Wilder Alison (b. 1986, Burlington, VT) is an interdisciplinary artist who creates paintings by dyeing and sewing-together large pieces of wool. Driven by the limitations of language to accommodate and build analog forms for transness, queerness, and self-embodiment, Alison’s works build, reassemble, and create vibrant visual constructions. Often presented individually, in diptychs, or triptychs, the work extends the notion of the medium of painting, and questions the idea of what a painting can or should consist of.
Alison has been included in recent institutional exhibitions at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; DAS MINSK Kunsthaus, Potsdam, Germany; and CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Gaa, Cologne, Provincetown, MA, and New York, NY; White Columns, New York, NY; Lateral Roma, Rome; KAJE, Brooklyn, NY; and FIERMAN, New York, NY. Alison has also exhibited work with Gordon Robichaux at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY among others. Alison was a fellow at Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany and the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA twice, and has also participated in residencies at the Womens Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY; Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France; Joya Artist Residency, Velez Blanco, Spain; Clay Break, Fayetteville, AR; Triangle France-Astérides, Marseille, France; Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY; Fire Island Artist Residency, Fire Island, NY; and Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY. Alison’s work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic and The New Yorker. Alison graduated with a BA and an MFA in Painting from Bard College, and now lives and works in New York, Vermont, and France. Alison performed with Discoteca Flaming Star in activation of Rita MacBride’s Arena at Dia: Beacon, Oct 2024. Alison’s work is also the subject of a forthcoming book to be published by KAJE.