Devin Oatway

"If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring forth what is in you, it will destroy you." " 

Devin Oatway was born in Goleta, CA. He graduated Stanford University in 2002 with a BA in English Literature. He helped found two co-ops, Shady Lane Studios in Austin, TX, and Firehouse Art Collective in Berkeley, CA, where he had his first solo show in 2010. In 2013, Devin was half of a duo Inagural Opening of Galerie 102 in Ojai, CA and became a member of the preeminent Artist group, Ojai Studio Artists. In 2014, he joined Elizabeth Gordon Gallery as his West Coast Representative. He lives and paints in Ojai and tries to live like a monk.

Statement:
I am an individual who experiences, at his core, an inordinate amount
of brief joy alternating with sharp sorrow. During the last ten years, I have learned how to sublimate these deep feelings in the form of paintings, and am glad to offer them to others in this world. The deep feeling of joy and sorrow does not go away but is edified by my paintings, and so I continue to make them on a daily basis as long as I have the supplies and a place to do it. Although the paintings come from a deep source of sadness, at times, looking at my paintings makes me h...

Stanford University, BA in English, 2002

OSA Tour - 2014
Featured Artist, OSA Group Show, Ventura Artwalk
VAM - Improvisational Art POD, Ventura Artwalk
"Rejuvenation," OSA Group show at the Ojai Valley Museum, CA 2014
"We Are One, We Are Many," Inaugural Exhibit, Galerie 102, Ojai, CA 2013
OSA Tour, Ojai, CA 2013
OSA Group Show, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA 2013
"Reflections," OSA Ojai Museum Group Show, Ojai, CA 2013
Art.Life, Special Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA 2013
Small Works Show, Gallery 525, Ojai, CA 2013
Zeneta Kertisz Art Group Show, Ojai, CA 2012
"Free Devin," Firehouse North Solo Show, Berkeley, CA 2010
Firehouse North Group Show, Berkeley, CA 2009
LA Art Walk Loft Gallery Group Show and Party, LA, CA 2008
"Unfiltered," Outsider Art Group Show, Detroit, MI 2006
Shady Trees Group Show, Austin, TX 2006