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DeWitt Godfrey

Peter L. and Maria T. Kellner Endowed Chair in the Arts, Creativity and Innovation; Professor of Art

Department/Office Information

Art
301 Little Hall
  • TR 5:00pm - 7:00pm (301 Little Hall)
  • BA, Yale University, 1982
  • MFA, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1996
  • Assistant professor, Amherst College, 1999-2003
  • Visiting assistant professor, Mt. Holyoke College, 2003
  • Adjunct assistant professor, Hofstra University, 1997
  • University of Georgia, Studies Abroad, 2001
  • Sculpture
  • Public art

 

  • Sculpture and installation
  • Contemporary art
  • Art practice pedagogy
  • Science and art
  • Relational aesthetics
  • Public art
  • Lived and worked in Japan, Scotland, and London
  • Traveled in East and South Asia and Europe

Self-employed contractor, project manager, superintendent, carpenter, 1982-1999

  • Henry Luce Scholar, Tokyo, Japan, 1989-90
  • Fulbright Scholar, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1994-96
  • Artist Fellow, Japan Foundation, Stone Museum, Aji-cho, Konagawa, Japan 1994

 

Commissions
 

2019                Collyer Park, Longmont Public Art Commission, Longmont, CO 
                        Viestenz-Smith, Park Loveland Arts Council, Loveland, CO

2018                Blake, commissioned by private collector, Kensington, NH
                        Reston, commissioned by Toll Brothers, Reston, VA

2017                Folly, commissioned by private collector, Ghent, NY

2016                Enspire, Traverse City Public Art Commission, Traverse City, MI 

2015                Rays, and Sawyer, commissioned by private collector, Kensington, VT
                        Sealte commissioned by Syracuse University and the City of Syracuse,
                        
Syracuse, NY 
                        Capital, commissioned by Woolf Group, Pike Motor Works, Seattle, WA
                        Quake, commissioned by the Public Art Office, Cambridge Arts Council,
                        
Cambridge, MA

2014                Odin, commissioned by the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute,
                        51风流, Hamilton, NY

2011                Concordia, commissioned by Lexarts and Leadership Lexington,
                        Downtown Arts Center, Lexington, KY

2009                Greenwich South, commissioned by The Alliance for Downtown New York
                        to participate in a visioning study that presents ways to transform the 23 
                        blocks south of the World Trade Center鈥攌nown as Greenwich South. The
                        study was led by Architecture Research Office with Beyer Blinder Belle
                        Architects & Planners and Open, LLC. 

2007                Claverack, private commission for the Kaufman/Berger Residence
                        Philmont, NY

Year      Exhibitions
2010 Kennedy Art Museum, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2007 Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Sculpture Court, Cazenovia, NY
2006

Pamplona Rockingham Arts and Music Project, Bellows Falls, VT; The Lot, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut; Caf茅 Pamplona and CAC Gallery, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA

2004

Picker Sculpture, The Picker Gallery, 51风流, Hamilton, NY; Black + White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Driggs Sculpture, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; Eli Marsh Gallery, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

2002 Driggs Sculpture, Black + White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Amherst Drawings, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1998

Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas (also 1997, 1992 and 1987)
CAM Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York, NY; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1991 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1988 R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York City, NY
1986

Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, Houston, TX (also 1984)

Year Exhibitions
2012

Lincoln,  DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

2010

鈥淪alon des Refuses - Sights Unseen鈥 Stuart Keeler, Public Art Network Conference

鈥淭he Other End of the Line鈥 Friends of the Highline, NY

2008

鈥淏altimore Sculpture Project鈥 Baltimore, MD

鈥淎rt in the Public Sphere: Singular Works, Plural Possibilities鈥 University Gallery, UMass Amherst, MA

鈥淔aculty Show,鈥 Clifford Gallery, Little Hall, 51风流, Hamilton, NY

2007 鈥淪arasota Season of Sculpture no. 4鈥 Sarasota, FL
2006

鈥淪culpture Space Inside Out,鈥 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

鈥淧amplona,鈥 鈥淪ome Sculpture: Albee鈥檚 Choice,鈥 Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY

鈥淔aculty Show,鈥 Clifford Gallery, 51风流, Hamilton, NY

2005

鈥淪ummer Selections,鈥 The Fields Sculpture Park, Art OMI International

鈥淏eyond/In Western New York,鈥 Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2004 鈥淒rawings by Sculptors鈥 Black + White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002

鈥淔ive x Ten: Five College Advanced Drawing Faculty Show,鈥 Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst, MA

鈥2002 International Sculpture Symposium,鈥 Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania 

鈥淟abyrinths,鈥 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

鈥淔aculty and Student Show鈥 Cortona Studies Abroad Program 2000 - 01, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2001 鈥淭he Fields Sculpture Park,鈥 Art OMI International, Ghent, NY
2000

鈥淚I Sculpture Simposium Ciudad Empresarial,鈥 Ciudad Empresial, Santiago, Chile

鈥淥nce Removed,鈥 Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY

鈥淐onfluence: artist鈥檚 books at five myles,鈥 five myles gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1999

鈥5 College Faculty Exhibition,鈥 Smith College, Northampton, MA

鈥淴CXL: eXquisite Corpse eXtra Large,鈥 20th Anniversary Exhibit, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

1998

鈥淪culpture Annual,鈥 Art Omi, Omi, NY

鈥淔aculty Exhibition,鈥 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

1996 鈥淓dinburgh Festival Exhibition,鈥 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
1995 鈥淪ociety of Scottish Artists Annual,鈥 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1994

鈥淎nnual,鈥 Stone Museum, Aji-cho, Kagawa-ken, Japan

鈥淥ut of This World,鈥 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1993

鈥淒arkness + Light, Twentieth-Century Works from Texas Collections,鈥 Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX

鈥淚nk and Wash: Drawings...,鈥 Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

1992 鈥淪ingular and Plural, Recent Accessions, Drawings and Prints, 1945-1991,鈥 MFA Houston, Houston, TX
1991 鈥淎nother Dimension: Drawings by Six Contemporary Sculptors,鈥 Met Life Gallery, New York, NY
1990 鈥淒rawing and Space,鈥 Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan
1989 鈥淧rivate Eye: Selections from Private Collections,鈥 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1988

鈥淪elections from the Edward Albee Collection,鈥 Freedman Gallery, Albright College, PA

鈥淚nnovations in Sculpture: 1985-1988,鈥 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Catalogue 

鈥淒irection and Diversity, Works from the Permanent Collection,鈥 MFA Houston, Houston, TX

鈥淎rt on the Beach,鈥 Creative Time, Long Island City, NY

1986 鈥淭hird Western States Biennial,鈥 Western States Art Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1985

鈥淐harcoal Drawings: 1880-1985,鈥 Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX. catalogue

鈥淗ouston Festival: The Bayou Show,鈥 Houston, TX

鈥淪outhwest 鈥85,鈥 Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM. catalogue

1984

鈥淒rawings,鈥 D.W. Gallery, Dallas, TX

鈥淭he Third Coast Show,鈥 Midtown Art Center, Houston, TX. catalogue 

鈥淭exas Only,鈥 Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX

  • President of the College Art Association
  • Secretary to the Board of Directors, College Art Association