Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, 1930 - 2018
selected solo shows
- 2018 —The House and The Universe, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai
- —David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2017 —Florentine Interiors, Galerie Hubert Winter, Austria
- 2016 —Theatre of the Domestic, ICA, London
- 2015 —Betty Woodman, Museo Marino Marini, Florence
- —Betty Woodman, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paolo
- —Illusions of Domesticity, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2014 —Interior Views, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
- 2013 —CONTRO VERSIES CONTRO VERSIA: an inaccurate history of painting and ceramics, Gallery Diet, Miami
- —Of Botticelli, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
- —Windows, Carpets and Other Paintings, Salon 94 Freemans, New York
- 2012 —Betty Woodman, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham
- 2011 —Roman Fresco / Pleasures and Places, Salon 94 Bowery, New York
- —Betty Woodman: Front/Back, Salon 94, New York
- —Betty Woodman: Places, Spaces & Things, Gardiner Museum, Toronto
- —Betty Woodman: Roman Fresco/Pleasures and Places, American Academy in Rome, Rome
- 2009 —Museo Delle Porcellane, Palazzo Pitti, Giardino di Boboli, Florence
- —Galleria Bagnai, Florence
- 2008 —Betty Woodman, Galerie Besson, London
- 2006 —Somewhere Between Denver and Naples, Denver Art Museum, Denver
- —The Art of Betty Woodman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
- —Theatres of Betty Woodman, Ariana Museum, Geneva
- 2005 —Theatres of Betty Woodman, Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon
- —Il Giardino Dipinto and Drawings, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
- 1999 —Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa
- —Betty Woodman: Glass, CIRVA, Marseille
- —Provincial Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende
- 1997 —Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
- —Musée d’Art Contemporain, Dunkerque
- 1996 —Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- 1995 —Denver Art Museum, Denver
- —International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza
- 1994 —Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- —Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
- 1993 —Il Giardino Dipinto, Het Kruithuis Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
- 1992 —Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
- —Somewhere Between Naples and Denver, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
- 1991 —Opera Selecta: The Work of Betty Woodman, 1975–1990, Musée des Arts Modernes, Aix-le-Bain
- 1990 —Opera Selecta: The Work of Betty Woodman, 1975–1990, Het Kruithuis Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
- 1988 —Somewhere Between Naples and Denver, Denver Art Museum, Denver
- 1985 —The Ceramics of Betty Woodman, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading
- —Presenting Food, FabricWorkshop, Philadelphia
- 1984 —The Aspen Garden Room, Aspen Museum, Aspen
- —Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
- 1982 —An Interior Exchanged, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
- 1981 —A Cloistered Arbor Room, Bennington College, Bennington
Selected Group Shows
- 2014 —Tangents 2 Body/Colour, Stedelijk Museum, s-Hertogenbosch
- —What Would Mrs. Webb Do?, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
- —Craft Matters, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
- —The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition, National Academy Museum, New York
- —Art Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
- —Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann's Legacy Today, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
- 2013 —Spectrum Suite, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
- —Vessels, The Horticultural Society of New York, New York
- —The Four Woodmans, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
- 2012 —La Demuere Joyeuse, Galeria Francesca Pia, Zurich
- —Playing House, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
- —The Woodmans, Gallery Diet, Miami
- 2011 —Postmodernism: Style and Su, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- —Carolina Collects: 150 Years, Auckland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
- 2010 —Betty, Charlie, Francesca &javascript:; George, Samson Projects, Boston
- —Sèvres, Porcelaines Contemporaines, The Menshikov Palace, The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
- —Interactions, Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
- 2009 —Carla Acardi, Sol LeWitt, Betty Woodman, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
- —Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- 2008 —Conversations in Clay, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
- —Concreta, Palazo Pretorio, Certaldo
- 2007 —The Woodman Family, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence
- 2002 —Contemporary American Ceramics, 1950–1990: A Survey of American Objects and Vessels, Aichi Preferctural Ceramic Museum, Aichi
- —Contemporary American, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
- —Contemporary American Ceramics, 1950–1990: A Survey of American Objects and Vessels, Nilgata Prefectural Museum of Art, Nilgata
- —Contemporary American Ceramics, 1950–1990: A Survey of American Objects and Vessels, Setagaya Art Musem, Tokyo
- —Contemporary American Ceramics, 1950–1990: A Survey of American Objects and Vessels, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka
- —Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia