About

French-American conceptual artist Nancy Wilson-Pajic played a seminal role in the international artistic avant-garde during the 1960s and 70s with her feminist performances and text-sound installations that challenged feminine role models in the context of modern societal paradigms.

Born in Peru, Indiana in 1941, Wilson-Pajic studied art, literature, and psychology before graduating with a BFA from Cooper Union in New York in 1972. She moved to Paris in 1978, where she began experimenting with photography alongside forms of text-based imagery. These early experiments led her to alternative processes such as gum bichromate, carbon transfer, photogram, and cyanotype, which later became central to her aesthetic and to her process-driven practice of producing unique, non-editioned works.

Her first exhibition in a photography context was a solo show at the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Pompidou Center in Paris in 1983. Throughout her singular career, Wilson-Pajic has participated in more than 400 solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Musée national d’art moderne (Paris), Musée de l’Élysée (Lausanne, Switzerland), French National Collection (Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris), Bibliothèque nationale (Paris), Museet for Fotokunst (Odense, Denmark), Nouveau Musée national de Monaco, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum (Seoul), and the Musée Réattu (Arles, France), among others.