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Michael Lucero
(
American
, born 1953)
Michael Lucero
Boy in Chair
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1953
Born in Tracy, CA
1975
Received MFA at University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1977 - 1978
Awarded Ford Foundation Scholarship
1978
Received BA at Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Awarded Young American Award, Museum of Contemporary Craft Council, New York, NY
1979
Awarded National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1980
Awarded Creative Artists Public Service Program Fellowship
1981
Awarded National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1983
Awarded Nettie Marie Jones Fellowship, Center for Music, Drama and Art, Lake Placid, NY
1984
Awarded National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1993
Awarded Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts, University of Hartford, CT
2003 - 2004
Awarded Lamar Dodd Distinguished Chair in the Arts, Lamar Dodd School of Art ~ University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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Exhibitions
2018
Michael Lucero Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Pish Posh
, Hieronymus, Akron, OH
Teapots
Hierohymus, Akron, OH
2017
Michael Lucero Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Sculpture and Drawings
HAW Contemporary, Kansas City, MO(solo exhibition)
In Cahoots
Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016
Michael Lucero Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Drawings from The Hillbilly Series
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA(solo exhibition)
EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes
Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
New Now 2016.
Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2014
Michael Lucero Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Drawings and Sculpture
The Nevica Project, Chicago, IL(solo exhibition)
2013
Michael Lucero Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Michael Lucero Installation
, Chazen Museum of Art ~ University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI(solo exhibition)
Sculpture Drawings
, Chazen Museum of Art ~ University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI(solo exhibition)
2009
Michael Lucero Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Collection Focus: Michael Lucero
, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI(solo exhibition)
2008
Michael Lucero Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
New Sculpture
, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA(solo exhibition) De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
1999
Michael Lucero, Excavation Series, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Animal Kingdom, The New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Michael Lucero, Reclamation Series, Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Knowing Children, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Lucero, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)
1998
Michael Lucero, Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
1997
Michael Lucero: Confounding Artifacts, Selected Works from the Reclamation Series, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA (solo)
Michael Lucero, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
Ashes to Ashes: Dirt to Dirt, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO (solo)
Figure and Fragility, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1996 - 1998
Michael Lucero: Sculpture 1976–1995, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, March 16–June 9, 1996, curated by Mark Leach. Travels to: American Craft Museum, New York, NY, October 31 – February 16, 1997; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO, March 30–July 6, 1997, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, September 19, 1997– January 4, 1998; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, February 28–May 24, 1998 (solo)
Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
The Reclamation Series, Shaw Guido Gallery, Pontiac, MI (solo)
Dog Show, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996
Face to Face, Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Myths and Magical Fantasies, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
1995
Breaking Barriers, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, February–April 1995, traveling to Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; American Craft Museum, NY, NY
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Garth Clark Gallery Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Habitat/ Shaw Gallery, Farmington Hills, MI (solo)
Linda Farris Gallery Seattle, WA (solo)
1994
Dorothy Weiss Gallery San Francisco, CA (solo)
David Beitzel Gallery, Project Room, New York, NY (solo)
Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Investigations: Recent Ceramic Sculpture, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford Hartford, CT
Habatat-Shaw Gallery Farmington Hills, MI (solo)
Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery San Francisco, CA
Beyond Traditions: Ceramic Art in New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico Santa Fe, NM
1993
Tales and Traditions, Wahtcom Museum of Art Bellingham, WA
The Clay Figure, Dorothy Weiss Gallery San Francisco, CA
1992
Ceramic Sculpture: Form & Figure, Society for Contemporary Crafts Pittsburgh, PA
Allene LaPides Gallery Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Fay Gold Gallery Atlanta, GA (solo)
1991
Fay Gold Gallery Atlanta, GA (solo)
Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery San Francisco, CA
Cup: As a Metaphor, Sybaris Gallery Royal Oak, MI
Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
1990
Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Arts, Richmond, VA (solo)
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
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Public Collections
Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY American Craft Museum, New York, NY Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Dannheisser Foundation, New York, NY The Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA First Bank, Minneapolis, MN The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Henry Kaufman & Co., New York, NY High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM The New Museum of Contemporary, New York, NY New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LO Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, East Logan, UT Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT