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Dubhe Carreño Gallery Contemporary Ceramic Art |
Ron KovatchCurriculum Vitae
SOLO EXHIBITIONS2003 El Jardín de las Esculturas, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 2002-03 Leedy/Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO 2001 Leedy/Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO 2000-01 McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL 1999 Ron Kovatch - A Ten Year Survey, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL 1998 Galería de Artes Plásticas, University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 1997 Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1997 Tolgyfa Gallery, Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, Budapest, Hungary, 1996 Boger Gallery, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO 1995 Gender: A Ceramics Installation, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, 1995 Stranton Gallery, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI 1993 The Farrell Collection, Washington D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (INVITATIONAL)
2003 Contemporary Ceramic Invitational, Heuser Art Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, 2003 Hundreds of Cups, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2003 Objects of Desire, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern University, Chicago, IL 2002-03 Group Invitational, Xen Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2002 Clay Sculpture Invitational, Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, MO 2002 Terra Sutra, Incubator Gallery, Kansas City MO 2002 Clay City, New Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2002 Inspired in Illinois, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL 2001 Hardened by Fire, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, 2001 Summer Faculty Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN 2000 Paper Pots, John Elder Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Who Knows Where or When: Artists Look at Geography and Time, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI, 1999 Erotica In Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual and Suggestive, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA 1999 SOFA 1999 NYC, International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art, represented by Ferrin Gallery, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY 1999 The End is Near: Artist Look at the Twentieth Century, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI 1999 National Ceramics Invitational,” Denise Bibro Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Paper Pots, John Elder Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Boxes, Barriers, and Intimate Spaces, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD 1998 International Contemporary Ceramics from the Igal and Diane Silber Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 1997-98 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts 50th Anniversary Traveling Collection Exhibition, Clement Allison Gallery, Tusculum College, Greenville, TN, 1997; traveled to: Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO, 1997; Walter J. Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS, 1998. 1997 The Non-Traditional Object, Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, (Two-person exhibit, including Kitty Ross). 1997 Rendezvous, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE,
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (JURIED) 2001 Artistic Imaginings in Clay, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC 1998 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, Auckland Museum (Te Papa Whakahiku), Auckland, New Zealand
AWARDSVisual Artists Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 1990, 1994, 1996. Visual Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1990.
LECTURES2003 University of Miami at Coral Gables, Miami, FL 2002 Lill Street Learning Center/Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN 2001 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 2001 Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 2000 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 2000 Iowa State University, Ames, IA 1999 Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 1999 Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL 1999 Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL 1998 Washington University, St. Louis, MO 1998 Central College, Houston Community College System, Houston, TX 1998 University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 1997 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL 1997 Tolgyfa Gallery, Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, Budapest, Hungary 1996 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1995 The Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO 1995 School of Fine Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1994 New York College of ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY 1993 School of Fine Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1993 Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1987 Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Master of Fine Arts Degree 1976 Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts
ACADEMIC POSITIONS SINCE FINAL DEGREE
2000-present University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, School of Art and Design, Professor: Ceramics Department Head 1993-2000 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design, Associate Professor: Ceramics Department Head 1989-1993 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design, Assistant Professor: Ceramics Department Head 1988-1989 Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, Indiana, Visiting Assistant Professor 1988 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Visiting Artist/Instructor
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Exhibition Juror: 1996 “Container/Containment,” sponsored by the National Society of Arts and Letters, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL 2000 “Annual Clay and Paper Exhibition,” Octagon Art Center, Ames, IO Exhibition Curator:1994 “Alfred Now,” co-curated with Mark Warwick, 1994, authored the exhibition, catalog forward Articles in Journals: 1996 “An Installation Project,” Ceramics Technical, Issue 3: pp. 86-90.
SUBJECT OF FEATURE ARTICLES/REVIEWS
1988 Fister, Cherie. “Ron Kovatch,” AMERICAN CERAMICS. Winter Issue 1990 Hunt, William. “1990 NEA Grant,” CERAMICS MONTHLY. December, 1992 Madonick, Michael. “Ron Kovatch,” CERAMICS MONTHLY. May, 1992: pp. 32-33. 1993 Merino, Tony. “Midwestern Clay: Anatomy and Architecture,” CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 12, Sydney, Australia, 1993: pp. 69-71. 1996 Hluch, Kevin. “Ceramics and Sculpture,” CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 23, Sydney, Australia, 1996: pp. 76-81. 1996 Clark, Bede. “Ron Kovatch’s Gender Project,” CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 24, Sydney, Australia,: pp. 62-65. 1996 Kangus, Matthew. “Exhibitions,” AMERICAN CERAMICS. Volume 12,m Number 2, 1996: p. 52 1998 Mansfield, Janet. “The Diane and Igal Silber Collection,” CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 31, Sydney, Australia, 1998: pp. 33-39. 1999 Mickelson Taylor, Liegh. “Boxes, Barriers, and Intimate Spaces,” CERAMICS MONTHLY. March, 1999: pp. 12 2000 Nigrosh, Leon. “Erotica in Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual and Suggestive,” CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 38, Sydney, Australia, 2000: pp. 19-23. 2000 Stengel, Gil. “Ron Kovatch’s Non-traditional Objects,” CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 40, Sydney, Australia, 2000: pp. 16-19. 2001 Smith, Phil, “Ron Kovatch: In Search of an Archetype,” DIALOG, March/April, 2001
WORK AS SUBJECT IN BOOKS/TEXTS2002 CERAMICS: A POTTERS HANDBOOK, Glenn C. Nelson & Richard Burkett, Wadsworth Thomas Learning Inc. 2002, Plate 39 2003 WORKING WITH CLAY, Second Edition, Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle New Jersey, 2003, Page 37 2003 SEX POTS: EROTICISM IN CERAMICS, Paul Mathieu, Rutgers University Press
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONSDaum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO The Arkansas Art Center/Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AK Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN Evansville Museum of Art and Sciences, Evansville, IN Kansas City Art Institute (teaching collection), Kansas City, MO Marion College, Indianapolis, IN Ringling School of Art and Design (print collection), Sarasota, FL Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
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