Bio/CV
Alison Woods’ images discuss the relationship between the human mind in all of its complexities, and technology and its ramifications on culture. Her process is informed by the intersection between the work of Wassily Kandinsky and the hidden world of our intuitive senses, C.G. Jung and his research regarding the collective unconscious, and the use of modern technology.
She has exhibited Internationally — in Rome, Greece, Berlin, Stockholm, Luxembourg, Australia, Budapest, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Iceland — and closer to home at the Tryst Art Fair in collaboration with Wönzimer and the Torrance Art Museum (2024), The Torrance Art Museum (2021), The Korean Cultural Center (2018), Stanford University Art Spaces (2013), and featured on Art Critic Charles Desmarais’ Blog (2011). She is on the advisory board for the Cycladic Arts Residency in Paros, Greece (2024).
In 2023 Woods created a site-specific installation for The Butterfly Effect, an international exhibition in Athens, Greece, curated by Kostas Prapoglou that attracted an audience of over 75,000. She co-curated 1 Island, 3 ecosystems, 100 miles from LA, a science study project with Supercollider, Santa Rosa Island, CA. In addition, she had a solo exhibition Metaclysm: Abstraction in the Virtual Age at Gallery 825, Los Angeles, and participated in NOMAD, an international exhibition organized by the Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, in 2022.
From 2017-2020 she was a member of the Durden and Ray Project Space and co-curated and organized exhibitions in Berlin, Luxembourg, and Greece, and in the Project Space, Los Angeles. She co-curated The Happy House as a part of the “Spring Break Art Show” at the Row in Los Angeles. She also collaborated on We are here, here we are, an exhibition of one hundred artists in outdoor spaces throughout Los Angeles which was featured in the LA Times by Christopher Knight. She went on to help represent Durden and Ray at the “Supermarket Art Fair” in Stockholm, Sweden, by introducing attending artists to international arts opportunities.
In 2014 she founded the “Bridge Residency,” an invitational for artists to explore the Los Angeles art scene. In 2013 Woods was a Pardee Artslant Showcase Winner and the Art Trends Artist of the Year, Canada. In 2012 the San Francisco Art Institute nominated her for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
CV
Nationality - American
Lives and Works in Los Angeles
Education
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
BFA, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Awards and Fellowships
2019
Residency, Hangmen Projects, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
Residency, Aegean Center for the Arts, Paros, Greece
2013
Artslant 8th Showcase Winner
Art Trends Artist of the Year 2013 edition, Pardee Publisher, Canada
Fellowship at The Critique Program, Berkeley, CA
2012
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant SFAI Faculty Nominee
Exhibitions
2024
Discoveries, bG Gallery, part of The Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide
Futopia, Wonzimer Gallery, Tryst, Hosted by the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2023
1 island, 3 ecosystems, 100 miles from LA, Supercollider, Project Space 643, Ventura, CA
The butterfly effect, curated by Kostas Prapoglou, Athens, Greece
Metaclysm, Abstraction in the Virtual Age, solo show, Gallery 825, LA, CA
Afterimage, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Coy, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Applied Science, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2022
The Non-Objective Moment, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Connect/Collaborate, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Open Call, Curated by Peter Frank, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Nomad, Hosted by Torrance Art Museum, Medical Center Building, Torrance, CA
Highbeams, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2020
Shape of Us, Curated by Mayuka Kato Doja, Bourglinster, Luxembourg
Personal Contacts, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
We Are Here, Here We Are, Greater Los Angeles, CA
Hobson's Choice, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Happy House, Spring Break Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
The Vista, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
QiPO 01, Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
2019
Parallax, Axil Obiger, Berlin Germany
Set Today / Set Future, Gallery Mod, Istanbul, Turkey
West by East Coast, Hangman Projects, Stockholm, Sweden
Figura: Micro Macro, Neumünster, Luxembourg
B-LA Connect, Axil Obiger, Berlin, Germany
Outward Bound, Galleri Kalashnikovv, Johannesburg, South Africa
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm Sweden
CoLab IV, Torrance Art Museum Torrance, CA
Spring Break Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
Dreams Upon Waking, MŰTŐ, Budapest, Hungary
QiPO 01, Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
From the Edge of the World, Ekkisens Reykjavík, Iceland
2018
Los Angeles is, once again, Curated by Camilla Boemio, Temple University Rome Italy
A heap of broken images where the sun beats, Aegean Center for the Arts Paros, Greece
Vernissage, Musée du Vin Ehnen Luxembourg
Dragnet 832, Durden and Ray Los Angeles, CA
In the stillness between two waves of the sea, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Odd Convergences:Steps/Missteps, Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles, CA
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm Sweden
CoLab III, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Between Post and Pre, Durden and Ray Los Angeles, CA
Inverted Realities, McNish Gallery, Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA
2017
Cache_LA, Mint Moue, Los Angeles CA
Satellite One, TW Fine Art Brisbane, Australia
Entangled Loci, HilbertRaum, Berlin, Germany
Round Won, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Far Bazaar, Invitational, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA,
The Collectivists, Curated by Kara Walker Tome, The Brand Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
Obverse, Durden and Ray Los Angeles, CA
2016
The Night/La Nuit, BLAM Projects Los Angeles, CA
Faux Dada, Curated by Kio Griffith, Muzeumm, Los Angeles, CA
MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Shift and Fade, BLAM Projects, Los Angeles CA
Mondrian Died for Our Sins, Curated by Max Presneill, BLAM Projects, Brooklyn NY
Abstract, BLAM Projects, Brooklyn NY
Annual Survey of Art in LA, LA n CV3, Coachella Valley Art Center Indio, CA
stARTup Fair, Featured Artist, Highland Gardens Hotel, Hollywood, CA, Juried by Kim Abeles, Dan Cameron, Andi Campognone, Christine Duval, Peter Mays, Hillary Metz, William Powhida
2015
MASque Attack #3, Los Angeles, CA
Still I Rise, Urbano Cellars Berkeley, CA
Water Gardens, Curated by Elana Sampson, Santa Monica CA
2014
Red, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA
See Us Roar, Curating Contemporary http://curatingcontemporary.com/ Art at Colorflow, Curated by Michelle Nye, Berkeley, CA
2013
Paint it Black, Studio 110 Projects Sausalito, CA
Schizogenesis/Mixed Origins, Curated by Ginger Wolfe Suarez, Untitled Prints and Editions, Los Angeles, CA
Stanford Art Spaces, Curated by Marilyn Grossman, Stanford University Stanford, CA
Juried Exhibitions
2009
First Annual First Show, San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA
2008
The Persistence of Being, Rake Gallery Portland, OR
Static/Flux, Juror: Jenene Nagy, MK Gallery Portland, OR
Curatorial Projects
2024
Futopia, Wonzimer Gallery, Tryst, Hosted by the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2023
1 island, 3 ecosystems, 100 miles from LA, Supercollider, Project Space 643, Ventura, CA
2020
We Are Here / Here We Are, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Happy House, Spring Break Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Figura: Micro Macro, Neumünster, Luxembourg
Figura: Micro Macro, Durden and Ray Los Angeles CA
B-LA Connect, Axil Obiger, Berlin, Germany
2018
A heap of broken images where the sun beats, Aegean Center for the Fine Arts Paros, Greece
In the stillness between two waves of the sea, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
CoLab III, Torrance Art Museum Torrance, CA
2017
Entangled Loci, HilbertRaum Berlin, Germany
FUtopia, BLAM Projects Los Angeles, CA
Obverse, Durden and Ray Los Angeles, CA
Experience
2014
Mural Production Assistant for Amy Ellingson, San Jose ICA, San Jose CA
2000
Guest Lecturer, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
