BIOGRAPHY:
BORN::
1939 San Francisco, California
EDUCATION::
1961 BA, San Francisco State College
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1961-1965 San Francisco Art Institute
1962-1973 University of California, Berkeley
1976-1978 San Francisco Art Institute
1978-2010 Mills College, Oakland
GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS:
2013 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, ITALY
2012 Guggenheim Fellowship Award
2011 Arts and Letters Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2008 Joan Danforth Endowed Faculty Chair, Mills College
2006-07 Metz Chair, Mills College
1998 Flintridge Foundation VIsual Artist Award« The Best of 1998 »,Dave Hickey, Artforum
1997 Fellow of the American Craft Council
1996 Joan Danforth Endowed Faculty Chair, Mills College
1990-97 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College
1986 National Endowments for the Arts Fellowship
1984 Faculty Research Grant, Mills College
1983 Mellon Grant
1981 Mellon Grant
1979 Lucie Stern Chair, Mills College National Endowments for the Art Fellowship
1978 Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute
1974 National Endowments for the Arts Fellowship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1968 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California
1975 Quay Gallery, Say Francisco, California
1978 Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1979 Matrix Gallery I, University of California, Berkeley, California
1979 Currents 4, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1981 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1983 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1985 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1988 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1989 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1991 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1993 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1993 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California, “Ron Nagle: A Survey Exhibition, 1960-1993,”
1994 The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, “Ron Nagle, A Survey Exhibition–1960-1993,”
1995 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1995 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York
1996 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1998 Garth Clark, New York, New York
1999 Rena Bransten, San Francisco, California
2001 “Ron Nagle: Recent Work,” Garth Clark, New York, New York
2002 “Variety Show,” Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2003 “Ron Nagle”, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York
2004 “Ron Nagle: Solo Show,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Wedgeware and Smallfry,” Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 “Ron Nagle: Recent Work,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 “Ron Nagle and the Holy Grail,” Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Recent Work”, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX
2008 “New Sculpture,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2008 “Ron Nagle,” Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
2009 “Duo Mysto,” with Don Ed Hardy, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 “Bookends, Weeoramas, and Flareware,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2011 “Hamilltoe,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 “Odd Ball”, Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1963 “Work in Clay by Six Artists,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1966 “Abstract Expressionist Ceramics,” University of California at Irvine and San Francisco Museumof Modern Art
1970 “Objects: USA,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and traveling
1979 “West Coast Ceramics,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Holland, and traveling
1980 “Sculpture in California 1975-1980,” San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
1981 “Polychrome,” Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1982 “Twenty American Artists: Sculpture 1982,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1983 “California Clayworks: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, California
1984 “Betty Asher Cup Collection,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1984 “The Dilexi Years,” Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
1985 “The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection,” 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1985 “13th Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts,” Nagoya, Japan
1985 “Recent Acquisitions,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1986 “American Potters Today,” Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
1990 “Bay Area Sculpture of the 1960’s, Then and Now,” Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 Ceramic Collection, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
1997 “Homage to George Herriman,” curated by Bill Berkson Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997 “The Renwick at 25,” Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
1998 “Clay Into Art,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
1999 “Toronto Collects Contemporary Ceramics,” George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
1999 “Bay Area Now,” Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco, California
2000 “Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
2000 “Made in California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2001 “West of Westermann,” Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York
2004 “From Rosanjin to Voulkos…a Blueprint for Postmodern Ceramic Art, Franklin Parrasch, New York, NY
2005 “Transformations: The Language of Craft,” Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2006-2007 “One of a Kind – The Studio Craft Movement,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2007 “The Enigmatic Object,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2009 “Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pensylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2009 “Electric Mud,” Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX
2009 “Not New Work: Vincent Fecteau Selects from the Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2009 “California Dreamin,” Stedelijk Museum, Hertogenbosch, NL
2011 “Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2011 “Everything You Can Imagine Is Real…,” Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2011 “Paul Clay,” Salon 94, New York, NY
2011 Art Basel, Galerie Pierre Marie
2012 “Open for the Stones,” Harper’s Books, East Hampton, USA
2012 “Stone Gravy,” Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, USA
2012 “The Mystery Trend,” Wallspace, New York, USA
2012 “Viva la Raspberries,” Harris Lieberman, New York, USA
2012 “Légèreté ?,” Maison Particulière, Brussels, BELGIUM
2012 “Automaton,” Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, GERMANY
2013 “Burn These Eyes Captain and Throw Them in the Sea!,” Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, TURKEY
2013 ” Grapevine,” David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2013 “The Encyclopedia Palace,” La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, ITALY
2014 “Ron Nagle, George Ohr : Look Closer, Look Again,” George Adams Gallery, New York, USA
2014 “Color Shift,” BAM/PFA, Berkeley, USA
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, Washington
Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Musee de Plastique, Paris, France
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kruithaus’s – Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Michigan
The Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
The George R. G ardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra , Australia