Jim Richard Wilson is Director of the Opalka Gallery and Art History Lecturer for The Sage Colleges, a position he has held since 1992. Previously, he was with the State University of New York as Assistant Director of University-wide Programs in the Arts (1989-1992). He has been consultant to and lectured for numerous arts organizations and museums and was Director of the Peter S. Loonam Gallery in Bridgehampton NY for ten years (1976-1986) prior to relocating to the Capital District of New York State.

Wilson has been curating and mounting exhibitions since 1975. He is best known for his work with post-World War II American Art and Jewish history and experience in the Capital Region of New York State. 

Among Wilson's writings on art and culture are; New York School: Another View, Dona Ann McAdams: Some Women, George Hofmann: Inner Life Articulated, Wimberleys Mode, A Place by the Sea (exhibition catalogue essays), Style and Appearance: Alex Katz at the New York State Museum (a version of which appeared in Chronogram), Bridging the Gaps, The Nature and Responsibility of Visual Arts Writing (Apollo, ASLA), and Cuneiform Currency (included in Toward A Second Dimension: A Sociology Reader, ed. McGuire & Purtusati, Kendal/Hunt Publishers).

Mr. Wilson is an artist whose art work has appeared in more than a hundred exhibitions nationwide, including over a dozen solo and semi-solo shows. His work is in numerous collections including; The State University at Stony Brook, PepsiCo, International Specialties Inc., Mariposa Luminosa, and ArtPool, Budapest.

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Wilson's non-art related activities can be glimpsed at: Out of the gallery