GH Wood is a graduate student residing in New York. He took his first ceramics course while attending St. Olaf College, MN, where he later earned his B.A. in Chemistry and Studio Art.
After graduating, GH returned to St. Olaf College, for the subsequent academic year, as a Fifth-Year Emerging Artist resident and as the Ceramic Studio Technician. Afterwards, he became a
post-baccalaureate student in Ceramics at Indiana University Southeast, IN. Throughout his time there he started to exhibit his artwork regionally and nationally.

As an American transracial adoptee, I negotiate two realities of self—the one I live in and the one filled with assumptions based on my birth. Societal pressures underscore personal expectations to be knowledgeable of my lost birth culture. The tension between my self- perception and what others presume of me creates conflicting identities. I choose to reconcile these feelings by learning and engaging with my Chinese culture. My reconnection starts with learning and experiencing, ultimately leading to deeper understanding.