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American artist whose practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball. At least some of Wileys work has been referred to as funk art. In 2009, the Smithsonian American Art Museum presented a retrospective of Wileys career titled Whats It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect, from 2 October 2009 through 24 January 2010. Wiley also has works in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among many others. Wiley was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2004. He died on 25 April 2021, aged 83, in Kentfield, California. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less