Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept
Timothy Taylor, London, A Thing for the Mind Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C., This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina Hayward Gallery, London, Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art (forthcoming) San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, Home/Work (forthcoming) Unit 1, Lake Worth, Florida, It’s Going To Be Okay SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022-23 UFO Gallery, Berkeley, California, Patty’s Mashed Potatoes 2015 Old New England, Berkeley, California, Real Life Still Life Quality, Oakland, California, Lights Out Night Out
Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Living Room 2016 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, Breathing Room 2018 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, The Box 2019 Nina Johnson, Miami, Woody De Othello: Coming to Light Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Looking In 2020
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Hope Omens 2021 MFA, California College of Arts, San Francisco 2013īFA, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Lives and works in Oakland, California EDUCATION 2017 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California the Rennie Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work is represented in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. In 2021-2022, Othello was the subject of a solo exhibition, Hope Omens, at the John Michael Kohler Center, and was included in Quiet as It’s Kept, the 2022 Whitney Biennial. Woody De Othellos’s work is currently included in Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Informed by his own Haitian ancestry, Othello takes interest in the supernatural objects of Vodou folklore, nkisi figures, and other animist artifacts that inspire him. This sophisticated gravitational effect is a central formal challenge in his work. We use phones to speak and to listen, clocks to tell time, vessels to hold things, and our bodies are indicators of all of those.” Othello’s scaled-up representations of these objects often slump over, overcome with gravity, as if exhausted by their own use. “The objects mimic actions that humans perform they’re extensions of our own actions. “I choose objects that are already very human,” says Othello. Othello’s sense of humor manifests across his work in visual puns and cartoonish figuration. Everyday artifacts of the domestic tables, chairs, television remotes, telephone receivers, lamps, air purifiers, et cet era-are anthropomorphized in glazed ceramic, bronze, wood, and glass. 1991) is a Miami-born, California-based artist whose subject matter spans household objects, bodily features, and the natural world. If anything, I’m just trying to learn more and solidify the intuitive process that I’ve been following the last couple of years.Woody De Othello (b. So they make this ensemble of found objects, and they place it on a stack of wood, or something they don’t want to be stolen-like a sign saying, “If you take this, something will happen to you.” So that impulse that I’m learning about seems like a very similar impulse that I’m following with my art-making.
They take random things, like a corn cob, or an old shoe, or the straw from a broom to make these makeshift sculptures, but they’re also protectors. Right now I’m reading a book called Vigilant Things, about this type of Yoruba object that’s imbued with spirituality. I actually read one book, Flash of the Spirit, and it kind of unlocked all these other books, which are helping me to understand the inclination or the intuition I had to anthropomorphize these everyday things. Again, I’m really interested in Yoruba right now. Everything is building on top of each other at this point.
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