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Birth
1952 (France)
Death
Lived/Active
New York/California / France
Subject to Copyright
Often Known For
painting, sculpture, assemblage, college, video, photography
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The following, submitted November 2004, is from the artist and from the artist's website.
William Adjete "Fred" WILSON was born in France in 1952 to a French mother and a Togolese father (West Africa). He is currently living in Paris, France. He grew up in Orléans and reached university in Paris at age 19 to study philosophy and anthropology (1971-1975).
In 1972 he had his first travel in the Gulf of Guinea, and he began, step by step, to discover the history of his African family (showing 500 of 8224 characters). |
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