A Perry, GA, native, Whitney Wood received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta where she was awarded the Artistic Honors Fellowship for Graduate Study. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Auburn University and studied with UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy. After graduation, she studied with Rhode Island School of Design at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in France. Upon returning to the US, Whitney moved to New York City to intern with Paul Kasmin Gallery and to study under painter Larry Poons. Her international art collaborations include working in Shanghai, China with a collective of New York and local Chinese artists, and an internship with international artist, Patricia Esquivias, in Spain, Germany and England. Whitney's change in environment has always been an important inspiration for her work. A recent nominee and finalist for the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award for 2010, Whitney now lives and works in Atlanta, GA. Her work was featured on the cover of Carnegie Hall's Playbill magazine for November 2008, and she recently received the New Artist Initiative Award from Hambidge Residency Program as well as an Artist Residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.