William (Will) Ray Wilson is a multimedia artist known for blending historical and contemporary elements in his work. Born in San Francisco and raised on the Navajo reservation, Wilson’s art fuses a Diné (or Navajo) worldview with his views on social and environmental issues.
Wilson's Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (started 2012) involves him taking wet-collodion photographs of his sitters (often Native Americans), who he invites to bring objects meaningful to them. Wilson produces tintypes, which he gives to the sitters, and then scans the tintypes to make prints for exhibition. In 2022, Wilson came to Delaware and produced photographs of Lenni Lenape and Nanticoke citizens as part of the exhibition In Conversation: Will Wilson.
