William Wiebe
Lives and works in New York
Education
2020 Whitney Independent Study Program,
Studio
2018 School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, MFA
2014 Wesleyan University, BA with Honors
in Studio Art and the College of Social
Studies
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Immovable Properties, 1BBP,
Brooklyn, NY
2019 Exit Strategy, NeMe Arts
Centre, Limassol, Cyprus
2019 Freedom of Movement,
Fulbright Commission Belgium, Brussels
2018 Chekhov’s Gun, 062 Gallery,
Chicago
2017 The C-Thing, Links Hall,
Chicago
2017 Same Picture, Jajaja Space,
South Bend, IN
2015
On View During Construction, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Surface Tension, Ezra and
Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT
2013 A Spring, A Leak, Zelnick
Pavilion, Middletown, CT
2012 Open House, Russell House,
Middletown, CT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Science on Screen: Shorts on Attention, Museum of the Moving
Image,
Queens, NY
2023 Proof of Personhood,
Singapore Art Museum
2020 Conjuncture, Elizabeth
Foundation for the Arts, New York
2018 Eleventh Hour, LITHIUM,
Chicago
2018 Post-Show, Target,
Chicago
2018
Master of Fine Arts Graduate Show, Sullivan Galleries,
Chicago
2018
Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity, National Academy of
Sciences,
Washington, D.C.
2018
Determinismo tecnológico y formas de saber, Fundación para la
Cultura y
las Artes Bosque Nativo, Puerto Varas, Chile
2017 Shifting the Center,
Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
2017
Art, Science + Culture Initiative 2017, Logan Center for the
Arts, Chicago
2017
Art, Media, and Social Unrest, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
2015 Crank, Southern Exposure,
San Francisco
2013 Within Limits, Davison Art
Center, Middletown, CT
2012 Swerve, Ezra and Cecile
Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT
Public Collections
6018|North, Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago
The Island Club, Limassol, Cyprus
Awards and Fellowships
2022 Friends With Benefits DAO Artist in
Residence
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Emergency Grant
2020 Chashama Artist in Residence
2019 U.S. Fulbright Fellow in Cyprus
2019 Postgraduate Research Fellow at the
Cyprus University of Technology
2018 National Academy of Sciences Sackler
Fellow
2018 School of the Art Institute of
Chicago Research Grant
2017 John W. Kurtich Foundation Travel
Scholarship
2017 Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’
Residency Merit Scholarship
2016 University of Chicago Arts, Science
+ Culture Initiative Grant
2016 School of the Art Institute of
Chicago Dean’s Scholarship
2013 Khachig Tölölyan Fund for the Study
of Diasporas and Transnationalism
2013 Wesleyan University Visualizing the
Environment Grant
2010 University of California, Los
Angeles Regents’ Scholar
Publications
Proof of Personhood, Library Stack and Singapore Art Museum,
New York, 2025
Friends With Benefits Radio, 25 March, 15 April, and 13 May
2022
“Renovations,” Forty-Five, 11 June 2021
“Taking Longer and Producing Less” in Conjuncture, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York,
2020
Provisional Readymades (with Daisy Charles), Hubert’s, New
York, 2020
Rehearing/Rehearsing (with Duncan Bass, Daisy Charles, and
Daniel Uncapher), 062 Gallery,
Chicago, 2018
Suprahuman (with John Santerre), University of Chicago,
Chicago, 2017
Teaching
Visiting Artist/Critic engagements at the University of California, Los
Angeles; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Central Saint Martins -
University of the Arts London; EU-US Young Leaders Seminar, Brussels,
Belgium; Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus; National
Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago;
University of Chicago; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT