Faculty Information

Wallace Wilson received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975. Since 1994 he has been Professor and Director of the School of Art and Art History at USF. Previous teaching experience was at the University of Kentucky, the University of Delaware, and the University of Florida. Wilson has also taught at the University of Gothenberg (Sweden) and at the London Study Centre through Florida State University.

Wallace Wilson’s photographic artworks have been exhibited throughout the world in more than 30 one-person exhibitions, more than 70 group exhibitions and are included in such collections as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Brooklyn Museum; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; and the International Polaroid Collection in Germany.

“Preferring to provoke sensations and pensive responses, rather than didactic strategies, my most recent artworks are large inkjet prints of diffused subjects that resist specific and immediate meanings.”