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JONAS WOOD
(b. 1977, lives in Los Angeles, CA)
EDUCATION
2002 MFA, Painting and Drawing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1999 BA, Psychology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2018 Tennis Court Drawings, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Prints, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Interiors and Landscapes, David Kordanksy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Annin Art presents Jonas Wood, Billboard 8171, London Bridge, UK
Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood, Museum, Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Notepads, Holograms and Books, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (with Ed Ruscha)
Jonas Wood: Still Life with Two Owls, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Jonas Wood: Portraits, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Gagosian Gallery, Eden Rock, St. Barthélemy
2014 David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Clippings, Lever House, New York, NY
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2010 Jonas Wood: Prints, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Projects: Jonas Wood, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery MinMin, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2005 RAW & CO, Cleveland, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 This is a Pipe: Realism and the Found Object in Contemporary Art, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Art of Collaboration, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
IT’S PERSONAL, Edward Ressle, New York, NY
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sky Above Clouds, Performance Ski, Aspen, CO
In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950-Now, The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2017 The Trick Brain, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aishti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon
Unpacked: Contemporary Works from Private Collections of Northern California, Art Museum of Sonoma County,
Santa Rosa, CA
FEEDBACK, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY
Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, curated by Philipp Kaiser, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Oliver Twist, Chapter 2, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY
PAINTING, LeeAhn Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
Part I: Figuration of Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor,
MI
Los Angeles: A Fiction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours, Presented by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and The Tate Group, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise,
New York, NY
Unique and Singular, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative Abstraction, curated by Bob Colacello, Vito Schnabel Gallery,
St. Moritz, Switzerland
Notepads, Holograms, and Books, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
JUMP BALL, Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
Stockholm Sessions I, Kostyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
2016 Tailgate, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles: A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Piston Head II: Artists Engage the Automobile, venues across Los Angeles, CA
PLEASE HAVE ENOUGH ACID IN THE DISH!, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Before Sunrise, Karma, New York, NY
Paper in Practice, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA
Generation Y: 1977, Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Tightrope Walk: Painted Images after Abstraction, curated by Barry Schwabsky, White Cube, London, UK
The Guston Effect, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
Interrupting Nature, Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, CO
Drawing Show: Ten Artists, Harper's Books, East Hampton, NY
Storylines, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka, Blackwelder, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China
The Shell (Lanscapes, Portraits, & Shapes), curated by Eric Troncy, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Theories on Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 BLACK/WHITE, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
Barbershop, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
The White Album, curated by Gladys-Katherina Hernando, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Another Cats Show, 365 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
New Image Painting, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Walk-ins Welcome, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, NY
2013 East and West Shift to the Middle, Bill Brady, Kansas City
Jew York, UNTITLED and Zah Feuer, New York, NY
Jonas Wood & Shio Kusaka: Still Life with Pots, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
More Young Americans, curated by Susanne van Hagen and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Hotel de Miramion, Paris, France
Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings and Mixed Media Artworks, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
CA
2012 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The Irreconcilable, The Spaceship on Hayarkon 70, Tel Aviv, Israel
East and West Shift to the Middle, Bill Brady, Kansas City, MO
2011 Roe Ethridge, Margarete Jakschik, Jonas Wood, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
From Where You Just Arrived – Paintings from New York and Los Angeles, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
Greater LA, New York, NY
The Shortest Distance Between 2 Points is Often Intolerable, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Anthony Pearson and Jonas Wood, UNTITLED, New York, NY
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Drawing, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Not Extractions, but Abstractions, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland and Clifton Benevento Gallery, New
York, NY
The Road to Here, John Bergruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Newtonland: Orbits, Ellipses and Other Places of Activity, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
The Cannibal’s Muse, curated by Max Henry, Patricia Low Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland
Chris Caccamise and Jonas Wood, La Montagne, Boston, MA
2009 Wild Group Show, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
White Columns: Xerox Prints, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL
Copy, White Columns, New York, NY
1999, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
Jonas Wood and Mark Grotjahn ‘Collaborative Works’, T&S n’ Kreps, New York, NY
Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
No Shoes on the Carpet, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Prose pour des Esseintes, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
Collectors Days, Hotel Castell, Zuoz, Switzerland
2008 Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Psych!, Gallery Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Black Dragon Society, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2007 So Wrong, I’m Right, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan
So Wrong, I’m Right, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Warhol And…, Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kairos!, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Modern Lovers, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Primitives: Chris Caccamise and Jonas Wood, Cereal Art, Philadelphia, PA
This Palidromic Life, South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Then & Now & Again, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
Boat Show, High Energy Constructs, Chinatown, CA
Heather Brown, Jacob Stewart-Halevy, Jonas Wood, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Chinatown, CA
2004 Walking on Elbows, Anna Helwing, Culver City, CA
Faith, Champion Fine Art, Culver City, CA
L.A. Painters, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Stay Inside, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
164 ½ Group Show, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Ethrington Fine Arts, Vineyard Haven, MA
2002 Re/order, Houghton House Gallery, Geneva, NY
Seed, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Boucher, Brian. “Gallery Hopping: Jonas Wood’s New Portraits at Anton Kern,” artnet news, Sept. 15, 2016.
Goldstein, Andrew M. “10 of the Best Artworks on View in Chelsea Right Now,” Artspace, Sept. 14, 2015.
Artspace Editors. “21 Artists to Watch This September,” Artspace, Sept. 2, 2016.
Pogrebin, Robin. “From Bruce Nauman, More Contrapposto Studies,” The New York Times, July 28, 2016.
“Art and cars collide at ‘Piston Head II’ exhibition in Los Angeles,” Classic Driver, July 27, 2016.
Slenske, Michael. “Food for thought: chef Vinny Dotolo brings together two worlds at M+B, LA,” Wallpaper, July 22,
2016.
Steadman, Ryan. Lesser Works and Unproven Artists Stall Phillips Day Sale, New York Observer, May 10, 2016.
2015 Coxhead, Gabriel. “Recommended: Jonas Wood,” Time Out London, Nov. 2015.
Brockon, Polly. “Jonas Wood at Gagosian Gallery,” Art/ctualité, Oct. 26, 2015.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Scene & Heard: Ante Frieze,” Artforum, Oct. 14, 2015.
Chang, Ian. “Room With A View,” Frieze, no.174, Oct. 2015, p.232-237.
Samet, Jennifer. “Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Jonas Wood,” Hyperallergic, Sept. 21,
Sanchez-Kozyreva, Cristina. "Hong Kong: Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood." Artforum, Feb. 2015.
Wee, Darryl. "Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka at Gagosian Hong Kong." Blouin Artinfo, Jan. 14, 2015.
Powers, Bill. “’I’m Less of A De Kooning And More Like Lichtenstein’: A Talk With Jonas Wood.” ARTnews, Jan.
6, 2015.
"United States – Los Angeles, David Kordansky Gallery," Mousse, Jan., 2015.
Schad, Ed. "Jonas Wood, David Kordanksy Gallery, Los Angeles, 8 November – 10 January." ArtReview, Jan.
2015.
2014 Braithwaite, Hunter. "Basel Advice from Art Advisor Mia Romanik." Ocean Drive, Dec. 2, 2014.
Bryant, Eric. "Generation Next: Joshua and Sonya Roth Collect With an Eye Toward the Future." Blouin Artinfo,
Aug. 23, 2014.
Lincoln, Kevin. "Jonas Wood: Big Men." VICTORY JOURNAL, 2014: pp. 18-25.
Martin, Claire. "A Day in the Life of Art Lawyer Joshua Roth." The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2014.
Hodin, Rachel. "20 Contemporary Artists You'll Want To Know From New York's Frieze Art Fair." Thought Catalog,
May 13, 2014.
Indrisek, Scott. "Jonas Wood, Keegan McHargue, and Others Spin Silk for Massif Central Scarf Line." Artinfo.com,
Apr. 18, 2014.
Bryant, Eric. "Hollywood Scion Josh Roth on Collecting L.A.'s Great Artists." Artspace.com, Mar. 17, 2014.
Kennedy, Philip. "The Lively Interior Paintings of Jonas Wood." TheFoxisBlack.com, Jan. 28, 2014.
"Five Questions about Los Angeles." Flash Art, Jan.16, 2014.
Wagley, Catherine. "Jonas Wood." LA Weekly, Nov. 2014.
Zevitas, Steven. "Must See Painting Shows: November/December 2014." The Huffington Post, Nov. 20,
2014.
2013 Selz, Gabrielle. “Art Review: Subject and Object in the art of Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka." Hamptons Art Hub,
June 2013.
Bates, Rebecca. “Jonas Wood at Anton Kern Gallery.” Architectural Digest, Sept. 2013.
“Jonas Wood: New Works @ Anton Kern Gallery, NYC.” Juxtapoz, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013.
“Energetic new works by Jonas Wood on view at Anton Kern Gallery in New York.” Artdaily, Sept. 2013.
Frank, Priscilla. “Jonas Wood Invites You Into His Colorful, Warped Painted Interiors.” The Huffington Post,
Sept. 30, 2013.
“Best Artists List for 2013: Whitehot Magazine Critic’s Picks.” White Hot Magazine, Sept. 2013.
Peterson, Spencer. “Get to Know the Colorful, Abstract Interiors of Jonas Wood.” Curbed, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013.
Leisz Carr, Emily. “Super Sports Fan: An Interview with Jonas Wood.” Art in America, Oct. 2013.
Zevitas, Steven. "Must See Art Shows for November 2013." The Huffington Post, Nov. 2013.
Vogel, Carol. "Early Spring High Line," The New York Times, Inside Art, Dec. 20, 2013: pp. C25.
2012 Pagel, David. “Art Review: Making the Ordinary Pop Out,” Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2012: D13.
Yablonsky, Linda. “The Insider | Jonas Wood,” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Spring Design, Apr. 1,
2012: p. 22.
Indrisek, Scott. “Private View: Shape Shifter: Jonas Wood Paints from Life,” Modern Painters, Apr., 2012: p.22.
“Jonas Wood at David Kordansky Inspires More Than a Few German Words.” Los Angeles Art Gallery Tours, May 4,
2012.
2011 Zevitas, Steven. “12 to Watch in 2012: Publisher’s Picks,” New American Paintings, Dec. 22, 2011.
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Paintings by Jonas Wood.” New York Times, Mar. 17, 2011: C3.
“Goings on About Town: Art Jonas Wood,” The New Yorker, Mar. 11, 2011.
Politi, Giancarlo. “Top 100 Artists.” Flash Art, Nov. 2011.
“Curator Watch List: Anne Ellegood.” New American Paintings Blog, Oct. 2011.
2009 Rosenberg, Karen. “Art in Review: Mark Grotjahn and Jonas Wood.” New York Times, Mar. 13, 2009: Arts section.
2008 Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Jonas Wood.” New York Times, Dec. 11, 2008: Arts section.
Gravett, Paul. Art Review, Nov.: p. 33.
2007 Chambers, Christopher. “Jonas Wood.” Flash Art, Oct. 2007: p. 70.
Schneier, Matthew. “An LA Thing: Jonas Wood’s SoCal Still Lives.” Tomorrow Unlimited, July 24, 2007.
“Smart Art Shopping.” House & Garden, Nov. 2007: p. 80.
“Galleries-Chelsea: Jonas Wood.” New Yorker, Aug. 13, 2007: p.13.
2006 “I See Beauty.” Beautiful/Decay, Issue N, 2006.
2004 Knight, Christopher. “A Widowed Sort of Claustrophobia.” Los Angeles Times, July 2004.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Saatchi, London, UK
Wake Forest University, Salem, NC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY