JANA WOOD
AWARDS
2019 and 2022, Selected Finalist National Contemporary Art Awards, Waikato Museum, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton
2021 Selected Finalist Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, Painting and Drawing, Whakatane
2018 Selected Finalist, Estuary Art Awards, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick
2016 Winner Zinnie Douglas Award, Walker & Hall Art Awards, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island
2012 Selected Finalist Estuary Art Awards, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick and selected for travelling roadshow
PROJECTS AND DEVELOPMENT
2021-present Founder and Organiser of The Port Waikato Art Trail
2020-21 Teacher, Orakei Primary School After School Art program
2019-2021 Te Tuhi Resident Artist, Parnell Train Station Studios
2017-2018 Post Graduate Diploma Fine Arts, ELAM Auckland University
2013-2015 Bachelor of Visual Arts, AUT University
2011 Mauri Ora Foundation Certificate in Maori Culture, Te Wananga
2009-2010, two years of Painting with Matthew Browne, Artstation
2008 Foundation Course in Art and Art History, Artstation, with Matthew Browne & John Nicol
2000 Spatial & Environmental Design, Whitecliffe School of Art and Design (completed three Level 1 papers)
SELECTED SHOWS (solo and group)
2025 Onepũ Shifting sands, shifting time, Mother-mother archive Iteration 30 at The NZ Steel Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre, Pukekohe
2023 All-at-Once-ness, Solo, Corbans Art Estate (Homestead Gallery 1), Tamaki Makaurau
2023 Sub-Urbia, Northart Gallery, Northcote Tamaki Makaurau, Mothermother Archive Iteration 22
2023 The Table, Mothermother Archive Iteration 20, Aotearoa Artfair, The Cloud, Tamaki Makaurau
2023 “Gestures, the Land Speaks”, Solo show, Wallace Gallery Morrinsville
2023 “Shore”, Franklin Arts Centre
2022 Iteration 15, Mother Mother Archive Lockdown Special, Lot 23, Auckland
2022 Lurky Spaces, “Arcadia”, Auckland Arts Festival, Queens Arcade, Auckland
2022 National Contemporary Art Awards (Finalist), Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Waikato Museum, Hamilton
2021 A’Float, Arthaus Contemporary, Orakei, Auckland
2021 Wallace Arts Trust Recent Acquisitions Show, The Pah Homestead, Hillsborough, Auckland
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, Painting and Drawing, Te Kōputu a te Whanga a Toi, Whakatāne Library and Gallery
2020 Te Tuhi Parnell Project Space, Open Studio Exhibition, Auckland Artweek
2020 Three Painters, McLeavey Gallery, Wellington,
2020 Living Room, Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Parnell, Auckland
2019 Te Tuhi Parnell Project Space, Open Studio Exhibition, Auckland Artweek
2019 National Contemporary Art Awards (Finalist), Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Waikato Museum , Hamilton
2019 Networks and Grids, Art Bureau Gallery, Mt Eden Road, Tamaki Makaurau
2018 Meandering in Places, Spaces and Grids – Elam School of Fine Arts, PostGraduate Show, Auckland University
2018 Elam Post-Graduate Professional’s Evening Exhibition, Elam 2 Bldg, Auckland University
2018 InlookOut, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
2018 Critical Groupings, Lot 23, Auckland
2018 Estuary Art Awards (Finalist) Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick, Auckland
2016 Walker & Hall Art Awards, Winner of The Zinnie Douglas Award – Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island
2015 Multiplicity, AD15 Auckland University of Technology Graduate Exhibition
2015 Desperately Real, St Paul Street Gallery 3, AUT University, Auckland
2013 Square Art, Transit Collective, Newmarket Square, Auckland
2012 Square Art ,Transit Collective, Newmarket Square, Newmarket
2012 The Imaginary Museum-Korero, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland
2012 Viewpoint, Depot Artspace, Devonport, Auckland
2012 Estuary Art Awards (Finalist), Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick, Auckland
2011 “The Architecture of Happiness” – How Diversity Works exhibition, Studio One Toi Tū, Ponsonby, Auckland http://www.diversityworks.org.nz/how-diversity-works/
2009/2010 “Painters Progress & Painters Studio” Artstation
2008 Foundation Course End of Year Exhibition, Artstation
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Arts Trust, Pah Homestead, Auckland New Zealand
MEDIA
2025 Art New Zealand Number 195 Spring, Page 44-45, Review by Dina Jezdić @ms.interpreted, of Onepũ Shifting sands shifting time
2025 “A moment in (deep) time” Essay by Nina Dyer @newsubjectivity https://www.mothermother.co.nz/iterations/onepu
2023 “Painting at the edge of the world” Essay by Nina Dyer @newsubjectivity, to accompany “All-at-Onceness” solo show at Corbans Art Estate, see essay https://ceac.org.nz/exhibitions/all-at-once-ness Essay_Painting at the edge of the world_Nina Dyer
2023 Canvas Magazine, The New Zealand Herald
Scoop News 20 March 2012; The Architecture of Happiness Part II: An exhibition by Jana Wood The Depot Artspace, 28 Clarence Street, Devonport 24th March – 11th April 2012-03-18
Aug 2011 The Aucklander http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/news/bricks-and-mortified., review by Rebecca Haszard, NZ Herald, of “The Architecture of Happiness Part I” at Toi Tū Studio One Gallery, Ponsonby, Tamaki Makaurau
Sep 2011 Te Waha Nui, Student Newspaper Auckland University of Technology, Review of “The Architecture of Happiness”
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