PETER VOULKOS

BORN:

1924 Bozeman, MT

EDUCATION:

1952 MFA: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1951 BS, Applied Art: Montana State College, Bozeman, MT

TEACHING:

1959-85 University of California, Berkeley, CA

1960-62, 64 Greenwich House Pottery, New York Teachers' College, Columbia University,

NY (Summers)

1958-59 University of Montana, Missoula, MT (Summers)

1954-59 Los Angeles County Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

1953 Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC (Summer)

1952-54 Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, CITATIONS:

1998 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KS

1997 Masters of the Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance

NCECA Award for Teaching Excellence, National Council on Education for the

Ceramic Arts

Ceramic Lifetime Achievement of the Year Award, Friends of Contemporary

Ceramics

Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association

1994 Medal in Recognition of Contributions to American Ceramics, Everson Museum of

Art, Syracuse, NY

1992 Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters,

New York, NY

1986 Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts,

Washington, DC

Gold Medal, American Crafts Council, New York, NY

1985 Montana Governor's Award for the Arts, Helena, MT

1984 Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,

New York, NY

1982 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Sa Francisco, CA

Creative Arts Award for Sculpture, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1981 Award of Honor for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Art, San Francisco

Art Commission, San Francisco, CA

1980 Citation for Distinguished Contributions to the Visual Arts, National Association of

Schools of Art

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Otis Institute of Parsons School of Design,

Los Angeles, CA

1979 Award of Honor for Outstanding Contributions to the Visual Arts, California State

Fair and Exposition, Sacramento, CA

1978 Craftsman's Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC

1976 Senior Artists Fellowship Award, National Endowment for the Arts,

Washington, DC

1975-78 Member, Advisory Screening Committee in Art and Art History, Council for

International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Committee, Washington, DC

Member, Academy of Fellows, American Craft Council, New York, NY

1972 Honorary Member of the Council, National Council on Education for the

Ceramic Arts

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Califonia College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1971 Fellowship Grant, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY

1968 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

1967 Commission Award, San Francisco Hall of Justice Competition, San Francisco, CA

1963 Ford Foundation Purchase Award, 82nd Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco

Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1959 Rodin Museum Prize, First Paris Biennale, Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de

Paris, Paris, France

Purchase Award, Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum

of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Silver Medal, 2nd International Congress of Contemporary Ceramics, Museum

voor Schone Kunsten, Ostend, Belgium

1955 Gold Medal, International Exposition of Ceramics, Palais Miramar, Cannes, France

1953 Abraham and Straus General Award, Designer Crafsmen USA, Brooklyn Museum,

New York, NY

1950 United States Potters Association Prize, 15th National Ceramic Exhibition,

Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, New York, NY

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

1999 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

1996 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan *

William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

1995 Retrospective, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; traveled to Newport Harbor

Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; American Craft Museum,

New York, NY *

Retrospective, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to National Museum

of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan *

Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; traveled to National Gallery of

Victoria, Melbourne Australia; Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand;

Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New Zealand

Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

1994 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

1993 Hordaland Kunstnersentrum, Bergen, Norway; traveled to: Ram Galleri, Oslo,

Norway; Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway; Kunstnernes Hus,

Salthomsgade, Denmark; Grimmerhus Center for International

Studiokeramic, Middledfart, Denmark

Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

1992 Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA

1991 Leedy/Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA *

1990 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1988 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

Twining Gallery, New York, NY *

1987 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1985 Exhibit A Gallery, Chicago, IL

Bancho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1984 Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Exhibit A Gallery, Chicago, IL

Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, Hope, ID *

Magnolia Gallery, Oakland, CA

Gallery 181, College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

1983 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

Art Center, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to: Kyoto Art University, Kyoto, Japan;

Tokoname Ceramic Research Center, Japan

Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1982 Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

1981 Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

Exhibit A Gallery, Chicago, IL

1980 Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, KS

1979 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA

Hill's Gallery of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

Northern Arizona University Art Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ

1978 Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; traveled

to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee,

WI; American Craft Museum, New York, NY *

Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL

1977 Contemporary Crafts, Portland, OR

1976 Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL

Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI *

1975 Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, NY

1974 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1972 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA *

1968 David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1967 David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

1965 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA *

1964 Art Unlimited, San Francisco, CA

Hack-Light Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1963 David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

1961 Primus-Stuart Galleries, 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 Downstair's Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Bonnier's, New York, NY

1956 Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1954 America House Gallery, New York, NY

1953 Art Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1999 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

dish, Frankiln Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

1998 John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Works on Paper A - Z, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

The Winter Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Anderson Ranch Artists, Evelyn Siegel Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX

NCECA 1998 Honors and fellows Exhibition, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,

Fort Worth, TX

Of and About Clay II, Galerie Hertz, Louisville, KY

1997 Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts,

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada *

Abstract Expressionist Ceramics: Myth and Reality Revisited 1954-1966, Garth

Clark Gallery, New York, NY

1996 Collection Highlights: 1945 to the Present, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Generations: The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center,

Richmond, CA *

New Talent - New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

San Francisco Art Institute: Illustrious History: 1871 - Present, Salander-O'Reilly

Galleries, New York, NY; traveled to John Berggruen Gallery &

Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, CA *

CCAC: Past, Present and Future (1906-1996), Olive Art Center, California College

of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Inter-Action: Ceramic Works by 7 Artists, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Four Decades of Discovery: The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum,

American Craft Museum, New York, NY *

1995 Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts,

Minneapolis, MN; traveled to St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Toledo

Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,

MO; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA *

21st International Biennial of Graphic Art - Ljubljana, Modern Gallery, "Cankarjev

Dom" Cultural and Congress Centre and the Tivoli Gallery, Slovenia *

Andover Alumni Collectors, Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy,

Andover, MA

Jet Dreams: The Fifties in the Northwest, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA *

Woodstock Exhibition, Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana,

Missoula, MT

The Nude in Clay, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL; traveled to: Charles A. Wustem

Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI *

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,

New York, NY *

Fifteen Profiles: Distinguished California Modernists, Fresno Art Museum,

Fresno, CA*

Autio and Voulkos: Early Ceramic Work, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

1994 Some California Artists, Galerie Sho, Tokyo, Japan

Working in Other Dimensions: Objects and Drawings II, Arkansas Arts Center,

Little Rock, AR *

Revolution in Clay: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Ruth

Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA;

traveled nationally *

1993 Meeting of The Masters, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway; traveled

through Norway*

Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation, Warehouse Gallery, Archie Bray

Foundation, Helena, MT, traveled to Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA

Celebrating Artistry in Craft: American Craft Council Gold Medal Recipients,

1975-1993, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Essentials, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH;

traveled nationally *

1992 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy and Institute

of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

California Legacy: Concepts in Clay, FHP, Hippodrome Gallery, Palos Verdes Art

Center, Palos Verdes, CA *

1990 Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960's: Then and Now, Braunstein/Quay Gallery,

San Francisco, CA *

Putting Pottery in Perspective: Past, Present and Future, Rockford College, IL;

traveled nationally *

1989 3 Sculptors: New Work, Twining Gallery, New York, NY

1988 Lost and Found in California: 4 Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran

Gallery / Shoshana Wayne / Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA *

1987 The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; traveled nationally

and to Japan *

Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA;

traveled nationally*

1986 Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY;

subsequently traveled through Europe as Craft Today USA *

1985 Living Treasures of California, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA *

High Styles: 20th Century Design, Whitney Museum of American Art,

New York, NY*

1984 Earth and Fire: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Montgomery

Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA *

Art in Clay, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA *

1983 Masters in Clay: Ceramic Invitational, American Art Incorporated, Atlanta, GA

Ceramic Echoes: Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson Atkins

Museum of Art, Kansas City, KS *

1982 Peters Valley Anagama, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY

Northern California Art of the Sixties, DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa

Clara, Santa Clara, CA *

1981 Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,

traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA *

Art in Los Angeles: 17 Artists in the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art;

traveled to San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX *

Matter, Meaning, Memory, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI *

1980 Across the Nation: Fine Art for Federal Buildings, 1972-1979, National Collection

of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; traveled to Hunter

Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN *

The Continental Connection, Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina,

Saskatchewan, Canada *

1979 A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878-1978, Everson Museum of Art,

Syracuse, NY; traveled nationally *

West Coast Ceramics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands *

1978 Nine West Coast Sculptors: 1978, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; traveled

to Arts and Crafts Center of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA *

1976 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of

Modern Art, traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian

Institution, Washington, DC *

200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art,

New York, NY*

1975 Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, National Collection of Fine Arts,

Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC *

Clay USA, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC *

1974 Clay, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY * Public Sculpture / Urban Environment, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA *

1972 International ceramics 1972, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England *

A Decade of Ceramic Art, 1962-1972, San Francisco Museum of Art, San

Francisco, CA *

1971 Ceramic Art: Canada, USA, Mexico, & Japan, National Museum of Modern Art,

Kyoto, Japan; traveled to National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan *

1970 Painters and Sculptors of San Francisco, Expo '70, Osaka, Japan

Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art,

New York, NY*

1969 Objects: USA, The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts, National Collection

of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; traveled nationally

and internationally *

Kompas 4: West Coast USA, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;

traveled in Europe *

1967 American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los

Angeles, CA; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA *

1966 Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA;

traveled to San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA *

1964 International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, National Museum of

Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled nationally *

1963 66th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting &

Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL *

1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY;

traveled nationally *

Adventures in Art, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, WA *

1959 Contemporary Ceramics, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ostend, Belgium

First Biennale of Paris, Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France *

1958 Contemporary American Art, Brussels universal and International Exposition,

Brussels, Belgium

1956-61 Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Annual Exhibitions, Los Angeles County

Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA *

1955 International Exposition of Ceramics, Palais Miramar, Cannes, France; traveled

through Western Europe

1953 Designer-Craftsmen USA, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; traveled nationally *

1950-58 Ceramic Nationals Exhibitions, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, NY;

traveled nationally *

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan

Albany Mall, Albany, New York

American Craft Museum, New York, NY

Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Banff Centre, School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

City of Fresno, Fresno, CA

City of Highland Park, Highland Park, IL

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Den Permanente, Copenhagen, Denmark

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL

Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN