Woody De Othello
Woody De Othello (born 1991) is an American ceramicist and painter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was born in Miami, Florida, and is of Haitian descent. He earned a BFA from Florida Atlantic University and an MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2017.
His work spans ceramics, sculpture, and painting. His first solo show, It’s Going To Be Ok, opened in 2016 at Unit 1 Gallery in Lake Worth, Florida. In 2018 he was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Bay Area Now 8. In 2019 the San Jose Museum of Art presented Woody De Othello: Breathing Room, and his eight-foot-tall bronze sculpture Cool Composition, a yellow box fan, was shown at Art Basel in Miami Beach.
In 2021 his solo exhibition Looking In at Jessica Silverman Gallery featured ceramic sculptures, paintings, and works on paper. He participated in the 2022 Whitney Biennial with The will to make things happen, a installation that included exaggerated domestic objects like a radiator and anthropomorphized ceramic vessels.
In 2025, his first major museum solo, Woody de Othello: coming forth by day, opened at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, presenting new works in ceramics, wood, and bronze and marking his first museum show in his South Florida hometown.
Othello’s work is in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the San Jose Museum of Art; and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He cites inspiration from enslaved South Carolinian potters such as David Drake and from precolonial Yoruba pottery.
Website: woodyothello.com
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