Rebecca Wood is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring relationships in the time of Hyperobjects.
Wood is known foremost as a professional photographer, cinematographer and director, working in both digital and analogue mediums. Inherently motivated by challenging conventional narratives, Wood seeks opportunities to work collaboratively in order to challenge photography’s colonial, patriarchal and environmentally toxic histories. Working at the forefront of ethical, aware and caring documentary practice, her work is increasingly focused on sustainable photographic methods to create future focused imagery.
An honours graduate with distinction from the Studio Arts + Art History program at the University of Guelph. Wood is currently working towards her MFA in Documentary Media at TMU (formerly Ryerson) in Toronto. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
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PROJECTS + EXHIBITIONS
2025 - On Being Despised. CONTACT Photography Festival. The Image Centre, Toronto, ON
2024 - ’til death do us part. Gallery 310 at The Creative School, TMU. Toronto, ON
2023 - Alchemical Afternoon. Photography + Painting Installation. CASSON Hardware, Toronto, ON.
2022 - Both Sides Now. Oil on Arches cotton paper. 4.5x6.25” unframed. Online auction for Ukraine.
2022 - Hell Ain’t Half Full. Double 8mm film developed with Caffenole. Online.
2019 - And We Become. Alternative wedding showcase, 1112 Queen St. E, Toronto, ON.
2018 - What’s mine is yours / What’s yours is mine. Milk Glass Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2018 - Lost Girls. Short Film for Cholente’s summer collection. Online.
2017 - I have always been the woman of my dreams. Short Film.
2017 - Happy in their Clothes. Short Film for Advice from a Caterpillar, Toronto, ON
2016 - Coma. Music Video for Lou Canon, Paperbag Records. Featured on many music industry sites.
2015 - Common Ground. Short film about Flower House. Screened online.
2014 - The Moving World. Installation at The Artist Project, Toronto, ON
2013 - What Feels to be True. Mercury. Contact Photography Festival. Toronto, ON
2009 - the birth of my son
2005 - the birth of my daughter
2003 - 50/50. Sis Boom Bah Gallery, Toronto, ON
2003 - Slap Shot. Bluffs Gallery, Scarborough, ON
2003 - made in Japan. Hiroshima, Japan
2002 - if I had a hi-fi. Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
2002 - Small World Tokyo/Toronto. Sis Boom Bah Gallery, Toronto, ON
2002 - Small World Tokyo/Toronto. Gallery LeDeco, Tokyo, Japan
RESIDENCIES
2025 Oct1-15 La Baldi by Cultivate Projects in Montegiovi, Italy with RAYKISS collective
2025 Jul1-15 Visiting Researcher, Monks House Papers and 34th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, England
2025 Feb-Apr Artist in Residence, York University, Toronto, ON
COMMUNITY WORK
2019 to 2021 - volunteer for Save Jimmie Simpson, a local community group working to have the Ontario Line buried through Riverdale and Leslieville.
2019 to 2021 - volunteer photographer for the Green Party of Canada during both federal elections and the parties leadership election.
2019 to 2021 - volunteer photographer for the Green Party of Ontario.
2019 to 2020 - volunteer on the Green Committee at Bruce Public School. Responsible for designing and executing a butterfly garden in the children’s playground.
2019 - Federal candidate for the Green Party of Canada in York Centre during the Federal Election.
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2025 - George Fleischmann Award, Toronto Metropolitan University, ON
2024 - Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s (CGS M) award, SSHRC, Toronto Metropolitan University, ON
2023 - TMU Fellowship, MFA Documentary Media, Toronto Metropolitan University, ON
2002 - Dimensions Prize, Studio Art, SOFAM, University of Guelph, ON
2002 - College of Arts Book Prize, College of Arts, University of Guelph, ON
2002 - R.P. Gilmour Student Life Award, University of Guelph, ON
2002 - 1st Place Juried Art Show winner, University of Guelph, ON
2001 - Gordon Couling Scholarship, University of Guelph, ON
2001 - College of Arts Honours Scholarship, University of Guelph, ON
2000 - M. Schotchmer Scholarship, College of the Arts, University of Guelph, ON
RESIDENCIES
2025 Oct1-15 La Baldi by Cultivate Projects in Montegiovi, Italy with RAYKISS collective
2025 Jul1-15 Visiting Researcher, Monks House Papers and 34th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, England
2025 Feb-Apr Artist in Residence, York University, Toronto, ON
EDUCATION
2023-2025 Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media, Toronto Metropolitan University. Expected completion September 2025.
2005 Accepted into the Masters in Arts Education program at the University of Toronto. Awarded a full scholarship. Unable to attend due to pregnancy. Deferred acceptance, but scholarship not awarded second time. As a new mother, financially unable to pursue.
2002 Bachelor of Arts Honours with distinction: Major Studio Art, Minor Art History. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.