Artist Statement
Orpheus, at his death: his mystic’s body torn apart and cast to the waiting landscape. His head, held tenderly by the river Hebrus, sings as it floods to wider seas. Inside that sacred vessel, streaming on to Lesbos, live songs of underworld and ecstasy.
The boundaries and limits of consciousness hold for me a particular fascination and it seems likely the obsessions in my work derive from the earliest phase of life before language and before self. Pleasure, suffering, sensing, aggression, devouring and expelling merge in a timeless non-reflective realm. The pre-lingual lack of separation from Mother and the undifferentiated flow of our infant world quickly give way to difference, boundaries, language, and time - a split requisite for a functioning ego and a requirement for personal feeling and rational thought, but while necessary, also traumatic. Awareness longs for the moment before! I long to hold that moment before image-become-language is forced into service as identity, self, and workaday narcissism.
When I paint, I feel I’m invoking a living being - responding to its needs, following its urgings, serving its ferocity, revealing its presence. What does it want from me? As imaginal space opens and forms arise, I honor the intensity of these pre-linguistic images before they tip toward language, narrative, and discursive thought. As intimacy deepens, the painting looks back at me as intently as I see into it and the illusory distance between inner and outer worlds burns into one vast space where mutual being is possible.
Trauma experienced again but then transfigured into something expansive, and to me, beautiful – this is the realm of freedom. Painting as a vessel where anything might be born and where transformations fluoresce without restrictions of concept or utility. Like love.
- Brian Wood, 2022
Bio
Brian Wood is an American artist working in New York. His paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, films, and books are exhibited internationally and are held in many private and public collections. Wood is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, National Gallery of Art in DC, Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Museum of Modern Art in Prague, National Gallery of Canada, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Asheville Art Museum, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art, and many others.
Wood has had 50 solo exhibitions in international galleries and museums and has exhibited in 210 group shows including at the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, LA County Museum of Art, Museum of American Art in DC, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Seibu Museum in Tokyo, Documenta in Kassel, Germany, American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC, and many others.
Wood's awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the 2020 American Academy of Arts & Letters Purchase Award, and numerous Canada Council Grants including the Established Artist “A” Grant. Brian Wood was a 2019 Rome Prize finalist.
Brian Wood works primarily with painting and drawing. Throughout his career, Wood has been immersed in questions about consciousness and ontology, the mystery of intense images arising to awareness, and their complex relationship with and away from time. Pursuing this inquiry into the tensile nature of time and space, he has explored many media and is accomplished in painting, drawing, photography, film, and printmaking. Each medium generates different and complex relationships to time and radically different experiences of space/form. All Wood’s images are interrelated by the daimon driving their emergence but his curiosity and extensive investigation of different media, each with its own concrete and metaphorical differences, have contributed to the imaginal experience of Wood’s current paintings.
Born and raised on the prairies of northern Saskatchewan, Canada, Wood's imagination was formed in harsh land, severe weather, and the life and death cycles of animals, crops, and wilderness. Wood's childhood on the farm, his absorption in nature, reading, piano, and college studies in physics and mathematics combine with his fascination and close attention to the shifting boundaries of body, sexuality, and awareness itself. From these inquiries, and his sense that the conventional separation of inner and outer worlds is an illusion, come the form and obsessions of his work.
Instagram: @brian_wood_ny
Museum Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Davis Museum, Wellesley
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
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, Ontario
Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Canada
The Canada Council Artbank, Ottawa
Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal
Grants and Fellowships
2020 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
2019 Rome Prize finalist
1999 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Fundacion Valparaiso Fellowship, Spain
Canada Council Travel Grant
1998 MacDowell Fellowship
1996 Established Artist “A” Grant, Canada Council
1992 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
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
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Extamundane, Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY (with Yura Adams)
2019 Brian Wood Drawings, Arts + Leisure Gallery, New York, NY (ex. cat.)
2017 Brian Wood Paintings, Cross Contemporary Gallery, Saugerties, NY (ex. cat.)
(Poets Robert Kelly and Charles Stein read to "Brian Wood: Paintings" at Cross Cont.)
Drawings, No. Six Depot, West Stockbridge, MA
2015 Salon Zurcher, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY (with Amy Brener)
2014 Enceinte, Church of Saint Paul, New York, NY
Spin Zero, Novella Gallery, NYC (with John Newman, Max Razdow)
2012 Yace Gallery, New York, NY
Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2010 Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College (ex. cat.), Wilkes-Barre, PA
2008 Jeannie Freilich Contemporary (ex. cat.), New York
Kreft Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2007 Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Osilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2006 Brian Wood, Castelluccio di Pienza, La Foce, Chianciano, Italy
2002 Rico Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Kamloops Art Gallery (ex. cat.), Kamloops, Canada
1998 Art Gallery of Peterborough (ex. cat.), Ontario, Canada
1997 Galerie Brigitte Ihsen, Cologne, Germany
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
1996 ACTA Gallery, Rome (ex. cat.), Italy
1995 Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (National Gallery of Canada) (ex. cat.), Ottawa
Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst
Rochester Institute of Technology Gallery, Rochester
1994 Saidye Bronfman Centre (ex. cat.), Montreal
Taksim Gallery, Istanbul (ex. cat.), Turkey
Nev Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
1993 Gandy Gallery, Prague
1992 Lieberman & Saul Gallery (ex. cat.), 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
Evelyn Aimis Fine Art, Toronto
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 (ex. cat.), Canada
1975 Film Forum, New York City
Collective for Living Cinema, New York City
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 La Banda 2024, Tappeto Volante Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, installs Wood’s “Vehicle,” 2019 in their permanent collection gallery
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Arabella and Anita, The Octagon House, Catskill, NY, curated by The Sphinx Northeast for Upstate Art Weekend
2022 Largeness Writ Small, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, curated by Buzz Spector
Mountain High, Valley Low, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Upstate Art Weekend Open Studios, Brian Wood & Ashley Garrett, East Chatham, NY
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2021 Reflection, Rhombus Space, Brooklyn, NY
Wall Power, Tanja Grunert Gallery, Hudson, NY
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Vision of Care, WAAM, Woodstock, NY, curated by critic Robert R. Shane
Holiday Show, Catskills Gallery, New York, NY
Transmissions, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 2020 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Holiday Show, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Social Photography VIII, Carriage Trade, NYC
2019 Vacio Escritura Color: Global Books Exhibition, Brian Wood/Ximena Godoy-Arcaya & others, Museo San Francisco,
Santiago, Chile
Coping, GCCA, Catskill, NY
En Masse, Thompson & Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
Holiday Show, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
The Lovely Wild, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, NYC
2018 Mist Wreathed Spring/Break Art Show, curated by Max Razdow and Kari Adelaide, New York, NY
Actually Weird, curated by JJ Manford, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Materiality, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
TrueNorth, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Editions Artists Book Fair, NYC, Brian Wood lithographs, ‘Rolling-Out,’ by Jungle Press Editions, NYC
Holiday Show, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2017 Social Photography V, Carriage Trade, New York
Vive, Honey Ramka Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Safe Space, Church of St Paul the Apostle, New York, NY
Warmth of Winter, National Arts Club, New York
Art Up, Andes, NY
Hygge, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
2016 Sibling Rivalries (ex. cat.), Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Fort, Ess Ef Eff, Brooklyn, NY
Trio: Augustus Goertz, Marianne van Lent and Brian Wood, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
Something Else (ex. cat.), The Painting Center, NY
Itsy Bitsy Biennale, Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY
Bushwick Tales, Venus Knitting Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2015 PAUL KLEE, curated by Ashley Garrett and JJ Manford, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Salon Zurcher, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY (Two-person exhibition with Amy Brener)
Polysolaris, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Paintings in Trees, curated by Ben LaRocco, Linnea Paskow and Ben Pritchard, The People's Garden, Brooklyn, NY
Improvised Showboat #5, New York, NY, curated by Zach Keeting and Lauren Britton
Eumetadotos, Novella Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Place Made Visible, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Underdonk Selects, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Liberalis, Novella Gallery, New York, NY
Artists For Ferguson, Temporary Agency, Brooklyn, NY
Art for Tibet, Tibet House, New York, NY
Gowanus Studios Group Exhibition, Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Beasts and Bodies, “Anchor Artist”, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Le Choix du Coeur, Prague, Gandy Gallery & Galerie35, Prague
Light as Medium, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Marty’s Cool Biennial, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Relocation Exhibition, Rico, Brooklyn, NY
Necessity and Chance, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
Kamloops Art Gallery 25th Anniversary, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC
2012 Discursive Abstraction: Works on Paper from the 1950’s to the Present, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, NY
Summer Benefit Exhibition, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC
2011 25 Years / 25 Artists (ex. cat.), 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 The Printed Picture (ex. cat.), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Linear Manifestations, Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, New York
Crave (ex. cat.), 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 (ex. cat.), 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 (ex. cat.), The Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2006 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, NY
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 (ex. cat.), Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
Faculty Small Works, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
Collected Views: Works from the Permanent Collection, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
(Brian Wood, Stan Douglas, and Geoffrey James)
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
Third Annual Artist Book International, Cologne
Bulletin Board, The Spot, New York
Drawings, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
Intrinsic, Lionheart Gallery, Boston
Click, Riparte, Rome
1995 Apex Art (ex. cat.), New York, curated by Stephen Westfall: Brian Wood, Bill Barrette, Rico Espinet
Coups de Coeur, Gandy Gallery, Prague
Silent Witnesses (ex. cat.), 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
Selections from the Tampa Museum of Art Collection, Art Gallery of Fort Lauderdale, FL
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 (ex. cat.), curated by Joshua Smith:
Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY
Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Kerr Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego CA
Beau (ex.cat), Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
Ecrire la Photographie (ex. cat.), curated by Gervais Jassaud, Ecole Superieure d’Art et de Design, Reims, France
Les Boites a Malice, StellaR Gallery, Paris
Summer Exhibition, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Right Foot, San Francisco Airport, San Francisco
1991 Contemporary Landscape Photography from the TMA Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
1990 Ellis Island Project, Ellis Island Museum, New York
1989 Photographs of Invention: American Pictures of the Eighties (ex. cat.), curated by Joshua Smith:
Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Sequence(con)Sequence (ex. cat.), Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1987 Portraits (ex. cat.), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Turino Fotografia 1987, Turino, Italy
Summer Show, Lieberman & Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Brian Wood: Lithographs, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
Right Foot, San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, CA
1986 The Animal in Photography, 1843 - 1985 (ex. cat.), The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
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 (ex. cat.), 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 (ex. cat.), 49th Parallel Gallery, New York
Contemporary Triptychs (ex. cat.), 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 (ex. cat.), Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ont.
1982 Twentieth Century Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (ex. cat.), 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 from 1979 - 1992, (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 commission installed in Lord Byron’s Chambers, the Albany, London, England
Film Projects
1999 John Szarkowski, A Life in Photography, Premier at Museum of Modern Art, New York (Brian Wood -
Cinematographer, Lighting Director, and Co-director with Richard B. Woodward of location film),
Checkerboard Productions, NY
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, NY
1974-2000 Cinematographer &Lighting Director for many film and video projects.
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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
Elot, Maryse. “Interview with Artists: Brian Wood,” The Chelsea Journal, 6/94
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
1993 Tousley, Nancy. “Drawing as an art form impresses,” Calgary Herald, 1/8/93
Stapen, Nancy. “90’s Drawing,” The Boston Globe, 12/27/93
1992 Hagen, Charles. "Brian Wood," The New York Times, 2/21/92
Russell, John. “The Secret Life of Art is Led in Drawings,” The New York Times, 6/28/92
Princenthal, Nancy. "Perverse Science," The Print Collector’s Newsletter, 7-8/92
Smith, Joshua. Drawn in the Nineties (ex. cat.), Katonah Museum of Art
Raynor, Vivien. “Memorable Images in an Anthology of Drawings,” The New York Times, 7/5/92
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, Ottawa
Marquart, Lisa, “Drawn in the 90’s,” The Daily Aztec, San Diego, 5/93
Mack, J., “Drawing: an Independent Artforum,” Bloomington Voice, IN, 9/16/92
Jassaud, Gervais. Ecrire la Photographie (ex. cat.), Ecole Sup. d’Art et de Design, Reims, France
1989 Ballerini, Julia. Sequence(con)Sequence (ex. cat.), Aperture, New York
Smith, Joshua. Photographs of Invention: American Pictures of the Eighties (ex. cat.), MIT
Duncan, Ann. “New Twists on Age-old Art of Drawing,” 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, 1984
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.), New York, 1982
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. “Altered States of Film Consciousness,” The Soho Weekly News, 1/9/75
Education
1975 MA Hunter College, New York City - Filmmaking and Painting
1969 BA University of Saskatchewan - Science and Mathematics
Teaching & Lectures
2002-2021 Tenured Full Professor, Faculty of Department of Art & Art History, Hunter College, New York, NY
1992-2002 Senior Critic, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1998 Visiting Professor, Sarah Lawrence College
Ongoing Lectures and workshops at many museums and universities - USA, Canada, and Europe.
Academic Awards
2021 PSC-CUNY Award
2019 PSC-CUNY Award
2017 PSC-CUNY Award
2014 Presidential Award for Faculty Advancement (CUNY)
2011 Presidential Travel Award (CUNY)
PSC-CUNY Award
2007 PSC-CUNY Award
2006 PSC-CUNY Award
2004 PSC-CUNY Award
1975 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship