ISSY WOOD
1993
Born in Durham, North Carolina
2015
Bachelor of Arts, Goldsmiths, London
2018
Master of Arts, Royal Academy Schools, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
What I Eat In A Day, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai
2023
A Lover’s Discourse: Issy Wood, Aspen Art Museum
Issy Wood: Study For No, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
Issy Wood: I Like To Watch, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
Issy Wood: Furni, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
2022
Issy Wood: Time Sensitive, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
2021
Trilemma, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
2020
Good Clean Fun, X Museum, Beijing
daughterproof, JTT, New York
2019
All The Rage, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London
I came as soon as I heard (two-person show with Margaret Wharton), JTT, New York
2018
Joan, D.E.L.F, Vienna
2017
When You I Feel, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
2015
Rosetta Stone, Triumph, Moscow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Eccentric: Aesthetics of Freedom, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor, Mode Museum, Antwerp
Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome
Yours Truly, Nahmad Contemporary, New York
Accrochage, Michael Werner Gallery, Athens
Come One, Come All, Anthony Gallery, Chicago
In Focus, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Composition for the Left Hand: Works from the Kagge Collection, Kode Museum, Bergen
Masquerade, Make-up, & Ensor, MoMu, Antwerp
Eccentric: Aesthetics of Freedom, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2023
Perhaps the Truth, Ballroom Marfa, Texas
Thus Spoke the Moment, Start Museum, Shanghai
Friends in the Arts, TANK, Shanghai
Reopening Collection Display, National Portrait Gallery, London
In New York, Thinking of You, Part II, Flag Art Foundation, New York
Rear View, LGDR, New York
outer view, inner world, Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove
Brave New World: 20 Painters for the 21st Century, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
2022
Fire Figure Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami
Women of Now: Dialogues of Identity, Memory & Place, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles
2021
Private Passions, Karpidas Collection, Dallas
An ego of her own, kaufmann repetto, Milan & New York
The Stand-Ins: Figurative Painting from the Collection, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Mixing it Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London
Viscose 2 – Sator Resartus, Huset for Kunst og Design, Denmark
2020
Breathing Through Skin, Antenna Space, Shanghai
Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Must Dream About Blue Tonight, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
2019
Claude Mirrors, (three-person show with Victor Mann and Jill Mulleady), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Arte contemporanea in Gran Bretagna, International Gallery of Modern Art, Ca’ Pesaro, Venice
Cursed Images (curated by Ed Fornieles), Galerie Lisa Kandlhoffer, Vienna
A Cloth Over a Birdcage, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles
Okey Dokey III – Fenster, multiple venues across Cologne & Düsseldorf
Artists I Steal From (curated by Alvaro Barrington and Julia Peyton-Jones), Thaddeus Ropac, London
Paint Also Known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
World Receivers, Zabludowicz Collection, London
House of the Sleeping Beauties, S|2 Gallery, London
The Rest, Lisson Gallery, New York
2018
Nightfall (curated by Fernanda Brenner, Erika Verzutti, Milovan Farronato), Mendes Wood DM, Brussels
Darren Bader: I don’t know, Société, Berlin
Virginia Woolf, An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings, Tate St Ives, St Ives
2017
Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London
All Day Breakfast (curated by Alastair Mackinven), Reading: International, Reading
2016
Winter Show, Union Pacific, London
NEO-PAGAN-BITCH-WITCH!, Evelyn Yard, London
Streams of Warm Impermanence, DRAF, London
Chatsubo, Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
Sufficient Joy - Issy Wood / Gina Fischli, Greatorex, London
FOLLY, Emalin, Dunmore Pineapple, Airth, Scotland
2014
mini-cooperation, PLAZAPLAZA, London
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
The National Portrait Gallery, London
Dallas Museum of Art
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Sharjah Art Foundation
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
Start Museum, Shanghai
Tate, London
X Museum, Beijing
Zabludowicz Collection, London
Issy Wood lives and works in London.