The investigations of Dolores Wilber begin in the ties that bind us together, our physical bodies and psychological and social violence. As an artist, designer and educator, she grapples with the cultural exhaustion that the broken promises of empty language and meaningless images create in our lives. Her most recent work addresses questions of vulnerability, issues of crime and punishment, and our loss, as humans, of a place in the world—a loss of home. Her work is interdisciplinary, often collaborative, and the form depends on the peculiarity of the investigation. It may take the form of a photomontage, an installation, video or live multimedia performance.

Wilber has exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, The Royal College of Art in London, the Von Krahli Theatre (Tallin), Rakvere Museum, Estonia. Her video short, Chests, was premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2005. Her work of writing and photography was seen in Fold: the Reader, and this issue of Fold received a Print Regional Annual Award for 2005. Recent work includes a collaborative project on public space and memory with Heitor Alvelos, Head of International Relations, School of Fine Arts, General Board, Gomes Teixeira Foundation University of Porto, Portugal, She has received awards from numerous sources including the Illinois Art Council, the United States Embassy, the Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation, and the Peabody Award as a producer for the public radio program, This American Life, hosted by Ira Glass.