John Wood (b. 1969, Hong Kong) and
Paul Harrison (b. 1966, Wolverhampton) make single-channel videos, multi-screen video installations, paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures that elegantly fuse advanced aesthetic research with existential comedy. They met in 1989 at the Bath College of Higher Education and have worked together since 1993. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Kunstmuseum Thun, Mori Art Museum, the Ludwig Museum, the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, the Kunstmuseum Luzern, the Marc Fassiaty Video Foundation, the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, the Ulster Museum, and the Carnegie Museum, among others. Numerous institutions hold their work in their collections, including The Tate, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the UK Arts Council Collection, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the UK Government Art Collection, the Kadist Foundation in Paris, the Mudam Museum of Modern Art, the Tel Aviv Museum, the Ludwig Collection, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Languedoc-Roussillon, and the Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, among others. The artists’ studio is located in Bristol, UK.