Upcoming Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Vanitas, Pottery Northwest and 4 Culture, Seattle, WA. (2015)
Mythologie einer Geschichtsstunde (Mythology of a History Lesson), Brotfabrik Gallery, Berlin and Umtrieb Gallery, Kiel, Germany. (2013)
Hast du was ich will, will ich was du hast? (Do you have what I want, do I want what you have?), Zentrum für Keramik, Berlin, Germany. (2013)
The Captains Congress, at Bridge 11, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA. (2011)
Performative Objects, with Christyl Boger, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN. (2011)
Le Cirque de l’Armée Rouge, Dubhe Carreño Gallery, Chicago, IL. (2010)
Sideshow – Attraction, Philip J. Steele Gallery, RMCA+D, Denver, CO. (2009)
Who Are those Masked Men?, Pacini Lubel, Seattle, WA. (2009)
Fecundity:Strength in Numbers, Matsutani Fellow Exhibition, Warehouse, Helena, MT. (2008)
The Judgment of Br'er Rabbit, Myrna Loy Center, Helena, MT. (2008)
Siblings, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. (2006)
Family Relics, John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN. (2006)

Select Past Exhibitions

2015
InCiteful Clay, Topeka & Shawnee County Public LibraryTopeka, KS; California State University, Carson, CA.
Ceramics Invitational: Northwest Clay, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA.

2014
Monsters and Hybrids: Creatures of Impulse, Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA.
New Resident Work, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA.
Crafting a Continuum, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA.
InCiteful Clay, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK; Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, Utah.

2013
Figurativ, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany.
Crafting a Continuum, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ.
BUKA Arts Salon, Dupont Circle Hotel, Washington, DC.

2012
Push Play, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA.
Clay Lives Here, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA.
Feminine Interior, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA.
Explicit Content, Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL.
NordArt, Hamburg, Germany.
Keramion, Frechen, Germany.

2011
JungArt Berlin, die Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany.
Matters of Size, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.
Body and Soul, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA.
Figurines, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM.
Self Schema, The Heights Waterfront, Tampa, FL.
Figuration, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.

2010
Symposium Exhibition, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN.
Undressing the Feminine, Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersbug, FL.
Hermaphrodites, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Dis/Arming Domesticity, The Duke Gallery, Wallingford, PA.
Corporeal Manifestations, Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Art Palm Beach (with Mindy Solomon Gallery), Palm Beach, FL.

2009
Verge Art Fair (with Mindy Solomon Gallery), Miami, FL.
The Familiar Unknown, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX.
SOFA Chicago (with Ann Nathan Gallery), Chicago, IL.
Figuration to Fragmentation, Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Lexington, KY.
The Shape of Us, The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN.
Archie Bray Residents, MonOrchid Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.
NCECA National Biennial, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
Next Iconoclasts, Hoffman Gallery, OCAC, Portland, OR.
Queer Craft, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA.

2008
SOFA Chicago (with Ann Nathan Gallery), Chicago, IL.
Confrontational Clay, Westchester Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY.
Figure Evocative, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY.
Untold Stories, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
SOFA New York (with Ann Nathan Gallery), New York, NY.
White Trash, at Clay Bodies, Archie Bray Foundation North Gallery, Helena, MT.
A New Breed, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI.
Palm Beach 3 (with Ann Nathan Gallery), West Palm Beach, FL.

2007
SOFA Chicago (with Ann Nathan Gallery), Chicago, IL.
Combined Talents, FSU Museum of Art. Tallahassee. FL.
Nena and Chique, at Open & Closed, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL.
SOFA New York (with Ann Nathan Gallery), New York, NY.
Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts, Lincoln, CA.
NCECA 2007 Clay National Biennial, Kentucky Museum of Art, Louisville, KY.
Emerging Excellence, Mellwood Arts Center, Louisville, KY.
Sham to Shame: Women’s Perspectives on War and Politics, WMG, Chicago, IL.

2006
Annual Erotic Art Show, The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN.
Alumni Invitational Salon Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY.
Materials Hard and Soft, Meadows Gallery, Denton, TX.

2005
Family Matters, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD.
Femme Aesthetics, Synchronicity Gallery, Evansville, IN.
Gender Engendered, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.

2004
Diploma Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Books/Catalogs

Vanitas, 4 Culture, 2015.
500 Ceramic Sculptures II, Lark Books, 2014.
Mythologie einer Geschichsstunde/Mythology of a History Lesson, Brotfabrik Gallery, 2013.
Best of 500 Ceramics, Lark Books, 2012.
Nordart, 2012.
JungArt Berlin, 2011.
NCECA 2009 Clay National Biennial, Arizona State University Museum of Art, 2009.
500 Ceramic Sculptures, pp. 249, 271, Lark Books, 2009.
Hand-Building Ceramics, p. 60, Gaddeng Xue Xiao, Yishushe Ji Lei, Zhuan Ye, Guihua Jiaocai, 2008.
Familiar Unknown, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, 2009.
Figuration to Fragmentation, Morlan Gallery and Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, 2009.
Ceramic Excellence, Archie Bray Foundation, 2008. ●LINK
Indiana University MFA 2007, Indiana University.
NCECA 2007 Clay National Biennial, Kentucky Museum of Art.
Siblings/The Sculpted Line, Manifest Gallery, volume 12. ●LINK
2006 Visual Arts Society of Texas 38 th Annual Exhibition.
Ex-Ceramics, Texas Tech University Lubbock, 2006.
Craft Forms 2005, Wayne Art Center.
Gender Engendered, Manifest Gallery, volume 2. ●LINK

Press

Ceramics Monthly, review of “Figurative Associations,” January, 2011.
Ceramics: Art and Perception, review of “Corporeal Manifestations,” December, 2010.
Panhandler Journal, Fall 2010, pp72-73.
Art in America, review of “Le Cirque de l’Armèe Rouge,” June/July 2010.
Ceramics Monthly, p. 28, Summer 2009.
NCECA Journal, v.30, pp. 17, 132, 2009.
Queen City News, Aug 13, 2008. “Telling of Bodies and Their Different Forms” by Jessica Peterson.
Culture + Travel, September/October, 2008.
Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 70, December 2007.
Clay Times, volume 13, no 1, January/February 2007.
Cincinnatti Enquirer, A & E Cover Story, Sunday, June 18, 2006.
Evansville Courier & Press, Spectrum, Friday, August 5, 2005.

awards

Visiting Artist Fellowship, Alberta College of Art and Design (2015-2016)
Kassan Foundation Fellowship (2015)
4Culture Project Grant (2014-2015)
Resident Artist, Pottery Northwest (2013-2015)
Virginia A. Groot Foundation Fellowship (2014)
Westerwald Museum NASPA Emerging Artist Prize (2013)
Resident Artist, Zentrum Für Keramik, Berlin (2011-2013)
German Chancellor Fellowship awarded by the Humboldt Foundation (2011-2013)
Artist Residency Awarded, Bemis Foundation (declined)
Artist Residency Awarded, Roswell Artist in Residence (declined)
Washington Artist’s Trust Fellowship for Visual Art (2011)
Artist in Residence, Pottery Northwest (2010-2011)
International Residency Grant, NCECA and Guldagergård, Denmark (2010)
Emerging Artist Award, NCECA (2009)
Montana Arts Council Grant (2009)
Matsutani Fellow and Resident, Archie Bray Foundation (2007-2009)
Autio Grant for Creative Initiatives (2008)
Solo Show Award, Gender Engendered, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati (2005)
Friends of Art Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University (2004-2005)
Royal Academy of Art London Travel Fellowship (2004)

2015-2016 Visiting Artist Teaching Fellow
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