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 2024 the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC presented her first institutional solo exhibition code_anima, which travelled to Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum, Glassboro, NJ in 2025 under the title code_eden. Current exhibitions include Queer Texture, Primary, Nottingham; Labyrinth/Laboratory, Cranbrook Art Museum, MI; and Design & Disability, V&A Dundee, travelled from The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Other recent solo and group exhibitions include SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2026); Autograph, London (2025-6); Firstsite, Colchester (2025); Somerset House, London (2025); Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2025, 2021, 2023); 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); Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2024);Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2024); 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). Wood has undertaken artist residencies at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (2026) and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2021-2022). Her collections include Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; 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.