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David Hildebrand Wilson
OccupationBusinessman
Known forMuseum of Jurassic Technology

David Hildebrand Wilson is the co-founder, along with his wife, Diana Wilson, of the enigmatic Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California.

After high school, Wilson enrolled at Kalamazoo College where he majored in urban entomology with a minor in art. He received an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 1976.

He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship and the Creative Capital Moving Image Award in 2001. Wilson and his museum are the subject of the book, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, published in 1995.

References

  1. "The Museum That Proudly Defies Understanding". 30 January 2014.
  2. "Wilson and Wilson: A Dialogue on Museums". USC Fisher Museum of Art. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  3. "Inhaling the Spore". September 1994. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  4. "David Wilson - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  5. "Artist Projects - Levsha (The Art of the Microminiature)". Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  6. "Jurassic Genius David Wilson – Offbeat Museum Curator Wins Prestigious 'Genius Grant'". NPR. 27 October 2001. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  7. Lesser, Wendy (29 October 1995). "True Lies". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 November 2010.


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