Wilmer Wilson IV (born 1989) is an American artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who works in performance, photography, sculpture, and other media.
[21] As art critic Claudia Rousseau noted in a review of Wilson's residency program exhibition, "This Howard University undergraduate is one to watch.
"[23] The artist's durational performance work, Henry "Box" Brown: FOREVER (2012), was a suite of three public performances in Washington, D.C., in which the artist covered his bare body with US postage stamps and walked to post offices asking to be mailed, after the legacy of Henry Box Brown.
[24] In Portrait with Hydrogen Peroxide Strips (2015), Wilson stood in the main hall of the National Portrait Gallery and covered his bare body in teeth-whitening hydrogen peroxide strips, a continuation of the artist's interest in creating "skins" out of dense patterns of repeated materials and symbols.
The set, A Running Tour of Some Monuments of included volumes for Barcelona, Brussels, London, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Rome.