BORN
1940
Battle Creek, Michigan
EDUCATION
1966-67
University of California, Davis, CA, M.A.
1963-66
University of California, Davis, CA, B.A. (Honors)
1958-63
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
TEACHING
1970-2005 California
State University, Sacramento, CA
1968-69
School of Visual Arts
1968
University of California, Davis, CA (Summer Session)
1966
University of California, Davis, CA
1965-66
Teaching Assistant, Ceramics Extension, Bob Arneson
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AWARDS
AND HONORS
1979-80
Guggenheim Fellowship
1977-78
Faculty Research Grant
1977-78
National Endowment for the Arts
1967
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
1966
Regents Fellowships, University of California, Davis, CA (1 year)
1963
Regents Scholarships, University of California, Davis, CA (4 semesters)
PUBLIC
ART / COMMISSIONS
2007 "Fire on Ice" - Marzona Sculpture Park, Verzegnis,
Italy
2006 "Peace" - 555 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, CA
2005 "Matter Contemplates Spirit" - 65th & Folsom, Sacramento, CA
2002 "Consort Head" - Phil & Ruth Coelho Collections, Sacramento, CA
2002 "Ozymandius" - California State University, Sacramento, CA
1999 "Time to Cast Away Stones" - 13th & K Streets, Sacramento, CA
1999 Esquire Plaza Project, Sacramento,
CA
1993 Natomas Station, Folsom, C
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 "Nuclear Projects and
Other Works", Verge Gallery and Studio Project, Sacramento, CA
2008
"Time Capsules", another year in LA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 "ROOM
CONSTRUCTIONS: Blueprints and Models", another
year in LA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 "Fire on Ice" - Marzona Sculpture Park, Verzegnis,
Italy
2005 Another
Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA
Konrad
Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
2000 Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, January 2000
1996 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (performance)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA (performance)
1990 "One-Person Show," Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery,
Davis, CA December
1988 "One-Person Show," Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery,
Davis, CA
Else Gallery, California State University,
Sacramento, CA
1987 Biola University, La Mirada, CA
Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis,
CA
1985 Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1982 "Portrait of My Father," Emmanuel Gallery,
Colorado State University, Auraria Campus, CO
1980 "Portrait of My Father," Newport Harbor Museum,
Newport Harbor, CA
1980 "Portrait of My Father," Oakland Museum,
Oakland, CA
1979 "Portrait of My Father," Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA
1974 "Portrait-of My Father," Studies, A.C.G.
1972 Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1970 Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1969 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1967 San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
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GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Self-storage - Curatorial Industries, San Francisco, CA
2006 Gift Shop, Curated by David E. Stone -
Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA
2001 The Figure in Contemporary Ceramics, 2001
2001 Art Express Cabinet des estampes au Musee d' art modem et contemporain
2001
1998 Word Works 871 Fine Arts San Francisco, CA
---- 30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas
Gallery, Davis, CA
1997 Gallery W Alumni Exhibit
-------Crocker Museum 4 Northern California
Artists
-------Manifestation
of Ceramic Arts World Museum of Ceramic Art Faenza, Italy
-------30
Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
-------Gallery
W Sacramento, CA
-------Crocker
Art Museum
1996 Arneson Chair Endowment Fund Exhibit
-------Performance
Fringe Art Festival
-------History
of Figurative Ceramic Art Sculpture, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
-------Sacred
Fire, Jerusalem
-------Pence
Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibit
-------Black
Velvet on the Blvd
-------The
Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
-------The
Pacific Rim Ceramic Sculpture Exhibit
-------The
Fax Project, Belgium
-------Exposition
of American Art 1992-1996
1995 S.O.F .A. Exposition, Chicago
-------La
Modernism Exposition 1994 & 1995
-------The
Figure, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1994 Sacramento Club Gallery 1993 & 1994
-------Art
L.A. Exposition 1993 & 1994
1993 "Large Scale Figurative Ceramics," California
State University, Hayward
-------New
Art Forms, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1992 "30 Ceramic Sculptors," John Natsoulas Gallery,
Davis, CA
1991 NCECA Show
-------"5th
Annual Ceramic Sculptors," Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA
"TB-9: A 30- Year
Retrospective," Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA
-------Muckenthaller
Museum, Riverside, CA (December)
-------"Arneson
Tribute," Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA (June)
-------"Else
Gallery Clay Show," Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento
(April)
-------"Height,
Width, Length," Weatherspoon Art Gallery
-------"Crocker
Kingsley Artists," Crocker Museunl, Sacramento, CA
1990 "4th Annual 30 Ceramic Sculptors," Natsoulas
Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA
-------"7
Objects 69/90," Fine Arts Center, University Gallery, University
of Massachusetts, MA
-------"California
A to Z," The Butler Institute of American Art
-------"Matrix
Show," Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA (May)
-------"Artery
Group Show," (April)
1989 "3rd Annual 30 Ceramic Sculptors," Natsoulas
Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA
-------"Arts
for Amnesty," Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA
-------"California-Europa
Clay Redux," Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
-------"Dimensions:
Two-Person Show with Tommie Moller," The Roseville Arts Center, Roseville,
CA
1988 "Artists for Amnesty," Natsoulas Novaloso
Gallery, Davis, CA
-------"2nd
Annual 30 Ceramic Sculptors," Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis,
CA
-------"Faculty-Alumni
Show University of California, Davis," Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery,
Davis, CA
-------"Peace,"
Pence Gallery, Davis, CA (December)
-------750
Gallery, Sacramento, CA (October)
-------Alumni,
Santa Rosa J.C. Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA (September)
1987 Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Clay Sculptors, Davis, CA
-------"3
Decades of Art in Davis," Davis Art Center, Davis, CA (November 13-
December 18)
-------"Local
Artists for Global Thought," Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA
-------"4
Ceramic Sculptors," Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA
1986 "CSUS at SCC," Sacramento, CA
-------Biolo
Cross-Hatch Show 1986
1985 "Century," Southern Exposure Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
-------"30-000
BC to Present," Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
-------"Shadow
Project," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1984 "Unique Photos Since the Daguerrerotype,"
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY
-------"Nuclear
Sanity Show: W/Democratic Convention"
-------"Disarming
Art," Matrix Gallery, Sacrame~to, CA
-------"Contemporary
Surrealism," Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1983 "The Slant Step Revisited," Nelson Gallery,
University of California, Davis, CA
-------"Correspondence
Show," San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
-------"Cowtown,"
Chan Elliot Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1982 "In High Regard," Emanuel Gallery, Denver,
CO
"Sculptors
at University of California, Davis: Past and Present," Pence Gallery,
Nelson Gallery --------------and
the Memorial Union Gallery, Davis, CA
1980-84 Liturgical Art Shows
1978 "Stone Maple," San Jose Museunl of Art, San
Francisco, CA
1977 "Time," Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia,
P A
------ -"Stone
Maple," Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1976 "Stone Maple," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento,
CA
------- "Additions
and Arrangements", Acme Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1974-75 University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1972 Evanston Art Museum, Evanston, IL
-------Crocker
Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1971 "Coffee, Tea and Other Cups," Museum of Contemporary
Crafts New York City, NY
-------University
of Nevada, Reno, NV
-------University
of California, Davis, CA
1970-71 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1970 "955,000: Vancouver Show," Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
-------"The
Drawing Society National Exhibition," Cooper Union, New York City,
NY
-------"Information,"
Museum of Modem Art, New York, NY
-------"Attitudes,"
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
-------"Conceptual
Art Show," New York Cultural Center, NY Tokyo Biennial
1969 "Language III," Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
-------"Street
Works I-IV," New York, NY
-------"When
Attitudes Become Form," Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland
-------"Plans
and Projects," Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland
-------"Conception
Art - No Objects," Stadtishes Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
-------"March,
Seth Seigalaub," New York, NY
-------"Finch
College Show," New York, NY
-------"Dwan
Word Show," New York, NY
-------"Paula
Cooper Conceptual" Art Show
-------"Seattle
Show - "557,087," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
-------"The
Art of Money," Chelsea Gallery, New York City, NY
1968 "Soft Sculpture," American Federation
of the Arts
-------"Earthworks,"
Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
1968-69 "Nine at Leo Castelli," Castelli Warehouse, New York,
NY
1967 "Four New Artists," Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
1966 "New Modes in California Sculpture," La Jolla
Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
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COLLECTIONS
Museum of the North, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Sylvio Perlstein, Paris
Dorothee Fischer, Düsseldorf,
Michael Lowe
Anne Mogelin Delacroix
San Francisco Museum of Modem Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN - Two Porcelain Sculptures
Evanston Museum of Art - Illinois Bowl, IL
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH - Two Collages
Museum of Modem Art, New York City, NY - Time Capsule
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Robert & Janice Boynton, Sacramento, CA
Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary - Ceramic Clouds
University of California at Davis, CA - Time Capsule
Bill Rees, New Haven, CT
John Fitzgibbon, Pilot Hill, CA
Donna Douglas, Davis, CA
Mathew Brumer, Sacramento, CA
Stephen S. Alpert Trust
Richard Kramer, Davis, CA
Hugh Arnold, Davis, CA
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CATALOGS/PUBLICATIONS
(click on yellow text below to read these reviews)
Artforum
by Bruce Hainley, September, 2005
Los
Angeles Times by Christopher Knight, July 22, 2005
"Pick
of the Week" by Peter Frank, LA Weekly, July 15, 2005
Earth Works, Art and the Landscape of the 60's, Suzanne Boettger,
University of California Press 2002
Recording Conceptual Art, Alexander Alberro and Patricia Norvell,
eds. Univ. of California Press 2001
Art Works, Sammerlung Marzona Kunst um 1968 The Marzona Collezione
d'arte Marzona
Marzona una Collezione d'arte, Villa Manin Hatje Cantz published
2001
Extra Art: A Survey of Artists Ephemera, Pilar Perez, ed. Smart
Art Press 2001
New Art in the 60's and 70's Redefining Reality, Ann Rorimer Thames
and Hudson 2001
Challenging Art, 1962-1974 SOHO Press 2000
Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975, The MITPress 1995
The Art of Context - The Context of Art, Seth Seigalaub
Ceramics Book, John Natsoulas & Laura Ceia 1998
Conceptual Art, Patsy Nowell & Alex Alberto 1998
Auto Critique, Barbara Rose
69-96 Avant Gardes et Fin de Siecle The Context of Art The Art of Context,
C. & S. Seigelaub, 1996
Catalogue Reconsidering the Object of Art, Goldstein and Rorimer,
M.I. T. Press, 1995
Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, October 1, 1995
7 Objects 1969-1990, Phyllis Blau & Eric Vieland V. Mass 1990
Beyond Modernism, Kim Levin, Harper & Row, 1988
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980, Thomas Albright
American Avant Garde 1960-1970, Dr. Claudine Humblet
Art Week, December 18, 1986, Christopher French
San Francisco Examiner, July 1985
Art Week, October 20, 1984
Rocky Mountain News, October 23, 1983
Los Angeles Times, August 4, 1980, Susanne Muchnick
The Museum of California, October 1979
Suttertown News, March 9, 1979
Sacramento Union, March 1, 1979, Richard Simon
Hunter, Sam, American Art of the 20th Century, Harry Abrams Publisher,
p.409
Bay Area Artists, Dan Tookin 1977
"Contemporary Artists," Colin Naylor and Genesis P. Orridge,
Hilmarton Manor Press, England 10177
"Contemporary Artists," St. James Press, 1 Montague Mews
North, London WIHlAJ, England, 1976
Johnson, Ellen H., Modern Art and the Object, Thames and Hudson,
London
Lippard1" Lucy, Six Years, 1974 (paperback)
Village Voice, March 16, 1972, John Perreault
Meyer, Ursula, Conceptual Art, E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.,
New York, 1972
Bruce Nauman Catalogue, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, October 12-November
1973, p. 52
Kostalantz, Richard, Breakthroughs in Fiction, Something Else Press,
Inc.
Shimada, Yaseo, Art Now, (V 0111 "Art as Action"), Kodansha
Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Lippard, Lucy, The Dematerialization of the Art Object, Praeger,
New York, Fall 1972
San Francisco Examiner, 1972, Alfred Frankenstein
San Francisco Chronicle, March 18, 1972
Art Journal, Winter 70-71
Elsen, The Purposes of Art, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New
York, 1 st and 3rd Editions
Nemser,
Cindy, Art Forum Interview, November, 1970
Cologned, Germano, Art Povera-Land Art,
Galleria Civica de Arte Moderna, Torino, Italy, June, 1970
Weidman, Phil, Slant Step Book, 1969
Wedewer, Rolf and Fischer, Konrad, Conzeption-Conception,
Westdentscher Verlag
Gmbh, Koln and Opladin (Catalog), 1969
Newsweek, August 11,1969, Howard Junker,
p. 81
Newsweek, July 29, 1968
Art in America, March, 1968
Christian Science Monitor, January
14, 1966
Art International, December, 1966
Art Forum, December, 1964
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VISITING
LECTURES
2006 |
"Thinking
of Conceptual Art" (with Richard Haley and David E. Stone), Another
Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA |
1998 |
Gallery
W: talk on Georges Roault, John Natsoulas California Clay Conference
(C.C.A.C.A.) |
1997 |
Instituto
of Ceramic Art: Faenza, Italy
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Crocker
Museum Talk |
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U.S.C.
slide presentation |
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Biola U
slide presentation |
1996 |
Sacramento
Capitol Club |
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International
Art Fair, Faenza, Italy |
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Yale University |
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Peter J.
Shields Library, U.C. Davis |
1995 |
Biola
University, Los Angeles, CA |
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USC,
Los Angeles, CA |
1991 |
Panel
Discusion, C.C.A.C.A. |
1990
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Enlarging
Demonstration, C.C.A.C.A. |
1989 |
Slide Presentation,
C.I.V.A. Conference, La Mirada, CA., June 23 |
1987 |
Biola University,
La Mirada, CA |
1982 |
University
of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
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Colorado
State University, Auraria, CO |
1975 |
University
of California, Davis, CA |
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San Francisco
Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
1975
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Otis Art
Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
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The Claremont
Colleges, Claremont, CA |
1974 |
Fort Wright
College, Spokane, WA |
1972
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Kohler Art
Museum, Madison, WI |
1971-72 |
University
of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
1971 |
California
State University, Sacramento, CA |
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Sonoma State
University, Cotati, CA |
1970 |
University
of California, San Diego, CA |
1970 |
Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, New Jersey
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