about
Vanessa Woods is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist working in photography, collage, and sculpture. Her work uses a range of visual strategies and a hybrid approach to image-making to explore discourse around identity, motherhood, and gender in contemporary art. Since graduating with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including Filter Space in Chicago, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and The Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose. Woods has received numerous awards, including a Center for Photographic Art Artist Support Grant, a Film Arts Foundation Grant, and the San Francisco Art Institute's MFA Fellowship. She has also been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Djerassi, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and in Pont-Aven, France, through the Museum of Pont-Aven. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Harper's, among others. Woods lives in Pacifica, CA, with artist Josh Smith and their three children. Her first monograph, M/Other (working title) will be published by Luhz Press in 2027.
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