Born in 1972, Southampton, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Hereford, United Kingdom.
EDUCATION
1999
MA Fine Art, Goldsmith's College, London, United Kingdom
1994
BA Fine Art, Bath of Art, Bath, United Kingdom
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, United Kingdom (forthcoming)
2025
Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (forthcoming)
2024
Between Before and After, Norrtälje Kunsthal, Norrtälje, Sweden
I Blame Nature, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Soft Knock, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2023
Silent Spring, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Print Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Between Before and After, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2022
Between These Words, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Between Before and After, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland
After Limbo, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
What Difference does it Make, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Great Unknown, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2020
If Not Now Then When, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2019
Password Revolt, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Doublethink, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2018
Rehumanised, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Reality Dimmed, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, London, United Kingdom
English Habits, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
Victim of Geography, Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, United Kingdom
2016
Clare Woods, Clean Heart, Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset, United Kingdom
Clare Wods and Des Hughes: The Sleepers, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom
2015
The Drama Triangle, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
A Rock, A Tree, A Cloud: A Curated Show with Works from the Davies Collection, Oriel-y-Parc, Wales and Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales
2014
A Rock, A Tree, A Cloud: A Curated Show with Works from the Davies Collection, The National Collection of Wales, Oriel Davies, Wales
Hanging, Hollows and Holes, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Monument, Mascalls Gallery, Kent, United Kingdom
Clare Woods, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
Wakelin Award 2014: Clare Woods, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales
2013
Clare Woods, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eve Rothschild/Clare Woods, The New Art Centre, Salisbury, United Kingdom
The Seven Eggs, Harewood House, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2012
The Dark Matter, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom
The Bad Neighbour, Modern Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The Dark Matter, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2011
The Unquiet Head, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom
2009
Cemetery Bends, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Watercolours, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2008
The Prospect, The New Art Centre, Salisbury, United Kingdom
Monster Field, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
The Dancing Mania, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2007
Clare Woods, Jiri Svetska Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Clare Woods, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Clare Woods, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006
Clare Woods: Deaf Man's House, The Chisenhale Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Clare Woods, Pilar Parra Galería de Arte, Madrid, Spain
2004
Failed Back, Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
Clare Woods, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Eva Rothschild & Clare Woods: The Walls Have Eyes, Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
2002
Clare Woods, Cohan, Leslie and Browne, New York, NY
2000
Clare Woods, Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
1997
New Paintings, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom
Recent Paintings, Habitat, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Tracing Absence, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1, Sargent’s Daughter Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Shape of Things, Still Life in Britain, Pallant House Gallery, United Kingdom
Overserved, curated by Raffi Kalenderian + Alberto Cuadros, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
The Guts and the Glory, Bolee and Workman, Bruton, United Kingdom
Transparency, Lyndsey Ingram, London, United Kingdom
Bump, curated by Matt Carey-Williams, No. 9 Cork Street, London, United Kingdom
2023
The Place I Am, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Collections Hang, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Days Like These, DE LEÓN, Bath, United Kingdom
Between Before and After, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Threshold, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022
Shrubs, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Through the Window, Fernweh Space, Beijing, China
2020
Mira Dancy, France-Lise McGurn & Clare Woods, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY
2019
P is for Portrait, The Art House, University of Worcester, Worcester, United Kingdom
Awe, Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Athens
2018
Destroyed by Shadows, The Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
History in the Making, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom
A Place on the Table, Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales
Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, Attercliffe, Sheffield, United Kingdom
2017
Happy Valleys, Gallerie Simpson, Swansea, Wales
Imagining A University, Fifty Years of The University of Warwick Art Collection, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
2014
Detached and Timeless: Contemporary Artists Inspired by Nature and the Spirit of the Place, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, United Kingdom
Wales Visitation: Poetry, Romanticism, and Myth in Art, The National Museum Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Leaping the Fence, Hestercombe House, Somerset, United Kingdom
2013
Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery, Lymington, United Kingdom
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, United Kingdom
2012
A Fresh Look at Landscape, Oriel y Parc, St Davids, Wales
Creates Aber Communities, Arken Museum, Denmark
Contested Ground, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom
SELECTED PUBLIC COMISSIONS
2019
Site-specific commission, River Bend, Dallas, TX
2015
VIA University College, Aarhaus, Denmark
Arken Museum & Edition, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Art on the River Idler & Cranky, Transport for London, London, United Kingdom
2012
Rack Alley, Worcester University, Worcester, United Kingdom
Brick Fields and Carpenters Curve, London Olympic Park, London, United Kingdom
Much Wenlock Public Art Trail, William Brookes School, Windmill Hill, United Kingdom
2011
Evenings Hill, Hampstead Heath Train Station, London, United Kingdom
2010
Clare Woods, Transport for London, London, United Kingdom
2005
Clare Woods, Make Architects, Grosvenor Waterside, London, United Kingdom
1996
Habitat Print Project, Habitat (England, France, Germany)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
MONOGRAPHS
2016
A. Marr, J. Higgie, M. Bracewell, R. Daniels, S. Martin, Clare Woods: Strange Meetings, Art Books Publishing, London, United Kingdom
BOOKS
2014
J. Nagle, How to Enjoy Contemporary Art: Some Explanations to Help You, Elgan Publishers Ltd, Cheltenham
Griffin, J. Harper, P. Williams, E. (2014) The 21st Century Art Book, Phaidon
2013
Collins, J. Eduardo Paolozzi, Lund Humphries, United Kingdom
2012
T. Dillon (ed.), The Roundel: 100 Artists Remake a London Icon, Art/Books, London
F. Guy, S. Wallis, G. Watson, The Hepworth Wakefield, Art Spaces, Scala Publishers Ltd., London
H. Amirsadeghi, M. Eisler, Sanctuary: British Artists in Their Studio, Thames & Hudson, London
2011
S. Osborne, Spirits of the Landscape: A Story for Children Inspired by the Paintings of Clare Woods, London
2009
B. Niklas, Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, Phaidon, London
2006
C. Townsend, New Art from London, Thames & Hudson, London
2004
R. Tufnell, S. Bos, Printed Project 2: Letters from Five Continents, Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin
CATALOGUES
2018
Reality Dimmed (Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, United Kingdom)
2017
Victim of Geography (Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, United Kingdom)
2016
The Romantic Thread in British Art (Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom)
2015
Imagining A University, Fifty Years of The University of Warwick Art Collection (Warwick University, Warwick, England)
2014
A Tree A Rock A Cloud, Clare Woods (The National Collection Of Wales,Oriel Davies, Wales)
Brask Collection at Munkeruphus (Munkeruphus Art Museum, Gilleleje, Denmark)
Under the Greenwood, Picturing the British Tree from Constable to Kurt Jackson (St
Barbe Museum and Art Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery, Lymington, United Kingdom)
2011
The Unquiet Head (The Hepworth Wakefield,Wakefield, United Kingdom)
2009
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art (Tate St Ives, St Ives, United Kingdom)
2008
Superstratum (Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium)
2007
Colección VAC, Valencia Arte Contemporáneo (VAC, Valencia, Spain)
2006
Clare Woods: Deaf Man’s House (Chisenhale Gallery, London, United Kingdom)
ESENCIAS 11, Colección Ernesto Ventós (Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Valladolid,
Spain)
2005
Extreme Abstraction (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
Monument to Now (Deste Foundation of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece)
Forest, exhibition catalogue (Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom)
Failed Back (Modern Art, London, United Kingdom)
Stay Positive (Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy)
New British Painting (John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom)
2003
40 Views of an Icon by Comme des Garcons (Spazio Consolo, Milano, Italy)
2002
Painting as a Foreign Language, exhibition catalogue (CulturaInglesa, São Paulo, Brazil)
2001
The Hydra Workshop (Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece)
Tailsliding (The British Council, London, United Kingdom)
London Underground (Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea)
Beck’s Futures (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom)
2000
British Art Paintings II (Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany)
INTERVIEWS
2017
‘Clare Woods discusses her new exhibition Reality Dimmed’, What’s On (26 December)
2016
F. Hallet, ’10 Questions for Artist Clare Woods’, The Arts Desk (15 April)
2012
A. Hashish, ‘Our design London, Olympic image makers’, Evening Standard (8 August)
2011
S. Hastings, ‘A larger landscape...and an epic sense of place’, Yorkshire Post (21 January): 3
2008
L. Hussey, ‘Clare Woods’, For Display Purposes (October): 13
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2024
K. White, “In a Rural Studio in England,” Art Net (11 June)
C. Coulson, “The Small Perfection of Flower Painting,” Financial Times (1 June)
D. Ruzova, ‘There Women Artists Take Back the Landscape,’ Hyperallergic (27 May)
C. Mullins, “Inside the Mind of Clare Woods RA,” RA Magazine (Spring 2024)
E. Bittencourt, ‘Clare Woods,’ Artforum (February)
2023
M. Duncan, ‘Step Inside a True Manhattan Loft That Is Unapologetically Pink,’ Architectural Digest, (28 June)
S. Hubbard, ’RA Summer Exhibition Polite and Figurative,’ Artlyst (6 June)
2021
D. Trigg, ‘Clare Woods – interview: ‘Fragility and vulnerability have always been with me in my work’, studio international (25 May)
2018
H. Juddah, ‘Clare Woods, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK’, Frieze (April)
R. Hughes, ‘Clare Woods: Reality Dimmed’, this is tomorrow (5 February)
H. Juddah, ‘An English Murder: Clare Woods Has a Poisoner's Touch’, Frieze.com (19 February)
Mead Gallery, Warwick University, Warwick
2017
E. M. De Wachter, ‘31 Women’, Frieze.com (10 July)
E. Steer, ‘31 Women’, Elephant (July)
D. Schultz, ‘31 Women: Contemporary Complexity’, AFTERNYNE (July)
A. McNay, ‘31 Women’, studio international (July)
K. McCabe, ‘31 Women’, Time Out (July)
G. Sutherland, ‘Visual art review: Clare Woods, Victim of Geography at Dundee
Contemporary Arts’, The Times (28 June)
2016
J. Higgie, ‘Should We Stay or Should We Go’, Frieze (20 June)
R. Daniels, ‘Walter Sickert: Rebecca Daniels on how the artist deftly combined art history and photography in his paintings’, Tate etc, Issue 13 (Summer)
2015
E. Geliot, ‘Semi-Detached’, CCQ Magazine, Issue 5 (April)
B. Scavenius, Børsen (10 April)
T. Ross, Politiken (10 April)
2014
R. Von Ingeborg, ‘Atmenunter der Landschafts-Maske’, Berliner-Zeitung (November)
‘Art on the river’, Metro (2 September)
‘TFL takes modern art on the river’, Evening Standard (1 September)
‘Wakelin Award 2014: Clare Woods’, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Blog (1 September)
2013
T. Levonian Cole, ‘Built-In Art’, FT Weekend (12 – 13 October)
Y. Huddleston, ‘Art on the Edges’, Yorkshire Post (17 August)
A. Moszynska, ‘The Expanded Field Expands Still Further’, Art Quarterly (Summer)
D. Lutyens, ‘Artistic Freewheeling’, Financial Times Magazine (14 May)
T. Sangild, ‘Tildaekkede Ansigterog Naturscenerier Dominerer to Nye Udstillinger’, Politiken (12 April)
B. Scavenivs, ‘Billedkunst’, Børsen Weekend (1 March)
2012
M. Morild, ‘Paintscape’, Garageland (March): 46-48
‘Utilities Building’, Art and Culture in the Olympic Park (April)
‘Clare Woods: The Dark Matter’, Culture Southampton Blog
K. Wright, ‘In the Studio’, Clare Woods, Independent (18 August)
A. Hashish, ‘Our design London, Olympic image makers’, Evening Standard (8 August)
‘Industrial Art at 2012 site builds on its past’, Metro (January): 27
2011
R. Farkas, ‘The Unquiet Head’, A-N Magazine
S. Hastings, ‘A larger landscape...and an epic sense of place’, Yorkshire Post (21 January): 3
C. Woods, ‘Clare Woods on Graham Sutherland’s Black Landscape (1939-1940)’, Tate Etc,
Issue 23 (Autumn)
J. Haywood, ‘Brimham Rocks inspire Clare Woods’ new exhibition at The Hepworth
Wakefield’, Yorkshire Life (21 October)
2009
B. Dillion, ‘Disc World’, Guardian Review (24 October): 18
2008
J. Lack, ‘Artist of the week no 8: Clare Woods’, Guardian (24 September)
2007
H. Myers, ‘Art with no worries and no real pieces’, LA Times (20 July)
2006
S. Sherwin, ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes: Clare Woods’, Art Review (September)
G. Williams, ‘Clare Woods Chisenhale Gallery’, Artforum (December)
C. Dwyer Hogg, ‘Living Colour’, Independent (9 September): 47-48
H. Sumpler, ‘Chisenhale Gallery: Clare Woods’, Time Out London (13 September)
M. Coomer, ‘Deaf Man’s House at Chisenhale Gallery’, Art Review, Issue 05 (November)
G. Williams, ‘Deaf Man’s House at Chisenhale Gallery’, Artforum, Issue XLV, no.4
(December): 325-326
K. Wright, Karen, ‘Clare Woods’, Modern Painters (February): 120
2005
M. Herbert, ‘Ambient Landscapes’, Tate etc (Summer)
2004
M. Herbert, ‘Clare Woods’, Time Out London (March): 47
2003
J. Ogilvie, ‘Clare Woods’, Time Out London (August)
‘Clare Woods’, Art Review (July – August)
2002
J.Hill, ‘New York: Cohan, Leslie & Browne’, Contemporary (December): 90-91
R. Smith, ‘Clare Woods’, The New York Times (October): 37
2001
‘Special Report - Beck’s Futures 2 Shortlisted Artists: Clare Woods’, Guardian (22 March)
D. McFarland, ‘Clare Woods’, Frieze (April)
N. Ratnam, ‘Painting is Dead, Long Live Painting’, The Face (April)
‘Masters at Work’, I-D Magazine, The Aesthetic Issue (May)
2000
‘Clare Woods’, The Art Newspaper (November)
‘Clare Woods’, Evening Standard (October)
C. Allfree, ‘Clare Woods’, Metro (October)
C. Gleadell, ‘The Power of Paint’, Telegraph Magazine (September): 37
‘And if There Were No Stories’, Evening Standard (March)
‘Cluster Bomb at Morrison Judd’, Flash Art, (January – February)
W. Bolton, ‘Modern Art, Clare Woods’, What’s On, (January): 7
‘Clare Woods’, I-D Magazine, The Aesthetic Issue (May)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
DENMARK
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj
VIA University, Aarhus
GREECE
The Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation, Athens
IRAN
Honart Museum, Tehran
SPAIN
Colección VAC (Valencia Arte Contemporáneo), Valencia
CCA Andratx, Mallorca
SWITZERLAND
The Ophiuchus Collection, Geneva
UNITED KINGDOM
Arts Council Collection, London
British Airways Art Collection, London
Government Art Collection, London
Harewood House, Leeds
Mead Gallery, Warwick University, Warwick
Nuffield College Collection, Oxford
National Collection of Wales, Cardiff
Tulle House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
The British Council Collection, London
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
The Hiscox Collection, London
The Hive, Worcester
The National Museum, Cardiff
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
UNITED STATES
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY