HARLEM, NEW YORK.- The Studio Museum in Harlem will be presenting upon its reopening this April 28 the exhibition “Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations: 1979-2000”, which will run through July 4, 2004. “Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations: 1979-2000” is the first retrospective of the internationally recognized artist and political activist Fred Wilson, US representative of the 50th Venice Biennale, summer 2003. Organized by the Fine Arts Gallery of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Maurice Berger, Senior Fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School of Social Research and Curator of Fine Arts Gallery, UMBC, this exhibition centers on Wilson’s sustained and cogent inquiry into the complex relationship between the art object and the museum. His oeuvre consisting of "mock" museum installations into which the artist places provocative and beautifully rendered objects, explore the question of how the museum consciously or unconsciously perpetuates racist beliefs and behavior. The exhibition consists of more than 100 objects, each reconfigured to re-create sections of Wilson’s original installations. Catalogue available.