Chris Wood
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Chris Wood is an award winning artist based in the UK. Wood's medium is light. She uses a range of optical materials to harness patterns of light that suggest ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world.
Her unique approach to pattern is realised through her light responsive sculptures and integrated installations, which magnificently transform light into ethereal displays of vibrant colour. Wood is recognised globally for her pioneering work using Dichroic. Dichroic is a colourless, optical material that selectively reflects and transmits wavelengths of light, producing a variety of rainbow coloured shadows and projections. Her work brings a wistful romanticism to a minimalist aesthetic by ordering the accidental and making us reflect on the experience of seeing.
Wood's art can be found in various private collections and the Shanghai Museum of Glass, in addition to corporate clients such as Clé de Peau Beauté, Capital One, Nestle, Adobe, and Johnson & Johnson.
Chris Wood studied three-dimensional design and furniture at Middlesex Polytechnic before earning a master’s degree in glass from the Royal College of Art. Her interest in treating light as an artistic material began during her furniture studies and expanded through architectural-scale investigations of light and space.
Wood first encountered dichroic glass in the late 1980s, although it took nearly a decade of experimentation to establish the distinctive approach that now defines her practice. After relocating to the flat agricultural landscape of East Anglia in 2000, she became interested in the orderly repetition of cultivated fields. Their precise rows inspired the mathematical structures through which she allows reflected light and color to behave unpredictably.
Her career spans more than 25 years, with exhibitions and installations presented throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. Wood founded Chris Wood Light Studio in 2015, and her work is held by the Shanghai Museum of Glass as well as private collections worldwide. Her expansive architectural installation Light Wall, composed of more than 2,500 dichroic glass fins, received the Best in Creativity award at Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture Public Art Awards in 2022. In 2026, the Maraya Art Centre presented Liquid Light, her first institutional solo exhibition in the United Arab Emirates.
EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2022 “Best in Creativity”, Ministry of Culture’s Public Art Awards, Taiwan
- 2019 Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
- 2019 Whitewall Contemporary, Delray Beach, FL
- 2018 Hafez Gallery, Abu Dhabi
- 2018 B L E U, Delray Beach, FL
- 2018 Hafez Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- 2018 Eternity Gallery, Miami, FL
- 2018 Hafez Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 2018 Whitewall Contemporary, Delray Beach, FL
- 2018 Mixed Summer Exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2017 Christmas Cracker, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2017 Shadows and Light, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2017 Mixed Summer Exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2016 Christmas Cracker, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2015 Christmas Cracker, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2015 Own Art, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2015 Mixed Exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2014 Christmas Cracker, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2014 20 Years of Byard Art, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
Chris Wood studied three-dimensional design and furniture at Middlesex Polytechnic before earning a master’s degree in glass from the Royal College of Art. Her interest in treating light as an artistic material began during her furniture studies and expanded through architectural-scale investigations of light and space.
Wood first encountered dichroic glass in the late 1980s, although it took nearly a decade of experimentation to establish the distinctive approach that now defines her practice. After relocating to the flat agricultural landscape of East Anglia in 2000, she became interested in the orderly repetition of cultivated fields. Their precise rows inspired the mathematical structures through which she allows reflected light and color to behave unpredictably.
Her career spans more than 25 years, with exhibitions and installations presented throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. Wood founded Chris Wood Light Studio in 2015, and her work is held by the Shanghai Museum of Glass as well as private collections worldwide. Her expansive architectural installation Light Wall, composed of more than 2,500 dichroic glass fins, received the Best in Creativity award at Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture Public Art Awards in 2022. In 2026, the Maraya Art Centre presented Liquid Light, her first institutional solo exhibition in the United Arab Emirates.
EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2022 “Best in Creativity”, Ministry of Culture’s Public Art Awards, Taiwan
- 2019 Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
- 2019 Whitewall Contemporary, Delray Beach, FL
- 2018 Hafez Gallery, Abu Dhabi
- 2018 B L E U, Delray Beach, FL
- 2018 Hafez Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- 2018 Eternity Gallery, Miami, FL
- 2018 Hafez Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 2018 Whitewall Contemporary, Delray Beach, FL
- 2018 Mixed Summer Exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2017 Christmas Cracker, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2017 Shadows and Light, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2017 Mixed Summer Exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2016 Christmas Cracker, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2015 Christmas Cracker, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2015 Own Art, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2015 Mixed Exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2014 Christmas Cracker, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
- 2014 20 Years of Byard Art, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK