Anson Wigner is a visual artist who utilizes photography, video, mixed media, and sound to critically explore the development of modern visual ideologies. This exploration is focused on the interaction between institutional looking, the technologically mediated gaze, and our lived visual experiences. His recent work uses images from the infancy of satellite surveillance and Cold War propaganda films to propose a link between faux visual certainty and ideological totalities like mutually assured destruction.

Anson earned his MFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2021, and a BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, at Tufts University. He has also run a small photography business for over ten years, specializing in working with artists and academics in image-based research and archival image sourcing, and the production of promotional material. Anson is currently living in upstate New York making art in and around the Ithaca area, and working on a collaborative project with his partner exploring the legacy of post war Japanese eugenic ideology and its modern counterparts.