THOMAS WOOD

Born 1951 in Eastern Washington, Thomas began college as a student of Chemistry then studied Fine Art at Western Washington University and Fairhaven College. In 1976 he purchased an etching press and since has been a working artist in Bellingham, Washington. In spring 2000 he was a Visiting Instructor at Il Bisonte School of Graphic Arts in Florence, Italy, where in 2006 he returned to lead a workshop with Northwest printmakers. In the summer of 2009 he installed his mural for The Porch in Boulevard Park, Bellingham. Washington.

EDUCATION
1980  B.A., Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
1974  Cornish Institute, Seattle, WA
1970-72  Washington State University, Pullman, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Boulevard Park Studies and New Work from 2009, Lucia Douglas Gallery,
Bellingham, WA
2009 Cypress Island to Harts Pass, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 - Prints and Paintings - Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 - Venezia, Paintings, Prfints, and Glass, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 - New Prints and Paintings, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 - Recent Allegorical Paintings, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 - Northwest Landscapes, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 - Paintings, Monotypes and Prints, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 - Thomas Wood, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 - New Paintings and Prints, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 - Recent Prints and Paintings, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 - Thomas Wood - Prints, B. Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, New Jersey
2002 - Night Paintings and Other Works, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2001 - Paintings and Prints, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 - Etchings, IL Bisonte Gallery, Florence, Italy
1999 - New Work, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 -Thomas Wood: 25 Years of Printmaking, Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA
1998 - 25 Years of Printmaking, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
1998 - New Pastels and Oils, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 - Paintings and Prints, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
1997 - New Prints, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 - Prints and Paintings, B. Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ
1996 - Recent Pastels, Oils and Etchings, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 - New Etchings and Monoprints, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 - Recent Work, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 - Oil Paintings from Holland, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
1994 - New Work, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 - Monotypes and Drawings, Fine Impressions Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 - Etchings, Vermeer Gallery, Nantes, France
1993 - Etchings, B. Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ
1992 - Pastels, Oils, and Prints, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 - Hartness/Schoos Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981 - Prints and Drawings, Chrysalis Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
1978 - Etchings, Viking Union Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Great Outdoors, Paintings and Prints, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, Award, Boston University, Boston, MA
2009 83rd Annual International Print Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2009 John Cole - Estate Paintings and Artists in His Circle, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 25th Anniversary Show, Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Illuminated at Night, Dusk and Dawn, University House, Seattle, WA
2006 - Across the Water, Pacific Northwest Printmakers, Fondazione II Bisonte, Florence, Italy
2006 - Northwest Printmakers in Florence, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
2005 - 58th National Open Print Exhibition, Hutton award - American Color Print Society,
Cheltenham Art Center, PA
2003 - Cornish College Alumni Exhibition, WA State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA
2003 - Hunting and Gathering, Allen Moe & Thomas Wood, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
2003 - Art and All That Jazz Exhibition, Whatcom Museum of History & Art, Bellingham, WA
2001 - From the Collection: New Acquisitions: Works on Paper, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2001 - 75th Annual International Competition: Printmaking, The Print Center, The Jacqueline and
Jay Zemel Purchase Award, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 - Northwest Printmaking, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 - Portraiture, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
1999 - Century of Northwest Printmaking, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
1999 - Artists of the Rural Landscape, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
1997 - Boston Printmakers Member's Show, Boston, MA
1997 - Northwest Print Council Show, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
1997 - Beyond Seattle, Artspace Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 - A Collective Endeavor: Art Fair/Seattle 1992 to 1995, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 - Northwest International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
1995 - Curator - Printmakers' Exhibit, Northwest Departures Gallery, Anacortes, WA
1995 - New Paintings - Joseph Goldberg and Thomas Wood, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham WA
1994 - Stone and Press Galleries, New Orleans, LA
1994 - Languages of Landscape, Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia, WA
1994 - Oil Painting - Thomas Wood, Clayton James, John Cole, Ed Kamuda, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
1993 - Soho Coho Gallery, Ketchikan, Alaska
1992 - Print Invitational, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1991 - Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1990 - Partners in Art, Nakhodka Museum, U.S.S.R.
1990 - Bellingham School, Mercer Island Art Gallery, Mercer Island, WA
1990 - Thomas Wood, Guy Anderson, Jay Marron, Deryl Walls, Gallery Dei Gratia, La Conner, WA
1990 - Ninth Northwest International Art Competition, Wahtcom Museum of History and Art
1990 - Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, OR
1989 - Boston Printmakers Member's Show, Boston, MA
1989 - B. Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park
1988 - Landscapes, Alonso/Sullivan Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 - 40th North American Print Exhibition, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA
1987 - 39th North American Print Exhibition, Danforth Museum of Art, Framington, MA
1987 - Outside Views, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1987 - Landscapes - Thomas Wood, Susan Bennerstrom, John Cole, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
1987 - Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 - Gallery Sixty-Eight, Belfast, MA
1986 - Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1986 - Northwest Printmaker's Show, Fine Impressions Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986 - Two Printmakers, Carolyn Hartness Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 - Jay Street Gallery, New York


SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Ackerley Communications, Inc., Seattle, WA
Bellevue Club Hotel, Bellevue, WA
Bonneville Power Administration, City of Portland, OR
IL Bisonte School of Graphic Arts, Florence, Italy
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA
New York Public Library, New York
Northwest Building Corporation, Seattle, WA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, Bellingham, WA
Service Graphics, Indianapolis, IN
Sara Lee Corporation, Chicago, IL
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA


BIBLIOGRAPHY
100 Artists of the West Coast II, Tina Skinner, Schiffer Publishing, 2009
Il Bisonte sono io -- Due Mostre Per Ricordare Maria Luigia Guaita E 50 Anni Del Bisonte, published by Galleria Il Bisonte, Florence, 2009
Howard Junker, ZYZZYVA, Spring 2007, XXIII, 1, p.130 (illustration)
Bonnie Gangelhoff, “Beauty and Truth,” Southwest Art , March, pp. 100-103
John Witte, “Thomas Wood Ten Prints,” Northwest Review, Volume 40, Number 2, 2002 pp. 67-76
Kitty Harmon, The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History, Sasquatch Books, 2001, p.119
Fiona Cohen, “Artist finds kindred spirits at Italian school”, The Bellingham Herald, May 1, 2000 (illustrated)
Gianni Caverni, “Le inquietanti creature di Wood, il Cerriere de Firenze, April 15, 2000 (illustrated)
Pino Di Blasio, “Il mondo mitologico di Thomas Wood”, La Nazione, April 7, 2000
“Thomas Wood al Bisonte”, Cartellone, April 7, 2000 (illustrated)
Regina Hackett, “Bellingham artist’s exhibits display his diversity”, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
May 22, 1999 (illustrated)
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Thomas Wood 25 Years of Printmaking, catalog, 1998
Lois Allan, Contemporary Printmaking in the Northwest, Sidney: Craftsmen House, 1997
Lois Allan, Artweek, review, April 1997 (illustrated)
Tom McTaggart, “The Power of Light”, Seattle Weekly, March 8, 1995 (illustrated)
Matther Kangas, Seattle Times, review, February 3, 1994
Eileen Watkin, “Printmaker cross-breeds species to poke fun at human race”, New Jersey Star -
Ledger, May 2, 1993 (Illustrated)
Lee Goss, Journal of the Print World, review, Fall, 1991 (illustrated)