BIO

Lisa Wood is a visual artist and Associate Professor at IshKaabatens Waasa Gaa Inaabateg Department of Visual Art at Brandon University. With an a MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the University of Manitoba, her figurative art practice broadly investigates inclusion, marginalization and interpersonal connections. Wood interrogates traditional portraiture – questioning who is depicted, what materials are used, and where and how the portraits are displayed, reflecting on how portraiture constructs history. Her work celebrates others, rarely venerated by portraiture: those who are decidedly not of the aristocracy and not of great wealth. These have included herself, older women, trans youth, equity seeking artists and seasonal agricultural workers. Wood’s lens as an artist is shaped by her upbringing with her single mother, and reflects her intersectional identities of woman and mother from a settler background living with chronic health conditions in rural Manitoba. She has been the recipient of many awards and scholarships and exhibits her painting and prints nationally and internationally at venues such as: Alchemy Artist Residency (Prince Edward County, 2022 and 2021),The AGSM (Brandon, 2019); Estevan Art Gallery and Museum (Estevan, 2019); Neutral Ground (Regina, 2018), Warte für Kunst (Kassel Germany, 2017), and Julie Saul Gallery, NYC (2012).