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Bruce Wood is a painter and avant-garde film maker whose works have been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and The Museum of Modern Art (Beaubourg) in Paris.

He is founder of AFA Press,  Dreamfast Cinema, and the former Fenway Galleries in Chicago and Lakeside, Michigan.  Currently he is the director of the Woodshed Gallery in Franklin, Massachusetts.

Bruce Wood's films are in the collections of The Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, The Royal Film Archive of Belgium, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Prints and Paintings are in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and the Rockford Art Museum in Illinois.

Wood studied at Massachusetts College of Art (BFA), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA).

BRUCE WOOD

Born 1951, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Lives in Franklin, Massachusetts, U. S. A.

EDUCATION:

MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1975

BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 1973

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Woodshed Gallery, Franklin, MA 2011

Fenway Gallery, Chicago, 2007, 2003, 2000

Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, 2006

Gary Artworks, Gary, Indiana, 2004

Quincy University, Quincy, IL, 1999

Fenway Gallery, Lakeside, MI, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990

Austing Wilder Fine Art, Taos, NM, 1994

Carlyn Gallery, Grand Haven, MI, 1992

Allegheny Community College, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992

Highland Park Public Library, Highland Park, IL, 1990

Three Illinois Center, Chicago, 1981

The Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, 1980

The Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, 1978

Vrije Academie, Den Haag, 1978

St. Martin's School of Art, London, 1978

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1977

Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 1977

Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris, 1977

Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., 1977

Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, Berlin, 1977

The Royal Film Archive of Belgium, Brussels, 1977

The Danish Film Museum, Copenhagen, 1977

The Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, 1977

Sonja Henie - Niels Onstad Foundations, Oslo, 1977

Millennium, New York City, 1977

Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, 1977

University of Indiana, Muncie, IN, 1977

Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England, 1977

Southern Connecticut State College, 1977

N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, 1976

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 1971

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Chabot Fine Art Gallery, Providence, RI 2012

Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA, 2012

Wellesley Society of Artists, Wellesley, MA 2012

Lyme Art Association, Lyme, CT, 2012

Mystic Arts Association, Mystic, CT, 2011

Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA, 2011

Lyme Art Association, Lyme, CT, 2011

Wellesley Society of Artists, Wellesley Free Library, Wellesley, MA 2011

Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2011

Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, MA, 2011

Franklin Art Assocaition, Franklin, MA, 2011

Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA, 2011

Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT, 2010

Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2010

Wellesley Society of Artists, Wellesley, MA 2010

Franklin Art Association, Franklin, MA 2010

Anthology Film Archive, New York, 2004

Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, 2004

Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2003

Woodshed Gallery, Franklin, MA, 2003

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2001

Kalamazoo Art Institute, Kalamazoo, MI 1997

Marco Fine Arts, Chicago, 1996

Chicago International Art Exposition, 1994

Kingscott Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI, 1993

Color, Style & Fantasy, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI, 1992

All Michigan/ All Media, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI, 1992

New Aquisitions, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 1992

Carlyn Gallery, Grand Haven, MI, 1991

Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley Hills, MA, 1990

A. Cueto Gallery, Puerto Rico, 1990

Artcetera, Boynton Beach, FL 1990

Rena Haveson Gallery, Pittsburgh, 1989

317 Market Street Gallery, Rockford, IL, 1988

Cincinnatti Academy of Art, 1979

The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1978

Maidstone College of Art, London, 1978

Calumet College, Indiana, 1978

Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, 1978

Sonja Henie - Niels Onstad Foundations, Oslo, 1978

Le Salon Ecritures, Musee du Luxumburg, Paris, 1977

Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, 1975

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

The Royal Film Archive of Belgium, Brussels

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

Highland Park Hospital, Highland Park, IL

St. Anthony's Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL

Kirklin Clinic, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

Delnore Community Hospital, Geneva, IL

SELECTED REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS

DREAM NETWORK MAGAZINE Vol.25 No2, pp32-33 (2006)

  Article: Art Instruction From Beyond The Veil

THE MONTHLY ASPECTARIAN, Interview, July 2006

HARBOR COUNTRY GUIDE, (Michigan Tourism), Cover, 2003

VITALITY Magazine, Cover, April, 1998

ART TRENDS, vol. 1, n. 5, Sept/Oct 1996 p.56

CHICAGO ART EXPO Catalog, 1996

BRUCE WOOD, Catalog of Paintings, Fenway Gallery, 1993

HARBOR COUNTRY GUIDE,, (Michigan Tourism), Cover, 1992

BRUCE WOOD, Catalog of Photographs, The Gilbert Gallery, 1980

ART NEWS, vol.79 no.6 Summer 1980 p.207

CHICAGO SUN TIMES, Feb 24, 1980 p.10

ARTFORUM, vol. XVI no.8 April 1978 p.72

TAKE ONE, (Montreal) vol 6 no.4 March 1978 p.39

CINEMA DIFFERENT, (Paris) no.17, Nov.1977 pp.22-24

DER TAGESSPIEGEL, (Berlin) Oct.8, 1977

READINGS, (London) vol.I, no.1 Jan.1977 p.4

MEMBERSHIPS

   Current Memberships:

Cape Cod Art Association

Lyme Art Association

Wellesley Society of Artists

Attleboro Arts Museum

Franklin Art Association

North Shore Arts Association

Canyon Cinema Cooperative

   Previous Memberships:

The Copley Society of Art

Paris Films Cooperative

London Filmmakers Cooperative

AWARDS AND GRANTS:

Cape Cod Art Association, Color My World, April 2012

  Honorable Mention, Oil and Acrylic painting category.

Cape Cod Art Association, Boats, Beaches and Birds, August 2011

  First Prize, Oil and Acrylic painting category.

Wellesley Society of Artists Annual Exhbition, 2011

  WSA Second Place.

Premier Image Gallery, Ashland, MA, 2011

  First Prize for painting Rowers

Cape Cod Art Association, 2011

  Honorable Mention for painting A Sailing Day

Franklin Art Association, Franklin, MA, 2011

  Third Prize for painting Time To Talk

Franklin Art Association, Franklin, MA, 2010

  Second Prize for painting Waiting For Attention.

Wellesley Society of Artists, Wellesley, MA, 2010

  Honorable Mention for painting Heading In.

Lake County Film Festival, 2006

  Best Score award for film The Door.

Illinois Arts Council, 1978

  Project completion grant.

Festival International du Jeune Cinema, France, 1977

  Special Mention.

Illinois Arts Council, 1977

  Project completion grant.

Douglass College Film Festival, Rutgers University, 1975

  First prize.

The Royal Film Archive of Belgium, Brussels, 1975

  Production grant.

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