Museum Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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:
2013 UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2012 Yace Gallery, New York
Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY (Two-person exhibition)
2010 Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2008 Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York
Kreft Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2007 Lesley Heller Gallery, New York
Osilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, New York
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
Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst
Rochester Institute of Technology Gallery, Rochester
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
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, Texas
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 Collective for Living Cinema, New York
Film Forum, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2012 Discursive Abstraction: Works on Paper from the 1950’s to the Present, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, NYC
Summer Benefit Exhibition, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC
2011 25 Years/25 Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2010 The Pencil of Nature, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
New York Studio School Benefit Exhibition, curated by Christina Yang, Bill Jensen, Margit Lewczuk, Andrew Mockler
2009 From the Mississippi to the Hudson, Allen Projects, New York
Collage Logic, Storefront Artist Project, Pittsfield, MA
2008-09 The Printed Picture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008 Linear Manifestations, Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, New York
Crave, UT at Knoxville Gallery, Knoxville, TN
Collage Logic, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, Chicago Art Fair Exhibition
Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, Miami Basel Exhibition
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, FL
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 Building, 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, Leubsdorf Art Gallery (four person show), 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 (Brian Wood & Lois Conner), 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 Aquisitions, 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", 1996, 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 Amerian 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 State University, San Diego CA
Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
Ecrire la Photographie, Ecole Superieured’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 New 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
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.
Fixt, by Brian Wood
1975 Clearview, by Brian Wood
1974 Awaji Puppet Theater, (Brian Wood - Cinematographer and Director of Photography), Asia Society, NYC
Rameau’s Nephew, by Michael Snow, (Brian Wood – Production and Camera Assistant)
Grants & Fellowships:
2011 Presidential Travel Award (CUNY)
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
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Education:
1969 B. A.: University of Saskatchewan - Science and Literature
1975 M. A.: Hunter College, New York City - Filmmaking and Painting
Teaching:
2002-present Hunter College, New York
1991-2002 Yale University, New Haven
2001-2002 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville
1988-9102 Fordham University, New York
1985-present New York University, New York (Internship Program)
1984-present Pratt Art Institute, Brooklyn (Internship Program)
1976-present Workshops and lectures at many museums and universities —
USA, Canada, and Europe.