JODY WOOD

 ARTIST & SOCIAL PRACTITIONER

Jody Wood uses mediums of social practice, video, photography, and performance. Her recent work re-imagines 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 Headlands Center for the Arts, Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at institutions including Skövde Art Museum in Sweden; Norrtälje Konsthall in Sweden, Open Source Gallery in NYC, and featured in publications such as The Atlantic, MSNBC, The Art Newspaper, and The New York Times.