SELECT EXHIBITIONS (SOLO & GROUP)
2025
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
"Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art"
Atlanta Art Fair
NADA, Miami
Outsider Art Fair, NYC
Door County Contemporary
2023
Of Chicken, Myths, and Fantasy: It Is Storied Tales Drives Our Dreams
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Outsider Art Fair, New York
Untitled Art Fair, Miami
2021
Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, Al
"Darker Than Blue"
Outsider Art Fair, NYC
Collage exhibition
5 Points Gallery, Milwaukee
"Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed"
Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives
Trout Museum, WI
2022
"Souls Bloom in This Garden"
Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Outsider Art Fair, New York
"Della Wells and Rosemary Ollison: Butterfly Queens"
Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2020
PSG on PAPER, March-June, Portrait Society Gallery
Outsider Art Fair, January, New York City
"This is Milwaukee,"
Five Points Art Gallery, Milwaukee WI
"The Road of Democracy,"
Milwaukee, banner project
I Am a Story: Self-Portraits, The Warehouse, Milwaukee, WI
Art + Protest, Portrait Society Gallery
"Eye of the Beholder: African Americans Collecting Art", Cedarburg Art Museum, WI
2019
Susceptible to Images, Portrait Society Gallery
Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Women of Wisconsin, Alverno College (group)
Mary Nohl Suitcase Fund exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Museum of Unnatural History, Shoreline City Hall, curated by Anne Grigch, Shoreline, Washington
This is America, 5 Points Gallery and Studios, Milwaukee
Outsider Art Fair, New York
2018 Her Story, My Dreams: The Images of Della Wells, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
2017 New Horizons: Self-Taught Art of the 21st Century, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
2017 Another Happy Mambo Day: The Invented Worlds of Della Wells, Wright Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, WI (solo)
2017 Della Wells: A Spiritual Journey, MoWA's satellite location, Saint John's on the Lake, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
2017 The Line I Follow: Drawings, Pastels, and Paintings, Pitch Project, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
2013 Wisconsin 30, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2006 Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly: Folk Tales by Della Wells, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
CATALOG
Another Happy Mambo Day: The Invented Worlds of Della Wells, Beloit College (2017). Essay by M. Shadee Malaklou.
VIDEO
Her Story, My Dreams. Loyola Museum of Art, Chicago. 2017