Chris Woods was born in New Brunswick, Canada in 1970. He has lived in Chilliwack B.C. for many years and is primarily a self-taught artist. The Diane Farris Gallery has represented him since 1991.

Woods examines the subtle effects of consumerism on the individual and on society. His depictions of suburban locales and the people who live in them — many of them life-long friends — are infused with both parody and mysticism.

In 1995 Woods was commissioned to paint The Stations of the Cross for St. David's Anglican Church in Vancouver. These fourteen works were executed in Woods' unique style and depict the story of Christ's crucifixion in contemporary settings. They are permanently installed in St. David's Anglican Church in Vancouver's East Side.

Woods was featured in the Summer, 1997 issue of Canada's Saturday Night Magazine in the article: "A New Group of Seven". He had a painting featured in the December 1997 issue of New York-based Harper's Magazine as well as paintings featured on the covers of the 1998 spring issues of Adbusters Magazine and Geist Magazine. In May 1998, Woods was profiled on Daniel Richler's Big Life on CBC Newsworld.

In March of 1998, Woods was awarded a grant from the B.C. Arts Council for the production of McTopia, shown at the Diane Farris Gallery in November. McTopia was an ambitious series of large-scale paintings and a mixed-media work entitled My McTopia that he built in the gallery to resemble an actual fast-food restaurant drive-thru menu.

McDonald's Nation was featured in two books published in 1999: Naomi Klein's No Logo and Kalle Lasn's Culture Jam — The Uncooling of America, as well as in the 1999 edition of Adbusters annual Enviro-Mental Calendar. McDonald's Nation currently is the cover image of Adbusters' 2006 Classic Spoof Calendar.

In January 2000, Woods was featured in Maclean magazine's "Faces of the Future" issue as one of 100 Canadians to watch. In February of the same year, he appeared alongside Generation X author Douglas Coupland on the CPAC channel television program Doubletake. His work was featured in the May/June, 2000 issue of Azure magazine. At Toronto's National Magazine Awards (2000), he earned the Gold Award for Illustration for The Church of Krispy Kreme, a cover image commissioned by The National Post's Saturday Night.

In 2003, Woods was commissioned by the Barenaked Ladies to do the cover image of their album "Everything to Everyone".

In June, 2004, he exhibited a new series of paintings entitled The Magic Hour: Part One at the Diane Farris Gallery. Moving from teenage angst, the "religion" of fast food and corporate consumerism, Woods focussed on automobile culture. The paintings address the public's love of consumerism and its desire to attain the dreams and wishes encouraged by advertising. This theme was further explored in Woods' 2007 exhibit, The Magic Hour: Part Two.

Woods is currently at work on his latest project: ATF: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, in which he explores contradictions in American advertising and the effects of alcohol, tobacco and firearms on real lives.