Issy Wood (b. 1993, ) currently lives and works in London, UK. In 2018, she received her MA from Royal Academy of Arts, London. In 2015, she received her BA in Fine Art & History of Art from Goldsmiths College, London. Issy Wood’s universe of images suggests a stream of consciousness hiding something foreboding, a medieval current creeping into the millennial. Merging material and immaterial, object and belief, her work empties the contemporary of clarity and releases spirits presumed to belong to the past with an incisive binge of symbols.

Recent solo, dual and three-person exhibitions: Time Sensitive, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, US (2022); Trilemma, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK (2021); Good Clean Fun, X Museum, Beijing, CN (2020); daughterproof, JTT, New York, US (2020); All The Rage, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK (2019); I came as soon as I heard (with Margaret Whartton), JTT, New York, US (2019); Claude Mirrors (with Victor Mann and Jill Mulleady), Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, DE (2019); Joan, D.E.L.F, Vienna, AT (2018); When You I Feel, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK (2017); Rosetta Stone, Triumph, Moscow, RU (2015).

Recent group exhibitions: outer view, inner world, Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove, UK (2023 forthcoming); Brave New World: 20 Painters for the 21st Century, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, NL (2023); Fire Figure Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami, US (2022); Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), US (2022); Private Passions, Karpidas Collection, Dallas, US (2021); The Stand-Ins: Figurative Painting from the Collection, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (2021); Breathing Through Skin, curated by Alvin Li, Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN (2020); Must Dream About Blue Tonight, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, CN (2020); Artists I Steal From, curated by Alvaro Barrington and Julia Peyton-Jones, Thaddeus Ropac, London, UK (2019); Paint Also Known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL (2019); The Rest, Lisson Gallery, New York, US (2019); Nightfall, curated by Fernanda Brenner, Erika Verzutti, Milovan Farronato, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, BE (2018); Virginia Woolf, An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings, Tate St Ives, UK (2018); Dreamer Awake, White Cube, London, UK (2017) and among others.