QUALEASHA WOOD
B. 1996 Long Branch, NJ
Lives and works in Philadelphia PA
EDUCATION
2021 Master of Fine Arts, Photography
Cranbrook Academy of Fine Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 code_anima , Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC
2023 Manic Pixie Magical Negro, Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York, NY,
tl;dr, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
2019 Qualeasha Wood, Gluon Gallery, Milwuakeee, WI
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, The Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Threaded Visions, Contemporary Weavings from the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago IL
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, NY
The Ceremony Must Be Found: Ritual as Artistic Practice, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts: Project Space Program, New York, NY.
Threaded, The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2022-3 The New Bend, curated by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, Hauser & Wirth, NY (2022), travelled to Hauser & Wirth, LA (2022) and Somerset (2023)
It’s Time For Me To Go: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2021-22, MoMA PS1, NY
2022 for those of us who live at the shoreline, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2021 Alter Egos, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
In This House, Library Street Collective, Art Mile, Detroit, MI
Nobody’s Home, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Dancing in Dark Times, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Black Femme: Sovereign of WAP and the Virtual Realm, Canada, New York, NY
Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed. Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
2020 Twenty-First Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations, Episode 4: Seating Chart for a Fall Dinner Party in a Pandemic, Kendra Jayne Patrick for Metro Pictures Online
Repose, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Crescendo, New Image Art, West Hollywood, CA
NADA presents, “FAIR” Inaugural Edition, Kendra Jayne Patrick
A Manifest of Ipseities, 333 Midland, Detroit, MI
Oracles of The Other, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2019 A Complete Change of Form Into a More Beautiful or Spiritual State, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
New Contemporaries, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
The Salon At The Wing, The Wing Boston, Boston, MA
2018 END, New Image Art, West Hollywood, CA
We Thought of You, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
Under Pressure, Benson Gallery, Providence, RI
2017 RISD Printmaking Triennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI.
Atlas of Enslavement, installation throughout Providence, RI
Who’s On Call Tonite?, RISD Exposé Gallery, Providence, RI
What’s Love Got To Do With It?: Politics of Desirability, RISD Exposé Gallery, Providence, RI
Fruits of Our Labour, Benson Hall Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Lumpkin-Bocuzzi Collection, NY
The Dean Collection, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Rennie Collection, Vancouver
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, RI
The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY