pronouns: they/them
email: arielrwood2@gmail.com
instagram: @arielrw

About

Ariel Wood (b. 1994, Pasadena, CA) is a Texas-based artist by way of California and Wisconsin. They received a BFA in printmaking and drawing from The University of Wisconsin, Madison 2016, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Santa Reparata International School Of Art, in Florence 2016, and their MFA in Sculpture from The University of Texas at Austin 2022, where they were the recipient of the Lomis Slaughter, Jr. Endowment Scholarship In Sculpture and the Continuing College Fellowship. In 2023, Wood was a finalist for the Alice C. Cole Fellowship and was voted Concept Animals’ Community Favorite Sculptor Artist in Austin. Wood was a resident artist at Watershed Ceramics’ Summer Residency (2022) and Sweet Pass Sculpture School (2024). Ariel Wood is a sculpture artist interested in the way plumbing and drainage can elicit notions of interconnectedness, liminality, and queerness. Wood picks and parses out those aspects of the larger system that appear strange, silly, or sentimental. They have exhibited their work nationally and internationally in Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, New York, and Florence, Italy.

EDUCATION

2022 MFA, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX

2016       Post-Baccalaureate, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, IT

2016        BFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

EXHIBITION RECORD

2024

Solo Exhibition, rest, raze, cullect, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

Collective Tales in a Concrete Garden, CoLab Projects, Austin, TX

MASS +1 (Part 3), MASS Gallery, Austin, TX

a crack in the leak, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX

Sculpture School: Concrete, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX

Solo Exhibition, Round 21: cullective, Cage Match Project, Austin, TX

2023

listen, repeat, greenhouse, Austin, TX

Solo Exhibition, Window Dressing XXXI: To Suggest A Delay, ICOSA gallery, Austin, TX

Solo Exhibition, raze, grayDUCK gallery, Austin, TX

Moon of a Moon, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX

Patent Show, Captain Hopkins Cove, Austin, TX

Tails: Companion Species Exhibition, All the Sudden, Austin, TX

Clay Matters, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX

Façade, Center Space Gallery, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

2022

yours, ( bubble mechanisms for locating the center* from your center to your center to your center to yours), Good Luck Have Fun Gallery, Austin, TX

Rough Cuts, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX

Object Lounge, Collar Works, Troy, NY

Stormwater Infrastructure in collaboration with Abby Flanagan, Phonography Austin World Listening Day, Austin, TX

Painted Hooves, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

A Pit Fire with Partial Shade, All the Sudden, Austin, TX

Printmaking: A Social Practice, UW-Madison Alumni Exhibition, Gallery 1308, Madison, WI

2021

A Wished for and Welcomed Guest, Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX

2020

Occupied, grayDUCK Gallery, Austin, TX

uncomfortably casual, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

2019

A Pit Fire, Partial Shade, Austin, TX

Good Strong Handshake, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

Solo Exhibition, A Point In Between, Diane Endres Ballweg Gallery, Madison, WI

2018

Solo Exhibition, it flows in curves, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

Solo Exhibition, Local Art Series: Ariel Wood, Graduate Madison, Madison, WI

Solo Exhibition, Currents, Funk Factory Geuzeria, Madison, WI

 

2017

RESPONSE, ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Solo Exhibition, September Art Opening: Ariel Wood, Black Locust Cafe, Madison, WI

FRESH, Arts and Literature Laboratory, Madison,WI

Solo Exhibition, current, Drunk Lunch, Madison, WI

 

2016

Away From Home, SRISA Gallery of Contemporary Art, Florence, IT

BIG TEN[T] University of Wisconsin Alumni Artists Showcase, New York, NY

BIG TEN[T] University of Wisconsin Alumni Artists Showcase, Chicago, IL

The last sound on the worthless earth. . . , The 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

I’m Afraid to Pimp The Spirit: BFA Review, The 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

Suede Shoes on a Wooden Floor, Ash Street Project, Portland, OR

Two-Person Exhibition, An Altered Resemblance, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI

Last Great Millennial Art Show, Art In, Madison, WI

 

2015

I Love You When You’re Unhinged, The 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI

Illumination Journal Exhibition, Open Book Cafe, Madison, WI (Fall)

The Gang’s All Here: 70 Years of the Madison Mafia, The Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI

87th Annual Student Art Show, Gallery 1308, Madison, WI

 

2014

Tiny Hands on a Rubber Suit, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

Residency, Sweet Pass Sculpture School: Concrete, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX, 2024
Concept Animals Community Favorite Sculptor in Austin, TX, 2023
Alice C. Cole ‘42 Fellowship Finalist, Wellesley College, MA, 2023
Summer Residency Session V, Clay in Other Frames, Watershed Ceramics, ME, 2022
Lomis Slaughter, Jr. Endowment Scholarship In Sculpture, TX, 2021
Continuing College Fellowship, TX, 2020
David Bruton, Jr. Endowment for Graduate Fellowships In the College of Fine Arts, TX, 2019
Lomis Slaughter, Jr. Endowment Scholarship In Sculpture, TX, 2019
Charles Umlauf Centennial Endowed Scholarship Fund, TX, 2019
Fall 2016 Full Tuition Scholarship, Florence, Italy, 2016

TEACHING

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX 2024
Lecturer, UT-Austin, Austin, TX, 2023-2024
Lecturer in Sculpture and Ceramics, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, 2022-2023
Lecturer in CORE STUDIO: Time & Technology, UT-Austin, Austin, TX, Fall Semester 2022
Assistant Instructor of CORE STUDIO: 3D, UT-Austin, Austin, TX, Fall Semester 2021