Betty Woodman

Betty Woodman (born May 14, 1930 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is a contemporary ceramic artists.^[1] She began her professional career in the 1950s as a production potter.

Woodman is currently represented by Salon 94 gallery and lives and works in New York City and Antella, Italy.

Awards and honors

Woodman has received awards and honors in the field, including the following:^[2]

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1980,1986)
• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy (1995)
• Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to Florence Italy (1996)
• Doctor of Fine Arts Honors Causa from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2006)
• Doctor of Human Letters Honoris Causa from the University of Colorado Boulder (2007)
• Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (2009)
• Gold Medal for Consummate Craftmanship, American Craft Council Awards (2014)^[3]

Exhibitions

Woodman has exhibited at museums and galleries in the United State and internationally, including the following:

• 'Theaters of Betty Woodman' at the Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon (2005) and the Musée Ariana, Geneva (2006)
• 'The Art of Betty Woodman' a retrospective exhibition of her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2006)^[4]
• 'Betty Woodman: Roman Fresco / Pleasures and Places' first exhibited at the American Academy in Rome (2010)
• 'Illusions of Domesticity' at the David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2015)^[5]
• 'Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, 2016^[6]

Collections

Woodman’s work is part of some public collections, including the following:

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston^[7]
• Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^[8]
• Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
• Museum of Modern Art, New York^[9]
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York^[10]
• National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.^[11]
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA^[12]
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London^[13]

Other contributions

In the 1991 documentary Thinking Out Loud, Woodman is interviews by curator and painter John Perreault. In 2006 the monograph, Betty Woodman,^[14] was produced in conjunction with her retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it includes curatorial essays by Janet Koplos, Barry Schwabsky, and Arthur Danto.

References

1. ↑ "Betty Woodman biography presented by". www.franklloyd.com. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
2. ↑ Familiar-Studio.com, Familiar,. "Betty Woodman - Salon 94". Salon94. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
3. ↑ "Masters: Betty Woodman | American Craft Council". craftcouncil.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
4. ↑ "The Art of Betty Woodman | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
5. ↑ "David Kordansky Gallery". davidkordanskygallery.com. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
6. ↑ "Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic | Institute of Contemporary Arts". www.ica.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
7. ↑ "Pillow Pitcher". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
8. ↑ "Betty Woodman | Deco Lake Shore | The Met". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
9. ↑ "Betty Woodman | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
10. ↑ "Whitney Museum of American Art: Betty Woodman". collection.whitney.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
11. ↑ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
12. ↑ Art, Philadelphia Museum of. "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Diptych Vases, Orpheus". www.philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
13. ↑ "Pillow Vase | Woodman, Betty | V&A Search the Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-02. 
14. ↑ Woodman, Betty (2006-01-01). Betty Woodman. Monacelli Press. ISBN 9781580931687. 

External links

• Betty Woodman at 15th Street Gallery
• Betty Woodman at Galerie Francesca Pia
• Betty Woodman at Salon 94
• Betty Woodman at the American Museum of Ceramic Art