during the 1980s wood exhibited paintings, drawings and photographs in many gallery and museum exhibitions in the united states and internationally. in 1984 he was awarded a national endowment for the arts fellowship. the brooklyn museum showed his work in the group show "color in the summer" in 1984. his work entered museum collections including the brooklyn museum, the canadian museum of contemporary photography, ottawa, museum of contemporary art, montreal, montreal museum of fine arts, art gallery of hamilton, and many others.