About

Avery Wilde creates paintings, sculpture, and immersive environments exhibited nationally. Her work was featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial in participation with the Occupy Museums Collective in the Debt Fair Project. She received the Tucson Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Society ’Award of Excellence’ for her work in the Arizona Biennial 2011. She was granted a three-year Artist-In-Residence studio at Process Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

Avery earned her BFA from CalArts in 1992 and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Encaustic Artists Association in 2016.

She has presented comprehensive workshops locally and nationally, teaching students innovative techniques for working with encaustic.

Avery served as the founding director of Conrad Wilde Gallery from 2005-2018. The gallery was renowned for innovative exhibitions in Tucson as well as at several international art fairs in Los Angeles, New York and Miami. Avery serves as a private career consultant to artists nationwide.

She now uses art therapeutically as a counselor-in-training to help people with trauma, depression, anxiety, and other conditions improve their overall wellbeing.