About
Born in 1983 in the United States, he is a visual artist, filmmaker, curator, and lecturer based between Europe and the US. Working across video, sculpture, photography, and performance, Wilson received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. He is best known for Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011), which critically examines Google’s labour practices. His work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Getty Museum, Centre Pompidou, LUMA Arles, MoMA PS1, and the Gwangju and Berlin Biennials. His films have screened at Sundance, the New York Film Festival, and IFFR. Wilson has lectured at Oxford University, Harvard University, Universität der Künste Berlin, and CalArts.
Filmography
Metrograph Steaming Deal Announcement2025 · Director
Silvesterchlausen2025 · Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
Nightmare Paint2023 · Director
Impersonator2021 · Writer, Director, Editor, Production Design, Producer
In the Air Tonight2020 · Director, Writer
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome2020 · Director
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: The Old Victrola2019 · Director
Kodak2018 · Director, Writer, Editor
Ode to Seekers 20122016 · Director
Reality Models2016 · Director
A reason to wake up in the evening2015 · Director
Uncertainty Seminars2013 · Director
Workers Leaving the Googleplex2011 · Director, Writer