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. Wood completed a residency at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, in 2021, followed by the presentation of a new body of work at MoMA PS1 in 2022. The same year, The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired her work, making her the youngest artist represented in the museum’s collection. Since then, her work has been featured in exhibitions at major institutions including The Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2025-6), travelled to V&A Dundee (2026); The Fabric Museum and Workshop, Philadelphia, PA (2026); Cranbrook Art Museum, MI (2026); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2026); Primary, Nottingham (2026); Autograph, London (2025-6); Firstsite, Colchester (2025); Somerset House, London (2025); The Brooklyn Museum, NY (2024), travelled to The High Museum, Atlanta, GA (2024-5) and Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN (2025); The Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, IN (2024); Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2024); and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2024). 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.
Her forthcoming exhibitions include those at ArtsWestchester, NY (2026); Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC (2026); and Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2026).
Her work is also held in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Rennie Collection, Vancouver; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; Cranbrook Art Museum, MI; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.