Woody De Othello
Born: Miami, Florida, 1991
Lives and works in Oakland, California
Education
2017
MFA, California College of Arts, San Francisco, California
2013
BFA, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Public Commissions
2023
1900 Broadway Public Art Commission, New York, New York
2021
CityLine Sunnyvale Public Art Commission, Sunnyvale, California
2018
SFO International Terminal Boarding Area G Outdoor Terrace Commission, San Francisco, California
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024
Faith Like a Rock, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2022
Maybe tomorrow, Karma, New York, New York
2021
Looking In, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, California
Hope Omens, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2020
Nina Johnson, Miami, Florida
The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2019
Karma, New York
Breathing Room, San José Museum of Art, San José, California
2018
Living Room, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, California
2017
Matt Kleberg and Woody De Othello, Johansson Projects, Oakland, California
2016
Lights Out Night Out, Quality, Oakland, California
Real Life Still Life, Old New England, Berkeley, California
Patty's Mashed Potatoes, UFO Gallery, Berkeley, California
2015
It’s Going To Be Okay, Unit 1, Lake Worth, Florida
Group Exhibitions
2024
Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
A Particular Kind of Heaven, Karma, Thomaston, Maine
Material World, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
Fraenkenstein, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
We Make Art in Richmond, NIAD, Richmond, California
2023
The Place I Am, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Retinal Hysteria, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, New York
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan (touring)
A Growing Season, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, California
WARES! Extraordinary Ceramics and the Ordinary Home, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Crafting Radicality: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Exposed, The Current, Stowe, Vermont
Dwelling, Canal Projects, New York, New York (catalogue)
What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Conversation Pieces, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, California
Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
2022
Home/Work, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, California
Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (touring)
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2021
Our whole, unruly selves, San José Museum of Art, San José, California
Clay Pop, Jeffrey Deitch, New York
We Are Here, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, California
2020
Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Material Conditions, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Sleight of Hand, Center for Craft, Asheville, North Carolina
The Burdens of History, NCECA Conference, Richmond, Virginia
2019
Roommates, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, California
33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Blow Up, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York
2018
Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
Horizon Lines, Jessica Silverman at 288 Pacific, San Francisco, California
Kinship, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, California
FRONT International Cleveland Triennial For Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
From the Ground Up, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Kinder Gentler Nation, Karma, New York
2017
Working TWO Scale: New Bay Area Ceramic Sculpture, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma, California
Homo Mundus Minor, Gallery T293, Rome, Italy
30th Annual Barclay Simpson Master of Fine Arts Award Exhibition, Perry Family Event Center, San Francisco, California
To speak of trees, Alter Space at Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, California
2016
All College Honors, Hubbell Street Gallery, San Francisco, California
Rocks and Socks, College Avenue Gallery, Oakland, California
Ottawa Makers Market, The Rideau Curling Club, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Clay Bodies, 7264 N. Miami Ct, Miami, Florida
2015
Grayscale, 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
Possessed, Fat Village Projects, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Resident Exit Show, Armory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
2014
The Contenders, Unit 1, Lake Worth, Florida
Monstrous Strange, Fat Village Projects, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Acid Reflux, Fat Village Projects, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The Strange Ones, Unit 1, Lake Worth, Florida
Southern Exposure: New Work Now, Palm Beach Cultural Council, Lake Worth, Florida
Outside The Box 2, White Space Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
Fluidity, Artserve, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
All Florida Ceramics Invitational, Nathan H. Wilson Center, Jacksonville, Florida
2013
Small Wonders, World and Eye Arts Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Apex: Fall 2013 BFA Exhibition, Ritter Art Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Inferno, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
College of Arts & Letters Dean’s Reception, Northern Trust Bank, Boca Raton, Florida
Red Eye Art, Artserve, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Lounge Series, Arts Council of Martin County, Stuart, Florida
Arts After Darks, Arts Council of Martin County, Stuart, Florida
2012
23rd Annual University Juried Student Exhibition, Atlantic Center of The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Four Minutes, Thirty Three Seconds, Legal Art, Miami, Florida
Awards
2020
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2018
Liquitex Research Residency, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, California
2017
Toby Devan Lewis Award
2016
Old New England, Berkeley, California
Barclay Simpson Award
CCA Merit Scholarship
2015
CCA All College Honors
CCA Merit Scholarship
Pentaculum Resident, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2014
Sculpture Artist in Residence, Armory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
2013
Claire V. Dorst Scholarship, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Runner-up of Fine Art in Creative Quarterly John McCoy Scholarship, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Rothenberger Endowed Scholarship for Humanities, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
2012
Marvin and Eileen Reingold Contemporary Ceramics Collection
2011
Rothenberger Endowed Scholarship for Humanities: Printmaking
Publications
2023
Dwelling, Canal Projects, New York (catalogue)
2022
Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2021
Woody De Othello, Karma Books, New York
Public Collections
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy
Meta, Menlo Park, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Rennie Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
San José Museum of Art, San José, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York