Artist

Mike Wilkins

born Durham, NC 1959
Born
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Active in
  • San Francisco, California, United States
Biography

Born in North Carolina. Best known as a conceptual artist who celebrated the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution by requesting personalized license plates from all fifty states to form its preamble.

Nora Panzer, ed. Celebrate America in Poetry and Art (New York and Washington, D.C.: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994)

Works by this artist (3 items)

Cory Arcangel, Video Painting, 2008, unique VHS tape, color, silent; 120:00 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible through Deaccession Funds, 2010.5, © 2008, Cory Arcangel
Video Painting
Date2008
unique VHS tape, color, silent; 120:00 minutes
Not on view
Cory Arcangel, Beach Boys/Geto Boys, 2004, 4:13 minutes, color, sound, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Ford Motor Company, 2007.33.5, © 2004 Cory Arcangel. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, NY
Beach Boys/​Geto Boys
Date2004
4:13 minutes, color, sound
Not on view