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Frank Boyden
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Frank Boyden
Large Platter - Salmon and Raven
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1942
born
1965
B.A. Colorado College, Major in Art
1968
M.F.A. and B.F.A., Yale University, School of Art, Major in Painting
1970
Conceived, organized and built Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the Salmon River estuary, Otis, Oregon.
1971 - 2007
Self-employed artist, working in ceramics, prints,
1990
Contributing Artist, Oregon Historical Society
1991
Conceived and organized Margery Davis Boyden Writer's Residency Program.
1995
Received Oregon Governor's Art Award
Exhibitions
2007
Conversations Across Time: Rembrandt, Ensor, Boyden, C.G. Boerner Gallery, New York.
Woodfire, Chemeketa Community, Colllege, Salem, Oregon.
Foundry Gallery, Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, Washington.
Porcelain Exhibition, University of Wisconsin. Whitewater, Wisconsin.
2006
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Ceramics by Frank Boyden, Jun Kaneko, Geoffrey Pagen and Don Reitz.
Frank Boyden and Jean Vollum, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, Oregon.
20 years of Tozan Kilns, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Historic Ceramics, Contemporary Crafts, Portland, Oregon.
Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, Maryland.
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon. “The Empathies” prints.
Retrospective print exhibition, Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
Japan-USA, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico
War Drawings, Mt. Hood Community College, Portland, Oregon
Day of the Dead, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Cups, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Drawings.
Natural Elements, Contemporary Craft Museum, Portland, Oregon
Porcelain in the Anagama, Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland.
Particles & Passion: The Art of Clay, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
White Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Prints from Ray Trayle Presses, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
The Enchantment of the Artist’s Book, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
Sculpture from the Walla Walla Foundry, The Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
Beppu Gallery, Pacific City, Oregon. Prints.
Soul of a Bowl, Contemporary Crafts, Portland, Oregon.
2004
Davidson Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Prints.
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Prints and Ceramics.
2003
21st Century Ceramics, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio.
Equivalents, Coos Museum of Art, Coos Bay, Oregon.
Galerie Besson, London, England. Group exhibition. Ceramics.
2002
Bendel with Friends, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri.
Vessel Invitational 2002, Danielson Art Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, New York.
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Prints.
Armory National Ceramics Invitational, West Palm Beach, Florida
Santa Fe Clay Studio, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ceramics.
Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury, Vermont. Ceramics.
2001
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Prints and ceramics.
2000
Bird Spirits, collaborative book with William Bolcom, composer, and Ian Boyden, Crab Quill Press.
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Prints.
Clay Today, Borby Castle Gallery, Skaelskor, Denmark; Grimmerhus Museum, Middlefart, Denmark.
Northwest Printmakers, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
1998
Contemporary Cups, Toured 11 museums in Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia and Ontario, Canada
1997
International Print Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.
1996
25 years of clay, a retrospective, Contemporary Crafts, Portland, Oregon.
1995
Clay Today, Grimmerhus Museum, Fyn, Denmark.
1993
Frank Boyden, Torbjorn Kvasbo, and Poul Jensen, Gallerie Norbey, Copenhagen, Denmark
1992
American Crafts: The Nation's Collection, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Frank Boyden and Poul Jensen, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustriumseum, Trondheim, Norway
1991
American Woodfire, University of Iowa Museum of Art
1988
Recent Acquisitions, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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Public Collections
Albuquerque Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
J.Paul Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
New York Public Library
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
Taideteollisuusmuseo (National Museum of Applied Art), Helsinki, Finland
Gordon Gilkey Print Collection, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
Stedelijke Musea, Museum of Fine Arts, Oostende, Belgium
Museum of Decorative Arts, Riga, Latvia
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester New York
Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, Oregon
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon
Topeka Public Library, Topeka Kansas
Millersville University Art Museum, Millerville, Pennsylvania
Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Tongass Historical Museum, Ketchikan, Alaska
Museo de Arte Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway
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Literature
2008
Coexistence with Fire, Wood-Fired Ceramics by Frank Boyden, 1985-2006, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, 2008
On the River through the Valley of Fire, The Collaborative Ceramics of Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, 2008
2007
Conversations across Time: Rembrandt, Ensor, Boyden. 120 page catalogue published by C.G. Boerner Gallery, NY, in conjunction with exhibition, 2007.
2006
Frank Boyden|The Empathies, with companion prose by David James Duncan and Kim Stafford, 80-page book published by Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 2006.
Frank Boyden Prints and Books, by Prudence F. Roberts and Ian H. Boyden, 152-page book published by Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, in conjunction with retrospective print exhibition, 2006.
2004
The Irreverences, Provocations, and Connivances of Uncle Skulky, Portland Art Museum, 2004.
2003
Soul of a Bowl, Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR, 2003