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EDUCATION

2005   MFA California Institute of the Arts

2000   BFA The Cooper Union

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019   The Shape of My Head, Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017   Parting and Returning, Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2014   Whether it happened or not, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010   I have only what I remember, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006   Leaning on the margin, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022   Presence, Maki Collection, Tokyo, Japan

2020   Text Show, CMay Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019   Framing Time, Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2016   A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, curated by Lisa Hostetler

2016   Collector’s Favorites / PAC LA, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 

2016   On the Distant Horizon, Blam Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2016   Doppelganger, Torrance Art Museum, CA 

2015   Pushing the Press: The Typecraft Design Library, Architecture & Design Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2013   Jew York, Zach Feuer Gallery & Untitled Gallery, New York, NY

2012   Housebound, Heiner Contemporary, Washington DC  

2011   Photographic Arts Council: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

2011   A Romantic Measure, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010   Fotofest 2010 Biennial, Assembly: Eight Emerging Photographers from Southern California, Houston, TX

2009   Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, CA

2009   1999: 10 Year Anniversary Show, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA

2008   Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY 

2007   Warhol & …, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007   Beyond Image: Photography in Contemporary Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2005   Supersonic 2, L.A. Design Center, Los Angeles, CA

2005   Shipping and Receiving, Armory Northwest/965, Pasadena, CA 

2004   The Wight Biennial: Dark Side of the Sun, Kinross Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Water~Stone Review, A Literary Annual, Hamline University & Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Volume 25, 2022-2023 (photography folio)

Olivia de Witt, “Denk Gallery: Augusta Wood,” Artillery Magazine, May 2019

Geoff Dyer, “Nothing But: The Untruths of Memory,” Harper’s Magazine, May 2018, (Photographs)

Devin Hendricks, “Augusta Wood: If These Walls Could Talk They Might Not Feel So Alone,” Flaunt Magazine, Issue 158, Spring 2018

Holly Stuart Hughes, “Re-examining the Photo Memento,” Photo District News (PDN), December 2016 

Bruce Barnes, Lisa Hostetler, A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, Exhibition Catalogue, The George Eastman Museum, November 2016

Christopher Michno, “Augusta Wood at Angles Gallery, Los Angeles,” Artillery Magazine, July  2014

Leah Ollman, “Pictures by Augusta Wood cross time zones,” Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2014

Water~Stone Review, A Literary Annual, Hamline University & Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Volume 14, 2011, p. 147 (photography folio)

Scott Indrisek, “Introducing: Augusta Wood,” Modern Painters, February 2011 

Jody Zellen, “Augusta Wood at Angles Gallery,” Artillery Magazine, January/February 2011

Carrie Yury, “Under Construction: Photography and the Word,” The Huffington Post, December 9, 2010

Michael Shaw, “Editorial Recommendation: Augusta Wood at Angles Gallery,” ArtScene, Vol. 30, No. 4, December 2010, p. 19-20

Kurt Mueller, “Assembly: Eight Emerging Photographers from Southern California,” Art Lies: A Contemporary Art Quarterly, Issue 65, Spring 2010

Charlotte Cotton, Contemporary U.S. Photography: Fotofest 2010 Biennial Catalogue

Ramsey Dau, “Q & A with Augusta Wood,” Anthem Magazine, September 18, 2009

Sean Ripple, “Review: I Am Not So Different, Art Palace,” Fluent-Collaborative / …might be good, Issue 125, July 10, 2009 

Leah Ollman, “All is not as it seems,” Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2007, p. E8

Katherine Satorius, “Augusta Wood at Cherry and Martin,” Artweek, Vol. 37, Issue 7, September 2006, pp. 18-19

Black Clock, Issue 4, Fall 2005/Winter 2006 (Cover Photograph) 

PUBLICATIONS

2014   Augusta Wood, I have only what I remember, Magic Bird Press. Texts: Rebecca Morse, W. S. Merwin, Jeremy Wood

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

The George Eastman Museum

Creative Artist Agency

The California Endowment

GRANTS & AWARDS

2014   Nominee for the 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award

2013   Finalist for the 2013 APA Lucie Foundation Scholarship

2005   The Ahmanson Foundation Project Grant

2005   Dean’s Reserve Grant, CalArts

2001   Art Direction Craft Award, NYU First Run Film Festival, New York

2000   The Betty Goldin Memorial Fund Book Prize for Excellence in Art

2000   The Benjamin Menschel Postgraduate Fellowship

1999   The Benjamin Menschel Fellowship

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