Richard Shaw
Biography

Born
1941 Hollywood, California

Education
1968 University of California, Davis, MFA
1965 San Francisco Art Institute, BFA
State University of New York at Alfred

Solo Exhibitions

2007      Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005      Still Lifes, Art Museum of Los Gatos
               Richard and Martha Shaw, Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA
               Richard Shaw: It Ain't Necessarily So, Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
               New Work, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004      Shorenstein Concourse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               "Short Order". Sierra College Ridley Gallery
2003      New Ceramic Sculpture, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
               Trompe L-oeil Ceramics, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2002      New Ceramic Sculpture, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001      Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
               Garo Sakata Gallery, Sacramento,CA
               Collaboration, Richard Shaw and Robert Hudson, Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art,
                       and Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2000      One Man Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Robert Hudson, Richard Shaw, Collaborations in Clay, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VI.
1999     Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
               Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
               Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw, "New Ceramic Sculpture", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
1998      Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Master’s Touch, Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, AZ
               Richard Shaw, A Survey, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
1996      Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Annual Life Member, Falkirk Arts Center, San Rafael, CA
1995      Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993      Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992      Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
               Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1991      Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, CA
1990      Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA
               Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
               Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
               Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
               Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1989      Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1988      Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
               University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
               Sierra Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV+
1987      Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
               Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
               Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI
               Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
               Honolulu Contemporary Art Center, Honolulu, HI
1986      Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
               Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
               Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
               Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1985      Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984      Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1983      Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1982      Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
               Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
               Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
               San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
               Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
               Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980      Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1979      Belson-Brown Gallery, Ketchum, ID
               Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977      Jacqueline Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976      Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, NY
1974      E.G. Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1973      San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
               Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971      Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1970      Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968      Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967      Richard Shaw/Ceramic Sculpture, Traveling
               Richard Shaw, Illusionism in Clay: 1971-85, Traveling

Group Exhibitions

2008      The Dark Side of the Mouse, Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, CA
2007      Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005      Fired at Davis – Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
               It Ain’t Necessarily So, Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
               Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
               Contemporary Codex: Ceramics and the Book, Manchester Craftman’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
               Looking Back and Seeing Forward, A 90th Anniversary Exhibition, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               I Hope You Learned Your Lesson, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
               Terra Sutra II, The Montage Gallery, Baltimore, MD
               Body Language, George Adams Gallery, NY, NY
               More Than A Game: The Art of Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery, SF, CA
               Scents of Purpose: 2005 Spice Box Invitational, Contemporary ,Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
               The Toki Collection: A Bay Area Perspective on Ceramics, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
               From Tiles to Totems: A Century of Northern California Ceramics, The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
               Sevres @ Sevres: Cinquante Ans de Creation Contemporaire, Musee National de Ceramique, Sevres, France
               Seventh Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins/Johnson Gallery, SF, CA
               The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Foundation, Selected Works from:diRosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2004      Masters of Illusion: 150 Years of Trompe L’Oeil in America, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State U., MI,
                       East Lancing, MI,
               Standing Room Only, Ruth Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA,
               The Artful Teapot, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC,
               Humor, Irony and Wit, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University,
               Art, Artists and the Addison, Addison Gallery of Art, Andover, MA,
               TB9, 1963-2003, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA,
               21st Century Ceramics in the US and Canada, American Ceramic So., Columbus College of Art
                       and Design, Columbus, OH
               Sixth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Revealing Influences: Conversations with Bay Area Artists, Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
               Branching Out, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               American Potters Working in the Realist Tradition, Arkansas Art Center, AR
               21st Century Ceramics, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
               Sprung, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California Berkeley, CA
               Visual Alchemy, Oakland Art Valley, Oakland, CA
               Short Stories, Ceramic Center for the Arts, Berkeley, CA
2002      Something, Anything, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2001-02 Three Masters, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
               Adrift, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
               Toy With Us, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
               Is It Clay? Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2000      56th Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
               The Lighter Side of Bay Figuration, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
               Expanded Visions, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia
               Making Change: 100 Artists Intrepret the Tzedakah Box. Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA.
1999      New Space, New Work, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Robert Hudson, RIchard Shaw, William Wiley, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA.
               Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American Culture, Hackett-Freedman
                       Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
               Team Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
               Narrative and Poetic Expressions: The Human Form in Clay, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL
1997-99 Robert Hudson & Richard Shaw: New Ceramic Sculpture, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, Traveling
1998      Illusion - Trompe l’oeil & Slight of Hand, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, Medocino Art Center, Medocino, CA
               Clay Realists, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY 1998
               Art Making Book Making Art, The San Francisco Art Institute in conjunction with the San Francisco Center for the Book
1997-98 L’Chaim:A Kiddish Cup Invitational, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
               Hot Off the Press, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, England (traveling)
1997      Hot Off the Press, The Crafts Council, London, England (traveling)
               New Collaborative Works by Robert Hudson, Richard Shaw, and William Wiley, through The San Francisco Art
                       Institute, Magnolia Editions and Artsource, CA
               Seoul Ceramic Biennale, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
               Home, China Basin Landing, San Francisco, CA
               The Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object, CCAC, Oakland, CA
1996      Ceramic Sculpture from the East Bay, California State University, Hayward
               Hot Off the Press, Tullie House, City Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, England; Collins Gallery,
                       University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland; Ipswich Museums and Galleries, Christchurch
                       Mansion & Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich, England (traveling)
               Posing Reality, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1996       Foundation for the Future, Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute,
                       One Bush Street, San Francisco, CA
               Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
               Drawing and Objects - Seven Artists’ Works on Paper and in Clay, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY
               The Bolinas Museum’s 6th Annual Miniature Show, Bolinas Museum, California
               Focus: The Fine Arts Collection. Clay Works from Faience to Funk,
                     Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis, CA
               The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition, John Begrudge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               California Funk, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY
1995-96 Altered and Irrational, Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art,
                       New York, NY
               Book Show, City College of San Francisco, CA
1995     The Paoli Clay Family Show-National Invitational Ceramic Art Show Art Resources Gallery, St. Paul, MN,
                        The South Dakota Art Museum, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
1995      (ART) word (ART), Trojanowska Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Concepts in Form: Artist's Sketchbooks and Maquettes, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
               USA Within Limits, Gallery Millan, Sao Paulo, Brasil
               Andover Alumni Collectors, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andoverm MA
               The Ninth Annual 30 Ceramic Sculptors Exhibition: Arneson Through Voulkos, John Natsulas Gallery, Davis, CA
               Cuisine For the Kitchen, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1995       Hot Off the Press, City Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, England
               The Years at White Gate Ranch, Stinson Beach 1963 - 1976,Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
               Eye Tattoed America, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
               East-West Ceramics Collaboration: The Exhibit, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
               Academy of Art College Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
1994      Braunstein/Quay Gallery Artists, Shasta College Gallery, Redding, CA
               Tromp l'Oeil, Curator's Forum, Charlotte, NC
               Seas, Lakes, and Rivers, San Francisco International Airport, CA
               Still Life Show, China Basin Landing, San Francisco, CA
               University of California Faculty Show, Galerie Sho, Tokyo, Japan
               Less Than Life Size: The Small Figure in Clay, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
               Taipei International Exhibition of Ceramics,Taipei, Taiwan
               The Eighth Annual 30 Ceramic Sculptors Exhibition, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
               International Sculpture Conference Exhibition, One Bush Street, San Francisco, CA
               Sensory Fictions, Visual Deceits: Brief History of Trompe l'Oeil, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
               Espresso, San Francisco International Airport
               Potters and Prints, The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
               The Clay Studio 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
               Bay Area Crafts: Contemporary & Traditional, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
               The Ritual Vessel, The Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
               Here and Now Bay Area Masterworks from the Di Rosa Collections, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1994      Local Media:Within and Beyond Tradition, Contemporary Craft Museum, San Francisco, CA
               Late Twentieth Century Ceramics, National Museum of History, Republic of China
               Bay Area Ceramics, Bank of America World Headquarters Concourse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               Contemporary Crafts & the Saxe Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (travelling)
1993      Sea Fever, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA
               In Reverence of Wood, University Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, CA
               Revolution into the Second Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
               Studio Potters’ Twentieth Anniversary Collection, The Newton Art Center, Newton, MA
               Issues and Objects, Northern California Craft in the 1990’s, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
               Clay 1993: A National Survey, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
               The Art of Craft, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
1993      Books, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
               Artists’ Self Portraits in Black and White, Edith Caldwell Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1992-93 Good Things Come in Small Packages, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA
1992      30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
               Many Mansions: The Art of Shelter, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, CA
               Rocks of Ages, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
               Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery San Francisco, CA
               First Annual Pacific Rim Ceramic Sculpture, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
1991-92 Keepers of the Kiln: Seven Contemporary Ceramic Artists:
               November, 1991 - Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
               February, 1992 - Hunter Museum of Art,Chattanooga, TN
               April, 1992 - Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA
               October, 1992 - Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
               1952-1992, Selected Works from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, NY, NY
1991-92 Craft Today USA: America Haus, Berlin, Germany; The Zappeion, Athens, Greece; Slovak Nation Gallery,
                       Bratislava, Czechoslovakia; The Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany; Sala Sant Jaumer de la
                       Fundacio “La Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain; The Guilbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
               Rene & Veronica Di Rosa Foundation Collection of Northern California Art, Redding Museum of
                       Art & History, Redding, CA
               Third Annual Sculpture Exhibit, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID*
               Minor Works/Major Artists, Phoenix Union High School District, Phoenix, AZ*
               On the Go, Contemporary Art Based on Transportation Images, 400 South Hope Street         Gallery, Los Angeles, CA*
               Transportation, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA*
               Recent Fires; Contemporary American Ceramics1940-90”, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID*
               Sculptural Perspectives for the Nineties, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA*
               One Over One, Contemporary Monotypes From the Smith Anderson Press, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA*
               Keepers of the Kiln, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (traveling)
               *Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA*, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL*
1990      Crafts Today, traveling exhibit 1989-1992, Frankfurt, Germany, Warsaw, Poland, Lausanne,
                       Switzerland, Moscow, USSR, Ankara, Turkey, Oslo, Norway, Ghent, Belgium, Dublin, Ireland*
               TB9 - A Thirty Year Retrospective, Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA*
               Grounds for Art Gallery, San Geronimo Valley Cultural Center, San Geronimo, CA*
               Uncommon Objects:Furniture in Contemporary Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA*
               Lines of Force, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
               Contra Costa Collects Contemporary, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA*
               Bird Imagery, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA*
               Beyond the Frame: Techniques and Expressions in Sculpture, ALZA Corporation, Palo Alto, CA*
               Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960s: Then and Now, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               The Yuma Symposium 11, Yuma Art Center, AZ*
               Regarding Art-Artworks About Art, J.M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI*
               Beyond Words:The Book as Metaphor for Art, San Francisco Craft and Folk Museum, San Francisco, CA
               American Ceramic Sculpture, National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore, MD*
               Functional Fantasy, Transamerica Corporation, San Francisco, CA*
               The Blues Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA*
               Contemporary American Ceramics from the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art and the
                       Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT*
1989      Surreal Ceramics, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
               30 Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
1988     Trompe L'Oeil: The Magic of Deception, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
               Spectrum: New Developments in Three Dimensions, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
               L'Atelier Experimental de Recherce et de Creation de la Manufacture de Sevres 1982-87,
                       Hall du CNAP, Paris, France
               Colorado Invites, Sangre de Christo Art Center, Pueblo, CO
               The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (traveling)
               Not So Naive: Bay Area Artists, Outsider Artists, San Francisco Craft & Folk Museum, San Francisco, CA
               Counter Visions: Pioneers in Bay Area Art, SFSU Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               The Smits Collection: Inaugural Exhibition, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
               My Funny Valentine, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
               Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1987      American Ceramics Now: 27th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
               Ceramics: An American Survey, Museu Ceramica, Barcelona, Spain
               Art and Artifact, Syntex Corp., Palo Alto, CA
               Imaginary Acquaintances, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA
               Faculty Drawings, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, CA
               30 Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
1986      Material & Metaphor, The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
               The Medium is the Illusion, Main Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center,California State University, Fullerton, CA
               Four Californians: Sculpture by Richard Shaw, Robert Brady, Tony Costanzo, & Peter Voulkos,
                       Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
               Kindred Spirits, Los Angeles Municipal Art Center, CA
1986      Diversity in Contemporary Ceramics, Ralph Wilson Gallery-Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
               Poetry of the Physical: Inaugural Exhibition, American Craft Museum, New York, NY (traveling)
               More Than Meets the Eye: The Art of Trompe L'Oeil, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
               Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
               American Art Today: Still Life, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
               Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
               California Sends Her Best, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
               Potters & Prints, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, ID (traveling)
1984      Osobay Biennial, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, TX
               Survey of Major American Ceramic Sculptors, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
               50th Anniversary Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection,
                       San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
               The Dilexi Years, The Oakland Museum of Art, CA
               Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
               Return of the Narrative, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1984      Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
               On the House, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1983      Material Illusion/Unlikely Material, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
               Six Ceramic Sculptors, Marcia Rodell Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
               Illusion Reality: Trompe l'Oeil, Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris, France; Redmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
               Contemporary Trompe l'Oeil Painting & Sculpture, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID (traveling)
               American Still Life, 1945-1983, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
               The House That Art Built, California State University, Fullerton, CA
               Ou Trompe l'Oeil: Realist Objectives Ou Realist Hyperrealisme Illusoires,
                       Abbay Saint-Andre, Maymac, Correze, France
               American Clay Artists: Philadelphia '83, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
               Early Works, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982      Pacific Currents/Ceramics, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
               Forgotten Dimension, Fresno Arts Center, CA (traveling)
               Sculptors at U.C. Davis: Past and Present, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Memorial Union Gallery,
                       Univ. of California at Davis
1981      Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
               The Clay Figure, The American Crafts Museum, NY
               Braunstein Gallery: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
               National Clay, Hartford Art School, University. of Hartford, CT
               Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1980      American Porcelain: New Expressions in an Ancient Art, Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts,
                       Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
               Contemporary Ceramics: A Response to Wedgewood, Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA
               California Sculpture: 1975-1980, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1979      Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture, University of California at Davis, CA
               West Coast Ceramics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
               Reality of Illusion, jointly organized by the Denver Art Museum and the University Galleries of the
                       University of Southern California, followed by a two year U.S. tour
1976      A Century of Ceramics in the U.S., 1879-1978, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY;
                       Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
               Contemporary Ceramics, University Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
               Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
                       National Collection of Art, Washington, DC
               Richard Shaw, Ed Blackburn, Tony Costanzo, Redd Ekks, John Roloff, CSU Fullerton, CA
               Illusionistic Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1974      Clay, Whitney Museum of American Art/Downtown,New York, NY
1972       Phases of New Realism, The Lowe Art Museum, Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
               International Ceramics”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
               A Decade of Ceramic Art: 1962-1972 From the Collection of Professor & Mrs. R. Joseph Monsen,
               San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
               27th Ceramic National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1971      Contemporary Ceramic Art: Canada, U.S.A., Mexico, and Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art,
               Kyoto, Japan and The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (1972)
1970     Attitudes, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
               Annual Exhibition: Whitney Museum, New York, NY
               Arrested Image, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
               Objects U.S.A., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
               California Ceramic Sculptors, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
1967      23rd Ceramic Invitational, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1966      Seven Ceramicists, Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
               10th Annual Selection of the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
1965      New Ceramic Forms, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY

Public and Corporate Collections

               Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
               Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
               Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
               Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
               De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
               Rene and Veronica Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
               Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
               Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, CA
               Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
               Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Champagne, IL
               Levi Strauss Collection, San Francisco, CA
               Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
               Lowe Museum, Miami, FL
               Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
               Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
               Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
               National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
               Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
               Nora Eccles Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
               The Oakland Museum, CA
               Palm Beach Museum, Palm Beach, FL
               Petits Lu Collection, Paris, France
               Renwick Gallery of National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
               Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
               San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
               San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
               San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
               Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
               Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
               Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
               Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
               Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
               Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
               University of Miami, Miami, FL
               University of New Mexico, Albuquerque / Los Cruces, NM
               University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
               Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah
               Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Honors and Awards

2002      Marin Arts Council Board Award, San Rafael, CA
1998      Shigaraki Cultural Ceramic Park, Japan
               Artist in Residence, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1996     Annual Life Member Award, Falkirk Arts Center, San Rafael, CA
1988     Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1987      Visiting Artist Grant, Atelier Experimental de Recherche et de Creation, Manufacture Nationale de Sevres, Paris,
                        France Visiting Artist Grant, Atelier Experimental de Recherche et de Creation, Manufacture
                        Nationale de Sevres, Paris, France
1977      Visiting Artist Grant, Clayworks, New York, NY
1974      Visual Artist Fellowship for Crafts, National Endowment for the Arts
1973      Research Grant, Union of Independent College of Art
1971      Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

Richard Shaw Biography