Qualeasha Wood (b. 1996, Long Branch, NJ) lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. 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. Current and forthcoming exhibitions include Design and Disability, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies, Autograph, London, and In Character, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. In 2024 she presented her first institutional solo exhibition code_anima at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC, traveling to Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum, Glassboro, NJ in 2025 under the title code_eden. In 2025 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presented Malware, Wood’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Other recent solo and group exhibitions include Firstsite, Colchester (2025); Somerset House, London (2025); Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN (2025),travelled from The High Museum, Atlanta, GA (2024-5) and The Brooklyn Museum, NY (2024); The Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, IN (2024); Salon 94, New York, NY (2024); Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2024);Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA(2024); Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York, NY (2023); Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2021, 2023); Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA (2022-3); MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2022); and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2022). Her collections include Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Rennie Collection, Vancouver; The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.