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My life's goal as an artist is to unlock the secrets to the oldest stories and create new ones.
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OLETHA DeVANE is an accomplished multidisciplinary artist who explores diverse political, social identities and cultural interpretations. Her work has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in the United Arab Emirates. The Reginald F. Lewis Museum commissioned her to create a permanent video installation documenting Maryland’s history of lynching. The piece was inspired by an earlier silent video installation of the same subject at Maryland Art Place (2002). Her work is in permanent museum collections and she has exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of the Bible in NY, Museum of the Americas, DC. Homewood Museum at JHU recently purchased a “Harriet Tubman” print for their collection. Born in Baltimore, DeVane received a B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and M.F.A. from the University of Mass, in Amherst. Articles about her work have appeared in issues of the B’more Art Magazine, JHU’s periodical in MD. and Washington Post. She is among the first African-American artists invited to be an Artist-in-Residence in Abu Dhabi, UAE, was an Artist in Residence, Banff, Canada and Lecce in Italy. All of her travel and research informs her work. She lives in Ellicott City, MD with her family where she maintains her studio.
Afro-American Women in Art
FAMU Gallery – Tallahassee, FL
Ten Abstract Painters
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts – Springfield, MA
One Person Exhibition
Catonsville Community College Gallery – Baltimore, MD
Group Exhibition (Olivia Georgia-curator)
Maryland Art Place – Baltimore, MD
Joyce Scott & Oletha DeVane
Ohio State University Gallery – Wilberforce, OH
Group Exhibition
Meridith Art Gallery – Baltimore, MD
Visual AIDS (George Ciscle -curator)
Museum for Contemporary Arts – Baltimore, MD
New Works Exhibition (Faith Ringgold and Clarrisa Sligh-curators)
School 33 Art Center – Baltimore, MD
MAP-Benefit Exhibition (Susan Badder – curator)
Maryland Art Place – Baltimore, MD
One Person Exhibition
Western Maryland College – Westminster, MD
Group show–Marketplace
National Black Arts Festival – Atlanta, GA
Five Baltimore Artists
Maryland Art Place
God Bless the Child: Tribute to Billie Holliday
Eubie Blake National Museum and Cultural Center – Baltimore, MD
Women Image Women
Life of Maryland Gallery – Owings Mills, MD
“What We Need To Know About Art” Travelling Exhibition: Shroeder Cherry,
Oletha DeVane, Angela Franklin
Maryland Art Place – Baltimore, MD
De Vane, Ford, Jones, Moore, Pierleoni
Chesapeake Gallery – Harford, MD
Inside/Outside
Howard County Center of the Arts – Ellicott City, MD
Through the Fire to the Limits
African American Artists in Maryland – Annapolis, MD
Selected Work by Doreen Bolger Maryland Women
Government House – Annapolis, MD
Kromah Gallery Revisited
Artscape Festival ‘98 Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA – Baltimore, MD
Works by Oletha DeVane
Howard Community College Gallery – Columbia, MD
“Unfolding Cycle” (Garden installation with students)
West Friendship Elementary – West Friendship, MD
Kings, Hummingbirds & Monsters (artist book)
Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, MD
Arts Maryland
Howard County Center for the Arts – Ellicott City, MD
Artscape–Masks
Villa Julie College – Baltimore, MD
Charmopolis
Maryland Art Place – Baltimore, MD
Select/Art Auction
WPA/Corcoran – Washington, DC
Artscape
Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA – Baltimore, MD
Collaborations
Pyramid Atlantic Print – Silver Spring, MD
Witness (permanent video installation)
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture – Baltimore, MD
Riffs/Rhythms
J.E. Lewis Museum, Morgan University – Baltimore, MD
Collaborations
Maryland Art Place – Baltimore, MD
Conflict / Peace
Columbia Art Center – Columbia, MD
Mirror Me
Catonsville Community College – Baltimore, MD
Mother, Daughter, Sister, Self
Galerie Myrtis – Baltimore, MD
Nu Voo Doo
West North Gallery – Baltimore, MD
Life’s Hardest Things
Lewis Museum–Morgan University – Baltimore, MD
Semi Finalist Sondheim Exhibition
Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA – Baltimore, MD
National Juried Exhibition
Ceres Gallery – New York, NY
National Juried Draw/Print
College of Notre Dame – Baltimore, MD
The Wine:Dark Sea
St. Johns College, Mitchell Gallery – Annapolis, MD
Corridor
Art Museum of the Americas – Washington, DC
Altered Truths, Fractured Myths
City Arts Gallery – Baltimore, MD
Art Select
Corcoran Gallery, WPA – Washington, DC
Femme Fatale
Gallery, Catonsville Community College – Baltimore, MD
Miami Basel/Global Africa Project
The Betsy Hotel – Miami, FLA
Four Artists-Sondheim
Top of the World Trade Center Gallery – Baltimore, MD
One PersonAshe to Amen (traveling) Exhibition
- The Bible Museum – New York, NY
- The Dixon Gallery – Memphis, TN
- Reginald F. Lewis Museum – Baltimore, MD
Noetics
The Cosmos Club – Washington, DC
Miami Basel: Gurlz of Baltimore
The Betsy Hotel – Miami, FL
MICA: Then and Now
Ethan Cohen Gallery – Beacon, NY
Ordinary Woman
Howard County Art Center – Ellicott City, MD
Abu Dhabi-Resident Exhibition
Abu Dhabi Art Gallery – United Arab Emirates
Breathe in Gold Light
New Door Creative Gallery – Baltimore, MD
Inside/Outside
Creative Alliance – Baltimore, MD
Black in White America
Galerie Myrtis – Baltimore, MD
International Solarplate Exhibit
Alex Ferrone Gallery – New York, New York
Trafficking
Watergate Gallery – Washington, DC
The Other Side of Darkness
Project 1628 Gallery – Baltimore, MD
Elixir: Artists Respond to Making and Healing
Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery – Washington, DC
Relics and Prospects
Montpelier Art Center – Laurel, MD
In Her Own Words
Morgan University, J.E. Lewis Museum – Baltimore, MD
Collaboration & Innovation
The American Craft Center – Los Angeles, CA
The Circuitry of Joyce Jane Scott
Traces of the Spirit
Baltimore Museum of Art- Baltimore, MD
Trawick Prize Finalist
Gallery B, Bethesda, MD
Exploring Presence: African American Artists In The Upper South
James E. Lewis Museum of Art. Morgan State University. Baltimore, MD
Fired Up!
Cary Beth Cryor Gallery. Coppin State University. Baltimore, MD
Spectrum of Light and Spirit
Center of Art, Design, and Visual Culture. UMBC. Baltimore, MD
The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy
Banneker-Douglass Museum. Annapolis, MD.