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Martha Wilson

Martha Wilson

Artist
PhotographyConceptual ArtPerformance ArtInstitutional Critique
Representation
None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
6
Assets Indexed
0
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Publications Referenced
60%
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Movements
  • • Conceptual Art
  • • Performance Art
  • • Institutional Critique
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About

Why this artist matters now

Martha Wilson is an American performance and video artist who has worked across installation and documentary modes since the 1970s, using her own body and identity as a site of institutional and conceptual interrogation. She founded Franklin Furnace, a nonprofit archive dedicated to performance art and experimental work, which has become a vital repository for ephemeral practice. Her work deliberately collapses the boundary between documentation and performance, treating autobiography as a critical tool to examine how institutions shape and construe artistic identity.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago

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Conceptual Art
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Photography
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Museum Collections

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Artworks (2)

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Images

Cleaning the Drapes, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleaning the Drapes, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Representation & Collections

In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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