Bio

Angie Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist working in textile-based sculpture, installation, social practice, interiors, and costume design. She is interested in the intimacy of textiles – as protective, sheltering, comforting, and expressive. Textiles as clothing and domestic objects signify identity, hold memory, and tell stories. Angie references weaving as a powerful metaphor for interconnectivity - of the universe, our communities, our bodies, and minds. In her work, she opens space for the narrative power of textiles to illustrate the interconnectivity and interdependence of humanity.

Wilson’s exhibitions often include community workshops that offer participants opportunities to experience embodied art making – by connecting to our own innate creativity, we connect to the joyful, universal flow. Together we create, move, and dialogue about how our actions affect and impact one another, political life, and the planet. She collaborates with community arts organizations, dancers, healers, musicians, and scientists to catalyze dynamic community conversations, incorporating art and movement as healing practices, empowering us to create positive change within ourselves and in our communities.

Angie Wilson received her MFA from San Francisco State University and BA in Russian from Reed College. Her work has been exhibited at Headlands Center for the Arts, de Young Museum, California College of the Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Oakland Museum of California, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Kala Art Institute, Cult/Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, SOMArts, and Root Division, among others. She has been Costume Designer at the Destiny Arts Center in Oakland since 2006 and has also created costumes for Lines Ballet, ACT, California Shakespeare Festival, and The History Channel. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the de Young Museum, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and NIAD.

Her work is featured in Queer Threads (ed John Chaich and Todd Oldham, AMMO Books, 2017) and Fray (by Julia Bryan-Wilson, University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Wilson lives and works in Oakland, CA.