VIOLA FREY

1933-2004

BORN

1933 Lodi, CA

Died

2004 Oakland, CA

EDUCATION

1952-3 Stockton Delta College, Stockton, California
1953-6 BFA, California College of Art and Crafts, Oakland, California
1956-8 MFA, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1974 Wenger Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, California and Hank Baum Gallery, Century City, CA
1975 Wenger Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1977 Wenger Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1980 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 "Viola Frey: A Retrospective" originating at the Crocker Art
Museum, Sacramento, CA, and traveling through 1984 to the
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College,
Walla Walla, WA; Blanden Memorial Art Gallery, Fort
Dodge, IA; St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO; Illinois
State University, Normal, IL; Huntsville Museum of Art,
Huntsville, AL; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA;and other
museums throughout the United States and Canada (catalogue)
1982 "Viola Frey: Figures" Calfornia State University, Fullerton, CA
1982 Mark Twain Bank, Kansas City, MO
1983 "Viola Frey" The Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of
Art, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada.
1983 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1984 Asher/Faure Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1984 Greenberg Gallery St. Louis, MO
1984 Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY (brochure)
1984 "It's All Part of the Clay: Viola Frey" Goldie Paley Gallery,
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, traveled to
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, Erie Art
Museum, Erie, PA (catalogue)
1985 "Viola Frey" Rena Bransten Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1987 "Viola Frey: A Bricoleur of the 20th Century" Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA
1988 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1991 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA (catalogue)
1992 Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
1992 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1992 The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
1993 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 "Viola Frey: Plates 1968 - 1994," The Butler Institute of American
Art, Youngstown, OH, traveled to Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New
York, NY; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Art
Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Wichita Center for
the Arts, Wichita, KS (catalogue)
1994 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ and Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1995 Carin Delcourt Van Krimpen, Amsterdam
1997 "Plates" Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1999 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization"
2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001-2002 "Larger than Life: Ceramic Figures by Viola Frey" Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2002 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "Larger than Life: Ceramic Figures by Viola Frey" Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada
2003 "New Work" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma,
Washington
2005 "Viola Frey" Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, West Virginia
2005 Traveling to Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1961 "California Craftsmen Biennial" Oakland, CA
1961 "California State Fair," Sacramento, CA
1961 "San Francisco Art Festival," San Francisco, CA
1961 "American Craftsmen," University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, IL
1961 "San Francisco Potters," De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1961 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1962 "Young Americans" Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1962 "California State Fair," Sacramento, CA
1962 "San Francisco Potters," De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1962 "Walnut Creek Art Festival," Walnut Creek, CA
1962 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1962 Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1962 Hansen Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1963 "Emergence," Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1963 "California State Fair," Sacramento, CA
1963 Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, CA
1964 "San Francisco Art Festival," San Francisco, CA
1964 "California State Fair," Sacramento, CA
1964 Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, CA
1965 "Crocker Invitational," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1965 "San Francisco Potters," De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1965 Borkeramic Gallery, Chicago, IL
1966 Hansen Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1966 "Walnut Creek Festival," Walnut Creek, CA
1966 Lincoln Square Gallery, Oakland, CA
1966 "San Francisco Art Festival," San Francisco, CA
1966 College of the Holy Names, Oakland, CA
1966 "San Francisco Potters," De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1967 "Crafts Today I," Museum West, San Francisco, CA
1967 "Phelan Competition," Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1967 Contemporary Crafts Association, Portland, Oregon.
1968 "Media '68," Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
1968 "California Design," University of California Davis, Davis, CA
1968 "Craft Show," Zellerbach, San Francisco, CA
1968 "Faculty Show," California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1968 College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1968 Lincoln Square Gallery, Oakland, CA
1973 "Oakland Myths," Wenger Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974 "Baroque," Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1977 El Camino College, El Camino, CA (catalogue)
1977 "Ceramic Invitational" Sacramento, CA
1977 "Overglaze Imagery; Cone 019 - 016," Art Gallery,
California State University, Fullerton, CA (catalogue)
1977 Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA (catalogue).
1978 "Soap Box Derby," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1979 "Century of Ceramics in the United States" Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY (catalogue)
1979 "Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture" University of California, Davis, CA (catalogue)
1979 "The Unpainted Portrait," Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalogue)
1979 "West Coast Clay Spectrum," Security Pacific, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
1979 "Spaces," Walnut Creek Civic Arts Center, Walnut Creek, CA
1980 "Wedgwood Invitational," Buten Museum of Wedgewood, Merion, PA (catalogue)
1980 "The Vessel," Delahunty, Dallas, TX
1981 "The Clay Figure," Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1981 "Sculpture and Clay," Walter Philip's Gallery, Banff School of Fine
Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
1981 "Plate Etudes," Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
1982 "Clay Bodies/Autio, DeStaebler & Frey," Maryland Institute, College
of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. (catalogue)
1982 "Pacific Currents: Ceramics 1982," San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA (catalogue)
1982 "Figurative Clay," Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1982 "100 Years of California Sculpture," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalogue)
1982 "Art and/or Craft: U.S.A. & Japan," Hokuriku Hoso Kaikan, MRO
Gallery, Japan (catalogue)
1982 "College of Arts and Crafts: Faculty," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1982 "Northern California Narrative Sculpture," Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1982 "It Figures," Trans America Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
1982 "Painterly Ceramics," College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1982 "Collectors Weekend," American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1982 "West Coast Ceramic Artists," San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1982 "Three Dimensions: Clay, Glass, Fiber," The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
1982 "Narrative Ceramics," Impressions Gallery, Boston, MD
1983 "Statements," Craftsmen's Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska.
1983 "College of Arts and Crafts: Faculty," San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1983 "Small Figures," Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 "A Personal View/Selections from the Joan Mannheimer Ceramic
Collection," University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
1983 "Narrative Ceramics," Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA.
1983 "Ceramic Echoes," Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (catalogue)
1983 "California Clay Works," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1983 "Nuclear Age: Tradition and Transition," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1983 "The Raw Edge: Ceramics of the '80's," Hillwood Art Gallery,
Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (catalogue)
1983 "Faculty Exhibit - '83," Cohen Gallery, Denver, CO
1983 December Exhibition, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
1983 "Contemporary Clay Sculpture: Selections from the Daniel Jacobs
Collection," Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY
1984 "Ceramic Sculptors: Sculpture & Drawings," Weil Gallery, Corpus
Christi State University, Corpus, Corpus Christi, TX
1984 "Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue)
1984 "Contemporary Ceramic Vessels Two Los Angeles Collections: The Betty Asher Collection; The Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits
Collection," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1984 "Figurative Sculpture: Ten Artists/Two Decades," University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)
1984 "Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics," Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, MA. (catalogue)
1984 "A Passionate Vision: Contemporary Ceramics from the Daniel Jacobs Collection," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, NE (catalogue)"Platters and Related Forms," Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, traveled to Esther Saks
Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
1984 "Here and Now: FATIMAH &/OR FRED?," Greenville County Museum of Art,
Greenville, SC
1984 "American Sculpture: Three Decades," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1984 "The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (book)
1985 "The Figure In Ceramics," Rathbone Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY
1985 "California Sends Her Best," Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1985 "In The Eye of The Beholder," College Art Gallery, The College at
New Paltz, State University of New York, NY (catalogue)
1985 "Fired Clay: Vessel and Image," Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1985 "C.C.A.C. Faculty Show," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1985 "American Clay Artists: Philadelphia '85," Port of History Museum,
Philadelphia, PA
1985 "Surface/Function/Shape: Selections from the Earl Millard
Collection," University Center Gallery, Southern Illinois
University at Edwardsville, IL (catalogue)
1985 "Past Models, Future Shapes," Sun Valley Center Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
1985 "Menagerie: Animal Images by Contemporary Artists," San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1985 "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980," The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (book)
1985 "M. Lee Fatherree: Photographs of Artists," Bank of America
Concourse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 "Recent Ceramic Sculpture," University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (catalogue)
1985 "Winter Solstice," Nancy Hoffman, New York, NY
1985 Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 "Featured Artists of N.E.C.A. 1986," Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
1986 Seven Dials Gallery, London, England.
1986 "Contemporary American Studio Pottery: An Overview," Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
1986 "New Views: Works in Clay and Bronze," Rena Bransten Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1986 "California Faculty Show: Works in Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Metal and Wood," Victor Fischer Galleries, Oakland, CA
1986 "West Coast Clay," Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1986 "Inez Storer & Viola Frey," Site 311, Pacific Grove, CA
1986 "Material and Metaphor: Contemporary American Ceramic Sculpture," Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL(catalogue)
1986 "Second Newport Biennial: The Bay Area," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)
1986 "Celebrating Women," Jewish Hospital at Washington University
Medical Center, WA (catalogue)
1986 "Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical," American Craft Museum, New York, NY, traveled to The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; The
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee, WI; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KT;
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA through 1988, (catalogue)
1986 "Painters Who Sculpt," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1986 "Collector's Gallery XX," McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
1986 "Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1986 "Summer Group Show," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1986 "Works on Paper," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1987 "Quartre Americains a la Manufacture de Sevres," American Center, Paris, France.
1987 "American Ceramics Now: The 27th Ceramic National Exhibition,"
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1987 "California Figurative Sculpture," Palm Springs Desert Museum,
Palm Springs, CA (catalogue)
1987 "The Bay Area Collects: A Focus on Sculpture," Rena Bransten
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 "Imaginary Acquaintances: Contemporary Sculpture and Paintings of People," 101 California Lobby Gallery and the Airports
1987 Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 "Figurative Clay '87," University Center Gallery, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
1987 "Works on Paper," Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1987 "Sculptors' Drawings," University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho and
1987 California State University, Sonoma, CA
1987 "Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup and Vase," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Exhibition will travel to Portland Art Museum, Portland,
OR; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC;
Gibson Gallery, Potsdam College, Potsdam, NY; Tucson Museum of
Art, Tucson, AZ; Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
through 1989.
1987 "Bay Area Drawing," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1987 "Bay Area Artists - Small Works Invitational," Janet Steinberg
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 "The Eloquent Object," Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Ok, traveled to
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
MA; The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL;
The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts, Richmond, VA through 1989 (catalogue)
1987 "Biennale de Chateauroux," Mairie de Chateauroux, France
1987 "Contemporary American Drawings," Wake Forest University Fine Arts
Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1988 "The Figure and Clay," Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
1988 "Bronze Works," Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California
Davis, Davis, CA
1988 "Heroics," Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, The School of
Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
1988 "Manufacture de Sevres, Atelie Experimental de Recherche et de
Creation," Hall du Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
1988 "Urban Figures," Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
1988 "just like a woman," Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1988 "An Evening of Contemporary Art at the Bayly," Bayly Art Museum,
University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA
1988 "East Side-West Side," Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1988 "Columnar," The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1988 "Not So Naive: Bay Area Artists & Outsider Art," San Francisco
Craft & Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
1988 "American Pop Culture Today III," La Foret Museum, Koto-ku, Japan
1988 "Ceramic Traditions: Figuration," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo
Alto, CA
1988 "Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art," The Queens Museum,
Flushing, NY
1988 "Portraits: Here's Looking at You," Anchorage Museum of History
and Art, Anchorage, AK
1988 "California Crossroads," Koll Company, Newport Beach, CA
1989 "30 Ceramic Sculptors," Natsoulas Noveloza Gallery, Davis, CA
1989 "Summer Pleasures: Water," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1989 "Rain of Talent: Umbrella Art," The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia,PA
1989 "The Figure as Subject," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 "Surreal Ceramics," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1989 "Summer Pleasures: Water," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1989 "Collector's Exhibition," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
1989 "The Figures," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
1989 "Craft Today: U.S.A.," American Craft Museum, New York, NY, traveled
to MusÈe Des Arts DÈcoratifs, Paris, France; Museum of
Applied Art,Helsinki, Finland; Museum fur Kunsthandwerk,
Frankfurt, Germany; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; MusÈe des
Arts DÈcoratif, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Dercorative
Applied & Folk Art, Moscow, Russia; State Painting and
Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey; The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway; St Peter's Abbey, Ghent, Belgium; Amerika
Haus, Berlin, Germany; The Zappeion, Athens, Greece; Slovak
National Gallery, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia; The Grassi
Museum, Leipzig, Germany; Sala Sant Jaume de la Fundacio "La
Caiza", Barcelona, Spain; and The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
from 1989 through 1993.
1990 "Works on Paper," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 "Walls Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations," Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan (catalogue)
1990 "Functional Fantasy," Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
1990 "Oakland's Artists '90," The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1990 "American Ceramic Sculpture," The National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore, MD
1990 "American Craft Museum: Building a Permanent Collection," American
Craft Museum, New York, NY
1990 "Drawings by Sculptor's," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1990 "Eight Ceramic Artists," The Atrium Gallery, School of Fine Arts,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1990 "Inaugural Sculpture Exhibition," Gateway Complex, The Prudential
Services Company, Newark, NJ
1990 "National Drawing Invitational," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1990 "Pygmalion: The Female Form in Sculpture," Phyllis Rothman Gallery,
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
1990 "Winter Gold," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1991 "Smith Collects Contemporary," Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
1991 "de-Persona," The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1991 "Selections from the di Rosa Collection," Redding Museum and Art
Center, Redding, CA
1991 "Selections from the Permanent Collections," Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
1991 "Diverse Directions," Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
1991 "Reprise," Phyllis Roth Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
1991 National Objects International," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
1991 "Black and White," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1991 DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1991 "Experiencing Sculpture: The Figure in American Art," Hudson River
Museum, Yonkers, NY
1992 "The Figure: Two Bay Area Artists: Christopher Brown and Viola
Frey," Johnson County Community College, Gallery of Art,
Overland Park, KS (brochure)
1992 Esprit Sculpture Park, San Francisco, California, Large scale installation with Dennis Gallagher.
1992 "Cross Section," Battery Park, New York, NY
1992 "From Plastic Form to Printer's Plate: 16 Contemporary Sculptor/
Printmakers" California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
1992 "Sculptor's Drawings," Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 "Works on Paper: The Craft Artist as Draftsman," Renwick Gallery of
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1992 "Figures of Contemporary Sculpture (1970-1990).: Images of Man," Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Daimaru Museum of Art, Osaka-
Umeda; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Okun Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1992 "Preview" Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1992 "Sculpture" Kingsborough Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community
College, Brooklyn, NY
1992 "What's New" Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1993 "Summer Exhibition" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Modernism: Craft Breakthrough in Northern California, 1950-1975,"
California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
1993 "Majolica" Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, NY
1993 "20 Years" Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1993 "Interiors" Champion International Corporation, Stamford, CT
1994 "The Women's Mentor Show" San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, CA
1994 "Changing the Face of American Ceramics" Kingsborough Community
College, Brooklyn, NY
1994 "The Figure" Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
1994 "Series and Editions" Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York
1994 "20th Annual Exhibition" The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1994 "Breaking Barriers" American Craft Museum, New York, NY, traveled
to: Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Madison Art Center,
Madison, WI; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR through 1996
1995 "In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the '90's" Newhouse Center
for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1995 "Paper View" Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1995 "Review/Preview" Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1995 "Collector's Choice" Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida.
1996 "Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves" California Center for the
Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
1996 "From the Figure" Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA
1996 "Ceramic Sculpture from the East Bay" California State University, Hayward, CA
1996 "California Funk: Ceramics from the '60's and '70's" Franklin
Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1996 "Large Drawings and Objects: Expressive Voices of the Meaningful" Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1996 "Portrait of Our Time" Revolution gallery, Ferndale, MI
1996 "Small Scale" Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1997 "Drawings: Realism to Abstraction; A Contemporary Survey of the Bay Area," Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1997 "Hawaiian Eye: Collecting Contemporary Art with Thurston Twigg-
Smith" Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1997 "The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996" Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1997 "Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object" California College of Arts
and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1997 "Color Detour" Apex Art Gallery, New York, NY
1997 "Nancy Hoffman: A Perspective on Art" Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
1997 "Contemporary Masters" Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
1997 "REAlabama(ist). WOMEN" Selby Gallery/Ringling School of Art and
Design, Sarasota, FL
1998 "20/20 The 20th Anniversary Exhibition" University Art Gallery,
Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
1998 small scale LARGESCALE, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1998 "25th Anniversary Exhibition" Carl Schlossberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA
1998 "In Celebration, Part II: Highlights from the Collection of
Contemporary Sculpture" Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 "Objects of Desire" Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "Expanded Visions" Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
2000 "Riva Yares 2000" Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2000 R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2002 "The Erotic Life of Clay: Sex Pots" Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA
2002 "Oakland Portraits: Then and Now, 1852 - 2002" Oakland Art Gallery, CA
2002 "Humor as Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2003 "Behind the Scenes" The Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, GA
2003 Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2003 "Scenery" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2003 James Renwick Alliance "Master of the Medium" Award
1978 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship Grant
1986 Awards of Honor, The Arts Commission of San Francisco, Sculpture
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship Grant in Sculpture

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

American Craft Museum, New York, NY
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
The Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, HI
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Manufacture de Sevres, Paris, France
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, MN
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
The Oakland Museum, CA
Orange County Museums of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Philip Morris, New York, NY
Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KT
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wichita Center for the Arts, KS