Christopher T Wood

I am an Artist, Designer, Educator, and Pataphysician working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by way of Philadelphia, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. I thrive on collaborations with chance encounters and forces of nature and my projects propose imaginary solutions to impossible problems. Recently I served eight weeks as the 2023 Artist in Residence at The Dome House in Door County, WI, facilitated by the Miller Art Museum, and as the year-long 2022-23 Artist In Residence at Milwaukee’s prestigious Pfister Hotel. Other notable residencies have been located in Iceland, Ireland, and Maryland.

The work featured here is primarily from the Daydrawing project. Every day I complete a drawing and each of these is a piece of a much larger object called Daydrawing. Since January 1, 2016, I have added one panel per day to the project. This work has no defined size and is in continuous creation; it's scope eludes traditional notions of time and space.

Each daily addition is rendered in powdered graphite and is a keyhole view into a supplementary universe, a hallucinatory daydream that responds in part to observations of the world around me, and in part to narratives already at play within the Daydrawing universe.

I have recently shared my expertise throu...

MFA, Painting

BFA, Visual Communication Design–Illustration

Correspondent, College of 'Pataphysics

2024
Time Loops (solo): Caestecker Gallery, Ripon College, Ripon, WI

newART/iv: newARTSpace, De Pere, WI

30x30x30: VAR Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2023
Dome House Residency Closing Exhibition (solo): The Dome House & Miller Art Museum, Door County, WI

2022
Wisconsin Artists Biennial: Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wi

A Year of Mondays (solo): Laura A. Sprague Gallery, Joliet, IL

2021
Cabin Fever: Wild Ideas from a Regrettable Year: Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI

2020
What On Earth: Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (December)

PSG On Paper: Portrait Society Gallery (online), Milwaukee, WI

2019-20
Day Drawing/Day Dreaming (4-person): Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2019
Sum Total - Faculty Show: INOVA Gallery at Kenilworth Square East, Milwaukee, WI

Invisible Landscapes (4-person exhibition): NoBa Artspace, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Chance Events (4-person exhibition): The Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA

2018
Daydrawing (solo—180 drawings from the project): Gallery 543, URBN at The Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA

Woodmere Annual: 77th Juried Exhibition: Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Let’s Connect: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Art In The Open: Juried biennial citywide public art event, Philadelphia,...