In his boldly colored, graphic works, Jonas Wood (b. 1977, Boston, MA) synthesizes the rich history of landscape, portrait, and still life painting traditions with the communities and interiors he calls home. Translating the three-dimensional world around him into flat color and line, he confounds expectations of scale and vantage point, crafting scenes that are both instantly recognizable and vaults of affinities and experiences personal to Wood himself. Subjects of his work include plants, portraits, and sports imagery— all of which come together to form lush interiors and intricate still lifes that probe the boundaries between the new and the familiar.

Jonas Wood has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art (2019); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, the Netherlands (with Shio Kusaka, 2017); Lever House, New York (2014); and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010). Other solo projects include Still Life with Two Owls, a monumental picture covering the façade of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016–2018); Shelf Still Life, High Line Billboard, High Line Art, New York (2014); and LAXART Billboard and Façade, LAXART, Los Angeles (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (2024); Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog), The Broad, Los Angeles (2023–2024); New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas (2020); One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018); and Los Angeles: A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2016) and Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (2017). His work is in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2019, Phaidon published the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Wood’s paintings and drawings. Wood lives and works in Los Angeles.