DAVIS, CA.- Woody De Othello's major solo exhibition, "coming forth by day," opens at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis on August 12.

"coming forth by day" is designed as an embodied, sensory experience featuring ceramic, wood, stone, and glass sculptures, a sound score, and custom scents alongside a new bronze sculpture commissioned for the University. The exhibition is organized by Susie Kantor, Associate Curator & Exhibition Department Head.

Originating at Pérez Art Museum Miami, the exhibition was curated by PAMM Curator Jennifer Inacio, with the support of Curatorial Assistant Fabiana A. Sotillo, and is accompanied by a hardcover monograph with essays by Inacio, PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, curator Jareh Das, and interviews by Dionne Lee and Larry Ossei-Mensah.





Woody De Othello (b. 1991, Miami, FL) holds an MFA from the California College of Arts, San Francisco and BFA from Florida Atlantic University. His first solo museum exhibition, presented by Pérez Art Museum Miami, will travel to the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in fall 2026. Othello’s work was included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at SFMOMA, San Francisco; Hayward Gallery, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C., among others. Othello has enjoyed large-scale public art commissions, including at San Francisco International Airport, de Young Museum, Brooklyn Bridge Park (organized by Public Art Fund), and John F. Kennedy Airport, which is slated to open in 2026. His work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art; PAMM; SFMOMA; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Seattle Art Museum; LACMA, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Aishti Foundation, Beirut; MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy, and many more. Othello lives and works in Oakland, CA. He is represented by Karma and Jessica Silverman.