Jim Melchert

(American, born 1930)

score and performance series (installation) by jim melchert

Jim Melchert

Score and Performance Series (installation)

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score and performance series (installation) by jim melchert

Jim Melchert

Score and Performance Series (installation)

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score and performance series by jim melchert

Jim Melchert

Score and Performance Series

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aloft by jim melchert

Jim Melchert

Aloft, 2008

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Biography

Timeline

1930
Born in Ohio
Resides in Oakland, CA
Education:
1952 Princeton University A.B.
1957 University of Chicago M.F.A.
1961 University of California, Berkeley M.A.
Academic Appointments:
1961-65 San Francisco Art Institute
1965-92 University of California, Berkeley
Non-Academic Appointments:
1977-81 National Endowment for the Arts Director, Visual Arts Program
1984-88 American Academy in Rome, Director
Awards
1964 Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship
1970 Adeline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute
1978 Honorary Fellow, NCECA
1984 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, San Francisco Art Institute
1988 Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council
1993 Citation for Distinguished Service in the Visual Arts, National Association of Schools of Art and Design;Honorary Doctor of Fine Art Degree, Maryland Institute, College of Art
1998 Visiting Artist, European Ceramics Work Centre, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; Regis Master Series, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2000 Keynote Speaker, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Exhibitions

2011
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2010
Local Treasures: Six Extraordinary Artists, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2008
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (Solo Exhibition)
2007
Eye Sites: Jim Melchert, paul kotula projects, Ferndale, MI (Solo Exhibition)
2005
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (Solo Exhibition)
2004
Tate Modern, Liverpoole, ENGLAND
2003
Columbus College of Art & Design, OH
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA; Revolution, Ferndale, MI (Solo Exhibition)
2002
Bay Area Center for the Consolidated Arts, Berkeley, CA (Solo Exhibition)
Kansas City Art Institute, H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO; The Work Space, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; The Drawing Center, New York, NY