Will Wilson and the Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange Series
Speaker:
Will Wilson
04 Apr 2025
5:30 PM
Brunnier Art Museum, 295 Scheman Building
Co-sponsors:
- University Museums
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)

As an Indigenous artist working with both historic and contemporary processes in photography, Will Wilson (Diné) is endeavoring to recreate a contemporary vision of Native North America. Historically, Edward S. Curtis and other early Euro-Americans used photography as a method of recording the disappearing Native population, which led to the image of Native Americans as frozen in time. Through the Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange series, Wilson is radically altering this static image and engaging with his sitters in the creation of their own contemporary representations.
Note: This lecture will not be recorded.