website]
* [http://www.kqed.org/arts/places/profile.jsp?id=15046 On KQED's Spark program]
* [http://webcast.ucdavis.edu/ART/2007/YouSee.qtl YOU SEE Panel discussion] with Manuel Neri and Wayne Thiebaud
* [http://neptunebeachamusementmuseum.org/ppexpo/wileyPunball.php Punball: Only One Earth, O.O.E.]