AD–WO (Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood)
Emanuel: He // Him // His
Jen: She // Her // Hers
[ID: Two people stand side by side, facing us directly. Emanuel is a Black man with a shaved head and a neatly-trimmed beard wearing a navy corduroy shirt with black jeans. Jen is a white woman with light-brown hair wearing a long-sleeved black dress with a large white circle on the front.]
Portrait photo by Rachel Hulin.
New York, NY
2024 USA Fellow
This award was generously supported by Anonymous.
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AD—WO is an art and architecture practice based in New York City, and by extension, between Naarm/Melbourne and Addis Ababa. The practice examines how space is imaged and valued through art, design, and curatorial interventions. Founded in 2015 by Jen Wood and Emanuel Admassu, AD—WO has exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2023), La Biennale di Venezia (2023), Art Omi (2023), Harvard GSD (2023), the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2021), the Architekturmuseum der TU München (2018), and the Studio Museum in Harlem (2017). They are the exhibition designers for Dear Mazie at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU (2024); the exhibition designers and curatorial consultants of SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa (2023) at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York; and design architects of Bole Rwanda (2024), a multifamily housing project that is currently under construction in Addis Ababa. AD—WO’s work is part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and the High Museum of Art (Atlanta).