Jonas Wood
Jonas Wood (b. 1977, Boston) works across a variety of genres, including portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and interior scenes. In each of these, however, his work reflects an instantly recognizable vision of the contemporary world, as well as a personal approach to subject matter defined by his affinities and experiences. Its warmth is matched by a quasi-abstract logic that breaks pictures down into layered compositions of geometry, pattern, and color. Wood works at every scale, and maintains active drawing and printmaking practices, generating techniques that he also uses in painting. Conjuring depth using flat forms—his process involves collage-based studies in which he works with photographs, breaking images apart and reassembling them—Wood probes the boundary between the new and the familiar, integrating emotionally resonant material from everyday life. Painting becomes a way to freshen the artist’s—and the viewer’s—perception of the world. He lives in Los Angeles.
Recent solo exhibitions include Karma, Los Angeles (2023); Karma, New York (2023); David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Gagosian, New York (2021); Dallas Museum of Art (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016–18); and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010). His work is in the permanent collections of the Broad, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Photo by Aubrey Mayer
Born 1977, Boston, MA
Lives and works 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
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Karma, Los Angeles, Drawings 2003-2023
Karma, New York, Drawings 2003-2023
Gagosian, New York, NY, Prints 2
Nahmad Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland, Henri Matisse & Jonas Wood
2022
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Plants and Animals
2021
Gagosian, Hong Kong, Jonas Wood
Pace Prints, New York, Four Landscapes
Gagosian, 980 Madison, New York, Four Tennis Courts
2019
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Jonas Wood
Gagosian, New York, NY
Masahiro Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Jonas Wood & Shio Kusaka: Pots, Plants, and Sports
2018
Gagosian, New York, Jonas Wood: Prints
Mixografia, Los Angeles, Three Clippings
Shane Campbell, Chicago, Tennis Court Drawings
2017
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, Jonas Wood: Interiors and Landscapes
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, Shio Kusaka & Jonas Wood
Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, Ed Ruscha / Jonas Wood: Notepads, Holograms, and Books
2016
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Jonas Wood: Still Life With Two Owls
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, Portraits
2015
Gagosian Gallery at Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths
Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London
Karma, New York, NY, Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood
Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka: Blackwelder
2014
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2013
Lever House, New York, Clippings
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY, Jonas Wood & Shio Kusaka: Still Life with Pots
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
2012
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2011
Anton Kern Gallery, New York,
UNTITLED, New York, Anthony Pearson and Jonas Wood
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2010
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Jonas Wood: Prints
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Hammer Projects: Jonas Wood
La Montagne, Boston, Chris Caccamise and Jonas Wood
2009
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
T&S n’ Kreps, New York, Jonas Wood and Mark Grotjahn ‘Collaborative Works.’
Gallery MinMin, Tokyo
2008
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2007
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Cereal Art, Philadelphia, Primitives: Chris Caccamise and Jonas Wood
2006
Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
2005
RAW & CO, Cleveland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions
James Fuentes Gallery, New York, A Study in Form (Chapter One)
Nahmad Contemporary, New York, The First Decade: Ten Years at Nahmad Contemporary
Sow & Tailor Pop-Up, Hong Kong, Horizons
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, 20
Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, WISHING WELL: A Benefit Exhibition to Support Research in Ultra-Rare Diseases
2022
de la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida, Together, At the Same Time
Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, Illinois, Come As You Are
BravinLee programs, New York, Carpets
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, curated by Ei Arakawa, Kerstin Brätsch, Nicole Eisenman, and Laura Owens
Pace Prints, New York, New Editions
2021
The Broad, Los Angeles, California, Since Unveiling: Selected Acquisitions of a Decade
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California, The Beatitudes of Malibu
Tif Sigfrids, Comer, Georgia, Via Cafe
Lévy Gorvy Gallery, Central, Hong Kong, Eternal Seasons: Part II
Tethys Art, Southampton, New York, From Keith Haring to The Screen Generation
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, California, Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation
Berggruen Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, Shared Visions
Gagosian, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Exchange
Gagosian, New York, An Ideal Landscape
Blossom Market, Los Angeles, California, Return of the Dragons
Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, Home & Away: Selections from Common Practice
de la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida, There is Always One Direction
2020
The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, Rendez-Vous
Rental Gallery, East Hampton, New York, Friend of Ours, curated by Joel Mesler and Benjamin Godsill
Gladstone Gallery, New York, Drawing 2020
de la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida, A Possible Horizon
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, The World: From The OKETA COLLECTION
2019
Alexander Berggruen, New York, Words
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, Private Passion – New Acquisitions in the Astrup Fearnley Collection, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran
468 N. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, Louis Vuitton X
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California Artists from the Marciano Collection
Lyndsey Ingram, London, England, Winter Garden
2018
Edward Ressle, New York, IT’S PERSONAL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, organized by Helen Molesworth
Performance Ski, Aspen, Colorado, Sky Above Clouds, curated by Meredith Darrow and Olivia Davis
Over the Influence, Los Angeles, An Homage to Hollis Benton
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950–Now
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, This is a Pipe: Realism and the Found Object in Contemporary Art
Librarie Marian Goodman, Paris, France, Movable Types, curated by Frances Horn
2017
Gagosian, New York, LA Invitational
Art Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, California, Unpacked: Contemporary Works from Private Collections of Northern California
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon, The Trick Brain, curated by Massimiliano Gioni
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, curated by Philipp Kaiser
Marlborough Contemporary, New York, FEED BACK, curated by Leo Fitzpatrick
Kostyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, Summer Show
Rental Gallery, East Hampton, New York, Oliver Twist, Chapter 2: Dear Darren
Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France, Los Angeles – A Fiction, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thierry Raspail, and Nicolas Garait-Leavenworth
Cirrus, Los Angeles, Unique and Singular
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Part I: Figuration of Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors on view at UMMA
Vito Schnabel Gallery, Moritz, Switzerland, The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration/Figurative Abstraction, curated by Bob Colacello
2016
Karma, Amagansett, New York, Before Sunrise
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, Implosion 20
BankArt Studio, Tokyo, Japan, Generation Y: 1977
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Olso, Norway, Los Angeles – A Fiction, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thierry Raspail, and Nicolas Garait
BBQLA, Los Angeles, Tailgate, organized by Timo Fahler
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
M+B, Los Angeles, PLEASE HAVE ENOUGH ACID IN THE DISH!, organized by Vinny Dotolo
Venus LA, Los Angeles, Piston Head II: Artists Engage the Automobile
Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, Paper in Practice
2015
White Cube, London, England, Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, organized by Barry Schwabsky
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Theories on Forgetting
Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY, #CrowdedHouse
Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes)
Sotheby’s S|2, Palm Beach, Wall Flowers
2014
LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, BLACK/WHITE
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, The White Album
365 Mission, Los Angeles, Another Cats Show
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, New Image Painting
Marlborough Broome Street, New York, Walk-ins Welcome
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, Displayed, curated by Matthew Higgs
2013
Saatchi Gallery, London, Painters’ Painters
UNTITLED and Zach Feuer, New York, Jew York
Hotel de Miramion, Paris, More Young Americans
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings and Mixed Media Artworks
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection
2012
The Spaceship on Hayarkon 70, Tel Aviv, The Irreconcilable
Bill Brady, Kansas City, East and West Shift to the Middle
2011
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Roe Ethridge, Margarete Jakschik, Jonas Wood
Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, From Where You Just Arrived – Paintings from New York and Los Angeles
New York, Greater LA
Brand New Gallery, Milan, The Shortest Distance Between 2 Points is Often Intolerable
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Dwelling
Blomsterberg’s Warehouse, Eslöv, Sweden, ESLOV WIDE SHUT, curated by Stefan Lundgren, organized by Eslövs Kommun and Mallorca Landings
2010
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Drawing
Karma International. Zurich, Switzerland and Clifton Benevento Gallery, New York, Not Extractions, but
Abstractions
John Bergruen Gallery, San Francisco, The Road to Here
White Flag Projects, St.Louis, Newtonland: Orbits, Ellipses and Other Places of Activity
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports
Patricia Low Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland, The Cannibal’s Muse
Clifton Benevento Gallery, New York, Not Extractions, but Abstractions (Part 2)
Galerie Lelong, New York, The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life
2009
Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland, Wild Group Show
Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL, White Columns: Xerox Prints
White Columns, New York, NY, Copy
China Art Objects, Los Angeles, 1999
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
Saatchi Gallery, London, Abstract America
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, No Shoes on the Carpet
Karma International, Zurich, Prose pour des Esseintes
Hotel Castell, Zuoz, Switzerland, Collectors Days
2008
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, Friends and Family
Gallery Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, Psych!
Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
2007
Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, So Wrong. I’m Right
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, So Wrong. I’m Right
Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, Warhol And…
Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, Kairos!
Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, Modern Lovers
South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, This Palidromic Life
Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Eddie Martinez, William J. O’Brien, Roman Wolgin, Jonas Wood
2006
Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, Then & Now & Again
High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA, Boat Show
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Heather Brown, Jacob Stewart-Halevy, Jonas Wood
2005
Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, Christmas in July
2004
Anna Helwing, Culver City, Walking on Elbows
Champion Fine Art, Culver City, Faith
Raid Projects, Los Angeles, L.A. Painters
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, Stay Inside
164 ½ Group Show, Los Angeles
2003
Ethrington Fine Arts, Vineyard Haven, MA.
2002
Houghton House Gallery, Geneva, NY, Re/order
Soil gallery, Seattle, Seed
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Broad, Los Angeles
Saatchi, London, England
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Wake Forest University, Salem, North Carolina
AWARDS
2017
amfAR Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Jonas Wood
Hong Kong
Gagosian, Hong Kong
60 pages, hardcover
9 5/8 × 12 5/8 inches
21 Tennis Court Drawings
MAKI Inc. / MAKI Gallery, Tokyo
96 pages, hardcover
9 × 13 ¼ inches
2019
Jonas Wood
Phaidon, New York
160 pages, softcover
11 3/8 × 9 7/8 inches
Jonas Wood
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
108 pages, softcover
12 1/5 x 10 1/5 inches
Shio Kusaka & Jonas Wood
Stichting Voorlinden and Gagosian, Wassenaar
112 pages, hardcover
9 ¾ × 12 inches
Jonas Wood
Gagosian, New York
68 pages, softcover
9 × 12 inches
2018
Jonas Wood: Prints
Gagosian, New York. Gagosian/Rizzoli, Hong Kong
184 pages, hardcover
11 ¼ × 12 3/8 inches
2017
Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka
Blackwelder [2nd ed.].
Gagosian, Hong Kong
280 pages, hardcover
9 ¼ × 12 ¼ inches
Clippings
Karma, New York
48 pages, hardcover
9 ¾ × 12 ¾ inches
Portraits
Anton Kern Gallery and David Kordansky Gallery, New York
86 pages, hardcover
8 1/5 x 10 1/5 inches
2016
Sports Book
Anton Kern Gallery, Los Angeles
48 pages, hardcover
10 1/5 x 8 1/5 inches
2015
POTS
Gagosian Gallery, London
48 pages, hardcover
9 ¾ × 12 ¾ inches
Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka
Blackwelder
Gagosian, Hong Kong
280 pages, hardcover
9 ¼ × 12 ¼ inches
Paintings and Drawings
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
68 pages, hardcover
13.75 x 10.75 inches
2013
A History of the Met: Volume 1 [2nd ed.].
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
24 pages, hardcover
7 ½ x 9 ½ inches
2012
Jonas Wood
Interiors
PictureBox and Anton Kern Gallery, New York
64 pages, hardcover
8.25 x 10 inches
