Richard Woods
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.”
BIO AND CV
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.”
BIO AND CV
