Alvy Ray Smith believes Wilson was the first photographer who specialized in creating images using a $250,000 digital paint system known as a Quantel Paintbox[2][3][4] which was launched nine years before Adobe Photoshop.
On January 10, 2022, Blackpool School of Art, where Wilson first learned how to use the Quantel Paintbox, opened the first solo exhibition[8] of his 1980's images.
Wilson has created new Paintbox animated idents for the Vintage Computer Federation and InfoAge Museum which can be found on his quantelpaintbox Instagram page.
In 2015, Wilson created "The Inutilious Retailer",[19] an interactive art exhibit which was open for 10 months on Ludlow Street, NYC and won a Store of the Year award.
[20] In 2018, Wilson created the "Space X Gallery" which he hid above a fake Boring Company start-up office in a derelict building in the Lower East Side,[21] a one-man "Introspective"[22] show about Jerry Saltz and a Native American art exhibition titled "Artonement".