Jonas Wood is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles.
Raised in Boston, Wood grew up surrounded by his grandfather's art collection which featured works from Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Jim Dine, robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers and Andy Warhol. He graduated from the Cambridge School of Weston in 1995. As an undergraduate, he chose to study at Hobart College, a school where he could study both science and art. Wood's focus was on psychology during the majority of his time studying at Hobart and William Smith College.
After graduating, Wood moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a studio assistant for two years for painter Laura Owens and then another two years for sculptor Matt Johnson. While working as an assistant, Wood continued to make his own work.
Jonas Wood's paintings, drawings, and prints can be described as a myriad of genres, such as domestic interiors, landscapes, still-life and sports scenes. Translating the three-dimensional world around him into flat color and line, he confounds expectations of scale and vantage point that reflect an instantly recognizable vision of the contemporary world.
