Woody De Othello

Woody De Othello (born 1991) is an American ceramicist and painter. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Early life and education Woody De Othello was born in 1991, in Miami, Florida.

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.

Career In 2015, Othello's debut solo exhibition, It's Going To Be Ok, was held at Unit 1 gallery in Lake Worth, Florida. In 2018, he was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts triennial exhibition, "Bay Area Now 8."

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. 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.

Othello has referred to pottery by South Carolinian enslaved potters such as David Drake, as well as precolonial Yoruba pottery, being inspiration for his work.

Exhibitions

2016 UFO Gallery, Berkeley, California 2016 Quality, Oakland, California 2019-2020 San Jose Museum of Art, California 2022 2022 Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It's Kept 2025 Woody de Othello: coming forth by day, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.