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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.