Notable Achievements

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Ariel Wood exhibited their work in a group show in Dallas. The show, titled “Sculpture School: Concrete,” was the culmination of a summer residency based on the theme of concrete. Their work will be on view at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park until November 16. View documentation images of the exhibition and accompanying catalog at sweetpasssculpturepark.com.

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Ariel Wood

Visiting Assistant Professor

Expertise

Sculpture, Ceramics, Printmaking

Ariel Wood is a Texas-based artist by way of California and Wisconsin. They received a BFA in printmaking and drawing from The University of Wisconsin, Madison 2016, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Santa Reparata International School Of Art, in Florence 2016, and their MFA in Sculpture from The University of Texas at Austin 2022, where they were the recipient of the Lomis Slaughter, Jr. Endowment Scholarship In Sculpture and the Continuing College Fellowship. In 2023, Wood was a finalist for the Alice C. Cole Fellowship and was voted Concept Animals’ Community Favorite Sculptor Artist in Austin. Wood was a resident artist at Watershed Ceramics’ Summer Residency (2022) and Sweet Pass Sculpture School (2024). Ariel Wood is a sculpture artist interested in the way plumbing and drainage can elicit notions of interconnectedness, liminality, and queerness. Wood picks and parses out those aspects of the larger system that appear strange, silly, or sentimental. They have exhibited their work nationally and internationally in Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, New York, and Florence, Italy.

  • Biography

    Ariel Wood is a Texas-based artist by way of California and Wisconsin. They received a BFA in printmaking and drawing from The University of Wisconsin, Madison 2016, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Santa Reparata International School Of Art, in Florence 2016, and their MFA in Sculpture from The University of Texas at Austin 2022, where they were the recipient of the Lomis Slaughter, Jr. Endowment Scholarship In Sculpture and the Continuing College Fellowship. In 2023, Wood was a finalist for the Alice C. Cole Fellowship and was voted Concept Animals’ Community Favorite Sculptor Artist in Austin. Wood was a resident artist at Watershed Ceramics’ Summer Residency (2022) and Sweet Pass Sculpture School (2024). Ariel Wood is a sculpture artist interested in the way plumbing and drainage can elicit notions of interconnectedness, liminality, and queerness. Wood picks and parses out those aspects of the larger system that appear strange, silly, or sentimental. They have exhibited their work nationally and internationally in Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, New York, and Florence, Italy.

  • Publications

    “Suspicion is a Material in Ariel Wood’s Solo Exhibition, ‘raze’” by Emily Lee. September 27, 2023