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Solo Exhibitions
2016    CONNECTIONS, South Bay Contemporary, San Pedro, CA
2014    MOMENTS OF CHANGE, South Bay Contemporary, Los Angeles
2013    UNFOLDING TIME, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2011    PERMANENT TRANSITIONS, Gallery Grimson, Seoul, South Korea 
2011    CONSUMED, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011    BEYOND HALFWAY, ArtCore Union Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
2009    WORKING GRIDS, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008    WIDENING THE CIRCLE, ArtCore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
2007    WORKING PATTERNS, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006    SEE THE NOW, 
Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
2005    TOLERANCE, Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
2004    NOTHING GUARANTEED, Coleman Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
1995    CYCLES, Raw Space Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1992    RECENT WORK, Colon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991    NEW PAINTINGS, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Group Exhibitions
2025     "Out of the Ashes" Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
2024     Insa Art Center, Seoul, S.Korea
             "Art Book" Serdica Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
             Open Art Code, Reial Cercle Artistic de Barcelona, Spain
             "New Perspectives" Jinburyeong Museum, Gangwon-do, S. Korea
             "Beyond L.A." Gallery Western, Los Angeles
             Ace Tiger Gallery, Los Angeles 
2023     Pinacoteca Comunale, Municipal Gallery of Art, Gaeta, Italy
​             Seiriki Art Museum, Okawa, Japan
             "International Art Tour" Park Fine Art, Atlanta
             "International Art Tour" Espacio Gallery, London
             "Expressions With Diverse Materials" Nekogameya Gallery, Osaka, Japan
​            "RESTART- From Chaosmos" Busan Metropolitan City Hall, Busan, S. Korea 

2022     "Two" Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles
             "Surface Play" Launch LA, Los Angeles
             "Dazzling Sights" Busan Yeonje Cultural Center, Busan, S. Korea
             "Gift Works" Janina Monkutes Marks Art Museum, Kedainai, Lithuania
​2021    "Color Within, Atlanta" Park Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
             "Lydia Takeshita Legacy Exhibit #2" L.A. ArtCore, Los Angeles
             "NEW LIFE, Rediscovered" Gallery Western, Los Angeles
2020     "ART+ACTIVISM" SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles
             "Salon des Artistes Indépendants" Grand Palais, Paris
​             "Korean War Memorial" Proxy Gallery, Los Angeles
2019     "OAC" Studio Art Unlimited, Geneva, Switzerland
             "Exhibición De Arte Internacional" Museo La Casa de la Ciudad, Oaxaca, Mexico
             "March 1st Movement" National Assembly Hall, Seoul, South Korea  
             "Gift Works" Janina Monkute-Marks Art Museum, Lithuania
             "March 1st Movement" Proxy Place Gallery, Los Angeles
​             "New Life upcycling" Gallery Western, Los Angeles
2018     "OAC" Salone di Donatello, Florence, Italy
             "Interplay: Craft, Art and Design" SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles
             "Traveling Companion" Gallery Western, Los Angeles
             "In Pursuit of Beauty" SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles
2017     "Salon des Indépendants" Grand Palais, Paris
             "Exchange" Song Zhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
             "In Pursuit of Beauty" Gallery 3331, Tokyo
             "pARTners" Union Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
​             "In Pursuit of Beauty" Art Imagine Gallery, Tokyo
             "International Exhibit" Janina Monkute-Mark Museum, Lithuania
2016     "OAC" Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy
              Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea
             "Jubilation" Lee & Lee Gallery, Los Angeles
             "LA Exchange" Gangdong Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
             "International Exhibit" Park Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
             "What is Fiber" Janina Monkute-Marks Museum, Kendainia, Lithuania

             "Unconscious Memory" Igong Gallery, Daejeon, South Korea
             "International Exhibit" Galerie AM Park, Frankfurt, Germany
             "Colors Within" South Bay Contemporary, San Pedro, CA

2015      Kyoto International Foundation Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
             "L.A. Invite" Gallery Ashiya, Ashiya, Japan
              Kitakyushu Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
            
  Blue Roof Museum, Chengdu, China
             "L.A. Art Now"  IBox Gallery, Chengdu, China
2014     Union Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
2013     Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2012     "Thailand/USA" Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
             "Korea/USA" Gangdong Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
             "Exchange" Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
             "Under Thirty Five" Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM           
             "Where Imagination Takes Flight" Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

2009     Maki Maseru Fine Art, Tokyo
             "Crosscurrent Japan/US" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
             "Crosscurrent US/Japan" Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
2007     "Accelerate" Coleman Callery Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
2006     "Collect:Inside 8" Center for the Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
             "Lucky 13" Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
​2005     "Group Show" Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM

2004     "Symptoms of the Dawning", Jeju Cultural Art Center, Jeju, South Korea
             "With You Were Here II" Las Cruces Museum of Fine Arts, Las Cruces, NM
2003     "Emergency Surface" Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
             "Small Works" AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles
             "CGCA Gallery Artists" Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM

2002     "Formation, Union/Reunion" Visual Arts Gallery Santa Fe Community College, NM
             "Fusion" Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
2001     
"Art 2" Continental Gallery, Dallas, TX
2000     "Shaping the American Landscape" Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY
             "Beaux Arts Exhibition" Center for the Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1999     "Smaller Than A Foot" Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Collections (selection)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
​Amateras Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
Seiriki Art Museum, Okawa, Japan

Janina Monkute-Marks Museum, Kendainai, Lithuania
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
El Camino College, Torrance, CA
White and Case LLP, New York
The Westin Hotel, Copley Place, Boston, MA
S.A.P. International, Miami, FL
Stephen Reip, Seattle, WA
Kenji Matsushita, Tokyo
Steve McAllister, Prague, Czech Republic
​Ben & Peggy Zask, Los Angeles

Publications
KoreanTimes, Los Angeles, October 2024
NHK Japan Television News, Tokyo, May 13, 2023
"Seven LA Artist Gather at Seiriki Art Museum" Saga Shimbun, May 2023
Nishinippon Shimbun, Fukuoka, Japan, May 2023
SBS Los Angeles, Interview KBS Television, January 14th, 2022 "Two" Shatto Gallery
SBS Los Angeles, Interview KBS Television, February 26, 2021 "New Life, Rediscovered"
"Art and Activism" catalog January 2020 
SBS Los Angeles Interview KBS Television, March 3, 2019 "March 1st Movement Exhibit" 

Korean American Newspaper, March 9, 2019 March 1st Movement" Los Angeles
DIVERSIONLA.com “South Bay Art Scene, LA Art Lovers Look South” by Mat Gleason 
ARTWEEK, "Skyline"  Art opening Los Angeles, March 14, 2016
ARTIST magazine, 2016 vol. 34 “Michael Freitas Wood” Seoul, South Korea
"OUR EVER CHANGING WORLD: COUPLES and COLLABORATIONS", Book, 2015,
by Kari Ross, Be It Now! Inc. publisher     
ARTNews, Summer 2013 “Michael Freitas Wood at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art”
by Ann Landi 
THE MAGAZINE, April 2013 Preview, Santa Fe, NM  
VISUAL ART SOURCE, March 2013, “Unfolding Time Paintings 2007-2013”
SANTA FE REPORTER, March 27, 2013, “Ticked Off”  by Tor Travis
ART EXCHANGE KOREA/USA, Seoul, Korea 2012 catalogue
INTERNATIONAL ART EXCHANGE THAILAND-USA, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2012
THE MAGAZINE, Santa Fe, 2012 “UNDER THIRTY FIVE” by Diane Armitage 
ART PREVIEW GUIDE, 2011 Seoul, Korea
ARTSlant “News and Buzz” June 2011 “Michael Freitas Wood on our Watchlist”
NEW MEXICAN, PASATIEMPO June 2011 “Gallery Preview”     
ARTSlant Santa Fe “Gallery Hop” June 2011 “Consumed” Michael Freitas Wood
at Box Gallery  
SANTA FE REPORTER June 2011, Visual Arts Listings by Rani Molla
NEW YORK MAGAZINE, May 26, 2011 “See the Contemporary Side of Santa Fe”
TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM “CROSSCURRENT” The 2nd International Exchange Exhibition US- JAPAN” catalogue, August 2009
NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE, July 2009, “Diversion”
SANTA FE REPORTER, June 26, 2009 by Alex Roberts
ART LTD. July/Aug 2008 “Trains, Cranes and Collaboration: Santa Fe is Building More Than Steam" by Zane Fischer 
THE MAGAZINE, Santa Fe Dec. 07/Jan. 08 “Michael Freitas Wood at Box Gallery”
by Jon Carver
MICHAEL FREITAS WOOD, Brochure, August 2005, essay by Kathleen Whitney
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL, September 21, 2004 “A Frenetic Urban Sensibility”
by Wesley Pulkka
JEJU CULTURAL ARTS CENTER, August 2004 “Symptom of the Dawning Jeju-Wind-Pacific” Jeju, South Korea
UNISON ARTS MAGAZINE New Paltz, NY Fall 2000 “Shaping the American Landscape”
CENTER CONTEMPORARY ARTS, catalogue Santa Fe, NM October 2000
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