BORN:
August 17, 1963
Stavrapole, Russia
EDUCATION:
1990
Art Institute of Tallinn, Estonia B.A./M.F.A. Ceramics
1982
Ukrainian State Art School, Kiev
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2014
“Here and There”, Vallauris Institute of Art, Hôtel de Ville, Vallauris, France
Collection Focus, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
“Promenade: New Work”, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013
“Here and There”, HOP Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
“Call of the Wild”, Barry Friedman Gallery Ltd., New York, NY
2010
“He + She”, Barry Friedman Gallery Ltd., New York, NY “Firmly Standing”, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
2009
“Androgyny”, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ; Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, MO
2008
“Androgyny, the Preview: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing”, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
2007
“Sculpture, Painting, Drawing”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, and Pittsfield, MA
2003
“Sculpture”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
1995
Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1993
Mosabaka Gallery, Helsinki, Finland Vasa Gallery, Falun, Sweden
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2014
“InCiteful Clay”, touring exhibition with Exhibits USA, Curated by Judith Schwartz, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Woodbury Art Museum, Orem UT
“40th Anniversary of Kohler Arts and Industry”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
“The Bacchanalistas: Passions + Pleasure”, Curated Project at New York Ceramics Fair, Bohemian Hall, New York, NY
2013
“Body and Soul”, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
“Clay Bodies”, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
“Animal Stories” Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2012
“Covet, Art and Objects”, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA,
“Heated Exchange”, Vulcan Materials Gallery, Alabama School of Fine Art, Birmingham, AL
“Clay and Prints: 8 Artists in Two Mediums”, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
“Sergei Isupov, Molly Hatch, Nanny Vonnegut”, Zea Mays Printmaking
2011
Art Miami, Presented by Ferrin Gallery, Miami, FL
“Collective Minds: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramic Collection of Patrick Doust and Richard North”, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, IL
“Claybodies: Reinterpreting the Figure”, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
“Luminous Impressions: Selections from Littleton Studios”, The Art Galleries, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL
“Pursuit of Porcelain”, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA at SOFA NY ArtSanFrancisco, San Francisco, CA
2010
“The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories”, Albany Institute, Albany, NY
“Nude in Chicago”, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Different Lines: Drawings by Craft Artists”, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA
“Couples”, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield MA
“ReObjectification”, 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
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 Transforming Object, 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 and 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”, 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”, Traveling exhibition 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, Rockville, MD, Curator Kevin Hluch
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, 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, Russia
“Oslo International Ceramics Symposium”, Oslo, Norway
RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES:
2012
February 16 – 19, Alabama Clay Conference, Birmingham, AL
March 16 – 18, Travel Arte, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
April 21, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
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
Artist in Residence; 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
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Arkansas Center for the Decorative Arts, Littlerock, AR
The Art Galleries of Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Houston Museum of Art, Houston, TX
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Sparta Teapot Museum, Sparta, NC
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Tallinn Museum of Applied Art, Estonia
Museum of Applied Art, Tuman, Russia
Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Summe, Ukraine
Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC
Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Norwegian Museum of Art, Trondheim, Norway
Museum of Arts + Design, New York, NY
Museum of International Ceramics, Keckemet, Hungary
Museum fur Angewandte, Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
PUBLICATIONS:
The Pursuit of Porcelain, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Reviewed by Colette Copeland, No.88 2012
Sergei Isupov: Androgyny, Exhibition Catalog; 2008; The Studley Press, Dalton, MA
Confrontational Ceramics, Dr. Judith Schwartz; 2008; University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA
Masters: Porcelain, Curated by Richard Burkett, 2008, Lark Books, A Division of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.: New York, NY
Voices: Invitational Exhibition, 2008, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
.Cent “The Basso & Brooke Issue, ‘Ornament'”, Summer 2008, “Lullabies”
Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection, Gerald W.R. Ward, Julie Muniz, Matthew Kangas; 2007, MFA Publications, Boston, MA
“Teapots: Makers and Collectors”, 2006, Dona Z. Meilach, Schiffer Publishing
The Figure in Clay, 2005. Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, New York, NY
The Ceramic Narrative; Matthias Osterman, 2005; A&C Black Publishers, London, UK
Electric Kiln Ceramics, Richard Zakin, 2005
Thirty Ceramic Sculptors; 2005, John Natsoulas Press, Davis, CA
Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface, Robin Hopper, 2004, Krause Publications Inc., Iola, Wisconsin
Art and Antiques, May 2004, “All Fired Up”, Bobbie Leigh
500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form, 2004, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, New York, NY
Kerameiki Techni – International Ceramic Art Review, Issue 44, August 2003, “Trans Mission by Andy Nasisse
Sex Pots: Eroticism in Ceramics, Paul Mathieu, 2003, Rutgers University Press, Rutgers, NJ
American Style, 2003, “Fragile”, Jane Friedman
Ceramic Arts & Perception, 2003, Issue 51, “Sergei Isupov – On Multi stable Ground, Glen Brown
Penland Book of Ceramics: Masterclasses in Ceramic Techniques, Deborah Morgenthal, 2003, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, New York, NY
500 Teapots: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design, 2002 Kathy Triplett, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, New York, NY
The Ceramic Surface; Matthias Osterman, 2002; A&C Black Publishers, London, UK
Kerameiki Techni – International Ceramic Art Review, Issue 38, August 2001, Review, by Susan Barry
Postmodern Ceramics, Mark Del Vecchio, 2001; Thames & Hudson; New York, NY
American Craft Magazine, October 2001, “Ceramic National 2000”, Janice T. Paine
The Artful Teapot, Garth Clark, 2001, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, NY
Ceramics Monthly, April, 2000, Erotic Clay
Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection; Mary Douglas; 2000; Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object; Leslie Ferrin; 2000; GUILD Publishing, Madison, WI
Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950 – 2000; Jo Lauria; 2000; Rizzoli International Publications, NY, NY
Confrontational Clay: Artist as Social Critic; Dr. Judith Schwartz; 2000; Exhibits USA, Mid Atlantic Arts Alliance; Kansas City, MO
Everson Ceramic National 2000; Tom Piche’; Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, NY
American Ceramics, 13/2 (May), 1999, “Sergei Isupov,” Rick Newby
American Craft Magazine, February, 1999, “Sergei Isupov,” by Karen Chambers
Ceramics Monthly, February, 1999, “Nude in Clay”
Ceramic Arts & Perception, 1999, Issue 38, “Erotica in Ceramic Art, Sexual, Sensual & Suggestive”, Leon Nigrosh
Kerameiki Techni – International Ceramic Art Review, Issue 30, December 1998, “Sergei Isupov: From Stavropol to Louisville,” by Karen Chambers
