Lulu Wiley (c. 1998) is a visual artist working in painting and sculpture. She earned her BA from Bennington College and is currently completing her MFA at the University of Delaware, where she serves as Instructor of Record for Foundations of Painting. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including a solo exhibition at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont (2025), and group exhibitions including the Climate Change Biennale at Dartmouth College (2024) and the Intercollegiate Exhibition at The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, New York (2024). Her research explores material culture, craft, and contemporary sculpture through historical and interdisciplinary perspectives.
I see the world’s dilemmas as inseparable from my materials. My work is made from acrylic, plastic, climate change, isolation, paints, oil, online dating, wood, femininity, the 2008 recession, and 3D prints. My practice frequently begins with found materials and readymade forms. Across sculpture, relief, and installation, I am interested in how objects carry traces of the social, economic, and ideological conditions that produced them. Through the readymade, familiar imagery becomes a foundation for abstracting the narratives embedded within it.
My process is highly experimental. I employ state-of-the-art fabrication methods such as laser engraving and 3D printing alongside traditional processes including woodworking and oil painting. These works function as dialectical images by bringing contemporary fabrication technologies into dialogue with traditional craft. In doing so, they too become markers of the historical moment we inhabit, created through technologies that are themselves destined to become obsolete.

Email:
luluw@udel.edu
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