Anne Wilson received the Artadia Award in 2001 and 2008.

Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist who creates sculpture, material drawings, video and performances that are grounded in a textile language. Her artworks reside in permanent collections around the world including the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Arts and Design, NY: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Detroit Institute of Arts; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Foundation Toms Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. Wilson was named a 2015 United States Artists Distinguished Fellow and is the recipient of awards from the American Craft Council (2024 Gold Medal for lifetime achievement), Renwick Alliance of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2022 Distinguished Educators Award), Textile Society of America, Artadia, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Wilson is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.