Betty Woodman

exhibitions

Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic. Photo: Mark Blower

"Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic," 3 February - 10 April 2016
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Photo: Mark Blower

Betty Woodman and George Woodman

Charleston, East Sussex, UK
March 25 - September 10, 2023

2023

Betty Woodman: Diptychs, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2022

Betty Woodman: Conversations on the Shore, Works from the 1990s, David Kordansky Gallery, New York, New York

2019

Shadows and Silhouettes, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2018

The House and The Universe, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China

Betty Woodman: Ceramics with Painting of the Modern Age, presented by the Liverpool Biennial and Cooper Gallery, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, England

Gestural Interactions, Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado

2017

Betty Woodman: Recent Works, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy

Florentine Interiors, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria

2016

Betty Woodman: In the Garden, Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills, New Jersey (exhibition catalogue)

Dialogue: Betty Woodman / Sol Lewitt, James Barron Art, Kent, Connecticut

Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

Breakfast at the Seashore Lunch in Antella, Salon 94, New York, New York

2015

Betty Woodman, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy

Betty Woodman, Mendes Wood DM, São Paolo, Brazil

Illusions of Domesticity, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2014

Interior Views, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland

2012

Betty Woodman, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (exhibition catalogue)

2011

Roman Fresco/Pleasures and Places, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, New York

Betty Woodman: Front/Back, Salon 94, New York, New York

Betty Woodman: Places, Spaces & Things, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada

2010

Three Kilns Occupied by Three Pieces, Tuscia Electa Arte Contemporanea, Impruneta, Italy

Betty Woodman: Roman Fresco/Pleasures and Places, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado

Betty Woodman: Paintings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

Betty Woodman, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2009

Betty Woodman: L’allegra vitalita delle porcellane, Museo Delle Porcellane, Palazzo Pitti, Giardino di Boboli, Florence, Italy

Betty Woodman: A Visit to Rome. Florence: Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, 2009.

2008

Betty Woodman: Trois Grandes Dames III, Galerie Besson, London, England

Betty Woodman: Rooms and People, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

2007

Betty Woodman: Memories, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Betty Woodman: Transcending Boundaries, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida

2006

Somewhere Between Denver and Naples, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

The Art of Betty Woodman, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Betty Woodman, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

2005

Betty Woodman: Teatros. Théâtres. Theaters, Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal; traveled to Ariana Museum, Geneva Switzerland, 2006 (exhibition catalogue)

Recent Ceramic Sculpture, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Betty Woodman: Il Giardino Dipinto, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

Betty Woodman, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

2003

Recent Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Betty Woodman: Souvenirs, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

2002

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri (exhibition catalogue)

Two Bronze Benches and Four Ceramic Pictures of Korean Paintings, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

2001

Betty Woodman, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

2000

Betty Woodman & Robert Barni: due e vasi, Centro D’Arte La Loggia, Montefiridolfi, Italy

Pots Paper Prints, Mizel Arts Center at the JCC, Denver, Colorado

Betty Woodman: Clay, Bronze, Paper, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

A Conversation with Pat Steir, Art Resources Transfer, New York, New York

Works from the 1980s, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York

1999

Betty Woodman: Between Sculpture and Painting: Recent Work, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa (exhibition catalogue)

Recent Works of Prints and Vases, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota

Betty Woodman: Glass, CIRVA, Marseille, France

1998

1996

Balustrade Vases and Bellagio Drawings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

Betty Woodman, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; traveled to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, 1997; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France, 1997; Provincial Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium, 1998 (exhibition catalogue)

1995

Il Giardino Dipinto e Altre Opere, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy

1994

Betty Woodman, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Keramische Beelden, Carin Delcourt van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Betty Woodman: Recent Work, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida

1993

Betty Woodman: Balustrades and other Vases, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

Ceramic Sculptures, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland

Il Giardino Dipinto, Het Kruithuis Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; traveled to Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France, 1994

1992

Matrix 119, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

1991

Betty Woodman: Works in Clay, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas

Betty Woodman: Ceramics, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

1990

Francesca Pia Gallery, Berne, Switzerland

Recent Work, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

Opera Selecta: The Work of Betty Woodman, 1975—1990, Het Kruithuis Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; traveled to Musée des Arts Modernes, Aix-le-Bain, France, 1991 (exhibition catalogue)

1989

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California

Betty Woodman: Unique Porcelains, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

1988

Somewhere Between Naples and Denver, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1992 (exhibition catalogue)

Betty Woodman: Recent Work, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California

1987

Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, Colorado

The Ceramics of Betty Woodman, Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri (exhibition catalogue)

1986

Betty Woodman, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California

Susan Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

1985

The Ceramics of Betty Woodman, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania

Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

Presenting Food, FabricWorkshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Betty Woodman: Italian Vases, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

1984

The Aspen Garden Room, Aspen Museum, Aspen, Colorado

Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri (exhibition catalogue)

Betty Woodman, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

1983

Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California

The Houston Room, Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, Texas

Betty Woodman, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

1982

Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles

An Interior Exchanged, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York (Collaboration with Cynthia Carlson)

1981

A Cloistered Arbor Room, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York (Collaboration with Joyce Kozloff)

Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1980

Amalgam Art Limited, London, England

Galleria Pirra, Torino, Italy (exhibition catalogue)

Canvas Constructions and Painted Pots, Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York, New York

Mostly Italian Pots, Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York, New York

Betty Woodman, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota (exhibition catalogue)

1979

Art Latitude, New York, New York

Hills Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1978

Casper College, Casper, Wyoming

Greenwich House Pottery, New York, New York

Lyda Levi Gallery, Milan, Italy

1977

Honor Exhibit, Colorado Women’s College, Denver, Colorado 

Betty Woodman, Emporia State College Art Gallery, Emporia State College, Emporia, Kansas

United States Information Service Gallery, Milan, Italy (exhibition catalogue)

1976

Clay and Fiber Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

1975

Nelson-Fosdick Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon

1974

One Hundred Italian Pots, Boulder, Colorado

1972

Raku, Kunsthandel Ina Broerse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Collaboration with George Woodman)

1970

Salt Glaze, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

1969

Salt Glaze, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

2024

Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 Until Today, Bard Graduate Center, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)

The Invention of Truth, 601Artspace, New York, New York

Full Circle: Celebrating Colorado Women Artists, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

2023

Contemporary Art Rotation – Fall 2023, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Reveal: Recent Acquisitions 2020-2023, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Distant Conversations: Ella Walker and Betty Woodman, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

Parall(elles): A History of Women in Design, Musée des Beaux-Arts Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Celf ar y Cyd on tour, y Gaer, Brecon, Wales

20, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Both, And, KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Betty Woodman and George Woodman, Charleston, Lewes, East Sussex, England

Rounding the Circle: The Maryand Alfred Shands Collection, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Dynamics of Flow, The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky

Threads That Bind: Elucidating Diverse Voices of Womanhood, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri

2022

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contempoary Art, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Art Centre, London, England

Onward and Upward: Shark's Ink, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Celf ar y Cyd on tour, y Gaer, Brecon, Wales

Women’s Work, Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, New York

2022

Handle with Care, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

2021

1st Collection Gallery Exhibition 2021-22, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Tokyo

The Flames: The Age of Ceramics, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France

Interior Scroll or What I Did on My Vacation, S&S Corner Shop, Springs, New York

Craft Front and Center, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Mutual Affection: The Victoria Schonfeld Collection, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Hard/Cover, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

On the Surface: Contemporary Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Richard De Vore and the Teaching Collection, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University

Shapes from Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)

2020

For a Dreamer of Houses, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

The Other 50%: Women’s Voices in the Public Sphere, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University

Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Logan, Utah

2019

Come on baby, light my fire, Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland

Women in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950 – 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972 – 1985, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, California; traveled to Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (exhibition catalogue)

Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (exhibition catalogue)

Les Chemins du Sud, une théorie du mineur, Musée régional d'art contemporain Occitanie, Serignan, France

In Quest of Beauty: Assemblage in the Ahmanson Collection, Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, California

Christian Holstad, Grayson Perry, Tal R, Betty Woodman, Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy

She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York, 1918-2018, Gracie Mansion, New York

Conservancy, New York, New York

2018

About a Vase, Montelupo Fiorentino, Palazzo Podestarile e Prioria di San Lorenzo, International Ceramic Museum, Florence, Italy

By Fire, Ceramic Works, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, New York

Pattern, Decoration and Crime, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; traveled to Le Consortium, Dijon, France (exhibition catalogue)

Fire and Clay: Sylvie Auvray, Shio Kusaka, Takuro Kuwata, Grant Levy-Lucero, Ron Nagle, Sterling Ruby, Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

Taurus and the Awakener, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Vasa Vasorum: The Vase in Contemporary Art and Design, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico

In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950-Now, The Fralin Museum of Art University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Molding / Mark-Making: Ceramic Artists and Their Drawings, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, New York

The Gift of Art, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida

2017

Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

Regarding George Ohr: Contemporary Ceramics in the Spirit of the Mad Potter, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida

Pompei@Madre. Materia Archeologica (Pompei@Madre. Archaeological Matter), MADRE Museum, Naples, Italy

I Go, You Go, Good to Go, UNCLEBROTHER, Hancock, New York

Midtown, organized by Maccarone and Salon 94, Lever House, New York, New York

Please Fasten Your Seat Belt as We Are Experiencing Some Turbulence, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China

Une maison de verre - Le Cirva, Centre international de recherche sur le verre et les arts plastiques, Musée Cantini, Marseile, France

Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors--Part 2: Abstraction, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Les Unes Avec Les Autres, Galerie Du 5E, Marseille, France

Domestic, Truth and Consequences, Geneva, Switzerland

Ref.er.renced, Danese/Corey, New York, New York

2016

A Round About, Present Company, Brooklyn, New York

Liverpool Biennial 2016, Liverpool, England

Infinite Blue, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

Objects of Clay, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska

Passionnément céramique – Collection FrankNievergelt, Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland

2015

CERAMIX: Art and Ceramics from Rodin to Schutte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands; traveled to Sèvres—Cité de la Céramique and La Maison Rouge, Paris, France, 2016

Fragile? An exhibition of contemporary ceramics, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, England

House of Ceramics - Invitation from M, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, South Korea

Vessels, Blackston Gallery, New York, New York

A Peg to Hang It On, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri

Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future: AMOCA’s 10th Anniversary, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

2014

Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, 2014; traveled to: The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2014; The Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio, 2015

Crossing Boundaries: Episode One, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University

Tangents 2 Body/Colour, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

What Would Mrs. Webb Do?, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Craft Matters, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition, National Academy Museum, New York, New York

BIACI - 1st Bienial Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia

Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy Today, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, New York

The Transit of Venus: Four Decades, Front Range Women in the Visual Arts, RedLine, Denver, Colorado

2013

Americana, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida

Spectrum Suite, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, New York

Vessels, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, New York

The Four Woodmans, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York

2012

La Demuere Joyeuse, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland

Playing House, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

The Exhibitionists, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, England

The Woodmans, Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida

Five Decades of Collecting, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska

2011

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections, Auckland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (exhibition catalogue)

Thinking Big: Recent Design Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

2010

50/50 The Dorothy and Herbert VogelCollection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

Better Half, Better Twelfth: Women Artists in the Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska

Betty, Charlie, Francesca & George, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts

Elastic Expressions: Variations in Clay from Colorado Collections, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University

Sèvres, Porcelaines Contemporaines, Menshikov Palace, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Interactions in Clay: Contemporary Explorations of the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Connecticut, D’Amelio Terras, New York, New York

Betty Woodman: ceramics & works on paper / George Woodman: photographs, Harvey /Meadows Gallery, Aspen, Colorado

The 66th Ceramic Annual - 2010, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California (exhibition catalogue)

2009

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Carla Accardi, Sol Lewitt, Betty Woodman, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

Clay Canvases: The Fine Art of Painted Ceramics, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Shark's Ink: The Legend of Bud Shark and His Indelible Ink, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Denver, Colorado

The 184th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, The National Academy Museum, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)

Hot Stuff from the Hothouse: Floral Images from RAM’s Collections, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (exhibition catalogue)

Recent Acquisitions in Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Alice Pratt Brown Gallery, Houston, Texas

2008

Shark’s Ink, Revisited, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Conversations in Clay, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York (exhibition catalogue)

The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)

Outsider, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy

Contemporary Ceramic Art: A Survey, Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen Colorado

Concreta, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo, Italy (exhibition catalogue)

Multi-Part Art: Contemporary Art in the Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

New, Novel and Never Shown Before 2008: Recent Gifts to the Collection (Part 1), Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

2007

Marseille Artistes Associés 1977-2007, La Vieille Charité, Marseille, France (exhibition catalogue)

The Woodman Family, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy (exhibition catalogue)

Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (exhibition catalogue)

An Art of Our Own: Women Ceramicists from the Permanent Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

Innovation & Change: Ceramics from the Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, 2007; traveled to The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2008; J. Wayne Stark Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2008; Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico, 2008; The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, 2008; Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art & Culture, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 2009; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, 2009; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, 2009; Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida, 2010; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, 2010 (exhibition catalogue)

2006

Hot Off the Press: Prints of 2006 from New York Printshops, Grolier Club, New York, New York

The Bong Show or This is Not a Pipe, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, New York

Couples Discourse, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania (exhibition catalogue)

International Architectural Ceramics, Gimhae Culture Foundation Clayarch, Gimhae, Korea

Great Pots: The Vessel as Art, 1900-2000; 20th Century Ceramics from The Newark Museum, UBS Art Gallery, New York, New York

2004

Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collections of Stanford University Alumni and Friends, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California (exhibition catalogue)

Art for a Landmine Free World, Vietnam Veterans' of America Foundation, PaceWildenstein, New York, New York

Design en stock, 2000 objets du Fonds nationald’art contemporain, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France

2003

Skowhegan: Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine

Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Floating Time 2003–Lethe, River of Forgetfulness, Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaages Kunst, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, Part II: Modern Ceramic Art from an International Perspective, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan (exhibition catalogue)

Shared Passion: Sara and David Lieberman Collection of Contemporary Ceramics and Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona (exhibition catalogue)

Clay Works: American Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy, The Newark Museum (exhibition catalogue)

2002

Contemporary American Ceramics, 1950–1990: A Survey of American Objects and Vessels, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi, Japan; traveled to National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Iberaki Prefectural Ceramic Museum; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Art; Setagaya Art Musem, Tokyo; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue)

Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (exhibition catalogue)

Ongoing Contemporary Works Installation, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

2001

Ceramic Continuum: 50 Years of the Archie Bray Influence, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

A Snake in the Garden: Contemporary Approaches to Slipware, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales

World Ceramic Exposition, Ichon World Ceramic Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (exhibition catalogue)

USA Clay, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Le Cirva à 15 ans, Galerie d’art Conseil Génèrale des Bouches-du-Rhone, Aix-en-Provence, France (exhibition catalogue)

2000

Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; traveled to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Kansas, 2000; The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tuscon, Arizona, 2001; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 2001 (exhibition catalogue)

Elbows and Tea Leaves: Front Range Women in the Visual Arts (1974–2000), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado; traveled to Durango Arts Center, Durango, Colorado (exhibition catalogue)

Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina (exhibition catalogue)

Gallerie Beaubourg, Chateau Notre-Dame des Fleurs, Vence, France

1999

Glass on Site, Urban Glass, New York, New York

Choice from America, Modern American Ceramics, Het Kruithuis Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (exhibition catalogue)

Contemporary Art from the Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason Collection, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia (exhibition catalogue)

Dish, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York

The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California (exhibition catalogue)

Clay into Art: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramics Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

1998

La Geste et la Couleur, Une Poetique Ceramique, Biennale Internationale de Ceramique Contemporaine, Musée Magnelli, Vallauris, France (exhibition catalogue)

Vaselle d’Autore per il Vino Novello, Torgiano, Italy

What’s Hot at Shark’s, Foster Gallery at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Betty Woodman / David Bates: Paradox in Paint, Wood, and Clay, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, New Jersey (exhibition catalogue)

1997

Image, Plate, Vessel: Andrew Lord, Ken Price, Betty Woodman, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York

Neo Rimpa II, Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan

The View from Denver, Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria (exhibition catalogue)

Revelations, Musée des Beaux-Arts Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1996

Tuscia Electa: 14 artisti internazionali in Toscana, Comune di Greve, Chianti, Italy

Working Proof: 20 Years of Prints from Shark’s Inc., University of Colorado Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

1995

MATRIX is 20!, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

1994

Working in Other Dimensions: Objects & Drawings II, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas (exhibition catalogue)

La Grande Mela in Toscana, Museo Archeologico, Cortona, Italy

Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia, 1994; traveled to The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, 1995; Rockford Museum of Art, Illinois, 1995; Rahr-West Museum, 1995; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York (exhibition catalogue)

Revolution in Clay: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, 1994; traveled to Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida, 1995; Sunrise Museums, Charleston, West Virginia, 1995; Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1995; Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio, 1995; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, 1996; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, 1996; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, 1996; Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama, 1996 (exhibition catalogue)

1993

In Touch, Olympic Winter Games, Lillehammer, Norway

Outdoor Sculpture Displayed Indoors, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

1992

DeVore, Turner, Woodman & Volkos, Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

Investigations 1992, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

5x7, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York (exhibition catalogue)

1991

The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki-yaki, Japan (exhibition catalogue)

The Painted Vessel, Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, Wales

Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, California

1990

Vessels: from Use to Symbol, American Craft Museum, New York, New York

Featured Artists from the Max Protetch Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina

Par Hazard: A Changing Installation of Recent Acquisitions, Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, New York

1989

Max Protetch Gallery: 20 Years, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York

Craft Today USA, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France

Six Master Craftsmen, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Pots: Focus on Function, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Fragile Blossoms, Enduring Earth: The Japanese Influence on American Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York (exhibition catalogue)

Artful Objects: Recent American Crafts, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana

1988

A Fine Place to Work: The Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation, Arkansas Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas

Power Over the Clay: American Studio Potters, Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, Michigan

A Decade of Pattern, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (exhibition catalogue)

Olympic Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea

Expression in Color: Ceramics, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey (exhibition catalogue)

1987

American Ceramics Now: The 27th Annual Ceramic National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York (exhibition catalogue)

Feats of Clay, Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York

A Decade of Pattern: Prints, Pieces, and Prototypes from the Fabric Workshop, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (exhibition catalogue)

Four Americans at Sévres, American Center, Paris, France (exhibition catalogue)

Contemporary American Ceramics, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea (exhibition catalogue)

A Group Exhibition: Andrew Lord, Ron Nagle, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York

Clay Revisions, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

Homage: 1986 NEA Artist Fellowship Recipients, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Contemporary Ceramics from the Smits Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (exhibition catalogue)

In Celebration of Tea: Selected Artists from America and Canada, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

1986

Architecture of the Vessel, Bevier Art Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (exhibition catalogue)

American Potters Today, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (exhibition catalogue)

Painted Volumes: Ceramics by Twelve Contemporary Artists, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

The Fabric Workshop: A Tradition Continued, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (exhibition catalogue)

McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.

The Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)

Our Domestic Landscape: Craft and Design for the Home, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, 1986; traveled to Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales, 1987; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, England, 1987 (exhibition catalogue)

1985

High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)

Tradition + Innovation: Decorative Art by Castle, Chihuly, Paley, Woodman, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas (exhibition catalogue)

Mary Heilmann/Janice Tchalenko/Betty Woodman, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, New York

Architectural Ceramics: Eight Concepts, American Craft Museum II, New York, New York

Clay, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio 

Dillingham, Turner, Wood, Woodman, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Architectural Ceramics, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

Adornments, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)

1984

Contemporary American Clay, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (exhibition catalogue)

Masters in American Clay, Gallery One, Toronto, Canada

Rituals of Tea, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1 + 1 = 2, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, New York; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

Forms that Function, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York

Image/Vessel/Image, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York

Then and Now, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California

The Year in Review for 1983, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Contemporary Ceramic Vessels: Two Los Angeles Collections, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

1983

Who’s Afraid of American Clay, Het Kruithuis Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

Ornamentalism, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

Ceramic Echoes, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (exhibition catalogue)

Wellesley College of Art Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Clay Invitational 1983, DBR Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

1982

Nonkonformisten, Het Kapelhuis Gallery, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

The Spirit of Orientalism, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, New York (Collaboration with Joyce Kozloff)

Maestri Della Ceramica, Galleria Pirra, Torino, Italy

Painted Pots, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Art Materialized: Selections from the Fabric Workshop, The New Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1982; traveled to The Gibbes Art Gallery,Charleston, South Carolina, 1982; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, 1982; USF Art Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 1983; The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, California, 1983; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada, 1983; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida, 1984 (exhibition catalogue)

1981

Maya Behn Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

The Vessel, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas (exhibition catalogue)

For Tea, Detroit Gallery of Contemporary Crafts, Detroit, Michigan

The New Fauves, Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, Texas (exhibition catalogue)

Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York, New York

Ritual and Function, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island (exhibition catalogue)

Usable Art, Myers Fine Arts Gallery, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, New York; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

1980

Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, Eighth Annual Chunichi International, Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan

For the Tabletop, American Craft Museum, New York, New York; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

Crafts/Sculptures, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (exhibition catalogue)

Contemporary Ceramics: A Response to Wedgewood, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

American Porcelain, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum, Washington, D.C.; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

Contemporary American Potters/New Vessels, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

1979

Thrown Pottery, Amalgam Art Limited, London, England

Colorado Women in the Arts, Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, Colorado (exhibition catalogue)

Clayworks Studio International, Clayworks Studio, New York, New York (Collaboration with Cynthia Carlson)

A Century of Ceramics in the United States, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; traveling exhibition (exhibition catalogue)

Colorado Crafts/Seventeen Views, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Landscapes, Hills Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

International Ceramic Exhibit, Faenza, Italy

1978

Faculty Show, University of Georgia, Cortona, Italy

Portrait of the Woman as a Young Artist, Boulder Art Center, Boulder, Colorado

1977

American Crafts ‘77, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fiber, Metal, Clay: A Contemporary View, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan

National Ceramic Educators Conference Invitational, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado

Functional Ceramics, Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

1976

Eight Professional Potters, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

1974

Second Annual Holiday Ceramic Show, American Crafts Council Gallery, New York, New York

1973

Objects for Preparing Food, American Craft Museum, New York, New York; traveled to Renwick Gallery, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.

1972

Salt Glaze International, American Craft Museum, New York, New York

1971

Betty Woodman & George Woodman, Fine Arts Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

1968

Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, California

1966

XXIV Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica d'Arte, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy (exhibition catalogue)

1963

Lamont Art Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire

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