Lia Wilson

Lia Wilson is a printmaker and writer living in the Bay Area. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from the College of Santa Fe, during which time she studied abroad for a year at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy. Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies, Lia is completing her thesis entitled “Marketing Madness: The Economy of Outsider Art” which examines the construction and marketing of mental disability in outsider art discourse.

Lia has been a gallery assistant at Brian Gross Fine Art in San Francisco, a teaching assistant at CCA, and has published art criticism on Squarecylinder and in the monograph Stella Zhang: 0-Viewpoint (Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, 2010). She is currently the Visual and Critical Studies program assistant, and the co-founder and co-editor, with Matthew Tedford, of the journal Elastic: New Currents in Visual Inquiry. In 2010 Lia won the All-College Honors scholarship for graduate critical/ nonfiction writing at CCA.

Contact her at: lwilson[at]cca.edu