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One of the most important contemporary artists to emerge from the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1970s, Wiley was one of a group of artists who became dissatisfied with the limitations of pure abstraction and began to develop an idiosyncratic and introspective imagery in his art which he has explored over a 40 year career.
Like his dada ancestors, through a hybird of history painting, journal writing, storytelling and punmanship, Wiley shows a culture gone mad. Wiley’s work dwells most frequently on the state of politics, the environment, religion and art itself. Like all great diaries, Wiley’s art is rich with personal reverences.
His first solo exhibition was held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1960. With Robert Arneson, Bruce Nauman and Roy DeForest, Wiley formed the nucleus of the Bay Area Funk Movement.
Wiley has shown widely in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and the world. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of Art and the Stedelijk van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands among others.