KEN WOOD
BIO
Ken Wood is an artist and educator practicing in St Louis, MO. In his printmaking he uses hand-made tools to create gestures which, when overlapped and entangled on the page, explore the foundational elements of art: line, space, and the complex interplay of color. He has exhibited his prints in solo shows at Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, the Schmidt Art Center in Belleville, IL, the Larson gallery in Columbia, MO, and at The Print Center in Philadelphia; and in group shows at the International Print Center New York, the Awa Handmade Paper Museum in Japan, the Douro Museum in Portugal, the Leedy-Voulkos in Kansas City, the Turner Museum in Chico, CA, the Art on Paper show in NY, and the INK Show at Art Basel Miami. His work has been published in Art in Print, Graphic Impressions, and Uppercase magazine, and his prints are in the collections of the NYU-Langone Art Program, Twitter, the Cluj-Napoca Museum in Romania, Eastern Standard in Philadelphia, the Zuckerman Museum in Georgia, the Guttmacher Institute in Washington, DC, Rice University, Sun City Tower in Kobe, Japan, and the cruise line The Norwegian. He is represented by Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, MO.
