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| 1966 | Paul
Harrison was born in Wolverhampton, GB, he lives and works in Bristol |
| 1969 | John
Wood was born in Hong Kong, he lives and works in Shropshire and Bristol |
| 1991 | both artists are graduating from Bath College of Higher Education. First joined projects. |
| 1993 | Starting to collaborate on a permanent basis |
| 1994 | South West Arts, Film and Video Production Award |
| 1995 | West Midlands Arts, Bursary Award (Film and Video) |
| 1996 | Expanding Pictures,
BBC 2 & Arts Council Broadcast Commision |
| 1997 | European Media Arts, Residency Exchange |
| South West Media Development Agency Production Award | |
| West Midlands Arts, Film and Video Production Award | |
| 1998 | Artima, Commission and Residency, Hungary |
| West Midlands Arts, New Work and Commissions Award | |
| Flood, Worcester City Council Commission | |
| 2000 | South West Arts, Commissions Fund |
| West Midlands Arts, Creative Ambition Award | |
| 2004 | Visual Arts Grant, Arts Council England |
| 2004/05 | Notebook, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, GB |
| 2004 | dialogue series #5: Wood & Harrison | Tobias Putrih, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin |
| Art Now/ Lightbox, Tate Britain, London | |
| Selected works, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts, USA |
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| 2003 | Luton, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Hundredweight, FA Projects, London | |
| 2002 | John
Wood & Paul Harrison, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin |
| Twenty Six (Drawing and
Falling Things), Chisenhale Gallery, London; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland and Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, GB |
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| 1999 | Obstacle Course and Other
Works, First Site / The Minories, Colchester; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Mead Gallery, Warwick; Lighthouse, Wolverhampton, GB |
| 1998 | Selected Works, Gallerie Articule, Montreal, Canada |
| 1996 | Selected Works, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, GB |
| 2005 | Irreducible, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco |
| - tainment, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin |
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| 2004 | Density+/0, Ecole Nationale Superieure des BeauxArts, Paris and Centre d’art contemporain Fri-Art, Fribourg, CH |
| MoMA QNS Video Installations,
Museum of Modern Art / MoMa Qns, New York |
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| 2003 | A Century of Artists Film in Britain Tate Britain, London |
| Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France | |
| Occurrences: the performative space
of video, Betty Rymer Gallery / The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
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| 2002 | Sudden Glory, CCAC Institute, CA, USA |
| Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea | |
| Still Life, British Council Touring Exhibition, Chile/Mexico | |
| Exhibition, le corps en situation, Ecole superieure des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans, France | |
| Modesty, Pavel-House, Laafeld, Austria | |
| Dichotomy, Schauspielhaus, Vienna, Austria | |
| 2001 | Monitor: Volume One, Gagosian Gallery, New York |
| Lets Go to Work 2, Susquahana Art Museum, USA | |
| Body Worlds, basement, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin | |
| Video Project Room, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London | |
| 2000 | British Art Show 5,
Still Gallery, Edinburgh; City Gallery Southampton; Chapter, Cardiff and Birmingham City Art Gallery, GB |
| Lets go to work, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
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| 1999 | This other world of ours, TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| Triple X, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Physical Evidence,
Kettles Yard, Cambridge and Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, GB |
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| 1998 | New Video from Great Britain,
Sala Mendosa, Venezuela; Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico and Contemporary Art Museum, Hawaii |
| Lets Play Risk, Juice, London | |
| Artimia, ICA-Dunaújváros, Dunaújváros, Hungary | |
| Video Fenster, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 1997 | Partners, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA |
| New British Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| Bittersweet, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, GB | |
| Video Positive, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, GB | |
| Ostranenie, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany | |
| 1996 | Cell 2, Barbican Centre, London |
| Electronic Undercurrents,
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Instant, Camden Arts Centre, London; Tramway, Glasgow and Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, GB | |
| 1995 | Composite, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, GB |
| Sixth Mostyn Open,
Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, GB |
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| 1994 | East, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, GB |
| The Reading Room, Camden Arts Centre, London |
| Arts Council Collection, GB | |
| Government Art Collection, GB | |
| British Council Collection, GB | |
| Centre Pompidou, France | |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| Tate Gallery, London, GB | |
| and private collections in Europe and the US |
| 2003 | Shipwrecks and the Sea, Tate Britain, London |
| 2002 | Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany |
| Forum de l'lmage, Toulouse, France | |
| Stad als Film, Gemeente Schiedam, Schiedam, NL | |
| Les Yeux de l'Ouie, Nancy, France | |
| Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 2001 | In The Mean Time, De Appel, Amsterdam |
| Berlin Biennial, Berlin | |
| Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain | |
| Les Yeux de L'ouie,
Centre Cultural Andre Mareux, Nancy, France |
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| Eyes look in to the well, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, Germany | |
| Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Wand 5 e.V, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Arts Plastiques/ Espai video, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Hedah, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Video Chroniques, Marseille, France | |
| 2000 | Performing Bodies, Tate Modern, London |
| Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, USA | |
| Royal College of Art, London | |
| Darklight Film Festival, Dublin | |
| Impakt, Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| Carte Noire: CineCafe, Centre Pompidou | |
| Imagespassages, SaintJorioz, France | |
| Stuttgart Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Below 45, London | |
| Diagonle, Vienna, Austria | |
| Viper Festival, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Station Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France | |
| The British Council, Berlin, German | |
| 1999 | Fourth Wall, National Theatre, London |
| AV Dokumentationen, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| De Geuzen Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Kasseler Documentarfilm, Kassel, Germany | |
| Recontres Video Art Plastique,
Herouville SaintClair, France |
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| Tram Video, Lyon, France | |
| Transmediale, Berlin, Germany | |
| Festival Des Cinema Differents, Paris, France | |
| Videoformes, ClemontFerrand, France | |
| London Regional Art Museum, London, Canada | |
| Shadowline Festival, Salermo, Italy | |
| Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany | |
| Europena Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany | |
| Telvision, University of the Andes, Bogota, Columbia | |
| Festival des 5 sens, Saint Egreve, France | |
| British Council, Rome, Italy | |
| 1998 | Performing Buildings, Tate Modern, London |
| Sixpackfilm, Vienna, Austria | |
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada | |
| Architectural Association, London | |
| Dot Gallery, Barcelona, Spain | |
| 11th Recontres Video Art
Plastiques, Herouville SaintClair, France |
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| International video festival
Friesland, St. Jacobiparochie, Netherlands |
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| Video experimental, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Pandemonium, Lux centre, London | |
| Subfiction, Werkleitz Biennial, Germany | |
| Muu Media Festival, Helsinki, Finland | |
| Montreal Festival Cinema and New Media, Canada | |
| Experimenta Media Arts, St. Kilda South, Australia | |
| Images Festival, Toronto, Canada | |
| European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany | |
| Viper Festival, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Impakt, Utrecht, The Netherlands | |
| Body Electric, Lux Cinema, London | |
| British Council, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 1997 | Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada |
| Montreal Festival Cinema & New Media, Canada | |
| 7th International Video Week, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 1996 | Film Laden, Kassel, Germany |
| International Festival New Film and Video, Split, Croatia | |
| Videofest '96, Berlin | |
| Cluster Images, Tornitz, Germany | |
| Tokyo Video Festival, Japan | |
| Flights of Fancy, Anthology of Film Archive, New York | |
| Pandaemonium, ICA, London | |
| 1995 | 29th New York Expo, New York, USA |
| Forumbhzvideo, Bello Horizonte, Brazil | |
| 6th International Video Festival, Canary Islands | |
| European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany | |
| British Short Film Festival, London | |
| Video Creation Festival, Alicante, Spain | |
| 1994 | Copenhagen Film and Video Festival, Denmark |
| Impakt, Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| 1993 | World One Minute TV, Brazil |
| Mediawave I, Gyor, Hungary |
| 2001 | SBS, Australia |
| MTV, Europe | |
| 2000 | TVE Metropolis, Spain |
| 1999 | Harry Houdini, Channel 4, GB |
| RAI SAT, Europe | |
| 1998 | Selected tapes, Arte, France |
| 1997 | Device, BBC2, GB |
| Selected tapes, SAT 3, Germany | |
| Boat, TVE, Spain |
| 2000 | John Wood and Paul Harrison, with essays by Charles Esche and David Batchelor, Ellipsis, London |
| 2002 | Twenty Six (Drawing and falling things), essay by Claire Doherty. 26 texts inc. contributions by: Matthew Higgs, Richard Wentworth, David Curtis; Picture This, Bristol, GB |