BORN

1939 San Francisco, California

EDUCATION

1961 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, San Francisco State College

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1961-65 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1962-73 University of California, Berkeley
1973-75 University of California Extension, San Francisco
1973-75 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
1975 California State University, Hayward, California
1975 University of California, Irvine, California
1976-78 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1978-Present Mills College, Oakland, California

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1974 National Endowments for the Arts
1978 Adaline Kent Award
1979 National Endowments for the Arts
1979 Lucy Stern Chair
1981 Mellon Grant
1983 Mellon Grant
1986 National Endowments for the Arts Fellowship
1990 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College (received every year through 1998)
1996 Joan Danforth Endowed Faculty Chair, Mills College
1997 Fellow of the American Craft Council
1998 Fliintridge Foundation Visual Artist Award

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1968 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968 Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1978 Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1979 "Matrix", Gallery I, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA (brochure)
1979 "Currents 4", St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)
1981 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1983 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
1983 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1988 "Ron Nagle:Big Work", Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1992 Bella Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 "Ron Nagle: A Survey Exhibition," Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1994 "Ron Nagle: A Survey Exhibition - 1960-1993," The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1995 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1997 Revolution, Ferndale, MI
1998 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Revolution, Ferndale, Michigan
2001 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001-2 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "Variety Show" Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Dolphin, Kansas City, MO
2004 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1962 "Three Potters," Lewis Vidal Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1963 "Work in Clay by Six Artists", San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1965 "New Ceramic Forms", Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1966 "Abstract Expressionist Ceramics", University of California, Irvine
and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1968 "American Craftsmen Invitational", Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA
1970 "Objects: U.S.A.", Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, traveled
1970 "Teacups, Teapots, Gorillas, Etc.," Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1971 "Coffee, Tea & Other Cups," Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1972 "A Decade of Ceramic Art: The Joseph Monsen Collection", San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1972 "Cup Show", Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York
1972 "Cup Show", David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1973 "Thinking, Touching, Drinking Cup Show," Japan
1974 "Fred and Mary Marer Collection",Scripps College, Claremont, CA (catalogue)
1974 "Second Annual Cup Show", David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 "California Ceramics and Glass", Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1974 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
1975 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
1975 "Super Mud", Carborundum Museum of Crafts, Niagara Falls, NY
1976 "American Crafts, 1976", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1977 "Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture", William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art
Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
1978 "Foundations in Clay", Los Angeles institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1979 "West Coast Ceramics', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, traveled
1979 "A Century of Ceramics in the U.S.", Everson Museum, New York, NY,
traveled through 1982 (book and catalogue)
1980 "The Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection", Moore College of Art,
Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
1980 "Continental Clay Connection", Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1980 "The Vessel", Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX (catalogue)
1980 "Betty Asher's Cups", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA
1980 "Sculpture in California 1975 - 1980", San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1980 Mills College, Oakland, CA
1981 Art Latitudes, New York, NY
1981 "Clay", Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Providence, RI
1981 "Centering on Contemporary Clay", University of Iowa, Museum of Art, Iowa City
1981 "California Innovations", Art Callery, California State University,
Fullerton (catalogue) Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1981 "Polychrome", Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 "Miniatures '82", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1982 "Twenty American Artists: Sculpture 1982", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1982 "American Clay II", Meredith Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD (catalogue)
1982 "Northern California Art of the Sixties", de Saisset Museum,
University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA (catalogue)
1983 "Contemporary Clay Sculpture: The Daniel Jacobs Collection", The Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY
1983 "Who's Afraid of American Pottery?", Museum of Contemporary Art, Hektogenborsch, Holland
1983 "Faculty Exhibit '83", Cohen Gallery, Denver, CO
1983 "California Clay in the Rockies," Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
1983 "California Clayworks: Selections from the Permanent Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1983 "Echoes: History of Contemporary Ceramics," Nelson Atkins Museum,
Kansas City, MO (catalogue)
1983 "Selections of Contemporary Drawings," Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 "A Passionate Vision: Selections from the Daniel Jacobs Collection," Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
1984 "Contemporary Ceramic Vessels: Two Los Angeles Collections The Betty Asher Collection The Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection," Baxter Art Gallery, CA (catalogue)
1984 "Preview," Sarah Squeri Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1984 "The Dilexi Years: 1958 - 1970," The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalogue)
1985 "The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection," The San Francisco Museum, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1985 "Surface/Funtion/Shape: Selections from the Earl Millard Collection," University Center Gallery, Southern Illinois
University at Edwardsville, IL (catalogue)
1985 "California Sends Her Best," Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1985 "Clay," Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
1985 "Ceramics: An American Survey," Museo de Ceramica
1985 "Organic Abstractions," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1985 "Past Models, Future Shapes", The Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1985 "Ceramics: An American Survey", Museo de Ceramica, Barcelona, Spain
(organized by the EversonMuseum of Art, Syracuse, New York)
1985 "Organic Abstractions", Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1985 "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (book)
1985 "M. Lee Fatherree Photographs of Artists," Concourse Gallery, Bank
of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1985 "Fired Clay: Vessel and Image," Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1986 "Sculpture," Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1986 "Pacific Connections," University Art Gallery, San Diego State
University, San Diego, CA
1986 "Featured Artists of N.E.C.A. 1986, "Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
1986 "New Views," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 "Abstract Energy Now," Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1986 "Art Department Faculty Retrospective Exhibition", Mills College, Oakland, CA
1986 "American Potter Today", Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
1987 "Shoebox Show", The Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA
1987 "American Ceramics Now: The 27th Ceramic National Exhibition", Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
1987 "The Eloquent Object", Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; The
Oakland Museum, CA; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA; The
Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, IL; The Orlando Museum
of Art, FL; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1987 Gallery Group Exhibition, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1987 "ClayRevisions:Plate,Cup,Vase," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA;
Portland Art Museum, OR; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC; Gibson Gallery, Potsdam College,
New York; Tuscon Museum of Art, AZ; Santa Barbara Museum, CA
1987 "Bronze, Plaster and Polyester," Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College
of Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
1987 "American Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical", American Craft
Museum, New York, NY, Traveled to The Denver Art Museum,
Denver, CO; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Milwaukee Art
Museum, Milwaukee, WI; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY;
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA through 1988 (catalogue)
1988 "OSO Bay Biennial," Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, TX
1988 Anderson Ranch Gallery, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
1988 "From the Permanent Collection," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA
1988 "Expression in Color, Ceramics," New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1988 "Greenwich House Permanent Collection," Jane Hartsook Gallery,
Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
1989 "American Clay Artists," The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1989 "Surface and Form," National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore, MD
1990 "Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960's: Then and Now, 1990," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1990 "Ceramics for the Marer Collection," Pasadena City College Art
Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1990 "Buildings with Clay," Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
1990 "Vessels: From Use to Symbol," The American Craft Museum, NY
1990 "Rituals of Tea XI," Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 "Functional Fantasy," Transamerica, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Contemporary Uses of Wax & Encaustic," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1993 "93 Holiday Greetings and Wishes for 94," Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1994 The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Group Show from the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA
1994 Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA
1994 "Here and Now, Bay Area Masterworks from the diRosa Collections," Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1994 "Shrines, Symbols and Cherished Objects," Fuller Museum of Art, Boston, MA
1994 "Bay Area Ceramics," Bank of America Corporation Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
1994 Anderson Ranch Annual Art Auction, Snowmass Village, CO
1994 "Commodities," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 "Night of the Mosque," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA Summer Group Show,
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994-95 "Ceramic Sculpture," Jan Weiner Gallery Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1994-95 "The Art Cup," Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Spokane Art School and Momentum Gallery, Spokane, WA
1995 Anderson Ranch Faculty Show, Snowmass, Colorado
1995 "Discards," Secession and Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 "Clay: Recent Ceramic Sculpture," Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
1996 "East Bay Ceramic Artists," Cal State Hayward, University Art Gallery, Hayward, CA
1996 "Sampling," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 "Illustrious History: 1871 - Present," San Francisco Art Institute
Commemorative Anniversary Exhibition, Montgomery Gallery and
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 "Night of 101 Cups," Benefit for the Ceramic Arts Foundation, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1996 "Fin de Siecle II, (Reinterpreting the 70's)," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, Inc., New York, NY
1996 "Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 "SUM: Selections and Introductions," Revolution Gallery, Ferndale,MI
1996 Anderson Ranch Annual Art Auction, Snowmass Village, CO
1996 "California Funk," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1996 "The Fine Art of Craft and Sculpture," Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1996 "Made in Kent," Kent State University School of Art Gallery, OH
1997 "The Minimalist Oabject," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1997 "Homage to George Herriman," curated by Bill Berkson, Campbell
Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 "Celebrating American Craft: American Craft 1975-1995," The Danish
Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1997 "The Third Annual Exposition of SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art,"
Coconut Grove Conventions Center, Miami, FL
1997 "Abstract Expressionist Ceramics: Myth and Reality Revisited," Garth
Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1997 "REVOLUTION," 314 W. Institute Place, Chicago, IL
1997 "The Renwick at 25," Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of
American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1997 "Make It in Clay," Toki Gallery at Leslie Ceramic Supply Co. Berkeley, CA
1997 "Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object," Oliver Art Center, CA College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1997 "L'Chaim! A Kiddush Cup Invitational," The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
1998 "Points of Origin: Sources of Academic Influence," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1998 "More than Clay: The Toki Collection of Ceramics," Pence Gallery,
Davis, CA; Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1998 "Clay into Art," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1998 "SOFA - 1998 NYC," 7th Regiment Armory, New York, NY
1999 "Eye Candy," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999-2000 "Bay Area Now II," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Expanded Vision," Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
2000 "Paper Cuts," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Made in California: Art, Image and Identitly 1900-2000," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000 "Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000 "Teapots," Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection," Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
2001 "USA Clay," James Renwich Gallery/Smithsonian, Washington, DC
2001 "A Record: Directions of Craft in Art," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "West of Westermann," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "Poetics of Clay," Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2001 "Paper Pots III," John Elder Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "NCECA Invitational Exhibition," Wocek, Korea
2001 "Mud and Fire: A Group Show," Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
2002 "The Erotic Life of Clay: Sex Pots," Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2002 "Regarding Clay," UNKC Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO
2002 "Ceramic Modernism," The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
2002 "Poetics of Clay," Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
2002 "The Artful Teapot," COPIA, Napa, CA
2003 "Great Pots," The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2003 "Teapots and Opium," Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2003 "Introducing RAM: The Building and Collections," Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2003 "Kanazawa World Craft Forum," Ishikawa-ken, Japan
2003 "Life Taking Shape," The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
2003 "The Artful Teapot," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2003 "The Artful Teapot," The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
2003 "Postmodern Ceramics," Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2004 "25th Anniversary Exhibition," University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
2005 "The Anniversary Show," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 "The Long and the Short of It," Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California Davis, Davis, CA
2005 "Artist/Teacher/Artist," Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2006 "Soaring Spirits: Feet of Clay," Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, NY
The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
Kruithaus's - Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
J. Patrick Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, FL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolian Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Musee de Plastique, Paris, France
Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadephia, PA
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Japan
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Hokkaido Television Broadcasting, Tokyo, Japan
Johnson Wax Company, Racine, WA
Levi Strauss Company, San Francisco, CA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, MO


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