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EDUCATION
MFA with distinction, Painting and Drawing, University of New Mexico (2010)
BA, Fine Arts, Austin College (2005)

GRANTS/HONORS/AWARDS
Grant, Fulcrum Fund / 516 ARTS (2020)
Grant, Puffin Foundation (2019)
Grant, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation (2019-2020)
Grant, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (2017)
Post-MFA Research Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, via Land Arts of the American West Program / Mobile Research Initiative (2015)
Research Fellowship, Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art (2012-2014)
Cathie P. Scott Memorial Award for Detail, Masterworks of New Mexico (2013)
First Place, Acrylic Miniatures Category, Masterworks of New Mexico (2013)
Third Prize, Contemporary Art Society of New Mexico (2012)
Marion & Kathryn Crissey Award, Harwood Emerging Artist Fund (2012)
Third Place, Gateway to Imagination juried exhibition, Farmington Museum (2012)
SPREAD 3.0 Finalist (with co-applicant Christy Georg), SITE Santa Fe (2012)
Honorable Mention, International Competition of Antiqued Instruments (2010)
Ghost Ranch Janterm Volunteer Assistantship (2010)
Convergence Student Assistantship Grant, Handweavers Guild of America (2010)
Wortham W. Akin Memorial Scholarship (2009)
Research Assistantship, Lannan Foundation (2009)
Hilmer G. Olson Memorial Scholarship (2008)
UNM Teaching/Graduate Assistantships (2007-2008)
Juror’s Award, Dead Guy in the Bluebonnets (2007)
Juror’s Award, Ardmore Art Guild’s Annual Exhibit (2006)
Best in Show, Mountainside Miniatures (2006)
Juror’s Award, Sherman Arts League Juried Show (2006)
Juror’s Award, Goddard Center’s 37th Annual Ardmore Art Exhibit (2006)
1st place for body of work, Great Plains Juried Art Show (2006)
1st place for body of work, Cross Timbers Small Works Exhibit (2006)
Able Library Purchase Award, Austin College Juried Senior Invitational (2005)
Juror’s Award, Texoma Collegiate Art Show (2005)

RESIDENCIES/PROGRAMS
Playa Residency (2025)
Placitas Artist Residency (2022-2023)
Montello Foundation Artist-In-Residence Program (2020)
Roswell Artist Residency (2019-2020)
Lynden Sculpture Garden Residency, Milwaukee, WI (2018)
Gushul Studio Residency, Blairmore, Alberta, Canada (2018, 2016)
Kluane Lake Research Station AIR, Arctic Institute of N. America, YK, Canada (2017)
Sagehen Experimental Forest and Biological Field Station AIR, Truckee, CA (2017-2018)
Miracosta College AIR (2017)
Playa Residency, Summer Lake, OR (2016)
Teton Artlab Residency, Jackson, WY (2015)
Ucross Foundation Residency, Ucross, WY (2013)
Sun Valley Center for the Arts Resident Artist, Ketchum, ID (2013)
The Arctic Circle Expeditionary Residency, Svalbard, Norway (2012)
The Eden Project, Australian National University Field Studies Program, NSW/SA, Australia (2011)
Tamarind Institute Collaborative Lithography Program, Albuquerque, NM (2009)
Land Arts of the American West Field Study Expedition, TX/NM/UT/NV (2009)
New Mexico Musical Heritage Project, UNM, Albuquerque, NM (2009-2011)

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Perplexities: Cedra Wood + Nina Elder, Pie Projects, Santa Fe, NM (2023)
A Soft Eye, a Mirror-Eye, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM (2020)
The Water Waxes Deeper Still, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM (2019-2020)
Long of Limb, Short of Stem; Symphony in the Flint Hills Gallery, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas (2018)
In Their Wake; Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA (2017)
In the Offing; Central Features, Albuquerque, NM (2017)
A Residency on Earth; CA+E Archive Gallery, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (2016)
Unstable Ground; Doane College, Crete, NB (2016)
Among the Final Thunders of These Ices; Small Engine Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (2013)
Alcove 12.8; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM (2013)
Fathom Out: Arctic Works by Beau Carey and Cedra Wood; Laura Mesaros Gallery, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (2013)
That Sound Under the Floor is the Sea; Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM (2013)
Wish You Were Here; Forster Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, TX (2011)
Lights All Askew In the Heavens; Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque NM (2010)
Farewell Sherman; Ghost Town Gallery and Performance Space, Sherman, TX (2007)
Untitled, Goddard Center, Ardmore, OK (2007)
Cedra Wood; SOSU Visual and Performing Arts Center, Durant, OK (2007)
Share Tactics; Craig Hall Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, TX (2005)

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Contemporary Miniatures, Pie Projects Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (2024)
Yuma Art Symposium, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ (2024)
A Slice of Pie, Pie Projects Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (2023-2024)
The New Geologic Epoch, Ecoartspace, online + Santa Fe, NM (2023)
Foraging, Manhattan Arts Center, Manhattan, KS (2022)
Forest <—> Fire, numerous exhibition venues in coastal California (2021-2023)
Reclamation: Recovering our Relationship with Place, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (2021)
This Earth, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT (2021)
Sagehen: A Sierra Proving Ground, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC (2020)
A Line in the Sand, Roswell Museum and Art Center (2019)
Mirage: Water, Energy,and Creativity in the Great Basin, Boise Art Museum, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID (2019-2020)
Inaugural Exhibition: Art in New Mexico, Ylise Kessler Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (2019)
Deep Time Lab / Solastalgic Archive; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM (2019)
Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, Future); CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO (2019)
The Collector’s Eye; Offroad Productions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (2018)
Home; Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM (2017)
Sh*tshow: Best and Worst of the Ghost Town Arts Collective; Sherman, TX (2017)
TONDO; Exhibit/208, Albuquerque, NM (2017)
Ucross: A Portrait in Place; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM / Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT / Ucross Gallery, Ucross, WY (2016)
Knew Normal; 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM (2015)
Imaginarium; Belconnen Arts Centre, Belconnen, ACT, Australia (2015)
s(and): An Introduction; Exhibit/208, Albuquerque, NM (2015)
Field Studies from South East Australia: Selected works 2010-14; Adolfo Winternitz Gallery, School of Art, PUCP, Lima, Perú (2015)
Interchange; Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM (2015)
Axle Indoors; Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM (2015)
Reverberant Matter; Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fe, NM (2015)
You Are the Doorway; Albuquerque Rail Yards (2014)
Magnetic North: Artists and the Arctic Circle; UBS Building, Manhattan, NY (2014)
Wish You Were Here; Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID (2014)
Renga; Axle Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (2014)
Watershed; Open Space Visitor Center, Albuquerque, NM (2014)
Boundless Horizons; CSU, Fort Collins, CO (2014)
Common Threads: Austin College Alumni Exhibit; Dennis Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, TX (2013)
Relative Proximity; Ida Green Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, TX (2013)
Masterworks of New Mexico; Expo NM Hispanic Arts Building, Albuquerque, NM (2013)
Collective Bargaining; Visual Arts Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (2013)
12 by 12; Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM (2013)
Far-Flung: Greenwald, Steiger, and Wood; 5G Gallery, Factory on 5th Art Space, Albuquerque, NM (2012)
Contemporary Art Society of New Mexico Prize Show; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM (Jurors: Dave Hickey, Libby Lumpkin, and Luanne McKinnon) (2012)
The Fourth Wall; Australian National University School of Art Foyer Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia (2012)
SITE Unseen 7; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (2012)
New Mexico Showcase; 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM (2012)
Gateway to Imagination; Farmington Museum, Farmington, NM (2012)
Everything Old is New Again; Ida Green Gallery, Sherman, TX (2012)
You Will Know When You Are There; Mokah Art Gallery, LIFE in Deep Ellum Cultural Center, Dallas, TX (2011)
Mallee; Main Gallery, Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, ACT, AU (2011)
Far Enough! Aesthetic Responses to the Far South Coast NSW; Bega Valley Regional Gallery, Bega, NSW, AU (2011)
Expression of Intent, ANU SoA Foyer Gallery, Canberra, ACT, AU (2011)
Selections from the Archive; CA+E Gallery, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (2011)
Shared Visions; Corrales Bosque Gallery, Corrales, NM (2011)
Down Every Side Street: New Directions in Southwestern Art; Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM (2010)
International Competition of Antiqued Instruments, Cremona, Italy (2010)
Harvest; Ghost Town Gallery and Performance Space, Sherman, TX (2010)
Friends and Lovers; John Sommers Gallery, UNM, Albuquerque, NM (2010)
Eleven: A Lucky Number; Ghost Town Gallery, Sherman, TX (2010)
Land Arts: 2009 Expedition; John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (2009)
Bitter Sweet: The 15th Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition; Jonson Gallery, UNM, Albuquerque, NM (2009)
Postcards from (No)Where: New Work from the Ghost Town; 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX (2009)
Splash: The 14th Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition; UNM Art Museum (2008)
Judicial Notice III; Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courthouse, Albuquerque, NM (2008)
Dead Guy in the Bluebonnets; Ghost Town Gallery, Denison, TX (2007)
First Sight; Jonson Gallery, UNM (2007)
The Next Thing; Ghost Town Gallery (2007)
New; Ghost Town Gallery (2006)
Mountainside Miniatures; Foothills Art Center, Morrison, CO (2006)
Ardmore Art Guild’s Annual Exhibit; Goddard Center, Ardmore, OK (2006)
Goddard Center’s 27th Annual Art Exhibit; Ardmore, OK (2006)
10th Annual Cross Timbers Small Works Exhibit; Lokey Gallery, Tishomingo, OK (2006)
Great Plains Juried Art Show; Visual and Performing Arts Center, Durant, OK (2006)
New Texas Talent; Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX (2005)
Northeast Texas Art; Creative Arts Center, Bonham, TX (2005)
Black & White III; 2nd Floor Gallery, Denison, TX (2005)

PRESS
“The Big Slice: Pie Projects Serves Up Contemporary Goodness in the Baca Arts District,” by Iris Fitzpatrick, Santa Fe Reporter, Sept 25, 2024
“In Perplexities, Cedra Wood and Nina Elder Acknowledge Complexity and the Unaccountable,” by Hills Snyder, Southwest Contemporary, April 21, 2023
“Climate Exhibitions Look Beyond Declarations of Calamity,” by Tess Thackara, the New York Times, Oct 19, 2021
Convergence II: The Art Collection of the National Academy of Sciences, catalogue, Oct 2021
“Reclamation: Recovering Our Relationship with Place,” by Emily Zeek, Denver Art Review, Inquiry and Anaylsis, Sept 7, 2021
“12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Update: Cedra Wood,” by Daisy Geofrey, Southwest Contemporary Magazine, Oct 20, 2020
“12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now: Cedra Wood,” by Tamara Johnson, Southwest Contemporary Magazine, Jan 28, 2020
“‘Mirage’ Inspired by the American West’s Mysterious Great Basin,” by Karen Bossick, Eye on Sun Valley, June 11, 2019
“New presenting artist at Symphony in the Flint Hills”, Emporia Gazette, Nov 16, 2018
“Cedra Wood: In the Offing,” by Megan Schultz, THE Magazine, Feb/March, 2017
“Ucross: A Portrait In Place at Lannan Foundation Gallery,” by Paul Weideman, Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, Nov 25, 2016
“Artists show the damaging effects of climate change in ‘The Knew Normal,” by Kathleen Roberts, Albuquerque Journal, August 23, 2015
“516 ARTS / HABITAT Interview,” KUNM 89.9 FM, August 2015
Creative Peaks: New Perspectives: Visiting artists bring objects and organisms to life,” by Kelsey Dayton, Planet Jackson Hole, October 13, 2015
“Review: Artist maps the growth and development of an imaginary city since 1963,” by Wesley Pulkka, Albuquerque Journal, September 27, 2015
“Fourteen Female ABQ Artists in Multi-Media Installation,” by Wesley Pulkka, Albuquerque Journal, May 24, 2015
“Go With the Grain: opening reception for s(and): an introduction,” by Holly von Winckel, Alibi, May 6, 2015
“SFUAD Collaborates with Wade Wilson Art for 2015 Spring Exhibition Series,” by Lauren Eichmann, Santa Fe University of Art and Design News, January 21, 2015
¡COLORES! Artist Spotlight, New Mexico PBS TV, September, 2014
“Chasing Snow: Artist Cedra Wood above the Arctic Circle,” by Michael Abatemarco, Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, May 31 – June 6, 2013
“‘Wish You Were Here’: New exhibit surrounding the road trip at The Center,” by Jennifer Liebrum, Idaho Mountain Express, December 31, 2013
“Center Auctions 12 x 12” Panels,” Adrian Gomez, Albuquerque Journal, December 8, 2013
“Paul and Laura Mesaros Galleries open first exhibit of the year at CAC,” by Carol Fox, The Daily Athenaeum, September 5, 2013
“New Exhibition Opening at WVU’s Mesaros Galleries to Feature Artwork from Arctic Expedition,” writer unknown, WVU Today, September 4, 2013
“Sally Condon’s Solo Showcase Stole the Show,” by Wesley Pulkka, Albuquerque Journal, December 30, 2012
“SPREAD — Returns,” by Tom Maguire, SantaFe.com, August 22, 2012
“Women Artists Nurturing to Mother Nature,” by Wesley Pulkka, Albuquerque Journal, August 5, 2012
“CAS Prize 2012 Gallery Talk,” by Alexandra Swanberg, Local IQ, June 14, 2012
“A Room With a View: The City’s Premier Art Collections,” Dan Mayfield, Albuquerque Magazine, April 2012
“Studio Visit and Interview: Cedra Wood,” by Claude Smith, 516ARTS Blog, April 10, 2012
 “New Mexico Showcase,” by Douglas Fairfield, Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, Mar. 9-15, 2012
“Five Years of 516,” by Sam Adams, Weekly Alibi, V.21 no.5 | February 2 – 8, 2012
New Mexico Showcase, Exhibition catalogue, February 2011
“An Unconventional Canvas,” by Rachel Gearhart, Albuquerque Magazine, February 2011
“Body Images: Albuquerque artists explore the human form and its relationships,” by Melody Mock, AbqARTS, February 28, 2011
“Year in Review: Art Faves for 2010,” by David Leigh, Alibi, V.19 No.52 | December 30 – January 5, 2011
Far Enough! Aesthetic Responses to the Far South Coast NSW, Exhibition catalogue, October 2011

LECTURES AND PANELS
Yuma Art Symposium, Yuma, AZ (2024)
Arizona Western College, Yuma, AZ (2024)
New Mexico School for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM (2022)
Binghamton University-SUNY, Binghamton, NY (virtual) (2021)
New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM (virtual) (2020)
Miracosta College, Oceanside, CA (virtual) (2020)
Artist’s Talk, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM (2019)
Artist’s Talk, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (2019)
Artist’s Talk, Symphony in the Flint Hills Gallery, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas (2018)
Art and Science Collaborations panel, Alliance of Artist Communities Conference (2017)
Artist’s Talk, Kluane Lake Research Station, YT, Canada (2017)
Artist’s Talk, Haines Junction, YT, Canada (2017)
Gallery Talk, Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA (2017)
Gallery Talk, Central Features Contemporary Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (2017)
Artbite, Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art (2016)
A Portrait in Place panel, Yale School of Forestry, New Haven, CT (2016)
New Mexico School for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM (2015)
Artists + Ice panel; Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM (2014)
Santa Fe University of Art And Design, Santa Fe, NM (2014)
College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (2013)
Contemporary Conversations, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM (2013)
NM Watercolor Society, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, NM (2013)
Common Threads Alumni panel Austin College, Sherman, TX (2013)
Women in the Arts in New Mexico panel; 516ARTS, Albuquerque, NM (2012)
CAS Prize talk, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM (2012)
Australian National University, Canberra, NSW, AU (2011)
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (2011, 2010)
Austin College, Sherman, TX (2011, 2010, 2007)
ArtStreet Outreach Program, Albuquerque, NM (2010)