Fred Wilson: career timeline

American · b. 1954 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 19 of 23 lots (82% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Fred Wilson: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1990s	3	2	$27.6kSign up	Sculpture
2000s	13	10	$3.5kSign up	Photograph
2010s	2	0	—	Other

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1990s 3 works

Sold: 2 of 3
Median: $27.6kSign up
Average: $27.6kSign up
Typical size: 16 × 16 in (41 × 41 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (2), Photograph (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

2000s 13 works

Sold: 10 of 13
Median: $3.5kSign up
Average: $5.9kSign up
Typical size: 17.5 × 21.5 in (44 × 55 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (8), Other (5)
Subjects: —

2003 Venice Biennale$699Sign up
2003 Shatter$20.6kSign up
2003 Untitled$688Sign up · sold 2×
2003 ShatterUnsold
2003 ShatterUnsold
2003 Drop, Dripped$6.3kSign up
2003 Untitled$625Sign up
2005 X (from the Exit Art Portfolio: TANTRA)$1.9kSign up
2005 X (from the Exit Art Portfolio: TANTRA)$1.8kSign up
2005 X, from Exit Art Portfolio$5kSign up
2005 X, from Exit Art Portfolio$8.1kSign up
2006 Something We May or May Not Know (For Longwood Arts Project)Unsold

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2006 Drip Droop$13.8kSign up

2010s 2 works

Sold: 0 of 2
Median: —
Average: —
Typical size: 24.5 × 18 in (62 × 46 cm)
Mediums: Other (1), Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

2010 QuartetUnsold
2016 The Queen of SpadesUnsold

Creation date not recorded

4 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 1 work

Sold: 0 of 1
Median: —
Average: —
Typical size: 19 × 27 in (48 × 69 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2014 ENCAMPMENT, archival inkjet print with glassine overlayUnsold

Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works

Sold: 1 of 3
Median: $350Sign up
Average: $350Sign up
Typical size: 19 × 27 in (48 × 69 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (3)
Subjects: —

sold 2021 ENCAMPMENT, archival inkjet print with glassine overlayUnsold
sold 2021 ENCAMPMENT, archival inkjet print with glassine overlayUnsold
sold 2022 ENCAMPMENT, archival inkjet print with glassine overlay$350Sign up

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Fred Wilson auction results →