Aaron Wilder

Published: Jan. 6, 2023, 12:52 p.m.

b"Aaron Wilder is an interdisciplinary artist who blurs boundaries between the analog and the digital, the public and the private, and the unassuming and the instigative. He uses his own experiences and sense of identity as a lens through which he explores the introspective and social processes of contemporary culture.\\n\\nOriginally from Phoenix, Arizona, Wilder has also lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and France and currently resides in Roswell, New Mexico. With the history of being a self-taught artist since 2002, Wilder received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017. He has exhibited his work extensively across the United States as well as in Italy. \\u201cOmission Rituals\\u201d is Wilder\\u2019s first solo exhibition at\\xa0Amos Eno Gallery\\xa0after joining as an artist member in 2020.\\n\\nWilder\\u2019s curatorial practice organically grew out of his artistic practice starting in 2009 and he is currently Curator of Collections & Exhibitions at the\\xa0Roswell Museum. His curatorial philosophy is centered on the belief that art can change the world. Wilder has a deep interest in emphasizing the possibilities of artistic practice to engage with others about not only art, but also about the world and how we perceive it individually and socially.\\n\\nAaron Wilder, \\u201cNeither Sand nor Rock,\\u201d 2022, Digital Photography Collage, Courtesy of the Artist\\n\\nAaron Wilder, \\u201cDelivered Under the Similitude of a Dream: Isn't it weird how life's unexpected twists and turns take us to unexpected places? Some good and some not so good.\\u201d 2017, Digital Mixed Media, Courtesy of the Artist\\n\\nAaron Wilder, \\u201cExpletive Block: Non-Normative,\\u201d 2018, Plywood, Painted and Laser Cut MDF Sculpture, Courtesy of the Artist"