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In the world of contemporary ceramics, Richard Shaw is the master of trompe-l’oeil sculpture. He has developed an astonishing array of techniques, including perfectly cast porcelain objects and overglaze transfer decals. By combining the commonplace with the whimsical, the humorous with the mundane, Shaw captures the poetic and the surreal with the sensibility of a comedian.
Shaw is one of the most respected and collected artists in contemporary ceramics. Coming out of the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s, he has long been affiliated with the Funk movement. However, he has continued to add to his skills and to appropriate from mass culture, developing a vocabulary of found objects that form intimate still life sculpture, complex figures, and personally referential assemblage. He brings life to the detritus of the studio, as a cartoonist animates the page.
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Awards
1988 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, San Francisco Art Institute
1987 Visiting Artist Grant, Manufacture National De Sevres, Paris, France
1974 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1970 National Endowment for the Arts Crafts Grant
Education
1968 M.F.A. University of California, Davis
1965 B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute
State University of New York at Alfred
Museum Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Anderson Collection, Palo Alto, California
Arizona State University, Tempe
Cantor Museum, Stanford University
Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
de Young Museum, San Francisco
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Ichon World Ceramic Center, Ichon, Korea
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
Levi Strauss Collection, San Francisco
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lowe Art Museum, University of Florida, Coral Gables
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Art and Design, New York
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Nora Eccles Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Palm Beach Museum, Palm Beach, Florida
Petits Lu Collection, Paris, France
Rene Di Rosa Collection, Napa, California
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
University of Miami, Florida
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
University of Washington, Seattle
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Museum
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 Richard Shaw: Four Decades of Ceramics, Sonoma County Museum, Sonoma,
California
2009 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
2007 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Richard Shaw, Ceramic Sculpture, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California
Richard Shaw: Working Drawings from Studio Sketchbooks, Diablo Valley
College, Pleasant Hill, California
2005 Still Lifes, Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, California
Richard and Martha Shaw, b. Sakata Garo, Sacramento
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Richard Shaw: It Ain’t Necessarily So, Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
2003 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Trompe L’oeil Ceramics, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2002 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
2001 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Sakata Garo, Sacramento
Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Collaboration: Richard Shaw and Robert Hudson, Byron C. Cohen Gallery for
Contemporary Art; Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
2000 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virgina
1999 Robert Hudson & Richard Shaw: New Ceramic Sculpture, Addison Gallery of
American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; traveled to Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts, San Francisco
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1998 Master’s Touch, Tempe Art Center, Tempe, Arizona
Richard Shaw, A Survey, George Adams Gallery, New York
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
1996 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Fallkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California
1995 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1993 Braunstein/Quay, San Francisco
1992 Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1991 Fullerton Museum Center, California
1990 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
Howard Yerzerski Gallery, Boston
Palo Alto Cultural Center, California
Schneider Museum of Art Ashland, Oregon
1989 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
1988 Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
1987 Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Inc., California
Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona
1986 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Arizona
1985 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1983 Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
1982 Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Boise Gallery of Art, Idaho
Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis
Mendel Art Gallery and Civic Conservatory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
1981 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
San Jose Museum of Art, California
1980 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1979 Belson-Brown Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1977 Jacqueline Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles
1976 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1974 E.G. Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1973 Robert Hudson/Richard Shaw: Work in Porcelain, San Francisco Museum of Art
Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1971 Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1970 Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1969 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1967 San Francisco Art Institute
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