Fred Wilson’s conceptual art practice encompasses sculpture, painting, photography, collage, printmaking, and installation. His work tends to subvert perceptions in order to reveal the undercurrents of historical discourse, ownership, and privilege normalized by institutional practices. Wilson interdisciplinary work challenges dominant narratives about history, culture, race, and conventions of display. By reframing objects and cultural symbols, he alters traditional interpretations, encouraging viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives. His groundbreaking exhibition Mining the Museum (1992) at the Maryland Historical Society radically altered the landscape of museum exhibition narratives. As interventions, or “mining,” of the museum’s archive, Wilson re-presented its materials to make visible hidden structures built into the museum system, and American society as a whole.