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Ron Nagle

Ron Nagle’s sculptures might measure only the size of a clenched fist, but their intricate, dynamic panoramas evoke planetary domains. As the late critic Dave Hickey once commented, “Nagle’s trick is false modesty. He makes tiny things invested with the grandeur of the Taj Mahal.” Painstakingly rendered in ceramic, epoxy putty and other materials; their landscapes ooze and drip, sometimes resembling bonsai tableaux, seductive but inedible patisserie, or particles viewed through an electron microscope. Nagle’s supreme technical skill originates playful compositions with highly resolved surface finishes, their textures spanning popcorn stucco to lobster shells. In these arrangements of texturally and formally contrasting elements, Nagle’s abstractions are both other-worldly and entirely of this one: they evoke a range of influences reaching between mid-century hot-rod cars of the US West Coast, 1940s restaurant ware, Instagram ‘food porn’, and the composite sensibility of Japanese shibui and wabi-sabi. His tongue-in-cheek titles, frequently incorporating double entendres, are more often than not lyrical decoys.

Ron Nagle was born in 1939 in San Francisco, where he lives and works. He began his career as a studio assistant of Peter Voulkos, and soon became a protagonist of the California Clay Movement that coalesced around his teacher. Formative encounters with the still life paintings of Giorgio Morandi and the Finish Fetish artists of 1960s Southern California were followed by an interlude during which Nagle pursued a music career, playing with bands and solo, working as a sound designer for the Exorcist and writing music for various projects and artists including “Don’t Touch Me There “ by the Tubes. He continues to work symbiotically on both sculpture and music. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2020); Secession, Vienna (2019); Fridericianum, Kassel (2019); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2015); and the San Diego Museum of Art (2014). A survey of four decades of his practice was mounted at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, in 1993. In 2013, he was included in Massimiliano Gioni’s The Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th Venice Biennale. Nagle’s works are held in collections including LACMA, Los Angeles; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; SFMOMA, San Francisco; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Press
Biography
Balenciaga, 2023
Explosive Conclusion, 2023
ceramic, epoxy resin, catalyzed polyurethane, 10.2 x 8.9 x 13 cm, 4 x 3 1/2 x 5 1/8 in
Bohica, 2023
ceramic, glaze, wood, catalyzed polyurethane, epoxy resin, acrylic, 7.6 x 17.1 x 14.6 cm, 3 x 6 3/4 x 5 3/4 in
Signature Scent, 2017
wood, catalyzed polyurethane, and epoxy resin, 15.2 x 11.4 x 12 cm, 6 x 4 1/2 x 4 3/4 ins
Curly Centurion, 2019
wood, catalyzed polyurethane, and epoxy resin, 15.2 x 12 x 15.5 cm, 6 x 4 3/4 x 6 1/8 ins
The Master In Person, 2018
ceramic, glaze, catalyzed polyurethane, and epoxy resin, 10.2 x 12 x 14 cm, 4 x 4 3/4 x 5 1/2 ins
Lincolnshire Squire, 2018
ceramic, catalyzed polyurethane, and epoxy resin, 14.6 x 13.6 x 9.8 cm, 5 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 3 7/8 ins
Planetary Honorarium, 2020
ceramic, glaze, catalyzed polyurethane, and epoxy resin, 9.5 x 15.5 x 6.3 cm, 3 3/4 x 6 1/8 x 2 1/2 ins
Shady Haven, 2020
ceramic, glaze, catalyzed polyurethane, epoxy resin, and acrylic, 11.1 x 12.7 x 11.4 cm, 4 3/8 x 5 x 4 1/2 in
Kingsford Special, 2013
ceramic, glaze, polyester resin, catalysed polyurethane, epoxy resin and aluminum, 17.8 x 15.2 x 8.9 cm, 7 x 6 x 3 1/2 in
Dormant Informant, 2023
ceramic, glaze, catalyzed polyurethane, epoxy resin, 10.5 x 13.7 x 7.6 cm, 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 x 3 in
Incense Inferno, 2016
ceramic, glaze, catalysed polyurethane and epoxy resin, 15.2 x 10.2 x 11.1 cm, 6 x 4 x 4 3/8 in
Eight-Track Mind, 2016
ceramic, catalysed polyurethane and epoxy resin, 12.1 x 15.9 x 7 cm, 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 x 2 3/4 in
Yellin' with Helen, 2016
ceramic, glaze, catalysed polyurethane, epoxy resin and acrylic, 10.2 x 15.9 x 10.2 cm, 4 x 6 1/4 x 4 in
Big Bender, 2009
ceramic, glaze, underglaze, epoxy resin, 21.6 x 14 x 6.3 cm, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/2 in
The Bad Clown, 2003
porcelain, glaze, china paint, and epoxy resin, 10.8 x 23.5 x 10.2 cm, 4 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 4 in
Trick Tracy, 1998
ceramic, glaze, china paint, epoxy resin, 9.5 x 14 x 7 cm, 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 2 3/4 in
Chow Mein Man, 2013
ceramic, glaze, catalysed polyurethane, epoxy resin and aluminum, 12.4 x 15.2 x 5.7 cm, 4 7/8 x 6 x 2 1/4 in
Night of the Hunter, 1998
ceramic, glaze, china paint, epoxy resin, 10.2 x 13.3 x 7.6 cm, 4 x 5 1/4 x 3 in
Conniption, Modern Art, 2023

Press

Time Out20 November 2023
Financial Times1 November 2023
Esquire1 November 2023
Artnews29 September 2021
Frieze3 March 2020
Artnet6 February 2020
Kaleidoscope1 October 2019
Artsy3 December 2019
The New York Times29 April 2019
Berkeley Art Museum19 November 2019
Art News28 June 2019
Financial Times26 September 2019
Art Daily29 April 2019
Apartamento1 November 2019
Los Angeles Times24 February 2017
Artforum17 June 2017
Kaleidoscope1 June 2016
The New York Times25 September 2015
Frieze21 October 2015
Art Monthly1 July 2015
Ceramic Review1 March 2014
Artforum13 January 2003

Biography

Ron Nagle

Born in San Francisco, CA, USA, 1939 Lives and works in San Francisco, CA, USA

Education

1961
BA
San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2023
Conniption / Extraterrestrials
Modern Art, London
Fast of Words
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Necessary Obstacles
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2020
Lincolnshire Squire
Modern Art, London
Ron Nagle: Handsome DrifterBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
2019
SecessionVienna, Austria
Midnight StrollThe Perimeter
Euphoric Recall
Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Getting to No
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017
Amended Testimony
Modern Art, London
Ice Breaker
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015
Five O'Clock Shadow
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Chewing Gum MonumentsMuseum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2014
Peripheral CognitionSan Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA
2012
Odd Ball
Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Hamiltoe
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sleep Study
Lefebvre & Fils and Pierre Marie Giraud, Paris, France
2010
Sculpture
James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Spit Shine
James Kelly Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2009
Bookends, Weeromas, and Flareware
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008
Duo Mysto, Don Ed Hardy & Ron Nagle
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Ron Nagle is a Sweetheart
Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
Ron Nagle: New Sculpture
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2006
Buddy Holly Center
Lubbock, TX, USA
Garth Clark Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2005
Natalie and James Thompson Gallery
San José State University, San José, CA, USA
Rena Bransten Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
Frank Lloyd Gallery
Santa Monica, CA, USA
2004
Rena Bransten Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
2003
Dolphin
Kansas City, MO, USA
Garth Clark Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2002
Variety Show
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2001
Garth Clark Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2000
Perimeter Gallery
Chicago, IL, USA
1999
Rena Bransten Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
Garth Clark Gallery
New York, NY, USA
1998
Frank Lloyd Gallery
Santa Monica, CA, USA
1997
Revolution Gallery
Ferndale, MI, USA
1996
Garth Clark Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Byron Cohen / Lennie Berkowitz Gallery for Contemporary Art
Kansas City, MO, USA
Revolution Gallery
Ferndale, MI, USA
1995
Garth Clark Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Franklin Parrasch Gallery
New York, NY, USA
1993
Ron Nagle, A Survey Exhibition 1960-1993
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1992
Bellas Artes Gallery
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Michael Himovitz Gallery
Sacramento, CA, USA
1991
Rena Bransten Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
1989
Charles Cowles Gallery
New York, NY, USA
1988
Rena Bransten Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
1985
Charles Cowles Gallery
New York, NY, USA
1984
Quay Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
Betsy Rosenfeld Gallery
Chicago, IL, USA
1983
Charles Cowles Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Delahunty Gallery
Dallas, TX, USA
1982
Quay Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
Greenberg Gallery
Saint Louis, MO, USA
1981
Charles Cowles Gallery
New York, NY, USA
1979
Currents 4
St. Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA
Matrix Gallery I
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
1978
Adaline Kent Award Exhibition
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
1977
Yaw Gallery
Birmingham, MI, USA
1975
Quay Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
1968
Rolf Nelson Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dilexi Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Café Crèvecœur
Crèvecœur, Montesquiou, France
2023
Reveal: Recent Acquisitions 2020–2023American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, USA
Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of SympathyInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
2022
California Clay: The Big BangClarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Clarinda, IA, USA
2021
The Flames, The Age of CeramicsMusée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Continuous Clay: Trends & Innovations
Marin MOCA, Novato, California, CA, USA
2020
Accelerate your escapeWhitechapel Gallery, London
2019
Closer Look: Intimate-Scale Sculpture from the Permanent CollectionOrange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA, USA
75th Scripps College Ceramic Annual
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, USA
2018
Léopoldine
Sans titre (2016), Paris, France
By Fire, Ceramic Works
Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fire and Clay
Gagosian, Geneva, Switzerland
Handheld, in the series The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
American Beauty
Design Museum Den Bosch, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Jay DeFeo: The Ripple EffectLe Consortium, Dijon, France, travelling to: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
Small Gifts from Big Donors – Part 3
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA
Spectral Hues: artists + color
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
2016
Between the Lines
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Based on a True Story: Highlights from the di Rosa Collectiondi Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA, USA
No Rules, No Rules
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Lighting the Fire: Ceramics and Education in the American WestNora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT, USA
The Campaign for Art: ContemporarySan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Pavlova’s Dawg and Other Works by Gallery Artists
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ceramix: From Rodin to SchütteLa Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Lineage: Mentorship & LearningAmerican Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, USA
2015
Blind Architecture
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Outside the Lines: Color Across the Collections
Newark Museum, NJ, USA
Cross Section: Recent AcquisitionsMills College Museum, Oakland, CA, USA
2014
Color ShiftBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Ruth Braunstein: Focus on Clay
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, USA
Ron Nagle, George Ohr: Look Closer, Look Again
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Eagle CollectionMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston. Travelled to Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, USA, and Canton Museum of Art, OH, USA
2013
Small is Beautiful
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Burn These Eyes Captain, and Throw Them in the Sea!!
Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Recent Acquisitions · Select Works: The Contemporary Clay CollectionNerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, USA
Grapevine, curated by Ricky Swallow
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012
Automaton
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Légèreté
Maison Particuliére, Brussels, Belgium
10! The First Decade
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO, USA
2011
Contemporary Ceramics
DANESE/COREY, New York, NY, USA
Paul Clay
Salon 94, New York, NY, USA
Building Blocks: Contemporary Works from the Collection
RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
A Legacy Continued New Acquisitions from the Stéphane Janssen & R. Michael Johns Collection
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, USA
Everything You Can Imagine is Real
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
2010
TEFAF Showcase
Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Maastricht, Netherlands
2009
Electric Mud
Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Get with the Program
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Not New Work: Vincent Fecteau Selects from the CollectionSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Down to Earth
Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Strombeek, Belgium, Brussels
Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form ClayInstitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2008
The Scholar's Eye: Contemporary Ceramics from the Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
2007
Moon Proof Madness
Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, Canada
California Collections: Start Here
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, USA
The Enigmatic Object
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Craft in America: Expanding TraditionsArkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, USA. Travelled to Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR, USA
2006
One of a Kind - The Studio Craft Movement
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
(The coffee was very slow in coming.) An Exhibition of Cups
Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI, USA
A Ceramic Legacy: The Stephanie Janssen and R. Michael Johns Collection
Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ, USA
Ceram-a-Rama: California Dreamin'
Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ, USA
2005
Artist / Teacher / Artist
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA, USA
2004
25th Anniversary Exhibition
Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA, USA
2003
Postmodern Ceramics
Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA
The Artful Teapot
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
2002
Ceramic Modernism
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
Poetics of Clay
Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
USA Clay
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
West of Westermann
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Paper Cuts
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1999
Bay Area Now II
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Eye Candy
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1998
SOFA - 1998 NYC
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, USA
Clay into Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
More than Clay: The Toki Collection of Ceramics
Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, USA; Richmond Art Center, VA, USA
Points of Origin: Sources of Academic Influence
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1997
L'Chaim! A Kiddush Cup Invitational
Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object
Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, USA
The Renwick at 25
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
REVOLUTION
314 W. Institute Place, Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics: Myth and Reality Revisited
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Third Annual Exposition of SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art
Coconut Grove Conventions Center, Miami, FL, USA
Celebrating American Craft: American Craft 1975-1995
Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Homage to George Herriman
Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Minimalist Object
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1996
Made in Kent
Kent State University School of Art Gallery, Kent, OH, USA
The Fine Art of Craft and Sculpture
Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
California Funk
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
SUM: Selections and Introductions
Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI, USA
Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Fin de Siecle II, (Reinterpreting the 70's)
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Night of 101 Cups, Benefit for the Ceramic Arts Foundation
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY, USA
llustrious History: 1871 - Present
Montgomery Gallery and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sampling
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
East Bay Ceramic Artists
University Art Gallery, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, USA
Clay: Recent Ceramic Sculpture
Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA, USA
1995
Discards
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA Spokane Art School and Momentum Gallery, Spokane, WA, USA
1994
Night of the Mosque
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA
Summer Group Show
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Commodities
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Bay Area Ceramics
Bank of America Corporation Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, USA
Shrines, Symbols and Cherished Objects
Fuller Museum of Art, Boston, MA, USA
Here and Now, Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections
Oakland Museum of California, CA, USA
Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA
Group Show from the Permanent Collection
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA
The Art Cup
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ceramic Sculpture
Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA
1993
93 Holiday Greetings and Wishes for 94
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1992
Contemporary Uses of Wax & Encaustic
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
1990
Functional Fantasy
Transamerica, San Francisco, CA, USA
Rituals of Tea XI
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Vessels: From Use to Symbol
American Craft Museum, New York, NY, USA
Buildings with Clay
Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR, USA
Ceramics for the Marer Collection
Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA, USA
Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960's: Then and Now
Braunstein / Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1989
Surface and Form
National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
American Clay Artists
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1988
Greenwich House Permanent Collection
Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, USA
Expression in Color, Ceramics
New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, USA
From the Permanent Collection
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA
OSO Bay Biennial
Corpus Christi State University, TX, USA
1987
American Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical
American Craft Museum, New York. Travelled to Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, USA
Bronze, Plaster and Polyester
Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase
Seattle Art Museum. Travelled to Portland Art Museum, OR, USA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA; Gibson Gallery, Potsdam College, New York, NY, USA; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA; Santa Barbara Museum, CA, USA
Gallery Group Exhibition
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Eloquent Object
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, USA. Travelled to Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA; Orlando Museum of Art, FL, USA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, USA
American Ceramics Now: The 27th Ceramic National Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. Travelled to American Craft Museum, New York, NY, USA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH, USA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, USA
Shoebox Show
Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA
1986
American Potters Today
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Art Department Faculty Retrospective Exhibition
Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
Abstract Energy Now
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA
New Views
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Featured Artists of N.E.C.A. 1986
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
Pacific Connections
University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, CA, USA
Sculpture
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1985
Fired Clay: Vessel and Image
Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis, MO, USA
M. Lee Fatherree Photographs of Artists
Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, USA
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980
Oakland Museum of California, CA, USA
Organic Abstractions
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, USA
Ceramics: An American Survey
Museo de Cerámica, Barcelona, Spain
Past Models, Future Shapes
Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum, ID, USA
Clay
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, USA
California Sends Her Best
Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA
Surface / Function / Shape: Selections from the Earl Millard Collection
University Center Gallery, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection
San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA
1984
The Dilexi Years: 1958-1970
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, USA
Preview
Sarah Squeri Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Contemporary Ceramic Vessels: Two Los Angeles Collections (The Betty Asher Collection The Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection)
Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA, USA
A Passionate Vision: Selections from the Daniel Jacobs Collection
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA
1983
Selections of Contemporary Drawings
Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
California Clayworks: Selections from the Permanent Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
California Clay in the Rockies
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO, USA
Who's Afraid of American Pottery?
Museum of Contemporary Art, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Contemporary Clay Sculpture: The Daniel Jacobs Collection
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, USA
1982
Northern California Art of the Sixties
de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA, USA
American Clay II
Meredith Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Twenty American Artists: Sculpture 1982
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Miniatures '82
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, USA
1981
Polychrome
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
California Innovations
Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA. Travelled to Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA, USA
Centering on Contemporary Clay
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, USA
Clay
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI, USA
1980
Sculpture in California 1975-1980
San Diego Museum of Art, CA, USA
Betty Asher's Cups
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA
The Vessel
Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
Continental Clay Connection
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
The Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
A Century of Ceramics in the U.S.
Everson Museum, New York, NY, USA
West Coast Ceramics
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1978
Foundations in Clay
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1977
Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
1976
American Crafts, 1976
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
1975
Super Mud
Carborundum Museum of Crafts, Niagara Falls, NY, USA
1974
California Ceramics and Glass Second Annual Cup Show
Oakland Museum of California, CA, USA
David Stuart Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fred and Mary Marer Collection
Scripps College, Claremont, CA, USA
1973
Thinking, Touching, Drinking Cup Show Invitational
Kyoto, Japan
1972
Cup Show
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Travelled to Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, USA
A Decade of Ceramic Art: The Joseph Monsen Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA
1971
Coffee, Tea & Other Cups
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, USA
1970
Teacups, Teapots, Gorillas, Etc.
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Objects: U.S.A.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
1968
American Craftsmen Invitational
Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
1966
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics
University of California, Irvine. Travelled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
1965
New Ceramic Forms
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, USA
1963
Work in Clay by Six Artists
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA
1962
Three Potters
Lewis Vidal Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, USA

Selected Collections

Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive, University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., USA
Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento, CA, USA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
Sedalia, MO, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI, USA
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY, USA
The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
Toronto, Canada
Johnson Community College
Kansas City, MO, USA
Kruithuis, 's-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY, USA
Mills College Art Museum
Oakland, CA, USA
The Museum of Arts and Design
New York, NY, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
Shigaraki, Japan
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra, Australia
Newark Museum
Newark, NJ, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Racine Art Museum
Racine, WI, USA
RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA, USA
San José Museum of Art
San José, CA, USA
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA, USA
Sheldon Museum of Art
Lincoln, NE, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., USA
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum
London
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT, USA