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PETER VOULKOS Untitled Tea Bowl (CR1383.0-G), 1999 Soda Fired Stoneware 6 3/4 x 7 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches

PETER VOULKOS Untitled Ceramic Plate (CR1442-W), ca 2000 Woodfired stoneware 7 1/4 x 23 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches

Peter Voulkos
1924 – 2002
Biography

Born
1924 Bozeman, Montana

Education

1982 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute
1980 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Otis Institute of Parsons School of Design
1972 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland
1968 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Montana State University
1952 California College of Arts & Crafts, M.F.A.
1951 Montana State College, B.S., Applied Art

Virtual Exhibition
Voulkos Collection 1953-2003

Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions
Peter Voulkos | The Montana, Otis & Berkeley Years | 2009
Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA | 2007
Virtual Exhibition | VOULKOS COLLECTION 1953-2003
Peter Voulkos, Bronze: 1986–2002 | October 5–November 12, 2005

Solo Exhibitions
2009    Peter Voulkos | The Montana, Otis & Berkeley Years,
              Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Echoes of the Japanese Aesthetic, AMOCA, Pomona, CA
2004    Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003    Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
              Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
              Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
              Osceola Gallery, Emeryville, CA
              LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York, NY
2002    Galerie Yoramgil, Beverly Hills, CA
2001    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Frank Lloyd Gallery, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
              Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2000    Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
              Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
              Gallerymateria (formerly The Hand & The Spirit), Scottsdale, Arizona. 
            1999    Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca.
              Mussi Artworks Foundry & Gallery, Berkeley, California. Catalogue.
1998    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997    Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
              University of Central Florida, Orlando
1996    Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
              William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA    
              Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1995-96    "The Art of Peter Voulkos", three venues:                                                 
               The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
              Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA
              American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1995    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              "Peter Voulkos Retrospective" Sezon Museum, Tokyo, Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan       
1994    Kunstnernes Hus, Salthomsgade, Denmark
              Museum of Ceramics, The Grimmerhus, Denmark
1993    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
              Travelling Show, Norway: Hordaland Artists Center, Bergen, Norway,
              RAM Gallery, Oslo, Norway, Nordenfeljeldske Applied Art Museum, Tronheim, Norway
1992    Louis Newman Galleries, Beverley Hills, CA
1991    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
              Twining Gallery, New York, NY     
1990    Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
              Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1988    "Bronzes", Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA,                    
              "Early Paintings & Prints", Twining Gallery, New York, NY           
1987    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986    Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985    Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL
1984    Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL
1983    Point of View, Tokyo, Japan
              Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1982    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981    Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL
              Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL
              Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1980    Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO
              Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS
              Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1979    Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
              Hills Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1978    "Retrospective Exhibition", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX,               Milwaukee Art Center, WI, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
              Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL
1976    Yaw Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
              Detroit Institute of Art, MI
1975    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, NY
              Kansas City Institute of Art, MO
              Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1974    Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968    David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
              Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967    David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1965    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1964    Art Unlimited, San Francisco, CA
1961    Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1960    Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1959    Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1958    Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
1957    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
              Bonnier's, New York, NY
1956    Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1954    America House Gallery, New York, NY

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007    Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005    Studio Ceramics from the Museum Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island
              School of Design, Providence, RI
              "From Tiles to Totems: A Century of Northern California Ceramics", Art
              Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
              "Shape on the wall: John Mason, Peter Voulkos, Peter Shire, Ralph
              Bacerra", Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
              "Shape Of Tea",The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
              "Centers And Edges: Modern Ceramic Design And Sculpure 1880-1980",
              Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2004    "Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
              "Standing Room Only: Ceramic Annual 2004", Ruth Chandler Williamson
              Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Catalogue.
              "Picasso To Thiebaud: Modern Masters And Contemporary Art From The
              Collections Of Stanford University Alumni And Friends", Iris B. & B.
              Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Catalogue.
               "A Secret History Of Clay: From Gauguin To Gormley", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. Book.
              "Masters Of Their Craft: Highlights From The Smithsonian American Art Museum", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA. Catalogue.
              "American Art: Challenging Traditional Interpretations", Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT. Catalogue.
              "Speaking Volumes: Vessels From The Collection Of The Mint Museums", Mint Museum of Craft + Design,
                             Charlotte, NC.
              "From Rosanjin To Voulkos...A Blueprint For Postmodern Ceramic Art", Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2003    "Poetics Of Clay: An International Perspective", Houston Center Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
              "Ceramic Art From An International Perspective", Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
              "Clayworks: 20th-Century American Ceramics From The Everson Museum Of Art", UBS PaineWebber Art
                             Gallery, New York, NY
              "Rebels In Clay: Peter Voulkos And The Otis Group", University Art Gallery at the University of California
                             at San Diego, CA
              "Treasures Of Modern Art: The Legacy Of Phyllis Wattis", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
              "Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics From Function To Fantasy", The Newark  Museum, Newark, NJ. Book.
2002    "Black Mountain College: Experimenting With Power", Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia of Madrid, Spain.
2001    "High Fire: Significant Ceramic Sculpture", Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
              "Great Teachers: Great Clay Legacies", W. D. O. a Contemporary Craft Gallery, Charlotte, NC
              "USA Clay", Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
              "A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence", Holter Museum of Art, Helena,
                             MT (traveling) Catalogue
              Treasures for a Queen: A Millenium Gift to Cincinnati", Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, Catalogue
              "World Contemporary Ceramics", Ichon World Ceramic Center, Ichon, Korea, Catalogue.
              "Vital Forms: American Art in the Atomic Age, 1949 - 1960", Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, (traveling) Catalogue.
              "Mud & Fire: A Group Show", Rockford College of Art Gallery, Clark Arts Center, Rockford, in
                             conjunction with Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000    "Cross-Currents in Modern Art: A Tribute to Peter Selz", Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY
              "Of and About Clay IV", Galerie Hertz, Louisville, KY
              "Regis Masters Series: Exhibition", Northern Clay Center Minneapolis, MN
1999    "Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974" Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
              "The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works From The Saxe Collection", Fine Arts Museums of
                             San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
              "Different Strokes: International Woodfire Ceramics", University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
              "Studio Days 99: Nine Decades", Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA
              "Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the Twentieth Century", Queens Museum of Art,
                             New York.  New York, NY. Catalogue.
              "Material Witness: Masters from California Craft", Crocker Art Museum Sacramento, CA. Catalogue.
              The Landy Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
              "New Space, New Work," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998    "Of and About Clay II", Galerie Hertz, Louisville, KY
              "NCECA 1998 Honors and Fellows Exhibition", Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
              "Anderson Ranch Artists", Evelyn Siegel Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX
              "More than Clay: The Toki Collection of Ceramics", Richmond Art Center, CA
1997    "Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts", Montreal
                             Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
              "Abstract Expressionist Ceramics: Myth and Reality Revisited
              "1954 - 1966", Garth Clark Gallery Revisited, New York
1996    "Ceramic Sculpture from the East Bay", California State University,Hayward
              "CCAC Past, Present, Future", California College  of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
              "48th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition", American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
              "Generations: The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art", Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
              "Fin de Siecle II (Reinterpreting the 70's)", Franklin Parrasch Gallery,New York, NY
              "Large Drawings and Objects: Structural Foundations of Clarity", Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
              "Four Decades of Discovery: The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum", American Craft Museum, NY
              "Distinguished Fires-A Survey of Montana Ceramics", Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
              "Fifteen Profiles:  Distinguished California Modernists", Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
              "47th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition", American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
               "Peter Voulkos/Lenore Tawney", The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
              "Chaos in the Backroom", Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
              "Jet Dreams: The Fifties in the Northwest", Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1996    "Woodstock Exhibition", Gallery of Visual Arts University of Montana, Missoula
              "Lotsa Clay V", The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
              "The Nude in Clay", Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL, (travelling)
              "A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson  Collection 1954-1984", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
              "25th Anniversary Exhibition", Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, NY
              "Fifteen Profiles: Distinguished California Modernists", Fresno Art Museum, CA
              "Autio and Voulkos: Early Ceramic Work", Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT                                         
1994    "Braunstein/Quay Gallery Artists", Shasta College Gallery, Redding,CA
              "The Archie Bray Foundation: A Ceramic Tradition", Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
              "California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art", Annual Exhibit, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
              "Bay Area Ceramics", Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
              "46th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition", American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
1993-94    Appropriation or Transformation...", Berkeley Art Center Association,Berkeley, CA
1993    Norway: Kunst Industri Museet, Oslo, Norway, Lillehammer Bys Malerisamling, Lillehammer, Norway                    
              "The Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation, 1951-1993", Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT,
                             Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
              "Celebrating Artistry In Craft: American Craft Council Recipients, 1975-1993", Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
              "Clay 1993: A National Survey", William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992    "Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of  Painting & Sculpture",
              American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
1991    "Recent Fires; Contemporary American Ceramics 90", University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
1990    "Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960s: Then and Now", Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA     
1989    "Surreal Ceramics", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
              "30 Ceramic Sculptors", Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
              "3 Sculptors: New Work, Dorothy Dehner, Peter Voulkos, Claire Zeisler", Twining Gallery, New York, NY
1988    "Peter Selz Selects", Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
              "Counter Visions: Pioneers in Bay Area Art", San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1987    "Contemporary American Ceramics", National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
              "The Eloquent Object", Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (and traveling)
1986    "Four Californians: Sculpture by Robert Brady, Tony Costanzo,Richard Shaw and Peter Voulkos", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington D.C.
              "West Coast Clay", Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
              "Voulkos & Co.: The Vessel Redefined 1950-1960", Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
              "Poetry of the Physical", American Craft Museum, Inaugural Exhibition, New York, NY  and traveling
1984    Osobay Biennial, Corpus Christi State University, TX
              "American Scupture: Three Decades", Seattle Art Museum, WA
              "Beauties & Beasts", Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY
              "SF-LA", Gille Mansillon Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
              "Clay Vessels", Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
              "Clay: 1984", Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983    "Early Works", Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              "Masters in Clay", American Art, Inc., Atlanta, GA                                                        
1982    Bruce Museum, Two Person Exhibit, Greenwich CT
              "Contemporary Clay", Monterey Museum of Art, CA
              "Peter's Valley Anagama", Greenwich House, NY, NY
              "Prime Evidence", Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL
1981    "Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,
                             traveling to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1980    "Sculpture in California", San Diego Museum of  Art, CA              
              "Matter, Memory, Meaning, Honolulu Academy of Arts", Honolulu, HI, (traveling)
1979    "California Clay", Florida State University, Tallahasee, FL
              "A Century of Clay",Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
              Olin Art Gallery, Whitman College, Walla-Walla, WA
              "First Invitational Ceramic Sculpture Exhibit", North Illinois University Museum, IL
              Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1976     "Bicentennial Exhibit", San Francisco Museum of  Modern Art, traveling to Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
              "200 Years of American Sculpture", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1975    "Bay Area Sculpture Retrospective I", James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              "Sculpture: American Directions 1945-75", National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C.;
                             traveling to Dallas Museum, TX; New Orleans Museum, LA
1973    Galarie Allen, Vancouver, British Columbia
1970    Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
              Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY    
1969    U.S. Pavilion, International Fair, Osaka, Japan
1967    "Sculpture of the 60's", Los Angeles County Museum, CA
1966    "Abstract Expressionist Ceramics", UC Irvine, CA
1965    White House Festival of the Arts, Washington D.C.
1963    World's Fair Art Pavilion, Seattle, WA
              San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
              Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, CA
1961    Museum of Modern Art, New York                                     
              Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1959    International Ceramics Exhibit, Ostend, Belgium
              1st Paris Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, France
              Nordness Gallery, New York, NY
1958    U.S. Pavilion, Brussels World Fair
1957    "Ceramics & Painting", Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
1955    International Exposition of Ceramics, Cannes, FR
1952    Gumps Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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SELECTED PURCHASE AWARDS
Syracuse Ceramic National, Syracuse, NY
Pacific Coast Ceramic Show
Third Biennial, Cranbrook Academy, Michigan
Pasadena Museum, California
Ford Foundation Grant
National Endowment Grant
Silver Medal, 1959 International Ceramic Exhibit, Ostend, Belgium
Gold Medal, International Ceramic Exhibition, Cannes, France        
Rodin Museum Prize in Sculpture, 1st Paris Biennial
San Francisco Hall of Justice
Brandeis 1982 Creative Arts Award
         
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

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HONORS & AWARDS
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, 1998.
Charles Fergus Binnus Medal For Lifetime Achievement In Ceramic Art, School of Art and Design, New York
College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York, 1998.
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, 1998.
NCECA Award for Teaching Excellence, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, 1997
Ceramic Lifetime Achievement of the Year Award, Friends of Contemporary Ceramics, FL, 1997
Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association, 1997
Medal in Recognition of Contributions to American Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1994
Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY, 1992
Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
Gold Medal, American Crafts Council, NY, 1986
Montana Govenor's Award for the Arts, Helena, MT, 1985
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, NY, 1984
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institure, CA 1982
Creative Arts Award for Sculpture, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1982
Award of Honor for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Art, San Francisco Arts Commission, CA, 1981
Citation for Distinguished Contributions to the Visual Arts, National Association of Schools of Art, 1980
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Otis Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA, 1980
Award of Honor for Outstanding Contributions to the Visual Arts, California State Fair and Exposition, Sacramento, CA 1979
Craftsman's Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC, 1978
Member, Advisory Screening Committe in Art and Art History, Council for International
Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Committee, Washington DC 1975-78
Member, Academy of Fellows, American Craft Council, NY, 1975
Honorary Member of the Council, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, 1972
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1972
Fellowship Grant, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, NY, 1971
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Montana State University, Bozeman, 1968
Commission Award, San Francisco Hall of Justice Competition, CA 1967
Ford Foundation Purchase Award, "82nd Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute",
               San Francisco Museum of Art, CA, 1963
Rodin Museum Prize, "First Paris Biennale", Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, 1959
Purchase Award, "Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, 1959
Silver Medal, "2nd International Congress of Contemporary Ceramics", Musem voor Schone Kinsten, Ostend, Belgium, 1959
Gold Medal, "International Exposition of Ceramics", Palais Mirama, Cannes, France, 1955
Abraham and Strais General Award, "Designer Craftsmen, USA", Brooklyn Museum, NY, 1953
United States Potters Association Prize, "15th National Ceramic Exhibition", Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, NY, 1950

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