WORK
SOCIAL PRACTICE
NFS Real Estate
Beauty in Transition
TIME-BASED
In the Black Box (Looking Out)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Beauty in Transition Portraits
PROTOTYPES
Independence Treatment Center (ITC)
PUBLIC TALKS ON
INCOME INEQUALITY
International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy - Madrid
Arts in Society - Krakow
Think Economia - Eindhoven
Power of the Temporary - Lisbon
Sensing and Doing Something About Income Inequality - Brooklyn
PUBLIC TALKS ON COMMUNITY ENGAGED ART
Collectivizing Action - Skövde, Sweden
Social Works?: Live - Manchester, UK
Learning Dependence - Berlin, Germany
Social Practice in Artmaking - Charlotte, NC
ENGAGEMENT
Contemporary Art & Health- Gothenberg
Community in Systems - Omaha
Translating Empathy - Brooklyn
Implementation & Evaluation of Social Practice - Brooklyn
Art as Social Commentary - NYC
ARTIST & SOCIAL PRACTITIONER - download PDF
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.
FEATURED WORK: SOCIAL PHARMACY
