Solo exhibitions
2008
High Museum of Art,Atlanta, USA
Contemporary Arts Museum,Houston, USA
2007
MAM Project 005, Mori Art Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2006
Selected Works, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
5 Rooms, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Selected Works, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
2005
Selected Works, Space Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Notebook, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
The Only Other Point, f a projects, London
2004
Art Now, Lightbox, Tate Britain, London
Selected Works, MOMA, Queens, New York
Selected Works, MIT, Boston, USA
2003
Hundredweight, f a projects, London
2002
Twenty Six (Drawing and Falling Things), Chisenhale Gallery, London and tour
Selected Works, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin
1999
Obstacle Course, John Hansard Gallery,Southampton and tour
1998
Selected Works, Gallerie Articule, Montreal
Video Fenster, Geneva, Switzerland
Artimia, ICA, Dunaujvaros, Hungary
1996
Selected Works, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Selected group exhibitions
2007
Les Jeux Sont Faits, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Liestal, Switzerland Breaking Step: displacement, compassion, and humor in recent art from Britain, organised by the British Council, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Echo Room, Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain
I am making art: Four studies on the artist's body, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2006
Sans Gravite, Villa du Parc, Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Annemasse Le Mouvement des Images, Musee d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition
Smart Art, Kunsthalle Osnabruck
What Makes You and I Different, Tramway, Glasgow
2005
Irreducible, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA,USA
To Be Continued, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Finland
Twenty six (Drawing and Falling Things), Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh
Supernova, British Council Touring Exhibition
Modern Times, Monchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
Both Ends Burning, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
-tainment, Neue Gesellschaft bildende kunst,Berlin, Germany
Crossing Borders, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
2004
Density+_0, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts,Paris, France
Occurrences: Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, USA
2003
A Century of Artists Film in Britain, Tate Britain, London
Bienal de Jafre, Jafre, Spain
Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France
Orifice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
2002
Sudden Glory, CCAC Institute, CA, USA
Gwangju Biennale, Korea
Still Life, British Council Touring Exhibition, South America
le corps en situation, Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans
Modesty, Pavel-House, Laafield. Austria
Dichotomy, Schauspielhaus, Vienna, Austria
2001
Monitor: Volume One, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Lets Go to Work 2, Susquahana Art Museum, USA
Body Worlds, Gallerie Markus Richter, Berlin
Video Project Room, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
2000 The British Art Show 5, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (and tour)
Lets go to work, Marcel Sitcoske, San Francisco
1999
This Other World of Ours, TV Gallery, Moscow
Triple X, Amsterdam
Physical Evidence, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
New Video from Great Britain, Sala Mendosa, Venezuela,
Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico
1998
Lets Play Risk, nfa, Juice, London
Partners, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
1997
New British Video, MOMA, New York
Bittersweet, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Video Positive, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Ostranenie, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
1996
Cell 2, Barbican Centre, London
Electronic Undercurrents, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Denmark
Instant, Camden Arts Centre, London and tour
1995
Composite, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Sixth Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
1994
East, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
Selected screenings
2006
Combine Platter, MOCA, Los Angeles
Exploding Television - Satellite of Love, Witte de With, Netherlands
Platform Garanti, Istanbul
2004
32nd International Film Festival, La Rochelle, France
2003
Shipwrecks and the Sea Tate Britain, London
The Video Art Foundation Barcelona
2002
Stuttgart Filmwinter Germany
Forum de L'lmage, Toulouse, France
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2001
In The Mean Time, De Appel, Amsterdam and tour
Arts Plastiques/ Espai video, Barcelona, Spain
Video Chroniques, Marseille, France
2000
Performing Bodies, Tate Modern, London
Royal College of Art, London
Carte Noire: CineCafe, Centre Pompidou,Paris
Viper, Basel, Switzerland
1999
Fourth Wall, National Theatre, London
De Geuzen Foundation Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kasseler Documentarfilm Kassel, Germany
Oberhausen Short Film Festival Germany
1998
Performing Buildings, Tate Modern, London
Sixpackfilm, Vienna, Austria
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Architectural Association, London
1997
Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
Montreal Festival, Canada
7th International Video week, Geneva, Switzerland
1996
Film Laden, Kassel, Germany
Flights of Fancy, Anthology Film Archive, New York
Pandaemonium, ICA, London
1995
29th New York Expo, New York, USA
Forumbhzvideo, Bello Horizonte, Brazil
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
1994
Copenhagen Film and Video Festival, Denmark
Impakt, Utrecht, Netherlands
The Reading Room, Camden Arts Centre, London
1993
World One Minute TV, Brazil
Mediawave, Gyor, Hungary
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Monographs
124 Minutes
224 pages full colour published by Ffotogallery, Cardiff
2006, ISBN-10: 1 872771 64 5
In Profile: John Wood and Paul Harrison
DVD published by Picture This, Bristol
2005, ISBN: 0-95398772-6-4
Notebook
56 page full colour, published by MIMA, Middlesbrough
2005, ISBN: 0-86083-065-9
Twenty Six (Drawing and Falling Things)
Essay by Claire Doherty. 26 texts inc. contributions by: Matthew
Higgs,Richard Wentworth, David Curtis
Picture This, Bristol 2002, ISBN: 0-9539872-3-x
John Wood and Paul Harrison
With essays by Charles Esche and David Batchelor
Ellipsis, 2000, ISBN: 1 84166 026 4
Collections
Arts Council Collection
British Council Collection
Centre Pompidou
Government Art Collection
MIMA, Middlesbrough
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate, London
Walsall Art Gallery