Résumé

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EDUCATION

2000 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1995 BFA, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

white whale Michael Warren Contemporary, Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO

2017

There is no elephant in this room. Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, CA    

Where’d you get that banana? A-B Projects, Claremont, CA

2015

The space between us is vast and unfathomable. Elephant, Los Angeles, CA

This is a magical space too. Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO

2013

Nothing Rhymes with Orange Project 4 Gallery, Washington DC

2010
Neither here nor there Project 4 Gallery and Fathom Gallery, Washington DC

2008
Solo Show Project 4 Gallery, Washington, DC

L.A. Stories: a collaboration with Samantha Scherer Mor York, Los Angeles, CA

Still Life Antelope Valley College Art Gallery, Lancaster, CA

L.A. Stories: a collaboration with Samantha Scherer Vertigo, Denver, CO

2007
Flower Spacecraft, San Diego, CA

Sculpture HAUS, Pasadena, CA

L.A. Stories: a collaboration with Samantha Scherer SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA

2003
Heaven and Earth Artinus Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2001
Savannah Timothy B. McCormack Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

Smoke and Mirrors Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2017

          Full and Part CSUN Art Galleries, Northridge, CA

          Hold FAR BAZAAR at Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA

          Cranbrook +/-25 ASU Ceramic Research Center at the Brickyard, Tempe, AZ

2016

Plus One Traywick Contemporary, Berkley, CA

The Treachery of Objects Fine Arts Center Gallery, Fayetteville, AR

2015

Highland Park Museum of Ceramic Art Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Olly Olly Oxen Free! Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Oasis Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, La Canada, CA

2014

Introductions Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO

f/c Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2013

High Low Irvine Fire Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Compass: Navigating the Journey to Self-Identity Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

USPS LA Fine Arts Center Art Gallery, Houston, TX

2012

Under the Table Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
Tomorrowland CSUN Art Galleries, Northridge, CA
MOTA See Line Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Kaus-LA The Prospectus, West Hollywood, CA
Fragile Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA

2011
Telephone Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Handle with Care Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
Breakdown Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA
Making Fun 67th Ceramics Annual Scripps College, Ruth Chandler Willliamson Gallery, Claremont, CA

2010
Venn Diagram Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
End of the World Biola University Art Gallery, La Mirada,CA
Project I Alexys Schwartz Projects, Culver City, CA

2009
Max Multiple Devening Projects, Chicago, IL

2008
atBP: Miniatures and Giants The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Southern Exposure Ruby Green Gallery, Nashville, TN
Cast Sculpture The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Animalicious Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
Luscious Abstractions Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

2007
Liminal Phantom Galleries, Pasadena, CA
Renegade Clay: 5 Views from the West ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Incognito Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
HAUSGUESTS The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
W.O.P. The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
The First Element Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
The Literary Print in the 21st Century Keller Gallery, San Diego, CA
Feral Nature University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
Menu: Edible Elements of Art Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
Group Show Mor York Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Incognito Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
New Slang Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Strata Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
White on White Sub-Basement Art Studios, Baltimore, MD
White on White Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Detroit, MI
Eye Tow: Three from Cranbrook NewSpace@twentieth, Los Angeles, CA

2004
The Literary Print in the 21st Century Network Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Planted Evidence Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Skinthin Viento y Agua Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Now Here The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
Play Pause CSA Gallery, Pomona, CA

2003
Pillars Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002
Art of Change Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
Flatwork by Sculptors Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT

2001
Pleasure Craft Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Menagerie Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL
Menagerie Gaston College Art Gallery, NCECA Conference, Dallas, NC
Soil Invitational SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000
Good and Guilty Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
Graduate Summer Show Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
MFA Thesis Show Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Menagerie Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
Viewpoint: Ceramics 2000 Hyde Gallery, El Cajon, CA

1999
Wordsworthy Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Incubation Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI

1998
Hanger 30: Different Views Sand Point Naval Base, Seattle, WA
U.N. Resource Center Benefit Auction U.N. Resource Center, San Francisco, CA

1997
Works on Paper SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

LECTURES

        2018

         Visiting Artist/Lecturer University of Denver, Denver, CO

        2016

         Visiting Artist/Lecturer California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

2015

Guest Lecturer Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA

2013

Visiting Artist/Lecturer University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Visiting Artist/Lecturer Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2012

Visiting Artist/Lecturer CSU Northridge, Northridge, CA

2011

Visiting Artist/Lecturer CSU Northridge, Northridge, CA
Visiting Artist/Lecturer University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2010

Visiting Artist/Lecturer MICA Baltimore, MD
Guest Lecturer Montgomery College Arts Institute Takoma Park, MD
Guest Lecturer Pitzer College Claremont, CA

2009
Guest Lecturer Point Loma Nazarene University San Diego, CA
Visiting Artist/Lecturer University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN

2008
Guest Lecturer University of Denver Denver, CO
Visiting Artist/Lecturer University of Colorado Boulder, CO

2007
Guest Lecturer East Los Angeles College Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist/Lecturer California State University at Long Beach Long Beach, CA
Guest Lecturer Point Loma Nazarene University San Diego, CA

2005
Guest Lecturer Skulpturens Hus Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting Artist/Lecturer California State University at Long Beach Long Beach, CA

2004
Visiting Artist/Lecturer Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI
Guest Lecturer Santa Ana Art Forum Santa Ana, CA
Guest Lecturer East Los Angeles College Los Angeles, CA

2003
Guest Lecturer University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Professor Lecture University of Colorado Boulder, CO

2002
Visiting Artist/Lecturer Kansas City Art Institute Kansas City, MO

2001
Visiting Artist/Lecturer California State University at Long Beach Long Beach, CA
Visiting Artist/Lecturer Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California

1999
Lecture: Process as Content: from the Japanese Tea Cup to Joseph Beuys Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI

1998
Visiting Artist The Experimental Studio Athens, Greece

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2017-

University of Southern California   Associate Professor, Los Angeles, CA

2015-2017

UCLA  Adjunct Faculty, Los Angeles, CA

2002-2017

Loyola Marymount University Adjunct Faculty, Los Angeles, CA

2004-2014

University of Southern California Adjunct Faculty, Los Angeles, CA

2002-2003
California State University at Long Beach Adjunct Faculty, Long Beach, CA

2003
University of Colorado Visiting Professor, Boulder, CO

 

PUBLICATIONS

2012

The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay  published by Lark Books, p. 192

2009

500 Ceramic Sculptures by Suzanne Tourillott  published by Lark Books, p. 313

Ceramics Monthly January, Cast Sculpture Exhibition Review

2008
Westword January-February, “Starry-Eyed” by Susan Froyd, Denver, CO

2007
Ceramics Monthly July/ August, Renegade Clay Exhibition Review
Phoenix New Times June, Renegade Clay Exhibition Review by Lilia Menconi, Phoenix, AZ
ArtScene February, featured in “Continuing and Recommended”, Southern California

2004
Palisadian Post September, Planted Evidence Exhibition Review by Jolene Hull, Los Angeles, CA
Coagula August, Now Here Exhibition Review by Kerry Kugelman, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Ceramic Art Monthly September, Heaven & Earth Exhibition Review by Moon Jung Kim, Seoul, Korea
The Korea Times August, Heaven & Earth Exhibition Review by Dae Hyung Lee, Seoul, Korea

2002
Kerameiki Techni August, featured in “The next generation of ceramic artists in America”
by Judith S. Schwartz, Athens, Greece

2001
The Stranger January, featured in “The Stranger Selects”, Seattle, WA

 

AWARDS

2000
Mexican Travel Grant Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

1999-2000
Gossett Merit Scholarship Recipient Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

 

RESIDENCIES

2013
The European Ceramic Work Centre  s’Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

2009
Stichtung Kaus Australis Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1999
Huanacaxtle Clay Workshop Huanacaxtle, Mexico; worked with indigenous clay bodies and traditional firing techniques

1998
The Experimental Studio: Art from Clay Athens, Greece; worked in a studio in Athens with, and among, Greek artists

1996
Figurative Sculpture Workshop Alfred University, Alfred NY; studied the figure with Stephen DeStaebler and Doug Jeck