Vice Studios may soon be saying “you’re welcome” to Ryan Wilson.
The company has tapped Wilson — best known by his professional moniker ThankYouX — to serve as its first artist in residence. The unique appointment, confirmed today by Vice Studios president Amy Powell , will find Wilson collaborating with development and creative teams on a variety of functions. He’ll be charged with originating new intellectual property, consulting on visual world-building for Vice Studios titles and conceptualize hybrid narrative formats that “bridge contemporary art, entertainment and technology,” per Vice.
The new gig is a reunion of sorts of Wilson and Powell, whose resume includes stints as head of entertainment marketing at Amazon, co-founder and CEO of Brillstein Creative Partners, and a long run at Paramount Pictures , exiting as president of Paramount Television in 2018.…