About me

Wolfgang Devine was born in Gaithersburg, MD in 1992.  Throughout his childhood, he built all sorts of things from furniture to props to toys.  In high school, he explored photography and built stage sets before earning a BID in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute in 2014.  He spent 10 years managing large-scale public artwork projects across the globe for artists including Olafur Eliasson and Joe O’Connell while developing and showing his own creative work.  Now a full-time artist, he creates in a variety of media from his studio in Bend, OR.

Bio

Exhibitions

2024 - “$20 Art Show” - Group exhibition, High Desert Museum & Bright Place Gallery, Bend, OR

2024 - “New Zone Open Show” - Group exhibition, New Zone Gallery, Eugene OR

2021 - “Pride Art Exhibit - Born This Way”, Group exhibition, Steinfeld Gallery, Tucson AZ

2021 - “Evolve”, Group exhibition, Groundworks, Tucson AZ

2021 - “Unearthed”, Group exhibition, Subspace, Tucson AZ

Education

2014 - BID in Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY

Books I like (in no particular order)

  • Yoga - Emmanuel Carrere

  • Live Other Than My Own - Emmanuel Carrere

  • Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey

  • The Map and the Territory - Michel Houellebecq

  • Coming into the Country - John McPhee

  • The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen

  • Kiss or Kill - Mark Twight

  • The Trial - Franz Kafka

  • The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker

Albums I like (in no particular order)

  • Tunnel of Love - Bruce Springsteen

  • Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen

  • Saint Cloud - Waxahatchee

  • Bone Machine - Tom Waits

  • The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse

  • Daughter - Lydia Loveless

  • Picnic - Robert Earl Keen

  • White Crosses - Against Me!

  • Lean Into Life - Petey USA

  • Secret Life - Fred again..

  • Trust Your Gut - Worriers

  • Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020) - Fred again..

  • Loss Of Life - MGMT

  • Preacher’s Daughter - Ethel Cain

  • Transgender Dysphoria Blues - Against Me!

  • MERCY - John Cale

  • Bad Cameo - James Blake

  • 1999 - Prince

  • Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

  • Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen

  • Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels - Whitey Morgan and the 78s

  • The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth - Headache

  • Glimmer of God - Jean Dawson

  • Handful of Earth - Dick Gaughan

  • Photograph Attached - Circuit Rider

  • Call A Doctor - Girl and Girl

  • EUSEXUA - FKA twigs

  • Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris

  • Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris

  • Bronco - Orville Peck

  • The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers - Valerie June

  • Mystery Girl - Roy Orbison

  • (Come Visit) the Big Bigot - Severed Heads