Richard Wilson (installation artist)
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- This page is about the installation artist. For other people named Richard Wilson, see Richard Wilson (disambiguation)
Richard Wilson (born 1953) is a British installation artist.
Wilson was born in London and studied at Hornsey College of Art and the University of Reading. He was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1988 (when Tony Cragg won) and 1989 (when Richard Long won).
Wilson often works on an architectural scale, often changing large spaces in some dramatic way. One of his best known pieces, 20:50 (1987), consists of a room half-flooded with used sump oil in which the ceiling of the space is reflected, producing a disorienting effect.