WORK
SOCIAL PRACTICE
TIME-BASED
In the Black Box (Looking Out)
Beauty in Transition Portraits
PUBLIC TALKS ON
INCOME INEQUALITY
Power of the Temporary - Lisbon, Portugal
Identity as Privilege - Warsaw, Poland
Sensing and Doing Something About Income Inequality - Brooklyn, NY
PUBLIC TALKS ON COMMUNITY ENGAGED ART
Social Works?: Live - Manchester, UK
Learning Dependence - Berlin, Germany
Social Practice in Artmaking - Charlotte, NC
Community in Systems - Omaha, NE
Translating Empathy - Brooklyn, NY
Implementation & Evaluation of Social Practice - Brooklyn, NY
Art as Social Commentary - NYC
ARTIST & SOCIAL PRACTITIONER
Jody Wood uses mediums of social practice, video, photography, and performance. Her recent work reimagines routines in poverty support agencies, aiming to sculpt power dynamics, relationship networks, and resist stigmas surrounding poverty. Her site-specific work has been supported by prestigious institutions including A Blade of Grass, Esopus Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, an ArtPlace America Initiative at McColl Center for Art + Innovation, and through residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Yaddo, and Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been on view at Parrish Museum of Art in Water Mill, NY; Vox Populi, in Philadelphia, PA; Rond-Point Projects in Marseille, France; The 8th Floor in NYC, and featured in publications such as The Atlantic, MSNBC, and The Huffington Post.