Letha Wilson

b. Honolulu, HI, 1976

Letha Wilson incorporates nature photography into her work, printing photographs onto sculptures constructed from industrial materials like welded Corten steel, poured concrete, aluminum sheeting, and vinyl. The photographs, of desert sunsets, rock formations, and palm trees, are among images Wilson has taken while traveling in Hawaii, the American West, and Iceland. She embeds them in the surface of her works, contrasting heft and density with lightness and play.

While born in Hawaii, Wilson was raised in Greeley, Colorado, and currently lives and works in Taghkanic and Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from Syracuse University and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Wilson has been awarded artist residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Walentas Studio Program, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Headlands Center for the Arts, and she received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. For the academic year 2025, Letha was appointed the Stuart B. Cooper Endowed Chair of Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA).