Clare Woods (b. 1972, Southampton, United Kingdom) was elected a Royal Academician in 2022. She has presented solo shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, United Kingdom; Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany. In March 2022, Woods mounted a solo exhibition at The Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland. She has had recent institutional solo exhibitions at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom; Mead Gallery, University of Worcester, United Kingdom; Dundee Contemporary Art, United Kingdom; Harewood House, Yorkshire, United Kingdom; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom; and Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom. Group exhibitions include Fernweh Space, Beijing, China; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales; ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom; Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany, and Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY. A monograph on Woods entitled Strange Meetings was published in 2016 by Art / Books, London, and her work has been featured in Artforum, Frontrunner, Studio International, The Art Newspaper, Frieze, The Independent, and FT Magazine. Her work belongs in permanent collections of The Hepworth Wakefield, United Kingdom; National Museum, Cardiff, Wales; and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, among many others. Woods lives and works in Hereford, United Kingdom.
