We are delighted to announce that Qualeasha Wood’s Error 404 (2022) has been acquired by The Studio Museum in Harlem!
Wood made the work during her time as Studio Museum Artist in Residence and it was part of the exhibition ‘It’s time for me to go: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2021–22’, MoMA PS1, 17 November 2022 – 27 February 2023. It’s time for me to go: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2021–22 was organized by Yelena Keller, Assistant Curator, at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Jody Graf, Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1. Exhibition research was provided by Simon Ghebreyesus, The Studio Museum in Harlem and MoMA Curatorial Fellow.
Qualeasha Wood (b.1996, Long Branch, NJ) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 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. She was highlighted in the 2022 Artsy Vanguard as one of the most promising artists working today, and in May 2021 her work was featured on the front cover of Art in America. In 2023 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, presented tl;dr, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Other recent exhibitions include Manic Pixie Magical Negro, Kendra Jayne Patrick, NY (2023); The New Bend, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, NY and LA (2022-3); It’s Time For Me To Go, MoMA PS1, NY (2022); for those of us who live at the shoreline, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada (2022); Alter Egos | Projected Selves, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2022); Dancing in Dark Times, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2021); Black Femme: Sovereign of WAP and the Virtual Realm, CANADA, NY (2021); and Nobody’s Home, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA (2021). Her work has recently been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Rennie Collection, Vancouver; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
