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Ben Woitena
Houston

"Mandatory Dogs"
Kolanowski Studio

Native Texan Ben Woitena received a BFA in sculpture from The University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has lived in Houston since 1971 and, for 27 years, was head of sculpture at Houston Museum School of Art—now Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston—teaching figurative sculpture, life drawing, bronze casting, metal fabrication, and wood- and stone-carving. His large outdoor sculptures have been exhibited extensively around the country and are in the collections of many museums and municipalities, including Amarillo Museum of Art; Texas City; Civic Center Grounds, Abilene; El Paso Museum of Art; “Kerouac Commemorative,” Eastern Canal Park, Lowell, Massachusetts; Memorial Park, Houston; Museum of the Southeast, Beaumont; Old Jail Art Center, Albany; San Antonio Museum of Art; Terminal “E,” George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tyler Museum of Art; and Vassar Museum, Vasser College, Poughkeepsie, New York.

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 Exhibitions of his works have been held at Arts Council of Midland, Midland; Artspace111, Fort Worth; El Paso Museum of Art; Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston; Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Salmon Sculpture Garden, Sunken Garden Park, San Angelo; Sculpture Month Houston, Site Gallery, The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston; and The Arts Center Texas Gallery, Texas Sculpture Group, College Station.

 

Woitena’s c. 2020 sculpture “Mandatory Dogs,” depicting a mother dog and her pup, was previously exhibited at Chicago Children’s Museum, along the trails of the Navy Pier.

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