Born in Ohio, 1930, Resides in Oakland, CA

Education:

1952Princeton University A.B.
1957 University of Chicago M.F.A.
1961 University of California, Berkeley M.A.

Academic Appointments:

1961-65 San Francisco Art Institute

1965-92 University of California, Berkeley

Non-Academic Appointments:

1977-81 National Endowment for the Arts Director, Visual Arts Program
1984-88 American Academy in Rome, Director

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

1968

Gallery 669, Los Angeles

1970

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Obelisk Gallery, Boston

1972

Gallery Reese Galley, San Francisco

1975

Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco

1978

Gallerie Fignal, Amsterdam

1981

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1984

Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco

1989

College of Notre Dame, Belmont

1991

Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1992

Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia

1994

paul kotula projects, Detroit

1995

paul kotula projects, Detroit
Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco

1996

Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco

1998

paul kotula projects, Detroit

1999

paul kotula projects, Detroit
Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville, CA

2000

Howard Yezerski, Boston

2001

paul kotula projects, Detroit
Franklin Parrish Gallery, New York

2002

Bay Area Center for the Consolidated Arts, Berkeley, CA

2003

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
paul kotula projects, Ferndale, MI

2005

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2007

Eye Sites: Jim Melchert, paul kotula projects, Ferndale, MI

2008

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1963

Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris

1966

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1968

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1969

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
American Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.

1970

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1972

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Documenta 5, Kassel

1974

The Biennial, Sidney

1977

National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago

1991

The Drawing Center, New York
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

1993

Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

1994

California Crafts Museum, San Francisco
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock

1995

Chicago Art Institute, Betty Rymer Gallery

1996

Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco

Nancy Margolis, New York
Tullie House Museum, touring throughout the UK through 1998

1997

Garth Clark Gallery, New York
paul kotula projects, Detroit
California College of Art and Crafts, Oliver Art Center
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis
Las Vegas Art Museum

1998

Center Gallery, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit

1999

Revolution/NY, New York
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Haas Fine Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

2000

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2001

National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
World Ceramic Biennale, Ichon, Korea
Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona

2002

Kansas City Art Institute, H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
The Work Space, New York, NY
Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco
The Drawing Center, New York, NY

2003

Columbus College of Art & Design, OH

2004

Tate Modern, Liverpoole, ENGLAND

Awards:

1964 Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship

1970 Adeline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute

1978 Honorary Fellow, NCECA

1984 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, San Francisco Art Institute

1988 Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council

1993 Citation for Distinguished Service in the Visual Arts, National Association of  Schools of Art and Design
           Honorary Doctor of Fine Art Degree, Maryland Institute, College of Art

1998 Visiting Artist, European Ceramics Work Centre, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
          Regis Master Series, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

2000 Keynote Speaker, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Private Collections:

J. Patrick Lannan, Los Angeles
Rene Di Rosa, Napa
Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Monsen, Seattle
Norma Schlesinger, San Francisco
Ann Hatch, San Francisco
Ruth Nash, Belvedere
Austin Conkey, San Francisco
Modesto Lanzone, San Francisco
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Paine, Cambridge
John Axelrod, Boston
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Anderson, Boston
S.W. Forbes, Stamford
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kolodny, Princeton
Audrey Sabol, Philadelphia
Marion Stroud, Philadelphia
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Freudenheim, Washington D.C.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mondavi, Napa
Margaret LaRou, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Public Collections

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Video Archives, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
American Craft Museum, New York

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Oakland Museum, CA
Rose Museum, Brandeis University
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Wellington-Invest, Inc., Boston
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
European Ceramics Works Centre, s’Hertogenbosch
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Ichon World Ceramic Center, Suwon, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Commissions:

Rene di Rosa, Napa, CA
Oliver Ranch and Sculpture Park, Geyserville, CA
River West Sculpture Park, Folsom, CA
Metropolitan Rapid Transit, Sacramento, CA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Judy Greif, Berkeley, CA
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH