Clare Woods
Born: 1972, Southampton, UK
Lives and works in Hereford, UK
Education
1997–1999 MA Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, London, UK
1991–1994 BA Fine Art, Bath College of Art, Bath, UK
Public Commissions
2019
River Bend, Dallas, Texas, USA
Royal National Ear, Nose, Throat and Eastman Dental Hospital, University College London Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
2015
VIA University College, Aarhus, Denmark (permanent)
Arken Edition, Arken Musuem of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
2014
Art on the River, Transport for London, London, UK
2012
Rack Alley, The Hive Building, Worcester University, Worcester, UK (permanent)
Brick Fields and Carpenters Curve, London 2012 Olympic Park, London, UK (permanent)
Much Wenlock Public Art Trail, William Brookes School, Shropshire, UK
2011
Evenings Hill, Transport for London, Hampstead Heath Train Station, London, UK (permanent)
2010
Transport for London, poster commission, London, UK
2005
Make Architects, Grosvenor Waterside, London, UK
1996
Habitat Print Project, Habitat, England, France, Germany
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2026
Towner Eastbourne, UK
2024
Between Before and After, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden
Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
I Blame Nature, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Soft Knock, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK
2023
Silent Spring, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Still Here, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Between Before and After, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2022
After Limbo, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Between Before and After, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland (catalogue)
Between These Words, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
2021
What Difference Does it Make, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Great Unknown, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK (catalogue)
2020
If Not Now Then When, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Mira Dancy, France-Lise McGurn & Clare Woods, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, USA
2019
Doublethink, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Solo Presentation at The Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas, USA
Password Revolt, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, USA
2018
English Habits, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rehumanised, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Reality Dimmed, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (catalogue)
2017
Victim of Geography, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK (catalogue)
2016
Clean Heart: A Landscape Retrospective, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton, UK
The Sleepers, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK (two-person)
The Shouters, limited edition commissioned by Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
2015
A Rock, A Tree, A Cloud: A Curated show with works from the Davies Collection, Oriel-y-Parc Gallery, Wales, UK and Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales, UK (touring)
The Drama Triangle, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud: A Curated show with works from the Davies Collection, Oriel Davies, Wales, UK (touring, catalogue)
Wakelin Award 2014: Clare Woods, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales
Hanging, Hollows and Holes, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Monument, Mascalls Gallery, Kent, UK
New Works, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
2013
New Works, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
New Works, The New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK (two-person)
The Seven Eggs, Harewood House, Yorkshire, UK (catalogue)
2012
The Dark Matter, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
The Bad Neighbour, Modern Art, London, UK
The Dark Matter, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2011
The Unquiet Head, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK (catalogue)
2009
Cemetery Bends, Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Watercolours, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2008
The Prospect, The New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
Monster Field, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
The Dancing Mania, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2007
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006
Deaf Man’s House, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (catalogue)
Pilar Parra Galería de Arte, Madrid, Spain
2004
Failed Back, Modern Art, London, UK (catalogue)
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2003
The Walls Have Eyes, Modern Art, London, UK (two-person)
2002
Cohan Leslie and Brown, New York, USA
2000
Modern Art, London, UK
1997
New Paintings, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Recent Paintings, Habitat, London, UK
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024
Here Today, Here Tomorrow, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Daffodils Baptized In Butter, The Arts Club, London, UK
Tracing Absence, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London UK
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Framed Unframed, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens Greece
Bump, Matt Carey-Williams, 9 Cork St, London, UK
The Guts and The Glory, Bo Lee and Workman, Bruton, UK
Transparency, Lyndsey Ingram, London, UK
2023
Towner 100: Unseen, Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, UK
Dutch Flower Paintings, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield,UK
Collections Hang, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Days Like These, Bridget de León, Bath, UK
Between Before and After, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK
Threshold, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2022
Grey Scale, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Shrubs, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2021
Through the Window, Fernweh Space, Beijing, China
The Rules of Art?, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2020
Mira Dancy, France-Lise McGurn & Clare Woods, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, USA
2019
P is for Portrait, The Art House, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
Awe, Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Athens, Greece
2018
A Place on the Table, Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales, UK
History in the Making, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Destroyed By Shadows, Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, Attercliffe, Sheffield, UK
2017
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Who Decides?, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK
A Green and Pleasant Land: British Landscape and the Imagination: 1970’s to Now, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
31 Woman, Breese Little, London, UK
Poster Girls: A Century of Art & Design, London Transport Museum, London, UK
New Beginnings, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
2016
Zeichnung, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Natural States, Pier Art Centre, Orkney, Scotland, UK
The Romantic Thread in British Art, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK (catalogue)
2015
Happy Valleys, Gallerie Simpson Artists, Swansea, Wales, UK
Imagining a University: Fifty Years of The University of Warwick Art Collection, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (catalogue)
2014
Detached and Timeless: Contemporary Artists Inspired by Nature and the Spirit of Place, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK
Wales Visitation: Poetry Romanticism and Myth in Art, The National Museum Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Leaping the Fence, Hestercombe House, Somerset, UK
2013
Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK
Wanderlust, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Under the Greenwood, Picturing British Tree, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, UK and Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK (touring, catalogue)
2012
A Fresh Look at Landscape, Oriel y Parc, St Davids, Wales, UK
Creates Aber Communities, Arken Museum, Ishøj, Denmark
Contested Ground, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
2011
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA
2010
Palm Paintings, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Exhibitionism, The Art of Display, East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London, UK
2009
Tell it to the Trees, Croft Castle, Herefordshire, UK
The Dark Monarch, Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK; Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne, UK (catalogue, touring)
Topographies, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
Monuments with a Horizon Line II, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2008
Superstratum, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue)
M25: Around London, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2007
Wood for the Trees and the Falling Leaves, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK
Fringes of Abstraction, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Esencias 11, Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Vallaolid, Spain (catalogue)
2005
Chambres à Part, Sezz Hotel, Paris, France
Extreme Abstraction, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA (catalogue)
2004
Stay Positive, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
Painting Identities, La Galeria De Arte Pilar Parra, Madrid, Spain
New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (catalogue)
Forest, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK (touring)
2003
The Walls Have Eyes, Modern Art, London, UK
Forever Young, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2002
Group Painting Show, Cohan, Leslie and Browne, New York, USA
Painting as a Foreign Language, Centro Britânico Brasileiro, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
2001
Tailsliding, British Council Touring Show London Underground, London, UK and Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (touring, catalogue)
A cross section through contemporary British art, British Council exhibition, Ankara Art Fair, Ankara, Turkey
London Underground, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea (catalogue)
Studio International, curated by Pauline Karpidas & Sadie Coles, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece (catalogue)
Beck’s Futures, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (touring, catalogue)
Beyond, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK
2000
Printers inc. recent British prints from the Arts Council and British Council collections, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
What Collectors Are Collecting, Exit Art, New York, USA
And if there were no stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Wooden Heart, Avco, London, UK
Paintings, Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
British Art 2 (Painting), Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
1999
Nature/Culture, Gimpel Fils and Hales Gallery, London, UK
Glass Border, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
Idle Wild, Approach Gallery, London, UK
1998
Cluster Bomb, Morrison Judd, London, UK
Printemps, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London, UK
1997
Habitat Print Project, Habitat, England, France, Germany
Underworld, Australian Council Studios, London, UK
1996
Fritz & Betty, Exmouth Market, London, UK
Die Yuppie Scum, Karsten Schubert, London, UK
1995
Gothic, Lost in Space, London, UK
White Trash, Lost in Space, London, UK
1994
Transmission Report, Curtain Road, London, UK
Publications (selected)
2024
Clare Woods: As I Please, Art/Books Publishing, London, UK
2022
Clare Woods: Between Before and After, Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mättä, Finland
2021
The Great Unknown, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London UK
2018
Reality Dimmed, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
2017
Victim of Geography, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Francis Bacon: La France et Monaco, Monaco
2016
How to Enjoy Contemporary Art, Some Explanations to Help You,Elgan Publishers Ltd, Cheltenham, UK
Clare Woods: Strange Meetings, Art/Books Publishing, London, UK
2015
Imagining A University: Fifty Years of The University of Warwick Art Collection, Cornerhouse Publications, UK
2014
The 21st Century Art Book, Phaidon, London, UK
A Tree A Rock A Cloud, The National Collection of Wales, Oriel Davies, Wales, UK
Brask Collection at Munkeruphus, Munkeruphus Art Museum, Dronningmølle, Denmark
Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British tree from Constable to Kurt Jackson, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Eduardo Paolozzi: Collaging Culture, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2013
How to Enjoy Contemporary Art: Some Explanations to Help You, Elgan Publishing Ltd, Dublin, Ireland
The Seven Eggs, Harewood House Trust, Leeds, UK
2012
Sanctuary, British Artists in their Studio, Thames & Hudson, London, UK
The Roundel, 100 Artists Remake a London Icon, Art/Books Publishing, London, UK
The Hepworth Wakefield, Art Spaces, Scala Publishers Ltd, London, UK
2011
The Unquiet Head, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
Spirits of the Landscape: A story for children inspired by the paintings of Clare Woods, self-publishing platform
2010
Paul Nash: The Elements, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Scala Publishing, London, UK
2009
Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, Phaidon, London, UK
The Dark Monarch, Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate Publishing, London, UK
2008
Superstratum, Koraalbery Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2007
Catalogue of Works, Colección VAC (Valencia Arte Contemporáneo) Valencia, Spain
2006
New Art from London, Thames & Hudson, London, UK
Deaf Man’s House, Chisenhale Gallery, Koenig Books, London, UK
VAC: Colección Valencia Arte Contemporáneo, Generalitat Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Esencias 11, Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Valladolid, Spain
2005
Extreme Abstraction, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
2004
Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Forest, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Clare Woods: Failed Back, Modern Art, London, UK
Stay Positive, Marella Arte Cantemporanea, Milan, Italy
New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Printed Project: Letters from Five Continents, Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2002
Painting as a Foreign Language, Edíficio Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo, Brazil
2001
Studio International, The Hydra Workshop, Hyra, Greece
Tailsliding, The British Council, London, UK
London Underground, Sungkok Art Culture Foundation, Korea
Beck’s Futures, ICA, London, UK
2000
British Art Paintings II, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany
Public Collections
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
British Airways Art Collection, London, UK
British Council, London, UK
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA
CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Valencia Arte Contemporáneo, Valencia, Spain
Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation, Athens, Greece
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK
Government Art Collection, London, UK
Hall Arts Collection, Dallas, Texas, USA
Hepworth Wakefield, UK
Holburne Museum, Bath, UK
Honart Museum, Tehran, Iran
Jerwood Collection, UK
Nation Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK
The Ophiuchus Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Royal Collection Trust, London, UK
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, UK
Tullie House Gallery, Carlisle, UK
University of Warwick, Mead Gallery Collection, Coventry, UK