exhibitions
"Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic," 3 February - 10 April 2016
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Photo: Mark Blower
Exhibition Spotlight
Charleston, East Sussex, UK
March 25 - September 10, 2023
Solo Exhibitions
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
2013
CONTRO VERSIES CONTRO VERSIA: an inaccurate history of painting and ceramics, Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida
Of Botticelli, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
Betty Woodman: Windows, Carpets and Other Paintings, Salon 94 Freemans, New York, New York
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
Paintings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York
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
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
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York
2003
Recent Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
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
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
Recent Work in Ceramic, Glass from CIRVA, Marseille, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York
1997
A Winter Garden, Mostly Italian, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York
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
Keramische Beelden, Carin Delcourt van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Recent Work, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida
1993
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
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
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)
Recent Work, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987
Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, Colorado
Carleton College, Northfield, Massachusetts
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri (exhibition catalogue)
1986
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
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)
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York
1983
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Houston Room, Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, Texas
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
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
Kansas 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
Group Exhibitions
2024
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
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
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, 2010
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, organized by The Clay Studio at the 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
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
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
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; Nilgata 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, World Ceramic Centre, Ichon, 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
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, 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
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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, NY, 1995; Rockford Museum of Art, Illinois, 1995; Rahr-West Museum, 1995; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York (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)
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
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, 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)
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)
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
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
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
Christmas 1974 Exhibition, American Crafts Council, 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
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