The Fall 2025 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Kelly Akashi and Richard Hawkins.

Presented by Richard Hawkins unless otherwise noted.

Jonas Wood

This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are not required.

See the full Fall 2025 Seminar schedule here.

Jonas Wood has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at Ryosokuin Temple, Kyoto, Japan (with Shio Kusaka, 2025), the Dallas Museum of Art (2019); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, the Netherlands (with Shio Kusaka, 2017); Lever House, New York (2014); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010). Other solo projects include Still Life with Two Owls, a monumental picture covering the façade of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016–2018); Shelf Still Life, High Line Billboard, High Line Art, New York (2014); and LAXART Billboard and Façade, LAXART, Los Angeles (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Colour, Form & Composition: Milton Avery and his enduring Influence on Contemporary Art, Malta International Contemporary Art Space, Floriana, Malta (2025); Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (2024); Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog), The Broad, Los Angeles (2023–2024); New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas (2020); One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018); and Los Angeles – A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2016) and Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (2017). His work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2019, Phaidon published the first monograph dedicated to Wood’s paintings and drawings. Wood lives and works in Los Angeles.

Image credit:
Jonas Wood
Bball Studio, 2021
Signed, titled, and dated on verso
Oil and acrylic on canvas
110 x 104 inches (279.4 x 264.2 cm)

Courtesy of the artist.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sprüth Magers, BLUM, Hannah Hoffman, Alan Hergott, and David Kordansky.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.