john szarkowski, chief curator of photography, began collecting wood's work for the museum of modern art, new york in 1979, installing his photo-construction "array", 1977 in the permanent galleries where it remained on permanent exhibition into the 1990s. "array" and other works remain in the permanent collection. moma exhibited wood's work in the 1982 traveling exhibition "twentieth century photographs from the collection of the museum of modern art", "big pictures by contemporary photographers" in 1983 and "color photographs: recent acquisitions" in 1984. moma included wood's work in the publication "the museum of modern art: the history and the collection", with introduction by sam hunter, abrams, 1984. "multiple images: photographs since 1965 from the collection," "published in 1993 also included wood and his work appears in moma's 2002 book "walker evans & company" by curator peter galassi.