Biography - Galerie Francesca Pia

1930–2018

born in Norwalk, Connecticut, died in New York, USA

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2023	David Kordansky Gallery, Betty Woodman: Diptychs, Los Angeles Charleston, Betty Woodman and George Woodman, East Sussex
2022	David Kordansky Gallery, Conversations on the Shore, Works from the 1990s, New York
2019	David Kordansky Gallery, Shadow and Silhouettes, Los Angeles
2018	chi K11 art museum, House and Universe, Shanghai
2017	Galerie Hubert Winter, Florentine Interiors, Vienna
2016	Institute of Contemporary Arts, Theatre of the Domestic, London Salon 94 Bowery, Breakfast at the Seashore Lunch in Antella, New York
2015	Museo Marino Marini, Florence David Kordansky Gallery, Illusions of Domesticity, Los Angeles
2014	Galerie Francesca Pia, Interior Views, Zurich
2013	Gallery Diet, Contro Versies Contro Versia an inaccurate history of painting and ceramics, Miami Art Basel, ART UNLIMITED, Basel Salon 94 Freemans, New York Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Of Botticelli, Berlin
2012	David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2011	Salon 94 Bowery, Roman Fresco / Pleasures and Places, New York Gardiner Museum, Betty Woodman: Places, Spaces & Things, Toronto
2010	Tuscia Electa Arte Contemporanea, Three Kilns Occupied by Three Pieces, Impruneta American Academy in Rome, Betty Woodman: Roman Fresco / Pleasures and Places, Rome Harvey Meadows Gallery, Betty Woodman: Ceramics and Works on Paper, Aspen Max Protetch Gallery, Paintings, New York Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
2009	Museo delle Porcellane, Palazzo Pitti, Giardino di Boboli, L’allegra vitalità delle porcellane, Florence
2008	Galerie Besson, Betty Woodman: Trois Grandes Dames III, London Max Protetch Gallery, Rooms and People, New York
2007	Carl Solway Gallery, Betty Woodman: Memories, Cincinatti Gallery Camino Real, Trascending Boundaries, Boca Raton
2006	Denver Art Museum, Somewhere Between Denver and Naples, Denver The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art of Betty Woodman, New York Max Protetch Gallery, Betty Woodman, New York Ariana Museum, Theatres of Betty Woodman, Geneva
2005	Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Theatres of Betty Woodman, Lisbon (travel to Ariana Museum, Geneva, 2006) Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Il giardino dipinto, Providence Max Protetch Gallery, New York
2003	Frank Lloyd Gallery, Recent Work, Santa Monica Max Protetch Gallery, Souvenirs, New York
2002	Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri Montclair Art Museum, Two Bronze Benches and Four Ceramic Pictures of Korean Paintings, Montclair
2001	Max Protetch Gallery, New York
2000	Centro d’Arte La Loggia, Betty Woodman & Robert Barni: due vasi, Monterfiridolfi Mizel Arts Center at the JCC, Pots Paper Prints, Denver Max Protetch Gallery, Clay, Bronze, Paper, New York Art Resources Transfer, A Conversation with Pat Steir, New York Franklin Parrasch Gallery, Works from the 1980s, New York
1999	Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge Bethel College, Recent Work of Prints and Vases, St. Paul CIRVA, Betty Woodman: Glass, Marseille
1998	Max Protetch Gallery, New York Provincial Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende
1997	Max Protetch Gallery, New York Travels to Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Musée d’Art Contemporain, Dunkerque
1996	Max Protetch Gallery, New York Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1995	Denver Art Museum, Denver International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza
1994	Carin Delcourt van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam Max Protetch Gallery, New York Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Il Giardino Dipinto, Paris
1993	Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern Max Protetch Gallery, New York Het Kruithuis Museum, Il Giardino Dipinto, 's-Hertogenbosch
1992	Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Institute Contemporary Art, Somewhere Between Naples and Denver, Philadelphia
1991	Johnson County Community College, Betty Woodman: Works in Clay, Overland Park Musée des Arts Modernes, Opera Selecta: The Work of Betty Woodman, Aix-le-Bain
1990	Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern Max Protetch Gallery, Recent Work, New York Het Kruithuis, Opera Selecta: The Work of Betty Woodman, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
1989	The Museum of Modern Art, Lobby Project: Betty Woodman, New York Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco Max Protetch Gallery, Unique Porcelains, New York
1988	Denver Art Museum, Somewhere Between Naples and Denver, Denver Max Protetch Gallery, Recent Work, New York Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco The Museum of Modern Art, Lobby Project: Betty Woodman / Three Palace Matrons, New York
1987	Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder Carlton College, Northfield, Minnesota Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
1986	Max Protetch Gallery, New York Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco Susan Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham
1985	Freeman Gallery – Albright College, The Ceramics of Betty Woodman, Reading Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida Fabric Workshop, Presenting Food, Philadelphia (collaboration with Daniela Mattroce) Max Protetch Gallery, Italian Vases, New York
1984	Aspen Museum, The Aspen Garden Room, Aspen Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1983	Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles Hadler / Rodriguez Gallery, The Houston Room, Houston Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1982	Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles Fashion Institute of Technology, An Interior Exchanged, collaboration with Cynthia Carlson, New York
1981	Bennington College, A Cloistered Arbor Room, Vermont Tibor de Nagy Gallery, collaboration with Joyce Kozloff, New York Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
1980	Amalgam Art Limited, London Galleria Pirra, Torino Hadler / Rodriguez Gallery, Canvas Constructions and Painted Pots, New York Hadler / Rodriguez Gallery, Mostly Italian Pots, New York Rochester Art Center, Rochester
1979	Art Latitude, New York Hills Gallery, Santa Fe
1978	Casper College, Casper, Wyoming Greenwich House Pottery, New York Lyda Levi Gallery, Milan
1977	Colorado Women’s College, Honor Exhibit, Denver Kansas State College, Emporia, Kansas United States Information Service Gallery, Milan
1976	Clay and Fiber, Taos
1975	Nelson-Fosdick Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland
1974	Boulder, One Hundred Italian Pots, Colorado
1972	Kunsthandel Ina Broerse, Raku, Amsterdam (collaboration with George Woodman)
1970	Joslyn Art Museum, Salt Glaze, Omaha
1969	Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, Salt Glaze, Helena

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2022	MAD Museum of Arts and Design, Flower Craft, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, Making Knowing: Craft in Art 1950–2019, New York
2021	Fabric Workshop and Museum, Hard/Cover, Philadelphia Metropolitan Museum of Art, Shapes from Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, New York
2019	The Museum of Contemporary Art, With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, Los Angeles ICA, Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Boston MRAC, Les Chemins du Sud, Sérignan Gracie Manion, She Persists: A Century of Women, New York Consortium Museum, Pattern, Decoration & Crime, Dijon
2018	MAMCO, Pattern, Decoration & Crime, Geneva David Kordansky Gallery, Taurus and the Awakener, Los Angeles Shedhalle, Studio Eine Phantastik, Zurich
2017	Massimo De Carlo, Home. Homage to Colin de Land, Milano Truth & Consequences, Domestic, Geneva Danes/Corey, Referenced, New York
2016	Lorcan O’Neill, Kiki Smith, Betty Woodman, Rome
2014	BIACI, 1st Bienial Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Cartagena Lori Bookstein Fine Art, Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy Today, New York
2013	Nina Freudenheim Gallery, The Four Woodmans, Buffalo The Horticultural Society of New York, Vessels, New York Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Spectrum Suite, New York
2012	Galerie Francesca Pia, La Demeure Joyeuse II, Zurich Brooklyn Museum, Playing House, Brooklyn Gallery Diet, The Woodmans, Miami
2011	Victoria and Albert Museum, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, London Auckland Art Museum/ The University of North California at Chapel Hill, Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections, Chapel Hill
2010	Samson Projects, Betty, Charlie, Francesca & George, Boston The Menshikov Palace, The Hermitage Museum, Sèvres, Porcelaines Contemporaines, St. Petersburg The Clay Studio at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Interactions, Philadelphia D’Amelio Terras, Connecticut, New York
2009	Museum of Modern Art, Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collections, New York Galleria Massimo Minini, Carla Acardi, Sol LeWitt, Betty Woodman, Brescia Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, The Legend of Bud Shark and his Indelible Ink, Denver Institute of Contemporary Art/ The Walker Art Center, Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay, Philadelphia/ Minneapolis
2008	Foster Gallery, Shark’s Ink, Revisited, Eau Claire Katonah Museum of Art, Conversations in Clay, Katonah The National Academy Museum, The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, New York Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Outsider, Bologna Harvey / Meadows Gallery, Contemporary Ceramic Art: A Survey, Aspen Palazzo Pretorio, Concreta, Certaldo The RISD Museum, Multi Part Art: Contemporary Art in the Collection, Providence Racine Art Museum, New, Novel and Never Shown Before 2008: Recent Gifts to the Collection (Part I), Wisconsin
2007	La Vieille Carité, Marseille Artistes Associés 1977-2007, Marseille Bagiotti Progetto Arte, The Woodman Family, Florence Museum of Fine Arts, Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection, Boston
2006	The Grolier Club, Hot Off the Press Prints of 2006 From New York Printshops, New York Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, The Bong or This Is Not a Pipe, New York Palmer Museum of Art, Couples Discourse, University Park Gimhae Culture Foundation Clayarch, International Architectural Ceramics, Gimhae The USB Art Gallery, Great Pots: The Vessel as Art, 1900-2000; 20th Century Ceramics from the Newark Museum, New York
2004	Iris and B. Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art form the Collections of Stanford University Alumni and Friends, Stanford Vietnam Veteran’s of America Foundation, Pace Gallery, Art for a Landmine Free World, New York
2003	Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine, Skowhegan: Faculty Exhibition, Portland Denver Art Museum, Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaages Kunst, Floating Time 2003-Lethe, River of Forgetfulness, ‘s-Hertogenbosch Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, Part II: Modern Ceramics Art from an International Perspective, Gifu Arizona State University Art Museum, Shared Passion: Sara and David Lieberman Collection of Contemporary Ceramics and Art, Tempe Everson Museum of Art, Clay Works: American Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
2002	Aichi Preferctural Ceramics Museum/ National Museum of Modern Art/ Iberaki Prefectural Ceramic Museum/ Nilgata Prefectural Museum of Art/ Setagaya Art Musem/ Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Contemporary American Ceramics, 1950-1990: A Survey of American Objects and Vessels, Aichi/ Kyoto/ Tokyo/ Fukuoka Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary, Philadelphia
2001	Holter Museum of Art, Ceramics Continuum: 50 Years of the Archie Bray Influence, Helena Aberystwyth Arts Centre, University of Wales, A Snake in the Garden: Contemporary Approaches to Slipware, Wales World Ceramic Exposition, World Ceramic Centre, Ichon Smithsonian American Art Museum/ Renwick Gallery, USA Clay, Washington Galerie d’art Conseil Génèrale des Bouches-du-Rhone, La Cirva à 15 ans, Aix-en-Provence
2000	Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los Angeles Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Elbows and Tea Leaves: Front Range Women in the Visual Arts (1974–2000), Boulder
1999	Urban Glass, Glass on Site, New York Het Kruithuis Museum, Choice from America, Modern American Ceramics, ‘s-Hertogenbosch Hand Workshop Art Center, Contemporary Art From the Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason Colection, Richmond Franklin Parrash Gallery, Dish, New York M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, San Francisco The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Clay into Art: Selections from the Contempoary Ceramics Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1998	Biennale Internationale de Ceramique Contemporaine, Musée Magnelli, Le Geste et la Couleur, Une Poetique Ceramique, Vallauris Vaselle d’Autore per il Vino Novello, Torgiano Foster Gallery at University of Wisconsin, What’s Hot at Shark’s, Eau Claire
1997	Franklin Parrash Gallery, Image, Plate, Vessel, Andrew Lord, Ken Price, Betty Woodman, New York Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, View From Denver, Vienna
1996	Comune di Greve in Chianti, Tuscia Electa, Italy University of Colorado Art Galleries, Working Proof: 20 Years of Prints from Shark’s Inc., Boulder
1995	Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
1994	Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Staten Island Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
1993	Olympic Winter Games, In Touch, Lillehammer
1992	Greenberg Gallery, DeVore, Turner, Woodman & Volkos, St. Louis Institute of Contemporary Art – University of Pennsylvania, Investigations 1992, Philadelphia
1991	The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki-yaki Oriel Gallery, The Painted Vessel, Cardiff, Wales
1990	American Craft Museum, Vessels from Use to Symbol, New York Weatherspoon Art Gallery – University of North Carolina, Featured Artists From the Max Protetch Gallery, Greensboro Douglas Drake Gallery, Par Hazard: A Changing Installation of Recent Acquisitions, New York
1989	Max Protetch Gallery, Max Protetch Gallery: 20 Years, New York Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Craft Today USA, Paris Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Six Master Craftsmen, Buffalo University of Minnesota, Pots: Focus on Function, Minneeapolis Everson Museum of Art, Fragile Blossoms, Enduring Earth: The Japanese Influence On American Ceramics, Syracuse
1988	The Arkansas Decorative Arts Museum, A Fine Place to Work: The Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation, Little Rock Detroit Art Institute, Power Over the Clay: American Studio Potters, Detroit. Institute of Contemporary Art – University of Pennsylvania, A Decade of Pattern, Philadelphia Olympic Arts Festival, Seoul
1987	Everson Museum of Art, American Ceramics Now: The 27th Annual Ceramic National, Syracuse Newhouse Gallery – Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Feats of Clay, Staten Island American Center, Four Americans at Sévres, Paris The National Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary American Ceramics, Seoul Charles Cowles Gallery, A Group Exhibition: Andrew Lord, Ron Nagle, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, New York Seattle Art Museum, Clay Revisions, Seattle Garth Clark Gallery, Homage: 1986 NEA Artist Fellowship Recipients, Los Angeles
1986	Bevier Art Galler – Rochester Institute of Technology, Architecture of Vessel, Rochester Victoria and Albert Museum, American Potters Today, London The Crysler Museum, Painted Volumes: Ceramics by Twelve Artists, Norfolk Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, The Fabric Workshop: A Tradition Continued, Philadelphia American Crafts Museum, The Poetry of the Physical, New York
1985	Whitney Museum of American Art, High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design, New York Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Tradition + Innovation: Decorative Art by Castkem Chihuly, Paley, Woodman, Austin Blum Helman Gallery, Mary Heilmann/Janice Tchalenko/Betty Woodman, New York American Crafts Museum II, Architectural Ceramics: Eight Concepts, New York Dayton Art Institute, Clay, Dayton New Mexico State University, Dillingham, Turner, Wood, Woodman, Las Cruces Gallery of Art – Washington University, Architectural Ceramics, St. Louis Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Adornments, New York
1984	Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary American Clay, Boston Gallery One, Masters in American Clay, Toronto Garth Clark Gallery, Rituals of Tea, Los Angeles Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, 1+1=2, New York Katonah Gallery, Forms that Function, Katonah Garth Clark Gallery, Image / Vessel / Image, New York Garth Clark Gallery, Then and Now, Los Angeles
1983	Het Kruithuis Museum, Who’s Afraid of American Clay, s-Hertogenbosch Hudson River Museum, Ornamentalism, Yonkers Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Ceramic Echos, Kansas City Wellesley College of Art Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts DBR Gallery, Clay Invitational 1983, Cleveland
1982	Het Kapelhuis Gallery, Nonkonformisten, Amersfoort Neuberger Museum – State University of New York at Purchase, The Spirit of Orientalism, Purchase Galleria Pirra, Maestri della Ceramica, Torino Garth Clark Gallery, Painted Pots, Los Angeles
1981	Maya Behn Gallery, Zurich Delahunty Gallery, The Vessel, Dallas Detroit Gallery of Contemporary Crafts, For Tea, Detroit Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, The New Fauves, Houston Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Ritual ans Function, Providence Myers Fine Arts Gallery – State University College of New York at Plattsburgh, Usable Art, Plattsburgh
1980	Ceramics at the Eighth Annual Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, Nagoya, Tokyo American Craft Museum, For the Tabletop, New York Carnegie-Mellon University, Crafts / Sculptures, Pittsburgh Moore College of Art, Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection, Philadelphia Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Contemporary Ceramics: A Response to Wedgewood, Philadelphia Renwick Sculpture Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, American Porcelain, Washington D.C. Iowa State University, Contemporary American Potters / New Vessels, Iowa
1979	Amalgam Art Limited, Thrown Pottery, London Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado Women in the Arts, Arvada Clayworks Studio, Clayworks Studio International, New York Everson Museum of Art, A Century of Ceramics in the United States, Syracuse Denver Art Museum, Colorado Crafts / Seventeen Views, Denver Hills Gallery, Landscapes, Santa Fe International Ceramic Exhibit, Faenza
1978	Faculty Show, University of Georgia, Cortona
1977	Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Crafts ’77, Philadelphia University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Fiber, Metal, Clay: A Contemporary View, Ann Arbor National Ceramic Educators Conference Invitational, University of Northem Colorado, Greeley Yaw Gallery, Functional Ceramics, Birmingham
1976	Kansas City Art Institute, Eight Professional Potters, Kansas City
1974	American Crafts Council, Christmas 1974 Exhibition, New York
1973	The American Craft Museum/ Renwick Gallery/ National Museum of Art, Objects for Preparing Food, New York/ Washington D.C.
1972	The American Craft Museum, Salt Glaze International, New York
1968	Scripps College, Ceramic Annual, Claremont

Awards

2014	Gold Medal for Consumate Craftmanship, The American Craft Coucil
2010	National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
2009	Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2008	Lifetime Achievement Award, Brooklyn Museum/Modernism Design Award, Brooklyn, New York National Academician, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York Dunwiddie Prize, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York
2007	Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
2006	Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2004	Premio Internazionale Vietri sul Mare, Fondazione Museo Artistico Industriale, Salerno, Italy
2000	Honorary Fellow, National Council of Educators in Ceramic Arts
1998	The Visionary Award of The American Craft Museum, New York
1995	Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio
1993	Distinguished Research & Creative Lectureship, University of Colorado, Boulder
1987	Governor’s Award in the Arts, Colorado
1986	National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1980	National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1966	Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to Florence

Special Projects

2013	Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland
2013	Alessandro’s Room, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland
2012	River Views, commissioned installation at the Christopher S. Bond U.S. Courthouse, Jefferson City A Visit to Rome, privately commissioned bronze fountain installation, sculpture garden, Perugia
2008	Chinese Pleasure, commissioned installation, U.S. Embassy, Beijing
2000	City Hall, Mercatale, painted building, commissioned by the city of Mercatale
1993	Installation at Denver International Airport, commissioned by Denver International Airport
1988	Lobby Project, installation of vases in the museum lobby, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1989, 1991)

Permanent Collections (selection)

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
International Ceramic Museum, Faenza, Italy
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
World Ceramic Center, Ichon, Korea
Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada