T. J. Wilcox was born in 1965, Seattle, Washington, lives and works in New York.

Wilcox’s work is characterized by a fascination with personal narrative and the ways in which history is always under construction, woven from fact, myth, memory, associations, and the bombardment of information we all receive on a moment-to-moment basis. T. J. Wilcox is mainly known for his super 8 films transferred to video, 16 mm film projections, collages and installations of famous people and their glamorous – sometimes harrowing and dramatic – stories. Fact meets fiction (at times the artist’s own fantasy or history) in beautifully haunting portraits of the famous Marie Antoinette, Marlene Dietrich, Czar Nicholas of Russia, or the Marchesa Luisa Casati. These portraits continue in his work with the not so famous, such as his close friends, the superintendent of his studio building and his beloved French Bulldog. The collaged films are often romantic and decadent in their subjects and subject matter, and their stunningly beautiful vignettes often blur biography and autobiography and embrace the romantic history and escapism of cinema.

Wilcox’s solo and group exhibitions include: Natural Wonders: Sublime Artifice in Contemporary Art, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (2018); House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, Bakewell (2017); J’aime les Panoramas, Musee d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, (2015); La vie moderne, La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (2015); Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan (2015); Whitney Museum of American Art (2013, 2014); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2007); Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York and  Kunstverein Munich (2005); Tate Modern, London (2003); Whitney Museum of American Art (2000, 2004).