Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 “He + She”, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
2009 “Androgyny” Solo Exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ; Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, MO
2008 “Androgyny”, The Preview, Solo Exhibition: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing; Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
2007 Solo Exhibition: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing; Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, and Pittsfield, MA
2003 Solo Exhibition: Sculpture, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
1995 Solo Exhibition, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Solo Exhibition, Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinatti, OH
1993 Solo Exhibition, Mosabaka Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Solo Exhibition, Vasa Gallery, Falun, Sweden
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012
Clay & Prints, 8 artists 2 medium, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Covet, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
Heated Exchange, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL
2011
“Pursuit of Porcelain”, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, IL
2010
“Nude in Chicago”, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Different Lines: Drawings by Craft Artists,” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
“Couples,” Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
“The Hermaphrodites: Living In Two Worlds,” Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Transcending the Figure: Contemporary Ceramics,” The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
“Corporeal Manifestations,” Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
“Illumination,” Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
2009 Figuration to Fragmentation: The Human Form in Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “Voices”, 2008 NCECA Invitational Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA
Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection, Museum of Arts + Design, New York, NY
Confrontational Ceramics
2007 Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection: A Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2006 Harvey K. Littleton and Friends: A Legacy of TransformingObject, Image and Idea, Western Carolina University Museum of Fine Art, Dullowhee, NC
Resident and Invited International Artist Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation: North Gallery, Helena, MT
Surface Tension, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, South Australia
Life Insight: The Human Experience, The Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY
The Body Ceramic, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
“The Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft”, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2005 The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection, Peabody Essex
Museum, Salem, MA, Curator, Garth Clark
A Tale to Tell, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Transformations: the Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Korea Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2005, International Invitational Exhibition - 120 Definitions of Temptation, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju City, Republic of Korea
30 Ceramic Sculptors; John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
“Portraiture: Patron, Artist, Subject”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
“House of Wonder: Surrealism + Still Life + Objects of Curiosity”, Ferrin Gallery,
Lenox, MA
“Terra Sutra: Erotica II,” Montage Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Excess: A Group Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
35th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Faunatical: Ceramic Artists and the Forms of Nature,
Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, WI
Particles of Passion: The Art of Clay, Academy of Art Museum, Easton, MD
2004 “Standing Room Only”, 2004 Scripps 60th Ceramic Annual, Williamson Gallery,
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
“A Family of Artists”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
‘New Prints 2004″, International Print Center New York, NY
2003 “Triennial 9 Form and Content: Corporal Identity”, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY & Museum fur Angewandte, Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
“Trans-Mission”; Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, GA
“Short Stories”, Ferrin Galley, Lenox, MA
“Subject-Me-Object”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
“Vivat! Chamotte”, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
“Clay Works: American Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art, USB Paine Webber
Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Being Human: The Figure Expressed”, Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Erotic Life of Clay – Sex Pots”, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2002 “Tastefully Tawdry”, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Major Figures: Group Show of Figural Ceramics”; Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
“The Figure in Ceramic”, Lewis & Clark College; Portland, OR; Catalogue
“Figural Ceramics”, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
“Big Head: Ceramic Sculpture on a Heroic Scale”; Southwest School of Art & Craft,
San Antonio, TX
“Biological Mutiny”, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
“Terra Sutra: 21st Century Erotic Ceramics”, Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“Being Human: The Figure Expressed”, Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Modern Bestiary: Artists View the Animal Kingdom”, Charles A. Wustum Museum of
Fine Arts, Racine, WI
2001 “American Ceramic Art at the New Millenium”; World Ceramics Exposition; Seoul, Korea;
Catalogue
“Clay 2001″; Central Piedmont Community College; Charlotte, NC
National Clay Invitational, Blue Spiral 1; Asheville, NC
Erotica in Ceramic Art II; Gallery Camino Real; Boca Raton, FL
31st Annual Ceramics Exhibit; Crossman Gallery; University of Wisconsin;
Whitewater, WI
“Expressing the Human Form”; Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
“Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection”; Mint Museum of Craft + Design; Charlotte, NC
2000 Everson Ceramic National; The 30th Ceramic National Exhibition; Everson Museum of
Art, Syracuse, NY; Catalogue
“Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950 – 2000″, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Catalogue
“Masterworks from the Collection, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC; Catalogue
“Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic”, A Touring Exhibit with Exhibits USA curated by
Judith Schwartz; University of Central Florida; Orlando, FL; January 2000 – October 2001;
Catalogue
“Bridge VI”, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
“New Sculpture”, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 “Body Parts”, Group Show, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
“The Nude in Clay II”, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL, Wustum Museum of Fine Art,
Racine WI, curator Karen Johnson Boyd
1998 “Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art”, Group Show, J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
“5th Scripps Ceramic Annual”, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, curator Cindy Kolodziejski
“Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award”, Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand,
Juror Torbjorn Kvasbo
“To Have and To Hold”, Spruill Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Dress Up”, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI
1997 “New Clay”, Two Person Show, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“All Figural: Many Media”, Contemporary Art from the Kamm Collection, California State
University, Northridge, CA
“Go Figure: A National Ceramic Invitational”, Montgomery College, curator Kevin Hluch,
Rockville, MD
1996 “Altered States: Contemporary American Ceramics”, Denver Center for the Visual Arts,
Denver, CO
“Bags and Baggage: New Form/New Function, Arrowmont School for the Arts, Juror,
Ruth Cloudman, Gatlinburg, TN
1993 International Art Expo, Exhibition Center, Seoul, Korea
International Symposium, St. Petersburg, Russia
International Symposium, Kecskemet, Hungary
From Dreams to Reality, Northern European Art, traveling the Baltic’s, Sweden, Finland,
Norway, Denmark
1992 Eastern European Ceramics, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, Traveling USA
1990 New Soviet Art, Fourth Dimension Gallery, San Francisco, CA
USSR Ceramists, Charity Exposition, Hammer Center, Moscow
Oslo International Ceramics Symposium, Norway
RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES:
2009 Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Workshop, Mesa, AZ
2008 James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Lecture, Renwick Museum of the Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC
James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Workshop: Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC
Metropolitan State College of Denver, Workshop and Lecture
2007 International Ceramics Studio, Artist Residency, Kecskemet, Hungary
Estonia, University of Tallinn, Artist in Residence
2006 Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Lecture & Workshop
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Artist Talk
Jam Factory, Adelaide, South Australia, Artist in Residence
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT, Artist in Residence, International Symposium
Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, Figurative Sculpture in Porcelain, 3 wk. session
2005 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, workshop presentation
California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Guest Artist, Lecture & Workshop Presentation
Yixing Conference, Yixing, China, Guest Artist
2004 Hawaii Craftsmen Society, Honolulu, HI, workshop presentation
Huinoeau Art Center, Maui, HI, slide show
Kawai Crafts Guild, Kawai, HI; workshop presentation
2003 Artist in Residence; John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Program at
Kohler Company, Kohler, WI
Littleton Studios, Spruce Pine, NC
Clay Art Center; Port Chester, NY; workshop presentation
Santa Fe Clay; Santa Fe, NM; visiting artist
American Craft Council Southeast Regional Conference; Longwood College,
Farmville, VA; workshop presentation
2001 NCECA; Charlotte, NC; Demonstrating Artist
State University of New York, New Paltz, NY; workshop presentation
2000 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, workshop presentation
Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, Figurative Sculpture in Porcelain, 2 wk. session
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Ceramic National Panel
Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL, lecture and demonstration
Carnegie Museum of Art and Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, lecture
Littleton Studios, Spruce Pine, NC
1999 SOFA New York, NYC, Interview with Judith Schwartz
University of Akron, Myers School of Art,
Akron, OH, workshop presentation
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, workshop presentation
1998 Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA, workshop presentation
Greenwich House Pottery, NYC, NY, workshop presentation
New York University, NYC, NY, workshop presentation
Scripps College, Los Angeles, CA, workshop presentation
1997 Renwick Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, workshop presentation, Washington DC
SOFA Miami 1997, Miami, FL, slide presentation
1996 Indiana State University Southeast, New Albany, IN, workshop presentation
1995 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, slide lecture
1994 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, slide lecture
1990 Oslo International Ceramics Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 1990
AWARDS:
2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award
1996 Smithsonian Craft Show Top Award for Excellence, Washington, DC
1995 Juror’s Merit Award for Excellence in Ceramics; Transitions ’95, Kentucky Arts Council
Marketing Program
1993 Director’s Scholarship, six-week residency, International Ceramics Center, Kecskemet,
Hungary
1991 “Best Young Estonian Artist” (under age 30) by the Union of Artists of Estonia
Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Estonia
1990 Invitation Scholarship to 1990 Oslo International Ceramics Symposium