BRIAN WOOD - BIO
ARTIST PAGE
ARTIST STATEMENT
Born in Saskatchewan, Canada
Lives and works in New York City and Chatham, New York.
Museum Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
New York Public Library, New York
Davis Museum, Wellesley
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague
Museum of Modern Art, Prague
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont.
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask.
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
The Canada Council Artbank, Ottawa
Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2008 Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, New York Kreft Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2007 Lesley Heller Gallery, New York
Osilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2002 Rico Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
1998 Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
1997 Galerie Brigitte Ihsen, Cologne, Germany Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
1996 ACTA Gallery, Rome, Italy
1995 Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (National Gallery of Canada), Ottawa
Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst Rochester Institute of Technology Gallery, Rochester
1994 Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal Taksim Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey Nev Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
1993 Gandy Gallery, Prague
1992 Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York
1989 Lillian Mauer Contemporary Art, Montreal
1988 Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York
1987 McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington DC
1986 McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington DC John A. Schweitzer Gallery, Montreal Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto
1985 Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York Windsor Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
1984 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Houston,TX
1981 Optica Gallery, Montreal
1980 Ydessa (Hendeles) Gallery, Toronto University of Alberta, Edmonton Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1979 Galerie Marielle Mailhot, Montreal Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
1975 Film Forum, New York Collective for Living Cinema, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009 The Printed Picture, Museum of Modern Art, New York The Monk Show, Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Collage Logic, Storefront Artist Project, Pittsfield, MA
2008 Linear Manifestations, Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, New York Crave, UT at Knoxville Gallery, Knoxville,
Collage Logic, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2007 Crave, Marshall Arts, Memphis,TN Works on Paper, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York Collage Logic, Osilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY Collage in the Expanded Field, The Art Center, St. Petersburg,
2006 Per la Musica 2, Castelluccio di Pienza, La Foce, Chianciano, Italy Bomb Magazine Benefit Exhibition, The Park, NYC
2005 Outlook, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, Ny Picturing Central Park, Time Warner Center, NYC
Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, BAMart, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY The Faculty Show, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NYC, Bomb Magazine Benefit Exhibition, The Park, NYC
2004 Hunter Faculty Photography Exhibition, (four person show) Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, NYC Richard Foreman Benefit Exhibition, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Unbroken, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York
2003 Group Exhibition, Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Du Collage, Galerie d'Art Stewart Hall, Montreal
2002 Modus Operandi,Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
Faculty Small Works, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, Collected Views: Works from the Permanent Collection (Stan Douglas, Geoffrey James and Brian Wood), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
1999 John Szarkowski, A Life in Photography, Museum of Modern Art, film screening (Brian
Wood, Cinematographer, Lighting Director, and Co-director with Richard B. Woodward of location film)
My Girlfriend Iris, Karen McCready Gallery, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
1998 La Donation Maurice Forget, Musee d’Art Joliette, Canada
Artwalk, The Puck Building, New York
Temps Composes, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Ville de Sainte-Foy
1997 Documenta X, Walter Konig exhibited "Rolling-Out", Kassel, Germany
Politics and Faith, 678 Gallery, New York
1996 Blind Spot: The First Four Years, Baldacci Gallery, New York
The Depiction of Comic Sex in American Art, Binder Gallery, Munich
Bulletin Board, The Spot, New York
Drawings, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
Intrinsic, Lionheart Gallery, Boston
Click, Riparte, Rome
1995 The Uninvited, Apex Art, New York: Three person exhibition curated by Stephen
Westfall: Bill Barrette, Rico Espinet, Brian Wood
Coups de Coeur, Gandy Gallery, Prague
Silent Witnesses, Geneva, New York, Paris, Vienna, Tokyo, Nairobi, Santiago, Norway
The Common Hand, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
1994 Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
Recent Acquisitions, Davis Museum, Wellesley
Drawing and Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester
Multiple Visions, Soma Gallery, San Diego
A Primary Medium: Contemporary Drawings, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica
Drawing Together, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
1993 Multiple Images: Photographs since 1965 from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Flora and Fauna, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
New Acquisitions, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
Ellis Island, Palazzo Georgio Cini, Ferrara, Italy
Photographs, La Tranchefile Gallery, Montreal
Summer Selections, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Saltern, installatation at Luma, Santa Monica
Contemporary American Photographs, Jingshan, Tushuguan, Canton, China
1992-93 Swarm, 1991, purchased & exhibited in the Photography Galleries of Museum of Modern Art, (Permanent Collection), New York, curated by Peter Galassi
1992 Drawn in the Nineties, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY; Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; Kerr Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH; University Art Gallery, San Diego StateUniversity, San Diego CA
Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
Ecrire la Photographie, Ecole Superieure d’Art et de Design, Reims, France
Les Boites a Malice, StellaR Gallery, Paris
Summer Exhibition, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
1991 Contemporary Landscape Photography from the TMA Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
1990 Ellis Island Project, Ellis Island Museum, New York
1989 Photographs of Invention : American Pictures of the Eighties, Museum of American Art, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sequence(con)Sequence, Blum Art Institute, Bard College,Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1987 Portraits, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Turino Fotografia 1987, Turino, Italy
Summer Show, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York
Right Foot, San Francisco Airport, San Francisco
1986 The Animal in Photography, 1843 - 1985, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Taking Liberties, Buffalo, NY; Albany, NY
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Artists Invite Artists, John A. Schweitzer Gallery, Montreal
Interiors, Everson Museum, Syracuse; Nabisco Gallery, East Hanover, NJ
Postmarked New York, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1985 The Figure: An Interpretive Study, Tower Gallery, New York
Beautiful Photographs, One Penn Plaza Gallery, New York
Narrativite/Performativite, Optica Gallery, Montreal
Totems, John A. Schweitzer Gallery, Montreal
Canada Council ArtBank Exhibition, House of Commons, Ottawa
The Sensuous Image, Cava Gallery, Philadelphia
Group Exhibition, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York
1984 Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Color in the Summer, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Allocations, 49th Parallel Gallery, New York
Contemporary Triptychs, Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Optica Gallery, Montreal,
National Arts Centre, Ottawa
Summer Exhibition, Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York
Artbank Traveling Exhibition, Canada
1983 Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The ARCO Collection, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie
Group Show, Light Gallery, New York
Photographic Sequences, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ont.
1982 Twentieth Century Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York:
Seibu Museum, Tokyo;
Honolulu Art Museum, Hawaii
Summer Exhibition, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas
1979-92 Array, 1977, purchased & exhibited continuously in the Photography Galleries of Museum of
Modern Art, (Permanent Collection), New York, curated by John Szarkowski
1978 Frameworks, Whitney Museum of American Art (Downtown), New York
1973 Silkscreen Prints, Glass Gallery, New York
1972 Prints, Redfern Gallery, London, England
Painting installed in Lord Byron’s Chambers, the Albany, London, England
Film Projects:
1999 John Szarkowski, A Life in Photography, (Brian Wood - Cinematographer, Lighting Director,
and Co-director with Richard B. Woodward of location film), Checkerboard Productions, NYC
1980 The Royal Dancers of the Kingdom of Bhutan, (Brian Wood - Cinematographer and Director
of Photography), Asia Society, New York – aired on Ch. 13 and Public Television channels in USA, Canada, Europe, & Australia. Screened at Natural History Museum, NYC; Asia Society, NYC; Everson Museum, Syracuse; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, & other museums in USA and internationally.
1975 Clearview, by Brian Wood Fixt, by Brian Wood
1974 Awaji Puppet Theater, (Brian Wood - Cinematographer and Director of Photography), Asia Society, NYC
1974 Cinematographer and Lighting Director (Director of Photography) for a multitude of film and video projects.
Grants & Fellowships:
2007 PSC-CUNY Award
2006 PSC-CUNY Award
2004 PSC-CUNY Award
1999 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Fundacion Valparaiso Fellowship, Spain
Canada Council Travel Grant
1998 MacDowell Fellowship
1996 Senior Arts Grant, Canada Council
1992 New York State Foundation for the Arts Grant
1984 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
1982 Arts Grant, Canada Council
1980 Arts Grant, Canada Council
1979 Arts Grant, Canada Council
1978 Arts Grant, Canada Council
1975 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Bibliography:
2009 Harryman, William. “Brian Wood – Three Images”, Elegant Thorn Review,
http://elegantthorn.blogspot.com/2009/04/brian-wood-three-images.html, 4/5/09
Diamond Dust, online journal, 5/09
2008 Ostrow, Saul. The Drawings of Brian Wood: As Real As It Ever Was (ex. cat.), Jeannie
Freilich Contemporary, New York, 6/08
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Piecing Things Together”, The New York Times, 10/20/08
Luby, Abby. “Collage Logic”, Roll Magazine; rollmagazine.com, 10/08
Sanabria, Denise. “Two Themed Exhibits: ‘Crave’ and ‘The Real Me,’” Knoxville Voice, 01/24/08
Swallows, Cody. “Art Exposes Man’s Deep Desires,” The Daily Beacon, Knoxville, 01/14/08
Stephens, Elise. “Crave,” Downtown Knoxville & Everything West, 01/08
2007 Koeppel, Fredric. “‘Crave’ Reflects Obsessive Yearnings,” Arts, Commercial Appeal, 11/30/07
Koeppel, Fredric. “Year’s Top Art Exhibits,” Commercial Appeal, Memphis, 12/28/07
2006 Casebere, James. James Casebere on Brian Wood, Bomb Magazine, #95 Spring 2006
2005 Grundberg, Andy. Picturing Central Park, Central Park Conservancy, New York, 2005
2003 Woodward, Richard. Pictures Worth 10,000 Words, at Least, New York Times, 2/2
Beaudet, Pascale. Du Collage (ex. cat), Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Quebec, 2003
2001 Robertson, Lisa. Cribbed, (ex. cat.) Kamloops Art Gallery, 2001
Wishart, Allan. Wood…, Kamloops This Week, 4/25/01
Youds, Mike. KAG Exhibits, The Daily News, Kamloops 4/17/01
2000 Galassi, Peter. Walker Evans & Company, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000
1999 Seneca Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 1, Spring 1999
1998 Peacock, Robert. Sleep, Universe Publishing (Rizzoli), New York, 1998
Seneca Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, Fall 1998
Wittemore, Hank. Your Future Self, A Journey to the Frontiers of Molecular Medicine, Thames & Hudson
1998-99 Annual Report, The MacDowell Colony, 1999
1997 Pedersen, Martin. Fine Art Photography 2, Graphis Inc., New York, 1997
Kisters, Jurgen. "Brian Wood bei Ihsen", Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, 4/3/97
1996 Madore, Michael. Brian Wood: Rolling-Out (ex. cat.), Jungle Press Editions, New York
Strauss, David Levi. At the Photographic Limits, (ex. cat.), ACTA Gallery, Rome
1995 Westfall, Stephen. The Uninvited (ex. cat.), Apex Art, New York
Aletti, Vince. "The Uninvited", Village Voice Choices, April 4, 1995
Hanna, Martha. Related Differences (ex. cat.), Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
Campbell, James. Depth Markers: Selected Art Writings 1985-1994, (Includes essays on
Brian Wood), ECW Press, Toronto, 1995
King, Alan. "Brian Wood", Ottawa Citizen, April 16, 1995
Robertson, Sheila. Saskatoon Star Pheonix, 4/95
Cron, Marie-Michele. “La photo et ses rituals”, Le Devoir, 3/23/95
Blindspot, Issue Five, Spring 1995, New York
Cahill, Kevin & Roma, Thomas. Silent Witnesses, HarperCollins, 1995
De Palma, Donna. "Brian Wood at RIT", City Newspaper, Rochester, NY, 4/6/95
1994 Kuspit, Donald. Brian Wood (ex. cat.), Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal Duncan, Ann."Merging Abstract with Concrete", The Montreal Gazette, 5/14/94
Aquin, Stephane. "Raison /Passion", Voir, Montreal, 6/8/94
Cron, Marie-Michele. "Brian Wood", Le Devoir, Montreal, 5/29/94
Print Collector’s Newsletter, Vol.XXV No. 5 Nov-Dec 94, p. 190
Campeau, Sylvain. "Brian Wood, Paul Lowry", Parachute, Oct., Nov., Dec., 1994
Rice, Shelley. Cartouches (ex. cat.), Istanbul
Rice, Shelley. "Kabartmalar", Anons, Oct. 1994, Istanbul (trans. Tomris Uyar)
Sanat Cevresi, "Brian Wood an Melez Sanat", Vol. 192, Oct., 1994, p. 25
Milliyet Sanat, "Brian Wood", Oct. 1, 1994, Istanbul
Turkish Daily News, Oct. 9, 1994
Murray, Mary. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Bulletin, Summer 1994
Koksal, Ahmet. Milliyet Sanat, Nov. 1, 1994, p. 46-47, Istanbul
Berin, Nadi. "Brian Wood", Cumhuriyet, Oct. 9, 1994, Istanbul
1992 Hagen, Charles. "Brian Wood", The New York Times, 2/21/92
Princenthal, Nancy. "Perverse Science", The Print Collector’s Newsletter, 7-8/92
Smith, Joshua. Drawn in the Nineties (ex. cat.), Katonah Museum of Art
Campbell, James. "Brian Wood", C Magazine, Toronto, 6/92
Lauterbach, Ann. Brian Wood: Perverse Science (ex. cat.), Lieberman & Saul Gallery
Langford, Martha. Beau (ex. cat.), Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Jassaud, Gervais. Ecrire la Photographie (ex. cat.), Ecole Sup. d’Art et de Design, Reims
1989 Ballerini, Julia. Sequence(con)Sequence (ex. cat.), Aperture
Smith, Joshua. Photographs of Invention: American Pictures of the Eighties (ex. cat.), MIT
Duncan, Ann. The Montreal Gazette, 6/8/89
1987 Campbell, James. "The Art of Brian Wood", Vie des Arts, 9/87
Cruger, George. Portraits (ex. cat.), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1986 Noble, Alexandra. The Animal in Photography, 1843 - 1985 (ex. cat.),
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Lewis, Jo Ann. The Washington Post, 2/8/86
Lepage, Jocelyne. La Presse, Montreal, Canada, 4/26/86
Daigneault, Gilles. Le Devoir, Montreal, Canada, 5/3/86
1985 Grundberg, Andy. "Brian Wood", The New York Times, 2/15/85
DeBono, Norman. The Saturday Windsor Star, 1/5/85
1984 Hunter, Sam. The Museum of Modern Art: The History and the Collection, Abrams
Lifson, Ben. Contemporary Triptychs (ex. cat.), Bard College
Glueck, Grace. “The Triptych Lives On In Modern Variations”, The New York Times, 6/84
“Bard Triptychs”, Woodstock Times, 6/84
Carr, Clare O’Neill. “Three-part Works”, The Gazette Advertiser, Rhinebeck, NY 6/84
Bannon, Anthony. Buffalo News, 2/24/84
Sabbath, Lawrence. The Montreal Gazette, 10/27/84
Daigneault, Gilles. Le Devoir, Montreal, 10/84
1983 Davis, Douglas. “Big Pix”, Newsweek, May 2, 1983
Bailey, Jann. Photographic Sequences (ex. cat.), Peterborough Art Gallery
Connor,Tim. "Brian Wood", Photo Resources, New York, 5/83, 6/83
1982 Szarkowski, John. 20th Century Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art (ex. cat.), NYC
1980 Grayson, Mary. "Study in Illusion and Reality", Edmonton Journal, 2/8/80
Dorsey, Candas. Edmonton Interface, 3/80
Dunning, Jennifer. From the Kingdom of Bhutan, The New York Times, 3/2/80
Aris, Michael. Sacred Dances of Bhutan. Natural History Magazine, (Cover and Photographs
by Brian Wood) 3/30
Jaffrey, Madhur. Buddhist Dance, Asia Magazine, (Photographs by Brian Wood) 3/80
1979 Poser, Steven. Brian Wood: Photographic Works (ex. cat.), Mendel Art Gallery
Saskatoon Star Pheonix, Canada, 7/79
The Montreal Gazette, Canada, 3/79
Nixon, Virginia. La Presse, Montreal, Canada, 3/79
Lehman, Henry. The Montreal Star, Canada, 3/15/79
Viau, Rene. Le Devoir, Montreal, Canada, 3/17/79
1978 Poser, Steven. Frameworks, Whitney Museum (Downtown) (ex.cat.), 1978
1975 Canby, Vincent. The New York Times, 1/3/75
Horowitz, Leonard. The Soho Weekly News, 1/9/75
Education:
1975 M. A.: Hunter College, New York City - Filmmaking and Painting
1969 B. A.: University of Saskatchewan - Science and Literature
Teaching:
2002-present Hunter College, New York
1991-2002 Yale University, New Haven
2001 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville
1988-91 Fordham University, New York
1985-present New York University, New York (Internship Program)
1984-present Pratt Art Institute, Brooklyn (Internship Program)
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