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ID: 500124951
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500124951
 
Record Type: Person
Wilson, Robert (American playwright and director, 1941-2025)

Note: American avant-garde theater director and designer collaborated with Philip Glass on his own works and staged contemporary operas and plays from the standard repertory.

Names:
Wilson, Robert (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Robert Wilson (V,display)
Wilson, Robert M. (V)
Wilson, Bob (U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
performance artist
scenographer
writer
draftsman
printmaker
video artist
filmmaker
composer (music)
designer
playwright
sculptor
choreographer
installation artist
painter

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Waco (McLennan county, Texas, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Water Mill (Suffolk county, New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   since 1966  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
exhibition:   at the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1997  New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Burroughs, William S.  
................................  (American writer and mixed-media artist, 1914-1997) [500053989]
collaborated with ....  Byrne, David  
................................  (American musician and interdisciplinary artist, born 1952 in Scotland) [500333457]
collaborated with ....  Glass, Philip  
................................  (American composer, born 1937) [500331387]
collaborated with ....  Kuhn, Hans Peter  
................................  (German sound and light installation artist, born 1952) [500378599]
collaborated with ....  Wilson, Ann  
................................  (American painter, 1931-2023) [500350927]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Wilson, Robert (I)

Biographies:
(American playwright and director, 1941-2025) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American playwright, composer, artist, designer, b.1944) ..... [BHA]
(American designer, born 1941) ..... [AVERY]
(American performance artist) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, born 1941) ..... [GRL]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born 1941) ..... [MoMA]
(American sculptor, 1941-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Robert Wilson ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Wilson, Bob ........ [RKD]
........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 109066
Wilson, Robert ........ [AVERY Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
..............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
..............................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2006M8
..............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79015353
..............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 109066
..............................  Whitney Biennial Exhibition (1997) 191
Wilson, Robert M. ........ [BHA Preferred, GRL, VP]
...................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
...................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79015353

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n79015353
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 5 August 2005
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  International Directory of Exhibiting Artists (1982-) 1982
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n79015353
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Artists (1989)
....................  New York Art Yearbook 1 (1975-1976)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 109066
....................  Whitney Biennial Exhibition (1997) 148; 191
....................  Who Was Who in America (1899-1890-)
....................  Who's Who in American Art (1936-)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q541526
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
.......... New York Times [online] (2000-) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/theater/robert-wilson-dead.html
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