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. In 2025 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presented Malware, Wood’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. She is currently included in Design and Disability, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Virtual Beauty, Somerset House, London; and Voyager 2000: Worldbeing & Wonder, Firstsite, Colchester. Later this year she will be a part of I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies, Autograph, London. In 2024 she presented her first solo institutional exhibition, code_anima, at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC, which will travel as code_eden in the autumn of 2025 to Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum, Glassboro, NJ. Other recent solo and group exhibitions include 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.