Catherine Wood

Catherine Wood is senior curator, International Art (Performance) at Tate Modern.

Catherine Wood's Titles

Mike Kelley Ghost and Spirit

Mike Kelley

The first properly posthumous retrospective, this book highlights the significance of Kelley's influential four-decade career on the development...


Performance in Contemporary Art A History and Celebration

Performance in Contemporary Art

Unpacking the history of performance art and celebrating the work of contemporary practitioners, a must-read for both art lovers and students...


Hyundai Commission: Tania Bruguera

Hyundai Commission: Tania Bruguera

Since Tate Modern opened in London in 2000, its Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world's most memorable works of contemporary art. The annual...


Performance in Contemporary Art

Performance in Contemporary Art

In this important new survey, Catherine Wood proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude...


Bigger Splash Painting After Performance

A Bigger Splash

Taking its title from David Hockney's iconic 1967 image of a California swimming pool and Jack Hazan's docu-fiction film about Hockney's life,...


Rachel Whiteread EMBANKMENT

Rachel Whiteread

“To make a sculpture in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern is an enormous challenge. The space is like no othergargantuan and enveloping. I hope...