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Tom WOOD
Liverpool
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Exhibitions
2019
Family Likeness
galerie SIT DOWN
11.06.2019 – 12.21.2019
Mothers, Daughters, Sisters.
Les Rencontres d’Arles
07.01.2019 – 08.25.2019
Solo show
Photo London
15.05.2019 – 19.05.2019
2017
Solo show
PARIS PHOTO Fair
03.11.2017 – 12.11.2017
2015
Cynefin, les paysages gallois
SIT DOWN gallery
10.11.2015 – 20.12.2015
2011
1978 – 2003 : Les années Liverpool
SIT DOWN gallery
05.11.2011 – 21.01.2012
Biography
1951 Born in the west of Ireland
1973 -1976 Studies at Leicester Polytechnic B.A. (Hons) Fine Art (Painting)
1978 -2003 Lives ans works in Liverpool/Merseyside
2003 Settled in north Wales
Books
2017 Forthcoming
“The DPA Work” (Rainhill Hospital, Cammell Laird Shipyard)
Steidl Verlag, Gottingen (2 vols)
“The Pierhead”GwinZegal, Guingamp. France
“Shopping Market”Stanley/Barker, London
2015 “Looking for Looking for Love” Sorkika, London (Special Edition)
2013 “Men and Women”Steidl Verlag, Gottingen (2 vols)
2011 “F/M”Editions 205, Villeurbanne, France
2005 “Photie Man” Steidl Verlag, Gottingen
2004 “Not Only Female…”(Exhibit Cat.) Schaden, Cologne, Germany
2001 “Bus Odyssey” Hajte Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany
2000 “Tom Wood” (Exhibit Cat.) Galerie im Buergerhaus Neunkirchen/Saar
1999 “People”Wienand Verlag, Cologne, Germany
1998 “All Zones off Peak” Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, UK
1989 “Looking for Love” Cornerhouse, Manchester & Aperture, New York
Personal exhibitions
2017 “Tom Wood Liverpool” House of Photography, Moscow
2016 The Pierhead – L’Embarcadere, 1978-2002, Centre Photographique at Le Pôle
Image Haute-Normandie
2015 ‘Cynefin, Welsh landscapes‘,galerie SIT DOWN, Paris, France
‘Intimate landscapes’, Centre culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2014 “Tom Wood – Landscapes“ Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Ffotogallery Cardiff
“Women“ Fondation d’enterprise Hermes, Bern, Switzerland
2013 ‘Tom Wood. Britain 1973 – 2012’, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
‘Tom Wood: Photographs 1973-2013’ National Media Museum, Bradford
‘Men and Women’Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2012 ‘Men and Women’The Photographers’ Gallery. London
Galerie Albrecht, Berlin
‘F/M’Le Bleu du ciel, Lyon, France
Le Centre d’ Art, GwinZegal, Guingamp, France
2011 “1978-2003, The Liverpool years “ galerie SIT DOWN, Paris, France
“F/M“ galerie Le bleu du ciel Lyon
2010 “Facts of Life. Photography in Britain 1974-1997” National Museum, Krakow, Poland
2009 Museum 52, London
2006 “HyperDesign”Shanghai Biennale, China
‘Chelsea Reach’The Approach, London
2005 The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘Photieman’Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Foam Museum, Amsterdam
2004 ‘Ruestrassen’Le Centre Cultural Suisse, Paris, (in assoc. Paris Photo)
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
Centre de la Photographie, Geneva
2003 C/O, Berlin, Germany
2002 Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
Stadtische Galerie, Wolfsburg
Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven
2001 ‘Bus Odyssey’Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
2000 ‘People’Galerie im Buergerhaus, Neunkirchen/Saar, Kunstverein, Ulm, Germany
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
1998 ‘All Zones Off Peak’Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Galerie F.M. Schwartz/Photokina, Cologne
1996 International Centre of Photography, New York
1989 ‘Looking for Love’The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Joint exhibitions
2014 Été photographique de Lectoure, France (with Matthais Bruggmann)
2012 Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany (with Martin Parr+Antanas Sutkus)
Image Singulieres,Sete, France
2009 Tom Wood and Padraig Timoney, Museum 52, London
2004 Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland (with Larry Sultan)
2003 “Gary Winogrand and Tom Wood” Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
1996 “Inside Out”Galerie du Jour Agnes b., Paris (with Richard Billingham and
Paul Seawright)
Group exhibitions
2016 “Transiciones”PhotoEspaña festival, Madrid
“At Spectrum”– Brighton Photo Biennial, UK
“British subjects“Centre d’art Gwinzegal, France
2015 “Work, Rest, Play: British Photography from 1960s to Today”Shenzen and
Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, China
“Eyes Wide Open”Fotografie Forum Frankfurf. Also Berlin, Vienna and Munich.
2014 “Augen Auf!”Deichtorhallen Internationale Kunst und Photographie, Hamburg.
“Punctum:Reflections on Photography”Salzburger Kunstverein, Germany
“Resonance 2011”La Biennale de Lyon, France
“Nothing in the Place” Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow
& Brighton Biennial, Photo Fringe
2009 “Manners”Focke Museum, Bremen, Germany
“Light Writing”Literaturhaus Cologne, Germany
“Planete Parr”Jeu de Paume, Paris
2008 “Baby”Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam,
2007 “How We Are: Photographing Britain”, Tate Britain, London
“Shrinking Cities” Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA
“Centre of the Creative Universe, Liverpool and the Avant-Garde”, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
“On View”Photo London, Old Billingsgate, London
Frieze Art Fair London, (Approach Gallery)
2006 “Closed Eyes”Museum for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
“People and Places” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“La Boum II” Sies+ Hoke Galerie, Dusseldof
2005 “24 x 36”Leica Gallery, New York
2004 “Wirklich Wahr! Realitatsvesprechen von Fotographien” Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen
“Schrumpfende Stadte” Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Sammlung Kunne”Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
“Relating To Photography”FFI – Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt
“Street Life”Rotunda Galerie, Cologne, Germany
“We go round and round…”, COMME CA Gallery, New York
“Sad Beautiful Life” C/O Berlin, Germany
“L’amour Toujours” galerieXprssns, Hamburg, Germany
2002 “Becks Futures”, ICA, London
“Zipp” Kassler Kunstverein, Kassel
2001 “The Sidewalk Never Ends”Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2000 “Les Photographies Collectionnees par agnes b” Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
1999 “Internationale Fototage” Herten, Germany
1996 “Blindspot”Paolo Baldicci Gallery, New York
1995 “20 Modern British Photographs” Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1994 “Street Photography” Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Selected public collections
Museum of Modern Art New York
International Centre of Photography New York
Art Institute of Chicago
Victoria & Albert Museum London
National Museum Of Photography, Copenhagen
British Council London
Stadt. Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
National Media Museum, Bradford
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Awards
2007 “Major Production Award” TheArts Council of Wales
2002 “Prix Dialogue de l’Humanite” (Outreach Award), Recontres d’Arles, France
2000 “Year of the Artist”, Arts Council of England
1999 Terrance Donovan Award, Royal Photographic Society
1996 Artist Honorarium, International Centre of Photography, New York
1995 Photography Publishing Grant, Arts Council of England
Short-listed
2002 Awards for Artists Paul Hamlyn Foundation
2001 Becks Futures Award, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1996 The Arts Foundation Fellowship
TV / radio
2014 “What Do Artists Do All Day?”BBC4 UK (30 mins)
“l’Été photographique de Lectoure” Arte TV France 01/08/14 (3mins)
2013 “The Works” RTE Ireland (9 mins)
2007 Tom Wood Deutschlandfunk– DLR National Radio, (50 mins)
2004 “Tom Wood Photieman”– Deutschland Radio Berlin, Interview with Jochen Stöckmann, 7/7/04 URL: http://www.dradio.de/dlr/sendungen/fazit/283249/
2002 “The Talk Show”– TV BBC4, 7/5/02 (Becks Futures profile)
2000 “Ticket to ride”– GranadaTV (38 mins)
1990 “Tom Wood photographer”,The Great North Show – GranadaTV (8mins) 10/8/90
Books & articles
2017 Westerbeck, Colin & Meyerowitz, Joel, eds. Bystander: A History of StreetPhotography Laurence King Publishing, London
2016 Transiciones, Ten Years The Transformed Europe, La Fabrica, Madrid
Franklin, Stuart, The Documentary Impulse Phiadon, London
2015 Durden, Mark, Photography Today: A History of ContemporaryPhotography, Phaidon Publishing, London, pp170-172
Koetzler, Michael, AUGEN AUF! 100 years of Leica Kehrer Verlag, Germany
2014 Punctum, Reflections on Photography, Long Declan, Salzburger Kunstvereinpp86,152-53
2013 Sviblove, Olga Fashion and Style in Photography, Eight Moscow International Biennale pp64-71
Durden Mark, Under the Influence UK and France, pp224-231
2011 Koetzle, Hans Michael, Taschen, Koln Photographers A-Z
2009 Moos, Norbert (collection) Licht Schreiben Literaturhaus, Cologne, Germany pp83-92
2008 van Erp, Hedy & Sikking, Iris Baby (Cat.) Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam
2007 Toennies, Merle Constructing an Emblematic Northern Space underThatcherism in: Ehland, Christoph (ed) Thinking Northern: Textures of Identityin the North of England Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York pp305-324
Williams, Val & Bright, Susan, eds. How We Are – Photographing Britain (Exhibit Cat.) Tate Publishing, London, p155
Grunenberg, Christoph and Knifton, Robert, eds. Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, (Exhib. Cat.) Liverpool University Press in assoc. with Tate Liverpool pp2-3, 54, 55, 76, 77
2006 Parr, Martin & Badger, Gerry, eds. The Photo Book: A History vol.2 Phiadon, London, p308
Oswald, Philipp, ed. Shrinking Cities Exhib. Cat. Hatje Cantz, pp140-143,158-161
2005 Moran, Joe Reading the Everyday Routledge London, pp26-28
2002 Kotzle, Michael Lexikon der Fotografen, 1900 – heute Knauer Verlag.
Schwabsky, Barry Becks Futures 2002, cat. ICA London, pp6-7, 66-71
Balkenhol, Bernhard, ed. Zipp, Kasseler Kunstverein cat. Nr. 8/2002 & 9/02
Press
Articles (selection)
2019 « Mères, filles, sœurs » L’hommage de Tom Wood aux femmes Fisheye, juillet 2019
Photographie : douceurs arlésienne Grazia, Juillet 2019
Rencontres d’Arles : les immanquables de l’édition 2019 Le Point, Juillet 2019
Photographie : nos 12 expositions préférées aux Rencontres d’Arles Le Monde, Juillet 2019
Les coups de cœur de Polka aux Rencontres d’Arles Polka, Juillet 2019
The big picture: Liverpool’s mothers go to market The Guardian, Juin 2019
2018 Femme des années 80 Grazia, Novembre 2018
2014 BBC News – Photographer Tom Wood’s landscapes
“What do Artits do all day” BBC Four, Fevrier 2014 (vidéo)
Everett, Lucinda, The Telegraph Culture 5 Sept
2013 Tom Wood– Britain. 1973–2012 MAMM
2012 O’Hagen, Sean “Tom Wood’s Men and women in pictures” The Guardian, London
Coomes, Phil “Tom Wood’s men and women” BBC Newsin pictures 10 Oct
Ollier, Brigitte “Tom Wood, bus repetita” Liberation, Paris 29/06/2012
Poiret, Dominique “L’odyssée de Tom Wood” Libération, Paris, 30/06/2012
2009 Wais, Alain “Working Class Hero” French, Iss.15
2003 Hickling, Alfred “Photieman ”, The Guardian, London 26/6/03
Fletcher, Jane “Tom Wood : Making Sense ”, Source, Iss.36, Belfast
2002 Smith, Roberta “Looking for Love ”, The New York Times 13/12/02
2000 Drost, Ralf “Ouverture “: Flash Art, Milan, Italy XXXIII, May-June, p109