RICHARD WOODS
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Richard Woods (born 1966, in Cheshire, England) completed his BA at the Wincester School of Art in 1988, and his MA at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, graduating in 1990. He was among nine artists selected for the Barclays Young Artist Award in 1991, with an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London. He had his first one-person exhibitions at Hales Gallery, London, in 1992 and 1994. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide since 1994, including solo exhibitions internationally.
Woods has been commissioned to create works for many private collectors and public organizations; some of the more important, large-scale public commissions include: Super Tudor (2002), with Deitch Projects, New York, Nice Life no. 2 (2003), with Deitch Projects, Miami, Import/Export Sculpture in Stopover (2003), with The Henry Moore Foundation Contemporary Projects, at the 50th International Venice Biennale of Art, Renovation (2005), at 48 Merton Hall Road, in association with Art Works in Wimbledon, and hosted by the Wimbledon School of Art, London, NewBUILD (2005), in association with the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, and Logo no. 26 (2006), a Platform for Art Leicester Square, London.
Woods has also worked extensively with fashion designer Paul Smith, creating interior elements for his shops in Tokyo (2001, 2002 and 2005), and New York (2006). He also was commissioned to create the floor and pieces of furniture for the Osaka branch of the fashion house Comme des Garcons. In 2007, Richard Woods collaborated with furniture designer Sebastian Wrong to create a collection of furniture, Wrongwoods, for the manufactory Established & Sons, London.
“One of a younger generation of British artists whose sculptures and installations operate on the boundary between art, architecture and design, Woods displays a practical and intellectual interest in the way that large-scale printed graphics, almost clichéd in their extravagant simplicity, can intervene in and reactivate the social structures of urban space and the history of the built environment.”
Paul Bonaventura, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford and Martin Holman, Art Works in Wimbledon
Woods has been commissioned to create works for many private collectors and public organizations; some of the more important, large-scale public commissions include: Super Tudor (2002), with Deitch Projects, New York, Nice Life no. 2 (2003), with Deitch Projects, Miami, Import/Export Sculpture in Stopover (2003), with The Henry Moore Foundation Contemporary Projects, at the 50th International Venice Biennale of Art, Renovation (2005), at 48 Merton Hall Road, in association with Art Works in Wimbledon, and hosted by the Wimbledon School of Art, London, NewBUILD (2005), in association with the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, and Logo no. 26 (2006), a Platform for Art Leicester Square, London.
Woods has also worked extensively with fashion designer Paul Smith, creating interior elements for his shops in Tokyo (2001, 2002 and 2005), and New York (2006). He also was commissioned to create the floor and pieces of furniture for the Osaka branch of the fashion house Comme des Garcons. In 2007, Richard Woods collaborated with furniture designer Sebastian Wrong to create a collection of furniture, Wrongwoods, for the manufactory Established & Sons, London.
“One of a younger generation of British artists whose sculptures and installations operate on the boundary between art, architecture and design, Woods displays a practical and intellectual interest in the way that large-scale printed graphics, almost clichéd in their extravagant simplicity, can intervene in and reactivate the social structures of urban space and the history of the built environment.”
Paul Bonaventura, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford and Martin Holman, Art Works in Wimbledon
RICHARD WOODS
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Born 1966 in Cheshire, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
1988–1998 Slade School of Fine Art, MA
1985–1988 Winchester School of Art, BA (Honors)
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2009 Flat Pack Nature, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
Richard Woods: Port Sunlight, commissioned by Lever House,
Lever House, New York, NY
wall and door and roof, commissioned by the Public Art Fund,
City Hall Park, New York, NY
The Nature Show, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Approximate Rock, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Flora and Fauna, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Stone Clad Cottages, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Ldt.,
Brigstock Kettering, UK
2007 Daisy House, Private Collection, New York, NY
Logo no. 29, Remotti Foundation, Milan, Italy
Super-Tudor Fold, Curated by Rob Hewitt and Gavin Wade,
Birmingham, UK
2006 Logo no. 26, Thin Cities: Leicester Square and Green Park, London, UK
Printing and Cutting and Other Stories, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2005 The Decorative Arts, Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy
Logo no. 14, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Mock Tudor Painting, Sadler’s Wells, London, UK
NewBUILD, New College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
RENOVATION, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK
2004 Countrystyle, Kenny Schachter ROVE Projects LLP, London, UK
Richard Woods, vamiali’s, Athens, Greece
2003 Nice life no. 2, Deitch Projects, Miami, FL
Renovation, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
Super Tudor, Private Collection, Woodstock, NY
2002 Super Tudor, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2001 Richard Woods, griedervonputtkammer GmbH, Berlin, Germany
2000 Richard Woods, Modern Art Inc., London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Superabundance: A Celebration of Pattern,
Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate, UK
The Law of Fives, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2008 A Colour Box, Arcade Fine Arts, London, UK
Crossing, Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy
Darwin’s Canopy, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Irony and Gesture: British Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kukje Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2007 Architecture Week 2007, P3, The University of Westminster,
London, UK
2005 UK Pavilion, Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition,
Aichi, Japan
2003 50th International Venice Biennale of Art, Venice, Italy
Retinal Stain, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, France
2002 Framing my view, Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy
The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Supersonic & Alien, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2001 Effetto Natura, Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan, Italy
2000 Open Plan P3–The Marathon, Alphadelta and Artio Galleries,
Athens, Greece
Architectual Commissions and Collaborations
2009 Bench Press, WRONGWOODS Collaboration with Sebastian Wrong,
Commissioned by Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Commissioned by MCM, Seoul, South Korea
Commissioned by Residence Du Parc, Turin, Italy
WRONGWOODS Collaboration with Sebastian Wrong, Milan, Italy
2007 Daisy House, Commissioned by Adam Lindemann, New York, NY
Floral repeat no. 19, Commissioned by Look Ahead Housing,
Bracknell, UK
Logo no. 27, Commissioned by AHMM Architects, London, UK
MK Forty Towers, Collaboration with DRMM Architects,
Milton Keynes, UK
WRONGWOODS, Collaboration with Sebastian Wrong,
for Established and Sons, London, UK
WRONGWOODS, Collaboration with Sebastian Wrong,
for Moss Gallery of Art and Design, New York, NY
2006 Commissioned by Paul Smith, New York, NY
2005 Commissioned by Paul Smith, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Floral repeat no. 11, Collaboration with Maria Giuseppina Grasso
Cannizzo, Collection Enzo Di Matteo, Vittoria, Italy
Logo no. 9, Collaboration with Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo,
Collection Mariliana and Salvo Brachitta, Ragusa, Italy
2002 Commissioned by Comme des Garçons, Osaka, Japan
2001 Horn, Collaboration with SH Architects, Commissioned be Paul Smith,
Tokyo, Japan
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Born 1966 in Cheshire, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
1988–1998 Slade School of Fine Art, MA
1985–1988 Winchester School of Art, BA (Honors)
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2009 Flat Pack Nature, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
Richard Woods: Port Sunlight, commissioned by Lever House,
Lever House, New York, NY
wall and door and roof, commissioned by the Public Art Fund,
City Hall Park, New York, NY
The Nature Show, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Approximate Rock, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Flora and Fauna, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Stone Clad Cottages, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Ldt.,
Brigstock Kettering, UK
2007 Daisy House, Private Collection, New York, NY
Logo no. 29, Remotti Foundation, Milan, Italy
Super-Tudor Fold, Curated by Rob Hewitt and Gavin Wade,
Birmingham, UK
2006 Logo no. 26, Thin Cities: Leicester Square and Green Park, London, UK
Printing and Cutting and Other Stories, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2005 The Decorative Arts, Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy
Logo no. 14, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Mock Tudor Painting, Sadler’s Wells, London, UK
NewBUILD, New College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
RENOVATION, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK
2004 Countrystyle, Kenny Schachter ROVE Projects LLP, London, UK
Richard Woods, vamiali’s, Athens, Greece
2003 Nice life no. 2, Deitch Projects, Miami, FL
Renovation, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
Super Tudor, Private Collection, Woodstock, NY
2002 Super Tudor, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2001 Richard Woods, griedervonputtkammer GmbH, Berlin, Germany
2000 Richard Woods, Modern Art Inc., London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Superabundance: A Celebration of Pattern,
Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate, UK
The Law of Fives, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2008 A Colour Box, Arcade Fine Arts, London, UK
Crossing, Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy
Darwin’s Canopy, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Irony and Gesture: British Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kukje Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2007 Architecture Week 2007, P3, The University of Westminster,
London, UK
2005 UK Pavilion, Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition,
Aichi, Japan
2003 50th International Venice Biennale of Art, Venice, Italy
Retinal Stain, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, France
2002 Framing my view, Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy
The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Supersonic & Alien, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
2001 Effetto Natura, Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan, Italy
2000 Open Plan P3–The Marathon, Alphadelta and Artio Galleries,
Athens, Greece
Architectual Commissions and Collaborations
2009 Bench Press, WRONGWOODS Collaboration with Sebastian Wrong,
Commissioned by Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Commissioned by MCM, Seoul, South Korea
Commissioned by Residence Du Parc, Turin, Italy
WRONGWOODS Collaboration with Sebastian Wrong, Milan, Italy
2007 Daisy House, Commissioned by Adam Lindemann, New York, NY
Floral repeat no. 19, Commissioned by Look Ahead Housing,
Bracknell, UK
Logo no. 27, Commissioned by AHMM Architects, London, UK
MK Forty Towers, Collaboration with DRMM Architects,
Milton Keynes, UK
WRONGWOODS, Collaboration with Sebastian Wrong,
for Established and Sons, London, UK
WRONGWOODS, Collaboration with Sebastian Wrong,
for Moss Gallery of Art and Design, New York, NY
2006 Commissioned by Paul Smith, New York, NY
2005 Commissioned by Paul Smith, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Floral repeat no. 11, Collaboration with Maria Giuseppina Grasso
Cannizzo, Collection Enzo Di Matteo, Vittoria, Italy
Logo no. 9, Collaboration with Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo,
Collection Mariliana and Salvo Brachitta, Ragusa, Italy
2002 Commissioned by Comme des Garçons, Osaka, Japan
2001 Horn, Collaboration with SH Architects, Commissioned be Paul Smith,
Tokyo, Japan
