Curriculum Vitae/Résumé

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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:

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:

2008   Crave (Five Person Show), UT at Knoxville Gallery, Knoxville, TN

Per la Musica 3, Castelluccio di Pienza, La Foce, Chianciano, Italy

2007  Linear Manifestations, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York

Works on Paper, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York

Crave (Five Person Show), Marshall Arts, Memphis,TN

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:

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:

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

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", he Montreal Gazette, 5/14/94

Aquin, Stephane.  "Raison /Passion", Voir, Montreal, /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.)

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.  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

Daignault, 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), 1978

1975   Canby, Vincent.   The New York Times, 1/3/75

Horowitz, Leonard. The Soho Weekly News, 1/9/75

 

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.