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William T. Wiley (b. 1937) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball. Some of Wiley's work has been referred to as funk art. He was born in Bedford, Indiana. Raised in Indiana, Texas, and Washington, Wiley moved to San Francisco to study at the California School of Fine Arts where he earned his BFA in 1960 and his MFA two years later. In 1963, Wiley joined the faculty of the UC Davis art department with Bay Area Funk Movement artists Robert Arneson and Roy DeForest. During that time Wiley instructed students including Bruce Nauman, Deborah Butterfield, and Stephen Laub. According to Dan Graham, the literary, punning element of Nauman's work came from Wiley. Wiley continued to build upon his growing stature as a major artist and now has works in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among many others. Wiley was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2004.