Woody De Othello | |
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Born | 1991 (age 32–33) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
Alma mater | Florida Atlantic University, California College of Arts |
Occupation(s) | Ceramicist, painter |
Woody De Othello (born 1991)[1] is an American ceramicist and painter. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.[2][3][4][5]
Woody De Othello was born in 1991 in Miami, Florida.[1] He is of Haitian descent.[6][7]
Othello received a BFA degree from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and an MFA degree from the California College of Arts in San Francisco in 2017.[2][8]
In 2015, Othello's debut solo exhibition, It's Going To Be Ok, was held at Unit 1 gallery in Lake Worth, Florida.[9] In 2018, Othello was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts triennial exhibition, "Bay Area Now 8."[8] In 2019 the San Jose Museum of Art hosted, Woody De Othello: Breathing Room.[6] Looking In, a solo exhibition of Othello's work at Jessica Silverman Gallery in 2021 included ceramic sculptures, paintings, and framed works on paper.[10]
His eight-foot tall, bronze sculpture of a yellow box fan, entitled Cool Composition, received critical attention at 2019's Art Basel in Miami Beach.[2]
In 2022 Othello was selected to participate in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin.[11] His biennial installation, The will to make things happen, included a set of exaggerated, domestic objects such as a radiator, accompanied by anthropomorphized ceramic vessels with hands and legs.[12]
Othello has referred to an interest in pottery by South Carolinian enslaved potters such as David Drake, as well as precolonial Yoruba pottery, as inspiration for his work.[13][14][15]
Othello's work is in the collection of a number of contemporary art museums including: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami;[19] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;[20] San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California;[6] and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.[21]