Qualeasha Wood (b. 1996, Long Branch, NJ) lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BA in 2019 from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and her MA in 2021 from Cranbrook Academy of Fine Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. In 2023 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, presented tl;dr, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In 2024 she presented her first solo institutional exhibition, code_anima, at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC. She is currently included in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY; Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, The Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, IN; The Lady and the Unicorn: New Tapestry, Salon 94, New York, NY; and Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, travelled from Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY to The High Museum, Atlanta, GA. Other recent exhibitions include Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2024);Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA(2024); Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York, NY (2023); Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA (2022-3); MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2022); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2022); and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (2021). In 2021-2022 Wood was artist in residence at the The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. Her collections include Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada; The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; The Dean Collection, New York, NY; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.