Kelly Wood (Canadian, b. 1962) is a photographer and practicing artist whose research focuses on subjects that relate to the environmental impact of waste accumulation, waste economies and all forms of visible and invisible pollution. Wood is an associate professor in visual arts and photography at the University of Waterloo. She holds a diploma from Emily Carr University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Wood has written about Vancouver photography for international publications such as History of Photography and Philosophy of Photography in the UK. She has been committed to the subject of waste in the environment as a visual problem for an extensive period of time; her photographs of local and other garbage forms now reside in major national and international museum collections and are included in the monograph of her photography, The Vancouver Carts (Black Dog, 2016). Wood is a member of the research organization The Synthetic Collective.