Born: 1945, Salt Lake City, UT. Lives and works in Oakland, CA
Education
1974 | MFA, Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
1971 | BFA, Painting, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |
One-Person Exhibitions
2016 | The Lake / John W Wood, ArtHaus, San Francisco, CA Open Studio/Live Painting, Oakopolis Gallery, Oakland, CA |
2015 | John Wood / Look Again, LuckyLo Gallery, Jack London Sq, Oakland, CA |
2014 | Two Boys at Play, Ligne Roset San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Large Vision / Small Work, 555 California Street Concourse Gallery, San Francisco, CA Considering Orange / John Wood, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA |
2013 | John Wood, Avenue 64 Gallery, Emeryville, CA John W Wood at DOMAIN Gallery, BayVAN Exhibits, Oakland, CA |
2012 | East Bay Open Studio, Oakland, CA Art/Coffee2: The Figure, Sweet Adeline, Berkeley, CA |
2011 | John Wood: Considering Eden, Space Gallery, Denver, CO Painting Live, Cigar Factory Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA East Bay Open Studio, Oakland, CA Vintage Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
2010 | John Wood at SFMOMA Caffe Museo, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
2009 | Art and Coffee, Sweet Adeline, Berkeley, CA John Wood, Hyde Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2008 | Doyle Street Gallery, Emeryville, CA |
2006 | Simple Pleasures, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT |
2005 | New Work on Paper, Eichler Fine Art, Piedmont, CA |
2004 | Past/Present, Gallery 940, Berkeley, CA |
1995-99 | Karelia, Salt Lake City, UT |
1994 | Conversations, Loge Gallery, P.M.T., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |
1989 | Saint Paul's School, Clearwater, FL |
1985 | New York Subway, University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
1982 | Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT |
1981 | Alvin Gittins Memorial Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT Utah State Medical Association, Salt Lake City, UT |
1980 | Loge Gallery, P.M.T., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |
1979 | Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City, UT |
1978 | Collectors Gallery, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT |
1977 | Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City, UT; Performance/Lecture Art Department Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT |
1976 | Art Department, Weber State University, Ogden, UT; Performance/Lecture |
1971 | Union Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT |
Juried, Invitational & Group Exhibitions
2016 |
US Embassy, Zagreb, Croatia 4X4, Montclair Gallery, Oakland, CA The Great Exhibition, ArtHaus, San Francisco, CA |
2015 |
Here I, Annual Members Exhibit, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Luster, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA Abstract Perfection, ArtsBrookfield, 1801 California, Denver, CO Exposed, ArtHaus, San Francisco, CA 29th Annual Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Emeryville, CA Nature’s Line, Space Gallery, Denver, CO ArtMRKT San Francisco, ArtHaus, San Francisco, CA Common Ground, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA Spring Collection, ArtHaus, San Francisco, CA Awaken, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA |
2014 |
Summertime (The Sequel), ArtHaus, San Francisco, CA 28th Annual Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Emeryville, CA Flora & Form, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA ArtMRKT San Francisco, K.Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Verge, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA |
2013 |
27th Annual Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Emeryville, CA Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA Love Show, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA |
2012 |
John Wood & Cuong Ta, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA The Gift of Art, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA WONDER, Annual Members Exhibit, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Drawn From Life: John Wood & Vita Wells, Montclair Gallery, Oakland, CA 26th Annual Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Emeryville, CA City Hall Exhibition: From the Art & Soul Festival, Oakland, CA Focus on the Figure, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA SF Fine Art Fair; K.Imperial Fine Art,, San Francisco, CA Kala-fornia: State of the Art 2, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA His, Mine, Ours: Cuong Ta & John Wood, Oakopolis Gallery, Oakland, CA COURAGE, Members Exhibit, Pro-Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA |
2011 |
Shine, Annual Members Exhibit, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA The Gift of Art, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA 25th Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Emeryville, CA Shattered!, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA; Juror: Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Art of the Line, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA; Juror: Elizabeth Sher, California College of the Arts Live Out Loud, Benefit Auction, Knoll Inc, San Francisco, CA |
2010 | The Gift of Art, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA Green, Annual Members Exhibit, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA |
2009 | Painting From a Deeper Place, Oakopolis Creative Center, Oakland, CA Earth Days, Oakopolis Creative Center, Oakland, CA |
2008 | What Is A Book?, Oakopolis Creative Center, Oakland, CA |
2007-08 | Big Pagoda Comany, San Francisco, CA Paper/Clay, Berkeley Potters Guild, Berkeley, CA |
2006 | Plus 3, Jamestown Pacific Place, San Francisco, CA Two Person Exhibition, Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA Colors of Life, Griffin Davis Art, Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA Peace in the Dark, Move on Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2005 | Three-Person Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paper! Awesome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA Yearning Lines Growing, Hallway Bathroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA Move On Art, Gallery 1063, San Francisco, CA |
2004 | LIMN Showrooms, San Francisco, CA Open Studios @ Taking the Leap, Emeryville, CA Untitled, Hollis Street Project, Emeryville, CA |
2003 | Eugene O’Neill’s Tao House, Danville Fine Arts Gallery, Danville, CA Function of Emotion, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT |
2002 | Gallery Artists Summer Exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT |
2001 | Show-One, Hayward Arts Council, Hayward City Hall, Hayward, CA Gallery Artists Holiday Exhibit, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT |
1997 | Monoprints-One Press, Finch Lane Gallery, SLAC, Salt Lake City, UT View of Three, Alliance for the Varied Arts, Logan, UT; Curator: Ed Dolinger. |
1995 | Winter Works Invitational, Finch Lane Gallery, SLAC, Salt Lake, UT |
1994 | Utah '94: Painting, Sculpture & Mixed-media, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT; Juror: Ilene Susan Fort 70th Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT; Jurors: Whitney H. Ganz, Lila Duncan Larsen Davis County 1994, Bountiful/Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT; Juror: Dan Burke |
1993 | Good Company, Lee Deffebach & Friends, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT 69th Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT; Jurors: Roy Brindley, Sherrill Sandberg Intimate Views, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Curator: David Pursley |
1992 | Art Feast Invitational, Art Barn, SL Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT Nutcrackers Invitational, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT |
1991 | 67th Utah Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT |
1990 | New Portraits, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT |
1989 | Four-Person Exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT |
1987 | Invitational, Long Island University, Southampton Campus, Southampton, NY |
1985 | Group Invitational, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT |
1983 | Two Person Exhibition, Finch Lane Gallery, SL Arts Council, Salt Lake, UT |
1982 | U.W.S. Juried Show, Bountiful/Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT;
Juror: Milford Zornes Statewide '82, Eccles Art Center, Ogden, UT |
1981 | Recent Works on Paper: Sharon Shepherd/John Wood, Lumiere Gallery,
Salt Lake City, UT Utah '81, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Jurors: Ronald Hickman, Diane Vanderlip, and Richard West Two-Person Exhibition, Time-Winter Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT Recent Utah Art; Our Modernist Trends, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT |
1980 | Two-Person Exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT |
1979 | U.W.S. Juried Show, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake, UT; Juror: Bud Shackelford |
1978 | Invitational Exhibition, Dixie College, St. George, UT |
1977 | Utah Artists-in-the-Schools, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT |
1976 | Utah Painting & Sculpture, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake, UT;
Jurors: Louise Tester, Francis Celentano, and Robert Tobias 10th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Corpus Christi, TX; Juror: Wayne Thiebaud U.W.S. Juried Show, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Juror: Maynard Dixon Stewart |
1975 | 12th Utah Biennial: Painting and Sculpture, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Juror: Larry Bell |
Group Exhibitions
Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Art Auction, 1973, 1965, 1976, 1985, Serious Moonlight 2006
Student Exhibitions, 1972 - 1974
Clark-Leaming, Salt Lake City, UT (closed)
Group Shows, 1978 - 1980
Dooly Gallery, Park City, UT (closed)
Group Shows, 1989 – 1990
H inc, The Galleria, San Francisco, CA
Group Shows, 2006-2007
Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City, UT
Faculty Exhibits, 1978 - 1981
Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
Group Shows, 1977 - 1979
K.Imperial Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Shows, 2011
Lumiere Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (closed)
Group Shows, 1981
Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Group Shows, 1965 - 2010
Pierpont Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (closed)
Group Shows, 1988 - 1992
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Art Auction, 1978 - 1982
Group Shows, Collectors Gallery, 1976 – 1980
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Artist Warehouse Sale, 2005 - 2010
Snowbird Institute, Snowbird, UT
Group Show, 1982
Time-Winter Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (closed)
Group Shows, 1981
Utah Watercolor Society
Membership Shows, 1977, 1978, 1981
Visual Aid, San Francisco, CA
Live Art Auction, 2007 – 2010
Public and Corporate Collections
American Express Company, Salt Lake City, UT
Amoco Production Company, Denver, CO
Bank of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Digital Equipment Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT
Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City, UT
McKay-Dee Hospital, Ogden, UT
Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, Salt Lake City, UT
Rich Passage Winery, Bainbridge Island, WA
St. Olaf's Parish Church, Bountiful, UT
Saint Paul's School, Clearwater, FL
Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City, UT
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Valley Home Medical, Layton, UT
E M Warburg Pincus, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA
Positions
1997 | Board of Directors--Visual Arts Advisory Young Audiences of Utah, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT |
1994-97 | Artist-in-Residence--Mural Projects Washington Elementary School, Salt Lake City, UT |
1995 | Artist-in-Residence--Utah Centennial Mural Project Libbie Edward Elementary School, Salt Lake City, UT |
1992-94 | Artist-in-Residence--Mural Project Indian Hills Elementary School, Salt Lake City, UT |
1989-91 | Artist-in-Residence--Mural Projects Hillside Intermediate School, Salt Lake City, UT |
1989 | Artist-in-Residence Saint Paul's School, Clearwater, FL |
1985-88 | Private Instructor, Children's Art, New York, NY |
1982-84 | Artists Bank, Artists-in-Education Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT |
1983 | Instructor, Children's Art Salt Lake Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT |
1982-83 | Co-Director and Artist-in-Residence Art/Movement Experience, Salt Lake City, UT |
1977-81 | Chairman, Art and Fine Arts Departments Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City, UT |
1976 | Artist-in-Residence, Artists-in-the-Schools Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City, UT |
1973-74 | Teaching Assistant, Painting and Drawing Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
1973-74 | Instructor, Painting and Drawing Cranbrook Academy of Art / Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
1973 | Instructor, Painting and Drawing Farmington Community Center, Farmington, MI |
Galleries
ArtHaus
411 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.977.0223
arthaus-sf.com
Oakopolis Creativity Center Gallery
447 25th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
501.663.6920
oakopolis.org
Phillips Gallery
444 East 200 South
Salt Lake City, UY 84111
801.364.8284
phillips-gallery.com
Space Gallery
400 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
720.904.1088
spacegallery.org
SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Building A, Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA 94123
415.441.4777
SFMOMA Artists Gallery