Augusta Wood’s work engages performance, time, language and place, exploring ways of mapping the relationship between spatial and linguistic experience, memory and photographic space.
She received her MFA in Photography and Media from California Institute of the Arts and her BFA from Cooper Union in New York. Recent exhibitions of her work include
A about bauhaus...harm neu tues at Cardwell Jimmerson Gallery (Los Angeles), Baker's Dozen at the Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), 1999: 10 Year Anniversary Show at China Art Objects Galleries & Cottage Home (Los Angeles), and Friends and Family at Anton Kern Gallery (New York). Her work has been reviewed in Artweek and the Los Angeles Times,
and has appeared on the cover of Black Clock.
Wood was most recently featured in the Fotofest 2010 Biennial (Houston, TX), curated by Edward Robinson from the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Sarah Bay Williams, Ralph M. Parsons Fellow. The Biennial was reviewed in Art Lies: Contemporary Art Quarterly.
She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
