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Paul Soldner

(American, born 1921)

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Biography

Timeline

1921: Born in Summerfield, Illinois
1946: Bluffton College, BA, Bluffton, OH
1951 - 1954: Supervisor of Art, Public Schools of Wayne County, Wooster, Ohio
1952 - 1954: College of Wooster, Adult Education, Wooster, Ohio
1954: University of Colorado, MA, Boulder, CO
1956: Otis Art Institute, MFA, Los Angeles, CA
1957 - 1964: Scripps College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Claremont, California
1966 - 1967: University of Colorado, Professor of Ceramics, Boulder, Colorado
1967 - 1968: University of Iowa, Professor of Ceramics, Iowa City, Iowa
1969 - 1991: Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School, Professor of Ceramics, Claremont, California
1975: Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities, Denver, CO
1977: Fellow of the Colloqium of Craftsmen of the United States, American Craft Council, New York, NY
1980: Prix D'Honneur, de la VIIe Biennale Internationale de Ceramique d'Art de Vallauris, Paris, France
1981 - 1982: Board of Directors, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
1981: Member-elect, International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland
1986: Artist in Residence - Metal Casting, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1989: Honorary Member, National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts, St. Louis, MO
: 2nd prize, People, Labour, Peace, Exhibition at International Sculpture Symposium Yurmala, Latvia, USSR
1991 - 1992: Claremont Graduate School, Artist-in-Residence, Claremont, California
1992: Westminister College, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, New Wilmington, PA
1994: Visiting Artist, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
1997: Anderson Ranch, National Recognition Award, Snowmass Village, CO
2002: NASAD Honor Award, National Association of Schools of Art and Design, Reston, VA
2003: Bluffton College, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Bluffton, OH
2004: Aspen Hall of Fame Inductee, Aspen, CO

Exhibitions

2005: The Municipality of Amaroussion Olympic Collection of Ceramic Sculptures, Athens, Greece
2004: International Tea Bowl Exhibition, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona
: Inferno: The Ceramic Art of Paul Soldner, The American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California (solo)
: Paul Soldner Exhibition, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (solo)
: Paul Soldner: Recent Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
: Modern Ceramic Art from an International Perspective, The Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
: Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group, University Art Gallery, The University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
: Little Masterpieces, Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan, Michigan
: 2003 Degrees Fahrenheit, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California
: Paul Soldner, John Blough, Rupert Deese, and Harrison McIntosh, Cuttress Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, California
: 2nd World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, Korea
: Face to Face: One Hundred WWII Veterans in Clay (featured WWII Veteran), José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, California
: Soldner Works: Recent Sculpture, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California (solo)
2003: Paul Soldner, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon (solo)
: 2003 Roaring Fork Open, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
: Contemporary American Ceramics 1950-1990: A Survey of American Objects and Vessels, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi, Japan
: From Stoneware to Porcelain, The Fallbrook Art and Cultural Center, Fallbrook, California
: American Ceramists and their Influence, with Aline Favre and Jim Romberg, Kunstforum Kirchberg, Bern, Switzerland
2002: Paul Soldner (curated by David Armstrong), George Cuttress Gallery, Pomona, California (solo)
2001 - 2002: Paul Soldner: The Last Ten Years, Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio (solo)
: Paul Soldner, The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA (solo)
2001: Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, The Museum of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland
: Mendocino Gegnome Project, Mendocino Arts Center Ceramic Department in conjunction with the John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California
: The Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, California
: Great Teacher: Great Clay Legacies, Gallery W.D.O., Charlotte, North Carolina, in conjunction with NCECA 2001
: Masters in Clay: An Invitational Exhibit, Jordan River Arts Center, East Jordan, Michigan
: 1st World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, Korea
: Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
: Peter Callas Studio Summer Workshops, with Peter Voulkos and Ryoji Koie, Belvidere, New Jersey
: Paul Soldner: Recent Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
: Paul Soldner: A One Man Exhibition, George Cuttress Gallery, Pomona, California (solo)
: Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
: Bluffton College Alumni Show, Bluffton, Ohio
: Colorado Kilns: A Century of Ceramics in Colorado, Colorado Historical Society, Denver, Colorado
: Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
: The Alchemy of Raku, Vermont Clay Studio, Vermont
: Contemporary Ceramics: Nine Artists, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
: Defining Moments in Contemporary Ceramics: The Smits Collection and Related Works, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2000: Centennial Sculpture Project, Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio
1999: Paul Soldner: Recent Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
1997: NEA Visual Artists Fellowship, archive documentation project, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1996: Four Decades of Discovery: The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum, New York, New York
1994: Paul Soldner: Raku, Raku Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
: Paul Soldner Retrospective: Soldner Clay and Recent Work, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia (solo)
1992: Paul Soldner: A Retrospective, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts (solo)
: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah (solo)
: Louis Newman Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)
1991: Paul Soldner: A Retrospective, Scripps College, Claremont, California (solo)
1990: The Art Works Gallery, Riverside, California (solo)
1989: Tallinn Exhibition Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (solo)
: Leah Ransburg Art Gallery, University of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana (solo)
: Joan Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, Florida (solo)
1987: Patricia Moore Gallery, Aspen, Colorado (solo)
1986: Great American Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia (solo)
: Susan Cumins Gallery, Palo Alto, California (solo)
: American Potters Today, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
1985: Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
: Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (solo)
1982: Galerie du Centre Genevois de L'Artisant, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
: Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, West Germany (solo)
1980: VII Biennale Internationale de Ceramique d'Arte de Vallouris, le Musee de Vallouris, Vallouris, France

Public Collections

: Franz Hals Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
: American Craft Museum, New York, New York
: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
: The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
: Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Ontario, Canada
: Victoria and Albert Museum of Art, London, England
: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
: Australian National Gallery, Sydney, Austral
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
: Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California

Paul Soldner

(American, born 1921)

Paul Soldner

Paul Soldner

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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