Wilson, Lyle (Giles) 1955-

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WILSON, Lyle (Giles) 1955-


PERSONAL: Born 1955, in Butedale, British Columbia, Canada. Education: Attended University of British Columbia, 1976-79, B.Ed., 1987; Emily Carr College of Art and Design, diploma in printmaking, 1986.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


CAREER: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, curatorial assistant and artist-in-residence at Museum of Anthropology, 1987—. Sculptor, graphic artist, and printmaker, including work commissioned by Expo 1992, First Nations House of Learning at University of British Columbia, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, Canadian consulate in Osaka, Japan, and British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame. Exhibitions: Solo exhibitions at Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, Inuit Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and elsewhere; work collected at Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank, Royal British Columbia Museum, and Canada Council Art Bank.


WRITINGS:


(With Allene Drake) Eulachon: A Fish to Cure Humanity (exhibition catalog), Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 1992.


BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:


books


St. James Guide to Native North American Artists, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1998, pp. 633-635.


periodicals


American Indian Quarterly, Volume 18, number 4, 1994, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, "Northwest Coast Art: The Culture of the Land Claims."

University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology Museum Notes, number 28, 1989, Karen Duffek, "Lyle Wilson: When Worlds Collide."*

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