wood's early work was influenced by hollis frampton and michael snow, and like them, he continued his explorations in multiple media. in 1976 wood began working with constructed multiple photographs. his very early photographic pieces, "facing", 1976 (collection: metropolitan museum of art, nyc) and "array", 1977 (collection: museum of modern art, nyc) were first exhibited in 1978 at the whitney museum (downtown), new york. galerie marielle mailhot in montreal gave wood his first solo show of photographs in 1979, soon followed by several solo museum exhibitions in canada. ydessa hendeles mounted another solo exhibition in toronto in 1980. the canada council awarded arts grants to brian wood in 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1982.