Born 1991, Miami, Florida
MFA, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2017
BFA, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2013
Lives and works in Oakland, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2020
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Lulu, Mexico City
2019
Woody De Othello, Karma, New York, NY
Woody De Othello: Breathing Room, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
2018
Living Room, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Lights Out Night Out, Quality, Oakland, CA
Real Life Still Life, Old New England, Berkeley, CA
Patty’s Mashed Potatoes, UFO Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2015
It’s Going To Be Okay, Unit 1, Lake Worth, FL
Group Exhibitions
2019
Roommates, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
Planned Obsolescence, SJSU Art Gallery, San Jose, CA
33rd Ljublijana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljublijana, Slovenia
Blow Up, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Horizon Lines, Jessica Silverman Gallery at 288 Pacific, San Francisco, CA
Kinship, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Front International Cleveland Triennial For Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
From the Ground Up, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kinder Gentler Nation, Karma, New York, NY
2017
Working TWO Scale: New Bay Area Ceramic Sculpture, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Sonoma, CA
Matt Kleberg and Woody De Othello, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
Homo Mundus Minor, Gallery T293, Rome, Italy
30th Annual Barclay Simpson Master of Fine Arts Award Exhibition, Perry Family Event Center, San Francisco, CA
To Speak of Trees, Alter Space at Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2016
All College Honors, Hubbell Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Rocks and Socks, College Avenue Gallery, Oakland, CA
Ottawa Makers Market, The RIdeau Curling Club, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Clay Bodies, 7264 N. Miami Ct, Miami, FL
2015
Grayscale, 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
Possessed, Fat Village Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Resident Exit Show, Armory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, FL
2014
The Contenders, Unit 1, Lake Worth, FL
Monstrous Strange, Fat Village Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Acid Reflux, Fat Village Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
The Strange Ones, Unit 1, Lake Worth, FL
Southern Exposure: New Work Now, Palm Beach Cultural Council, Lake Worth, FL
Outside The Box 2, White Space Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Fluidity, Artserve, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
All Florida Ceramics Invitational, Nathan H. Wilson Center, Jacksonville, FL
2013
Small Wonders, World and Eye Arts Center, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Apex: Fall 2013 BFA Exhibition, Ritter Art Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Inferno, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
College of Arts & Letters Dean’s Reception, Northern Trust Bank, Boca Raton, FL
Red Eye Art, Artserve, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Lounge Series, Arts Council of Martin County, Stuart, FL
Arts After Darks, Arts Council of Martin County, Stuart, FL
2012
23rd Annual University Juried Student Exhibition, Atlantic Center of The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Four Minutes, Thirty Three Seconds, Legal Art, Miami, FL
Awards/Grants
2017
Toby Devan Lewis Award
2016
Barclay Simpson Award
CCA Merit Scholarship
2015
CCA All College Honors
CCA Merit Scholarship
2013
Claire V. Dorst Scholarship (FAU)
Runner-up of Fine Art in Creative Quarterly
John McCoy Scholarship (FAU)
Rothenberger Endowed Scholarship for Humanities (FAU
2012
Marvin and Eileen Reingold Contemporary Ceramics Collection
2011
Rothenberger Endowed Scholarship for Humanities: Printmaking (FAU)
Residencies
2020
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2018
Liquitex Research Residency, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2016
Old New England, Berkeley, CA
2015
Pentaculum Resident, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN
Sculpture Artist in Residence, Armory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, FL
Selected Bibliography
2019
Desmarais, Charles. “Bay Area ceramics scene fired up in news ways.” Datebook. July 24, 2019.
Desmarais, Charles. “6 ceramic sculpture exhibitions not to miss.” Datebook. July 22, 2019.
2018
Hotchkiss, Sarah. “Woody De Othello Believes in the Secret Lives of Objects.” KQED Arts. October 16, 2018.
Gerrity, Jeanne. “Critic’s Pick.” Artforum. October 11, 2018.
Fancher, Lou. “Hope, danger, humor coexist in exhibit spotlighting top SF Bay Area artists.” East Bay Times. September 20, 2018.
Desmarais, Charles. “Woody De Othello’s clay bodies at Jessica Silverman Gallery” SF Chronicle, September 18, 2018.
Guadagnino, Kate. “Funky Ceramics Are Everywhere. Including in Galleries.” T Magazine. June 14, 2018.
2017
De Othello, Woody. “Ceramics and Preservation in the Bay” The Brooklyn Rail. November 2, 2017.