Born and raised in Brown Summit, North Carolina, Woods-Morrow builds work that digs into the complexities of Black queer life—its joys, its contradictions, and its unapologetic beauty. His art isn’t shy; it’s a full-on interrogation of desire, pleasure, and the spaces where public and private lives crash into each other. From sculpture and blown glass to 3D architectures and film, he creates pieces that refuse easy answers and leave room for messy, necessary questions.

Woods-Morrow’s installations pull you into a world where cruising becomes communion and the everyday is anything but ordinary. His first major solo exhibition, Gravity Pleasure Switchback, debuted at Gallery 400 in 2023, a show that unraveled the delicate, electric tangles of the American South, intimacy and the all to familiar pains of history. He’s taken his work from North Carolina to Canada, Chicago to Berlin, to Spain and back to the USA with stops at the Chicago Arts Coalition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His pieces have appeared everywhere from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Sex in New York to the Schwules Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, to Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Recently awarded the Creative Visionary Grant for S.E.X Firm – Charging Port, Woods-Morrow divides his time between teaching in Rhode Island and traveling abroad. As the Schiller Family Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Painting, and Textiles at RISD, he thrives in the spaces where art and life collide—whether inspiring students in the classroom, uncovering hidden gems in international archives, or dreaming up his next groundbreaking project.