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Biography
William Wood's diverse body of work is informed by a variety of currents in art history. Skillfully referencing a multiplicity of artists and movements, the paintings vary widely in technique and content yet are drawn together under a unique aesthetic characterized by a rich painterly quality and visual complexity. His works form part of several renowned national collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
As an artist, Wood seeks to test the boundaries of painting through the use of unconventional media and techniques. He often combines atypical materials such as newsprint, cotton duck, house paint and gesso, with traditional acrylics, inks and oils, creating distinctive textures and a captivating visual style. Experimenting with digital photography has also played a pivotal role in the artist's practice and several of his works are based on photographs taken with his iPhone. The images are manipulated and magnified to achieve a specific pictorial intent, which the artist then translates to paper or canvas, creating an innovative bridge between the two disciplines.
For Wood, appreciating art is a wholly subjective, individual experience that can be both elevating and enriching. His work aims to forge a connection with his audience, bringing to life raw emotions and ideas. In his own words, "A good work of art hits a nerve in you that makes you feel a connection with the artist…it is something you didn't think you needed until you saw it and experienced it, and then you're a slightly different person after having come into contact with it."
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CV
Download Wood CVBorn Huntington, New York
Lives and works in New York, NYEDUCATION
BS, Manhattan College, New York, NY
School of Visual Arts, New York, NYSOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
These Days, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012
Nine Paintings, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2004
Emergence, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Recent Paintings, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2003
William Wood: New Work, Danese, New York, NY
Polaroids, The Art Wall at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
William Wood, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
2002
William Wood, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
William Wood, Danese, New York, NY
William Wood, Renate Schr ö der Galerie, Koln, Germany
2000
William Wood, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
William Wood, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999
William Wood, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Recent Paintings, Danese, New York, NY
William Wood: Recent Paintings, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
1998
Windows Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1997
William Wood: Works on Paper, Danese, New York, NY
William Wood: Recent Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
1996
Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, NYSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Billy Miller/STH editions, The Art Book Fair, LA MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Art Must Go, Curated by Billy Miller, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
2015
STH Editions, The Art Book Fair, PS1MOMA, New York, NY
Only 2.5 Hrs from GWB, curated by Pia Dehne, Hamden, NY
When I turn off the living room light, from the collection of Linda St Saers, curated by Steve Lafreniere, Studio Blomster, Guerneville, CA
2011
Abstraction, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Four Artists Beverly Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2010
Generations Collide, a group exhibition curated by Tripoli Patterson, Murphy and Dine Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Tripoli gallery, South Hampton, NY
Night, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009
Group Show curated by Keith Meyerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Black and Light, Kleinert/ James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY
2006
The 2006 Collectors Show and Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
What Works, Gallery 117, New York, NY
2005
Head Over hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2005
Collectors Show and Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
2004
Paintings that Paint Themselves or so it Seems, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
On, Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece
A Five-Year Survey of the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2003
Grisaille, JG Contemporary, New York, NY
Becoming, Curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, Hydra, Greece
2002
Northern Light, Danese, New York, NY
New Editions & Monoprints, Pace/Prints, New York, NY
Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program, An Exhibition of Works from The Marie Sharpe Art Foundation, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
Shoichi Aoki: Fruits/William Wood: New Work, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
Escape from the Vault: The Contemporary Museum ' s Collection Breaks Out, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2001
Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
W, Musee Des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
Mary McDonnell, Casey Williams, William Wood, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Carl Fudge, John Pomara, William Wood, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX
Summer Group Exhibition, Danese, New York, NY
2000
Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Painting Today - Overseas and Here, Renate Schr ö der Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Small Abstract Paintings and Sculpture, Eugene Binder, Long Island City, NY
New Work: Abstract Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999
Abstraction, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Pictorial Abstraction, Temple Gallery of Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Sheer Abstraction, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
The Great Debate: American Abstraction, American Realism, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1998
Art of Four Decades 1958-1998, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Drawings..., Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA
Works on Paper by Contemporary and Modern Masters, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Paintings by William Wood and Joey Kotting, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
1997
Selected Works, Danese, New York, NY
New Works: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Emerging Artists, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
Painting and Sculpture, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Hybrid, curated by Mari Spirito, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Carl Fudge, John Pomara, William Wood, Eugene Binder, Long Island City, NY
Intimate Universe Revisited, curated by Michael Walls, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Alive & Well, New Paintings, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Art Show, Ryall Porter Architects, New York, NY
Material Madness, The Work Space, New York, NY
Method & Multiplicity, curated by Richmond Burton, Apex Art, New York, NY
Regen Projects, Gramercy International Art Fair, curated by Jack Pierson, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Selections Winter ' 94, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Paintings, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1993
Contemporary Drawings Part III, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, NYSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
Michael K. Corbin What Makes a painting?, An interview with William Wood, Artbookguy.com
2004
Green, Roger, "Paintings seem to form themselves," The Ann Arbor News, Friday October 22, page E4
Travel Host, Unique Art Exhibition, October/ November 2004, Page 22
Tigner, Amanda, "Kresge spots trend in painting: Paintings that Paint Themselves," City Pulse, September 8, 2004 p. 22 East Lansing, MI
2003
Welsh, Mark. "Central Park Zest," El D é cor , August-September, 2003, pp. 114-119, ill.
"William Wood, " The New Yorker, March 17, 2003, p. 42.
2002
Baker, Kenneth. "Wood's painted shapes float in a world unto themselves," San Francisco Chronicle , December 21, 2002, p. D12.
Renzi, Jen, "Nouveau Ritz," Interior Design , March 2002, No. 3, p. S16. Illus.
2001
Steinberg, Michael. Up & Coming: An Inside Guide to The Emerging Art Scene in New York, Vilo International, Paris, 2001, p.133.
Chambers, Christopher. "Altoids' Curiously Strong Collection at newmuseum in New York," d art international , Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 43 - 44, illus.
"Critics' Pick," Time Out , April 19 - 26, Issue No. 291, pp. 63 - 64.
"May Picks," NY Arts , Vol. 6, No. 5, May 2001, p. 73, illus.
"Altoids Gift to New Museum," Art in America, Vol. 89, No. 3, March 2001, p. 158.
2000
Baker, Kenneth. "Abstraction is in the Eye of the Artist and Beholder," San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, June 24, 2000.
Turner, Grady T. "Beautiful Dreamers, Emerging American Painters, Circa 2000," Flash Art, January - February 2000,Vol. XXXIII, No. 210, pp.64 - 67, illus.
Bonetti, David. "Gallery Watch: Driven to Dynamic Abstraction," San Francisco Examiner,
January 28, 2000. P. C15.
1999
Turner, Grady, T. "William Wood," ARTnews , May 1999, pp. 166, illus.
Lloyd, Ann Wilson. "William Wood at Danese and Mario Diacono," Art in America , May 1999, pp. 163-164, illus.
Johnson, Ken. "William Wood," The New York Times , Friday, January 29, 1999, E36.
Conis. "William Wood," NY Arts , February 1999, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 56.
Levin, Kim. "William Wood, " The Villiage Voice , January 26, 1999, Vol. XLIV, no 3, p.87.
"William Wood," The New Yorker , January 25, 1999, pp. 14 - 15.
Korotkin, Joyce. "William wood, Danese Gallery," The New York Art World , February, 1999, vol. 2, no 6, p. 6.
Ruggieri, John. "William Wood at Mario Diacono," Bay Windows , Boston, February 4, 1999, p. 6-B, 13-B.
1998
Gardner, Paul. "Taking the Plunge," ARTnews , February, 1998, p.113.
Wende, Andre van der. "Provincetown Banner," September 10, 1998, p. 30.
Polsky, Richard. Art Market Guide 1998 , Danese Gallery, "Best Buy."
Turner, Elisa. "Southern Exposure," Ambrosino Gallery, The Miami Herald , September 18, 1998, p.10.
1997
Goff, Robert. Forbes Magazine, October 20, 1997, p. 322.
Glueck, Grace. "William Wood at Linda Kirkland Gallery," The New York Times , January 19, p. C27.
Koplos, Janet. "William Wood at Linda Kirkland," Art in America , June, p. 117.
Moody, Tom. "William Wood at Linda Kirkland Gallery," Artforum , March, pp. 94-97.
Spirito, Mari. "William Wood at Linda Kirkland Gallery," artsMedia, January/February, p. 38.
Unger, Miles. "Hybrid at Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA," Art New England October/November
Walcott, Ellison Austin. "William Wood, Danese Gallery," Review, October 1, p. 35-36.
"William Wood at Linda Kirkland," New Yorker Magazine , Gallery-Chelsea.
1995
"Contemporary Drawings at Arena," New York Press , June.AWARDS
1997
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio GrantCATALOGUES AND BROCHURES
2002
"Artists to Artists - A Decade of the Space Program," The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
2001
"Nebeneinander III: Painting Today - Overseas and Here," Renate Schr ö der Galerie, Cologne.
1999
"William Wood," Galerie Xippas, Paris, essay by David Rimanelli.
"On Painting's Lightitude: William Wood, Painting at Mario Diacono Gallery," Boston,
Massachusetts, January 1999.
1998
"Drawings, " Meyerson & Nowinski Gallery, Seattle, Washington. illus.
1997
"Carl Fudge, John Pomara, William Wood," Eugene Binder, New York.
1996
"Method & Multiplicity," curated by Richmond Burton, Apex Art, New York.
1994
"Selections Winter ' 94," The Drawing Center, reproductions.COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
General Dynamics, Falls Church, VA
The Prudential Art Collection, Newark, NJ
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Progressive Corporate Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
Perez Art Museum, North Miami, FL
