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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

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This exhibition marks the first large-scale presentation of Wood’s small-scale works, offering a glimpse into her creative process and inner world.

Instead of traditional sketches and drawings, Wood practices by creating these intimate small pieces daily. Each painting is like a fragment of the artist’s life and thoughts, akin to her dairy, internet search history, or even a reflection of what she eats in a day. Wood takes great pride in these works as they carry deeply personal emotions and reflections. Over the years, these works have not only become a crucial part of her daily artistic practice, but also a pace for the visual experimentation and adventure.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Issy Wood

Issy Wood’s paintings suggest a stream of consciousness hiding something foreboding, a medieval current creeping into the millennial.

Wood’s work is encrypted with symbols that suggest a psyche trying to consolidate its own interiority with social forces and layers of history – exploring how these tensions shape ideas of objectification, desire and value.

Major solo presentations of Wood’s have been staged at the Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (2023); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2023); and Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), London (2023). Later this year, TANK Shanghai will stage a major solo presentation of her works in Shanghai; and in 2025, the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin will stage her first institutional solo show in Germany.

Wood’s work has also recently been presented at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2023); the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami (2022); the Pinakothek, Munich (2024); MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2024); the Aspen Art Museum (2023); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2022); amongst many others.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of Dallas Museum of Art; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston; Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami; The Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston; The National Portrait Gallery, London; The Perimeter, London; The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence; Sharjah Art Foundation; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; Start Museum, Shanghai; TANK Shanghai, Shanghai; Tate, UK; Zabludowicz Collection, London; amongst others.