William Wylie uses photography and short films to explore the physical, psychological, and temporal dimensions of landscapes.
His work delves into the concept of Place, examining not just geographical spaces but also how we interact with and move through them.
Wylie’s photographs and short films have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work is held in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Yale University Art Museum, among others. He has published five books of his work, including Riverwalk, Stillwater, Carrara and Route 36, and Pompeii Archive (The Possibility of Ruins).
His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a VMFA Professional Fellowship, and the Yale Gallery of Art’s Doran / LeWitt Fellowship in 2012 and 2014. Currently, he resides in Charlottesville, where he teaches photography as a Commonwealth Professor of Art at the University of Virginia.