RESUME

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