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Steven Montgomery was born in 1954, Detroit, USA

Lives and works in New York City.

 

 

Education

 

1978

Master of Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

 

1976

Bachelor of Philosophy, Grand Valley State College, Allendale, MI

 

 

Selected public collections

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

 

Smithsonian Institutions, American Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery, Washington DC

 

Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY

 

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

 

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO

 

Racine Museum of Art, Racine, WI

 

Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

 

Long House Reserve, East Hampton, NY

 

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

 

The Museum of Shigaraki Ceramics Art Center and Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan

 

National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, South Korea

 

Taipei County Yingge Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

Art Musem of San Francisco, de Young, San Francisco, CA

 

Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ

 

Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

 

Keramic Museum Westerwald, Westerwald, Germany

 

 

Selected solo exhibition

 

2012

Past Forward, Mulino Pestasassi, Nove, Italy

Home Made/Weapons Grade, Thomas Hunter Projects, Hunter College, New York, NY

 

2011

Cobalt, And Other Elements, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY

Cobalt, And Other Elements, Lon Hamaekers Gallery, Water Mill, NY

Re-Entrance, New York Foundation for the Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

 

2009

Fire, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, South Korea

 

2008

Broken, OK Harris Gallery,  New York, NY

 

2006

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO

OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY

Tong-In Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

 

2004

Artifacts, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY

 

2003

Damaged Mimesis, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, LA

 

2001

OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY

 

2000

Long House Reserve, East Hampton, NY

 

1999

Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

1998

OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

 

 

1996

OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY

 

1991

Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY

 

 

 

 

 

Selected group exhibition

 

2011

Failing Grace, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Italy

 

2010

Interactions, NCECA, Philadelphia, PA

 

2009

Selections from OK Harris, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan

 

2008

Permanently MAD: Revealing The Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, NY

The American Vision: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

2007

Here’s The Thing/ The Single Object As Still Life, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

 

2006

NCECA Invitational, College of Lewis and Clark, Portland , OR

 

2004

Kaoshuing Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Taipei County Yingge Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

 

2003

Twenty Fifth Anniversary, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, South Korea

Facets, Macalester Gallery, Macalester College, Minneapolis, MN

Subject: Object, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

 

2001

USA Clay, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

 

2000

Expanded Visions, Ceramic Art in the 1970s–80s from the Collection of Daniel Jacobs and

Derek Mason, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Richmond, VA

 

1998–1999

Clay into Art: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramics Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ny1998 Realists, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York.

 

1998

San Francisco International Art Exposition, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

1997

Forms, Transformations, Queens Borough Public Library Gallery

Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

1996

Design Brooklyn, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

 

1994

Late 20th-Century Ceramics from the Everson Collection, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

Dada Ball, Webster Hall, New York, ny (curated by Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio).

Drawings ’94, Sheraton Art Center, Kutztown University. Kutztown, PA

 

1993

Invitational, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY

 

1992

New Abstraction, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY

The Eccentric Teapot (curated by Garth Clark), The Museum of Shigaraki Ceramics

Art Center and Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan; Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

1990

Organic Abstraction, Garth Clark Gallery. New York, NY

The 20th Ceramic National Exhibition: Clay, Color, Content, Purchase Award,

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

The Manhattan Project, ARTACT Gallery, Miami, FI

 

1988

Selections 41, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

 

1986

Drawings, Gallery Casas Toledo Oosterom, New York, NY

Reconstruction: Six Young New York Sculptors, Carlson Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT

The Conspicuous Consumption Show, ABC NO RIO Gallery, New York, NY

Beyond Clay, Queens College Gallery, New York, NY

 

1984

A Passionate Vision: Selections from the Collection of Daniel Jacobs, Decordova Museum,

Lincoln, MA

Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA

Art and Ego, New York Academy of Arts Building, New York, NY

New York City Artists, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

 

1983

New York Artists Who Teach, City Gallery, New York, NY

Contemporary Ceramics; Selections from The Collection of Daniel Jacobs,Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY

 

1982

The New Fauves, Hadler-Rodriquez Gallery, Houston, TX

 

1981

The Monumental Art Show, Gowanus Memorial Art Yard, Brooklyn, NY

ONWARDISLAND, Public Sculpture at Ward’s Island, New York, NY

Philadelphia Clay: 1980, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

 

1978

Young Americans, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, az; Museum of Contemporary Crafts,

New York

 

 

Awards

 

2012

Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship

 

2009

New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Fellowship

 

2008

Merit Award, Ceramic Biennale, Taipei County Yingge Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

 

2004

Gold Prize, Ceramic Sculpture, Taipei County Yingge Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

 

2003

Gold Prize, Ceramic Sculpture, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, South Korea

New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Fellowship

 

1998

The Pollock Krasner Foundation Inc.

 

1991

The 20th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

 

 

Purchase Award

 

 

1990

New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Fellowship

 

 

Bibliography

 

Modern, Phillips de Pury & Co, New York, May 25, 2011, p. 118 – 119

 

The Aesthetics of Mechanical Ruin, Arthur C. Danto, calogue essay, Steven Montgomery: Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, p. 4 – 9, 2008

 

Broken, Steven Montgomery, CeramicArt and Perception, n. 72, p. 41 – 46, 2008

 

“Summer Invitational”, OK Harris Gallery, Valerie Gladstone, Art News, October 2007, p. 216

 

“Steven Montgomery” interviewed by  Wolfram Ladda, Neue Keramic,January/February 2005, pp. 8–13.

 

“Steven Montgomery” interviewed by Ronald A. Kuchta, Kerameiki Techni,December 2004, pp. 59–68.

 

Cover Photograph, Neue Keramic, March/April 2004.

 

“Review of Exhibitions: Steven Montgomery at OK Harris,” Jonathan Goodman, Art in America, September 2004, p. 134.

 

“Reviews: New York; Steven Montgomery, OK Harris,” Cynthia Nadelman,ARTnews, June 2004, p. 114.

 

“Big Apple Clay; Is There a New York School of Ceramics?” John Perreault,

 

American Ceramics, (Vol. 14., No.2), 2003, p. 16–17, 19 (cover photograph), 2003.

 

“Interview: Steven Montgomery,” Pravine Sathe, New York Arts Magazine,June 2004, p. 65–66.

 

“Interview: Steven Montgomery,” Justin Ladda, Neue Keramik, Apri, 2004, p. 46.

 

Post Modern Ceramics, by Mark Del Vecchio, Thames & Hudson, 2002, p. 176, 184, 208.

 

The Artful Teapot, by Garth Clark, Watson Guptill, 2002, p. 97, 99, 239.

 

Oversea Contemporary Ceramic Art Classics, by Bai Ming, p. 56–61.

 

“Fantasy Machines from Technology’s Dark Side,” by Rita Reif, The New York Times, Art/Architecture, Sunday December 6, 1998.

 

“Steven Montgomery” by Mark Daniel Cohen, Review Magazine, pp. 14–16,December 1998.

 

“Steven Montgomery,” Ceramics Monthly (cover story) p. 38–39, March 2000.

 

“From the Studio” by Rose C. S. Slivka, The East Hampton Star, Sec. 3, p. 5,August 3, 2000.

 

“Steven Montgomery’s Entropic Machines” by Robert C. Morgan, American Ceramics,

February 1997.


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