Mark Anthony Wilson Jr is a self-taught sculptor and installation artist using found objects. After playing football at the University of Cincinnati and earning a Master’s degree in Applied Behavior Analysis, Mark picked up art as a therapist. He marries the unveiling of African American heritage with Afrofuturism to establish instruments for liberation. Repurposing often hidden narratives as the Tennessee Rifles and Harlem Hell Fighters. Mark Anthony fuses Afro indigenous influences with history to assemble sculptural guides. He seeks to use charged materials that are familiar to self or family as adornment.
Mark Anthony Wilson Jr has exhibited at The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, commercially throughout New York, and internationally. He has participated in numerous residencies, notably at The Elizabeth Foundation for Arts and Worthless Studios. Mark’s public art commissions include FABnyc commercial lighting project with NYC small business services. He also serves as the co-facilitator for the Young Artist of Color Fellowship at FABnyc.