Born in Baltimore, MD. Lives and works in Ellicott City, MD.
EDUCATION
1968-1972 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1974-1976 MFA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1995 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass Museum,
Annapolis, MD, Curator: Myrtis Bedolla
Exploring Presence: African American Artists in the Upper South, James E. Lewis Museum of Art,
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
FIRED UP!, Coppin State University in collaboration with The American Ceramic Society’s Glass &
Optical Materials Division and the United Nations International Year of Glass, Coppin State
University, Baltimore, MD, Curators: Howard L. Cohen, Amy Eva Raehse, Linda Day Clark
From the Realm of Dust, Center of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, MD, Curator: Lowery Stokes Sims
2019 Traces of the Spirit, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Virginia Anderson
Trawick Prize Finalists Exhibition, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD
2018 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, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Collaboration & Innovation, The American Craft Center, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Trafficking, Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
The Other Side of Darkness, Project 1628 Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2016 Black in White America, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
International Solarplate Exhibit, Alex Ferrone Gallery, New York, NY
2015 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
2014 Ordinary Woman, Howard County Art Center, Ellicott City, MD
13-14 Ashe to Amen: African-Americans and Biblical Imagery, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY
(traveling: Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN)
Curator: Leslie King-Hammond
2013 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
2012 Four Artists-Sondheim, Top of the World Trade Center Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2011 Corridor, The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, Curators: Irene Hofmann and Laura Roulet
Altered Truths, Fractured Myths, City Arts Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Art Select, Corcoran Gallery, WPA, Washington, DC
Femme Fatale, The Gallery, Catonsville Community College, Baltimore, MD
Miami Basel/Global Africa Project, The Betsy Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
2010 Semi Finalist Sondheim Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, 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
2009 Mother, Daughter, Sister, Self, Gallery Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
NuVoodoo (traveling: African American Art Conference West North Gallery, Baltimore, MD)
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Life’s Hardest Things, James E. Lewis Museum, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
2008 Tracks/Trails/Tarmac, Thurgood Marshall Airport, Anne Arundel County, MD
2007 Conflict/Peace, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
Mirror Me, Catonsville Community College, Baltimore, MD
2006 Riffs/Rhthyms, James E. Lewis Museum, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Collaborations, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2005 Collaborations, Pyramid Atlantic Print, Silver Spring, MD
Witness (permanent video installation), Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture,
Baltimore, MD
2004 Artscape, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2003 Charmopolis, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Select/Art Auction, Corcoran Gallery, WPA, Washington, DC
2002 Arts Maryland, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD
Masks, Artscape, Villa Julie College, Baltimore, MD
2001 Kings, Hummingbirds, & Monsters, Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, MD (artist book)
2000 Artafexus, Artscape, Pinkard Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Women’s History, James E. Lewis Museum, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
1999 DeVane, Ford, Jones, Moore, Pierleoni, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, 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 Maryland Women, Government House, Annapolis, MD, Curated by Doreen Bolger.
Kromah Gallery Revisited, Artscape Festival 98, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College
of Art, Baltimore, MD
Works by Oletha DeVane, Howard Community College Gallery, Columbia, MD
Unfolding Cycle, West Friendship Elementary, West Friendship, MD
94-95 What We Need to Know About Art: Shroeder Cherry, Oletha DeVane, Angela Franklin,
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD (Traveling Exhibition)
1993 Five Baltimore Artists, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
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
1992 One Person Exhibition, Western Maryland College, Westminster, MD
Marketplace, National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA
1991 New Works Exhibition, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, Curators: Faith Ringgold
and Clarissa Sligh
Benefit Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Susan Badder
1990 Visual AIDS, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Baltimore, MD, Curator: George Ciscle
1984 Group Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Olivia Georgia
Joyce Scott & Oletha DeVane, Ohio State University Gallery, Wilberforce, OH
Group Exhibition, Meredith Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1980 One Person Exhibition, Catonsville Community College Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1979 Afro-American Women in Art, FAMU Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Ten Abstract Painters, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (Collection)
Hilton Hotel, Downtown Baltimore, MD (Collection)
Homewood Museum, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (Collection)
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Baltimore, MD (Collection)
James E. Lewis Museum, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (Collection)
Jones Tabernacle Baptist Church, Baltimore, MD (Commission)
McDonogh School of Maryland, Memorial to Those Enslaved and Freed (Commission)
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD (Commission)
Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Baltimore, MD (Collection)
West Friendship Elementary School, West Friendship, MD (Commission)
*Numerous private collections
HONORS, AWARDS, & RESIDENCIES
2019 Trawick Prize Finalist
2017 Ruby Foundation Grant, Art Matters Fellowship
2015 Artist Residency, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2011 Sondheim Award, Semi-Finalist
2007 Rollins / Luetkemeyer Chair Award for Distinguish Teaching
2003 Artist Residency, Banff Center for the Arts, Canada