Michael Warren Wilson (b. Arkansas, US) is an artist/filmmaker whose transdisciplinary and collaborative projects have often drawn on historical analogues to explore the intertwining systems and imaginaries of the US South, apocalypticism and networked exploitation in contemporary culture and social life. Many of his projects involve years of research and production, multiple collaborators and manifest in a variety of media.

His experimental documentary on the mainstreaming of American christian fascism titled Silhouette City premiered at the Miami International Film Festival and a companion volume of supplementary texts, images and documents was distributed by University of Chicago Press. He was a founder/editor of the multimedia supply chain research project Empire Logistics (2009-2017). With Natalie Zimmerman, he produced a number of films, including Eros & Psyche (2011), Close the Eyes (2013) and Oceania (2023). His most recent feature film, WE HAVE JUST BEGUN, explores the legacy of the 1919 Elaine Massacre and Jim Crow on the contemporary Arkansas Delta.

Wilson has taught film, video, new media, art theory and art practice at several colleges, art schools, film schools and universities. He has also received a number of awards, grants, fellowships and residencies. His work has shown widely, and at such varied locations as the Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna), the Byzantine Museum (Athens), Harvard Divinity School, Entermultimediale (Prague), Miami Film Festival, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts (NYC), Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Arkansas Arts Center and RealArtWays (CT).