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Fred Wilson: Irma, Ota, and I

Pulitzer Arts Foundation · St. Louis
On view March 5 to August 8, 2027

Renowned artist Fred Wilson (b. 1954) explores how models of collecting and display shape our understanding of identity, memory, and power. This exhibition examines the intertwined histories of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World’s Fair) held in St. Louis and Wilson’s own familial history, which spans several generations in the city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wilson’s engagement with the World’s Fair dates to a 2008 bronze bust he created of Ota…

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