Faith Wilding was born on 1943 and is a Paraguayan American multidisciplinary artist - which includes but is not limited to: watercolor, performance art, writing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, and digital art.
22 Facts About Faith Wilding
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Faith Wilding is an author, educator, and activist widely known for her contribution to the progressive development of feminist art.
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Faith Wilding was born in 1943 in Paraguay and emigrated to the United States in 1961.
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Faith Wilding holds a degree in English from the University of Iowa.
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Faith Wilding was married to Everett Frost, an English professor.
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Faith Wilding became a teaching assistant in the Feminist Art Program Judy Chicago founded at California State University, Fresno, in 1970.
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Faith Wilding wrote about the Feminist art movement in her book By Our Own Hands.
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Faith Wilding has worked in various media including art, video, installations, and performances.
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Faith Wilding's work has been exhibited in North America, Europe and Asia, including at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Drawing Center, all in New York City; in Los Angeles at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum; the Riverside Art Museum; documenta X, Kassel; Ars Electronica Center, Linz; The Next Five Minutes Festival, Amsterdam; and Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.
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Faith Wilding taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Faith Wilding has worked as a Research Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, and a faculty member of the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art Program at Vermont College, Norwich University.
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Faith Wilding has received several grants and awards in art, including a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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The exhibition resulted in the publication of a book by the same name featuring essays by Jenni Sorkin, Amelia Jones, Keith Vaughn, Irina Aristarkova, Mario Ontiveros; Faith Wilding's own writing and interviews by Daniel Tucker and Mira Schor.
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In 1998, Faith Wilding co-founded with artist Hyla Willis, subRosa, a cyberfeminist organization.
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In 2013, the Women's Caucus for Art announced that Faith Wilding will be a 2014 recipient of the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award.
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In 2014, threewalls, a non-profit art gallery in Chicago, held the first retrospective of Faith Wilding's work titled "Fearful Symmetries" that featured artwork spanning 40 years.
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In 2019, Faith Wilding was featured in her first solo gallery exhibition, "Scriptorium Revisited", [1] at LA-based gallery Anat Ebgi [2].
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In 2021, Faith Wilding held a solo exhibition, "Fossils," [4] at Anat Ebgi Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Faith Wilding contributed this one room, crocheted environment within the collaborative 1972 Womanhouse installation put together by the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute for the Arts.
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In one of her most well-known works, Faith Wilding performed Waiting in Womanhouse while sitting down and rocking back and forth.
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The burden of these societal expectations is framed in the performance through aesthetic choices: a rhythmical tone, the long skirt that Faith Wilding was wearing, with her hands obediently kept on her knees.
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Faith Wilding is waiting to experience life and to feel accepted by herself and society.