CHRISTOPHER T. WOOD
Pfister Hotel Artist-In-Residence
Watch this clip from TMJ4 News featuring Christopher. He is the 2022-2023 Artist-In-Residence at the Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee. He is an Artist, Designer, Educator, and ‘Pataphysician who arrived in the city in 2019 after spending time in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. The products of his studio are often series based works on paper, driven by a need to promote long-term thinking in society. Implementing collaborations with chance events and forces of nature, his work provides imaginary solutions to impossible problems. He has taken his practice to artist residencies in Iceland, Ireland, and Maryland, and has exhibited his work internationally at institutions including The Woodmere Art Museum, The Barnes Foundation, James Oliver Gallery, Portrait Society Gallery, The Drawing Hub-Berlin, and the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, and he regularly presents visiting artist lectures on his research. Christopher earned an MFA in Painting and a BFA in Visual Communication Design with a focus on Illustration. He teaches at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and serves on the Board of AIGA Wisconsin as the Community Director.