Lives and works in Oakland, CA USA
Bio:
John Roloff is a visual artist who works conceptually with site, process and natural systems. He is known for his ceramic works and outdoor kiln/furnace projects done from the 1970’s into the 1990’s, as well as other large-scale environmental projects, gallery installations and objects investigating geologic and natural phenomena. Based on an extensive background and ongoing research in the earth sciences, he works from geochemical and global metabolic perspectives. His work since the late 1960’s engages poetic and site-specific relationships between material, concept and performance in the domains of geology, ecology, architecture, ceramics, industry, metabolic systems and history. The ship is a central image of his work, metaphorically evoking psychological and transformative processes of the sea and land in geologic and contemporary time. He studied geology at UC Davis, Davis, CA with Professor Eldridge Moores and others during the formative days of plate tectonics in the late-1960’s. Contemporaneous with geology he studied art with Bob Arneson, William T. Wiley and others, also at UC Davis. He studied with Louis Marak and received a master’s degree in art in 1973 from CSU Humboldt. In addition to numerous environmental, site-specific installations in the US, Canada and Europe, his work has been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, UC Berkeley Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, Photoscene Cologne and the Venice Architectural and Art Biennales, The Snow Show in Kemi, Finland and Artlantic: wonder, Atlantic City, NJ. Art works in the public realm that explore geologic and related concepts can be found at sites such as: Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, I-5 Colonnade Park, Seattle, WA and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. He has received 3 artist’s visual arts fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a California Arts Council grant for visual artists and a Bernard Osher Fellowship at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA. He is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco and is Professor Emeritus of Sculpture/Ceramics at the San Francisco Art Institute. More information is available at www.johnroloff.com / #johnroloffstudio.
Environmental Installations/Commissions:
2022 Anson Burlingame and the Principles of Eternal Justice, Burlingame, CA.
2021 Virtual Harvest, Coleman Highline/P4, Santa Clara, CA.
2017 Stratigraphic Columns/Salinia, 1440 Multiversity, Scotts Valley, CA
2017 Expanded Ceramics/Earth Reversal/Peat Excavation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2016 Land/Sea: Hawkesbury Facies, Sydney College of Art, Sydney, Australia.
2016 Magma Chambers (Corvus/Orchidacaea/Kolumbo), Domaine Sigalas, Santorini, Greece.
2016 Venice Substructure Complex, site studies/concepts, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy
2015 Landscape Projection: The Sea within the Land (Salinian/Franciscan), Fung Collaboratives Carmel site, Carmel, CA.
2013 Rapson Group, Rapson Hall, College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2012-13 Étude Atlantis, Atlantic City Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ, Fung Collaborative Projects
2009-10 Quaternary Explorations: Tule Elk Habitat, site studies, Presidio, San Francisco, CA
2008-12 San Francisco Wharf Complex, site studies, NFS/Bernard Osher/NEA grant/fellowship, San Francisco, CA
2006-12 Oakland Estuary Channel Project, with Lewis deSoto and Sasaki & Associates, Oakland, CA
2006 The Seventh Climate (Paradise Reconsidered), I-5 Colonnade Project, Pro Parks Levy, Seattle, WA.
2006 Protogaea Civica III (Santa Rosa, CA), Stratigraphic Column III (San Andreas), Sonoma Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA.
2005 Protogaea Civica (Geology Flags: Franciscan Formation/San Francisco, CA II), San Francisco Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
2005 Valley Scan, San Fernando Valley Metro Rapid Transitway Project, Los Angeles, CA.
2004 Pure Mix, The Snow Show, Kemi, Finland (collaboration with Diller + Scofidio).
2004 Site Index, Rapson Hall, College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2002 Stratigraphic Column, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA.
2000 Wrangelia I & II, proposal drawings, commissioned by the Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2000-05 The Middle of the World, Staten Island Ferries artwork, NYC, NY (collaboration with Werner Klotz).
1999 Eocene/Pliocene, Paradise Wood Sculpture Grove, Santa Rosa, CA.
1996 Pitzer Project: A Prototype System for the Production and Redistribution of Ancient Sunlight, Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA.
1996 Compost Project, ALTER Project, Slippery Rock College, Slippery Rock, PA.
1993 Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain (Seasons of the Sea ‘Adrift’), Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA.
1993 Fragment: The Hidden Sea (Island of Refuge), Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1992 Metabolism and Mortality/O2, Tyler School Of Art, Elkins Park, PA.
1989 Humboldt Ship, CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA.
1989 Vanishing Ship (Third State), Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA.
1988 Oculus: Dead Sea/Oil Field, Arvada Art Center, Arvada, CO.
1988 Oculus: Emerson/ Beebe, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA.
1988 Untitled (Earth Orchid), Hartford School of Art, Hartford, CT.
1988 Isla De Umunnum (Island of the Hummingbirds), Elkhorn Slough Estuarine Reserve, Moss Landing, CA.
1987 Talking Tree/Glacial Epoch, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV.
1986 Winter Stream/Drifting Rowboat (Overturned), San Francisco, CA.
1986 Ancient Valley (Sea Floor), Swanston Light Rail Station, Sacramento, CA.
1985 Ancient Shoreline: Island for Lake Lahontan, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV.
1984 Wave Ship (of Fire)/Ice Ship (of Glass), Detroit, MI.
1984 Collision: Lava Ship/Trellis Ship, San Rafael, CA.
1982 Mountain Kiln/Black Orchid, Sculpture 12/ISC, Oakland, CA.
1981 Wave Kiln 1 and 2, Mills College, Oakland, CA.
1980 Prairie Starfish/Glacial Epoch, Craven, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1980 Land Monitor/Fired Volcanic Boulder, Albuquerque, NM.
1979 Beach Kiln (Monitor), Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA
1979 Fired and Glazed Earth Piece, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.
One Person Exhibitions:
2022 Venice Substructure Complex, Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice, It.
2019 The Sea Within the Land, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 The Sea Within the Sea, Sherwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Phantom Herd and Selected Works, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2006 Thermodynamics of Silence/New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2002 Holocene Passage, “Intervening the Space, “Archivio Emily Harvey, “NEXT,” La Biennale di Venezia, Mostra Internazionale di Architettura Venice, Italy.
2001 Original Depositional Environment, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2000 John Roloff: Displacements, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalog).
1999 Morphology of Change, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY.
1999 Terrain into Architecture: Projection and Displacement, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD.
1998 The Rising Sea, Images and Constructions from South Florida and Other Selected Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida (catalog).
1998 Dialogues with Nature, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY.
1998 Agricola: Four Works 1994-97, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA.
1996 Draped Flames, Manchester CG, Pittsburgh, PA.
1992 Metafossil, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
1989 Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1988 Hartford School Of Art, Hartford CT.
1987 University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
1986 Selections from: Night Ship/Dark Current/The Frozen Sea, Himovitz-Solomon Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1985 University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV.
1984 Night Ships/The Frozen Sea, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1982 Kiln Projects: Works in Progress, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
1981 Theo Portnoy Gallery, New York, NY.
1981 Land Monitors, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1980 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1979 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1977 Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA.
1975 The River at the Bottom of the Sea – In Exile, Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA.
1975 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
1973 CSU, Humboldt, Arcata, CA.
Group Exhibitions:
2022 Synapse 15: Intersections of Art and Science, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH (curated by Mathew Kolodziej, catalog)
2022 Divinations, with Neil Forrest, Sheraton Grand Hotel, NCECA Conference, Sacramento, CA2019 Strange, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2019 Two Sites with a Similar Problem, with Neil Forrest, Architecture Library, Rapson Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2018 40 by 40: The Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA (curated by Michael Schwager, catalog).
2017 Diderot/Forrest/Roloff, with Neil Forrest, Bison Building, NCECA Conference, Portland, OR
2017 Organic Logic: Howard Fried, John Roloff, Mark Thompson, 500 Capp St., San Francisco, CA (curated by Tanya Zimbardo, SFMOMA).
2016 Future Stratigraphies, Sydney College of Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
2016 Contemporary Scarecrows, Domaine Sigalas, Oia, Thera, Santorini, Greece.
2016 Craft for a Modern World, The Renwick Gallery Collection, Renwick Gallery, Washington DC (curated by Nora Atkinson, book).
2016 Great California Art Movement, 1960’s-1990’s: UC Davis Fine Art Alumni Exhibition, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA (catalog).
2015 Data Clay: Digital Strategies for Parsing the Earth, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Hydrarchy: Power, Globalism and the Sea, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
2014 Sym.bo.osis: Art and Science Intersect, Agrella Art Gallery, Santa Rosa JC, Santa Rosa, CA
2014 The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
2014 Great Lakes, with Neil Forrest, NCECA Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
2013 Solid Concept, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2012 Artists of the Metro Orange Line, Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, CA.
2011 Ground Water: Out of Sight/Site Out of Mind, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH.
2011 Overturned: Clay Without Limits, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, (curated by Gwen Chanzit, catalog).
2010-11 Habitats, Presidio, San Francisco, CA, Fore-Site Foundation, San Francisco, CA.
2010 Edges of Light, Benicia Art Center, Benicia, CA.
2009 Wonderland – TAAD/Queen Amie Studio, collaboration with Doug Hall, San Francisco, CA (curated by Lance Fung, catalog).
2009 Adventures of the Fire, The 5th World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea (curated by Jeonghee Choi, catalog).
2009 Perils in the Sublime (A Poetic Consideration of Ecology, Landscape and Reconstruction), NCECA 2009, Phoenix, AZ.
2008 Conceptual Art from California, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, n.n.k., Berlin, Germany, curated by Kathrin Becker.
2008 Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Kate Eilertson/Berin Golau (catalog).
2008 We Remember the Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, curated by Mary Ellen Johnson.
2008 Observing, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, curated by Susan Schwartzenberg.
2007 Excavations, Johansson Projects, Ego Park Gallery, Oakland, CA.
2005 High 5, site works, International Center for the Arts, SFSU, San Francisco, CA.
2005 Metro Orange Line Art Exhibition, Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA.
2005 Tales from the Kiln: Contemporary Ceramics, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
2005 Western Biennale of Art, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith (catalog).
2005 Technological Sublime, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, curated by Lisa Tamaris-Becker (catalog).
2004 Material Matters, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2004 Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces, Camera Work, San Francisco, CA, curated by Paule Levine (catalog-special issue of Camera Work Journal).
2004 Process, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, curated by Chandra Cerrito (catalog).
2004 Site Index: Rebecca Krinke/John Roloff, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2004 Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA and Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art, Pasadena, CA (catalog), curated by Karen Moss.
2004 The Snow Show, Kemi, Finland, curated by Lance Fung.
2003 The Snow Show: New York, Scandinavia House, New York, NY.
2003 The Snow Show: Venice, Palazzo Zorzi, Venice Art Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2002 Richard Barnes, John Roloff, Kim Kuros, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA.
2001 Extraordinary, SFAI Faculty Exhibition, SFAI, San Francisco, CA, curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA.
2001 Fluency, Alfred State University, Alfred, NY (catalog).
2001 Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Helen Drutt (catalog).
2001 Adrift, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA.
2000 Bounded Intervals, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI (catalog).
2000 New Prometheans, COCA and University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2000 Open House: Art on Site 1, 362 Waller St., San Francisco, CA (brochure, video catalog).
2000 hunt, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ.
2000 Observation/Revelation: Plants and Insects through the Lens of Art, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, (catalog).
2000 terra sacâre, Puffin Room, New York, NY.
1998 MATRIX/Berkeley: 20 Years, University Art Museum, UCB, Berkeley, CA (catalog).
1997 Downtown Arts Festival, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 The Nature of Materials, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY.
1997 Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object, CCAC, Oakland, CA.
1996 Photoscene Cologne, EAC--Versuchsreihe, Cologne, Germany.
1996 Tom Marioni-John Roloff, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
1995 Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (catalog).
1995 From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate: 16 Contemporary Sculptor/Printmakers, Touring Exhibition, CCAC, 1995; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, 1995; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 1996; Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, 1996, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX, 1996; McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, 1996 97; Barton County College, Shafer `Art Gallery, Great Bend, KS, 1997.
1994 Color in the Shadows, Bay Area Cyber Art, CCAC, Oakland, CA, curated by Mark Bartlett (catalog).
1992 Fragile Ecologies: Artist’s Interpretations and Solutions, Queens Museum Of Art, Queens, NY, curated by Barbara Matilsky (traveling exhibit, book).
1992 American Ceramics, Priamàr Fortress, Palazzo della Sibilla, Savona, Italy.
1991 Constructions Of Meaning, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, (catalog).
1990 Public Art - Models and Drawings, Art Department Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
1990 San Francisco/Leningrad Ecological Arts Project. Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1989 The Boat Show, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
1989 Eco-Systems, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.
1986 Second Newport Biennial: The Bay Area, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog).
1986 Poetry of the Physical, Museum of American Crafts, New York, NY (traveling show, catalog).
1986 Material and Metaphor, Contemporary American Ceramic Sculpture, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL (catalog).
1986 Voyages, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalog).
1986 10 Years After: Richard Shaw, Ed Blackburn, Tony Costanza, Red Ekks, John Roloff, CSU Fullerton, CA.
1986 Ken Little/John Roloff, two-person show, Maryland Institute, College of Art Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland
1985 Contemporary American Ceramics: Twenty Artists, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog).
1984 A Passionate Vision, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.
1983 Ceramic Directions: A Contemporary Overview, SUNY, Stoneybrook, NY (catalog).
1983 Process in Site-Specific Sculpture: California Documentations, Lisa Hein, John Roloff, Christian Schiess, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
1982 Nature as Metaphor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalog).
1982 Six Artists, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
1982 Forgotten Dimension, A Survey of Small Sculpture in California, Now, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA, traveling exhibition (catalog).
1981-83 Matter, Meaning and Memory, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI, traveling exhibition (catalog).
1981 John Roloff-Franklin Williams, Sonoma, State University, Rhonert Park, CA.
1980 Five Sculptors, Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, (catalog).
1980 Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalog).
1980 Continental Clay Connection, Norman McKenzie Gallery, Regina, Sasketchewan, Canada (catalog).
1979 Northern California Clay Routes, Sculpture Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalog).
1979 Trains, Planes, Boats, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (catalog).
1979 Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture, UC Davis, Davis, CA.
1978 Clay from Molds, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalog).
1978 Landscape, New Views, Cornell University, Ithica, NY.
1977 Scripps National Ceramic Invitational, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (catalog).
1977 Ceramic Conjunction Invitational, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalog).
1977 Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (catalog).
1977 Drinking Companions, Part I, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI.
1976 Richard Shaw, Ed Blackburn, Tony Costanza, Red Ekks, John Roloff, CSU Fullerton, CA (catalog).
1976 Works in Clay, University of Akron, Akron, OH (catalog).
1976 Invitational Show, CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA.
1976 Drawing Show, Bradley University, Peoria, Il.
1975 OK Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, (catalog).
1975 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY (catalog).
1975 Clay USA, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC (catalog).
1975 Images of Cups, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
1975 Brand V Ceramic Conjunction, Glendale, CA (catalog).
1974 Clay Images, CSU, Los Angeles, CA (catalog).
1974 Brand IV Ceramic Conjunction, Glendale, CA (catalog).
1974 California Ceramics and Glass, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalog).
1974 Ceramic Invitational, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1974 Faculty Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
1973 Natives of TB-9, Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1973 Group Show, Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1972 Plates, Platters and Bowls Invitational, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho.
1972 Faculty Show, CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA.
1972 Graduate Students from Sac State and UC Davis, Artist’s Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1972 Group Show, Redwood Art Association, Arcata, CA.
1972 Student Show, CSU Humboldt, awarded the “Ceramic Guild Award.”
1971 Two Person Show with Chuck Forsman, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA.
1970 Coffee, Tea and Other Cups, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (catalog).
1970 The Davis Bunch, Artist Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
Selected Writings/Publications:
Ceramics: Geologic Lens-Systemic Practice, International Ceramic Symposium - Ceramics & Ecology Catalog, World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Icheon, Republic of Korea, 2009, pg 38-42.
Devonian Shale: Aquifer I, limited edition of 4 books, FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2001
Devonian Shale: Aquifer I, The NCECA Journal 2002, v. XXIII, NCECA, Erie, CO, 2003, pg. 38-40.
Expanded Landscapes: NCECA Journal 2009, NCECA Publications, Vol. 30, pg. 36-37, 114.
Kiln Projects, Artery Magazine, February/March, 1983, pg. 6.
Kiln Projects: Material and Process Experiments in/of the Landscape, unpublished essay, 2004 https://www.johnroloff.com/kiln.proj_text04b.html
Making the Connection, San Francisco Art Institute Magazine, summer, 2005, pg. 10-11.
Organic Logic, New Observations Magazine, #127, New York, NY, co-editor with Mark Bartlett, fall/winter 2000.
Photo Works 1981-2019, Anglim Gilbert Gallery and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA 2020
Project: Metafossil, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2013.
Project: Oculus, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2009.
Project: Land Kilns, Anglim Gilbert Gallery and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA 2018.
Rapson Group/Site Index, Anglim Gilbert Gallery and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA 2018.
San Francisco Wharf Complex, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2013.
Sentient Terrains, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2014.
The Sea Within the Land/Laramide, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2011.
Untitled Essay, Ten Years Later, exhibition, catalog, CSU, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, 1987.
Untitled Essay, 51 Million BTU’s, documentation catalog, 1990.
Venice Substructure Complex, limited edition, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy, 2016.
Selected Internet Presence:
Anglim Gilbert Gallery (formerly Gallery Paule Anglim): http://www.anglimgilbertgallery.com/Roloff.html
Anthropocene Projections: http://anthroposcenemanifesto.com/2015/07/john-roloff-anthropocene-projections/
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/past_acquisitions.cfm
John Roloff Papers, 1980-2002: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/john-roloff-papers-11587
Oral history interview with John Roloff, 2009 August 17-18:
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-john-roloff-15703
http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=4107
Art Cyclopedia: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/roloff_john.html
Art in Context: http://www.artincontext.org/artist/r/john_roloff/images.htm
The Edge: John Roloff – Paradise Reconsidered: http://blog.novedge.com/2014/09/the-edge-john-roloff.html
The-Artists.Org: http://the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=5E606B00-D087-4290-AC32A9BBE9F2C1FE
Capp St Project / San Francisco, CA / Organic Logic: Howard Fried, John Roloff. Mark Thompson / http://500cappstreet.org/current-exhibitions/organic-logic/
Capp St Project / San Francisco, CA / Organic Logic Artist Talk #1 / Jim Melchert, John Roloff, Stephanie Syjuco / http://500cappstreet.org/events/organic-logic-artist-talk-1/
Djerassi Resident Artist Program: http://www.djerassi.org/sculpture/vanishingship.html
Fung Collaboratives/Artlantic/Lance Fung Gallery, NYC/Snow Show/Holocene Passage:
http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/projects/past/artlantic/artists/john-roloff-2/description/
http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/ny-gallery/artists/john-roloff/exhibition-description/
http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/projects/past/the-snow-show-finland/artists/john-roloff-diller-scofidio/description/
http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/projects/past/holocene/description/
Future Stratigraphy / Sydney College of the Arts, Exhibition/Master Class / Symposium, 2016
http://sydney.edu.au/sca/research/new-materialism/stratigraphy_events.shtml#masterclass
Future Stratigraphy Keynote Lecture: John Roloff / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJs5XhllFwY&list=PLzhYMSyUQO6Snbw3Q06sJT5HYjjW4aHLZ&index=2
Green Museum: http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-52.html
John Roloff: Thoughts as Material, ‘Remodel’ Conference, Claremont Graduate University, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABLjV0LKj7A
Le Millieu du Monde (The Middle of the World) / Staten Island Ferry artwork: http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/klotz_roloff.shtml
Organic Logic: http://www.globalpostmark.net/OrganicLogic/terrane.html
New Materialism in Contemporary Art / Future Stratigraphy: Masterclass with John Roloff / https://newmaterialismincontemporaryart.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/future-stratigraphy-masterclass-with-john-roloff/
New Materialism in Contemporary Art / Future Stratigraphy Symposium / https://newmaterialismincontemporaryart.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/future-stratigraphy-symposium/
San Francisco Art Institute: http://www.sfai.edu
Scarecrows – Metamatic: taf - http://theartfoundation.metamatic.gr/EN/Event/3727/SCARECROWS/
City of Seattle, I-5 Colonnade Project: http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/proparks/projects/i-5openspace.htm / http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/250696_park03.html
SINK: Ethereal Walkway for a Calm Sea: http://dev.hypercyclestudio.com/sink/site/#/artistic/_john_roloff
SOMA / Public Art and Architcture from Around the World –
http://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/tag/soma/page/2
Stengle, Barbara, John Roloff’s Thyroid Portraits, Knights: http://www.csuchico.edu/art/contrapposto/contrapposto99/pages/essays/themeaboutexh/stengleroloff.html
The Snow Show: http://www.thesnowshow.net/gallery/realizations/dillerscof-roloff.php
Videography:
2017 Expanded Ceramics/Earth Reversal/Peat Excavation, single channel HD, color / 00:03:37 https://vimeo.com/211202549
2016 Study: Hawkesbury Facies I, single channel HD, color / 00:04:22 / https://vimeo.com/191903876
2016 Magma Chambers (Corvus/Orchidacaea/Kolumbus), single channel HD, color / 00:02:36 / https://vimeo.com/182937693
2015 San Francisco Wharf Complex / American Industrial Center Carbonate Group, single channel HD, color, 05:51:06 / https://vimeo.com/138269748
2014 San Francisco Wharf Complex, single channel HD, color, 00:17:00 / https://vimeo.com/105900403
2013 Étude Atlantis, single channel HD, color, sound, 00:03:38 / https://vimeo.com/106083377
2013 Seventh Climate (Paradise Reconsidered), Solid Concept, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, 00:05:00 single channel HD, color/audio / https://vimeo.com/105946219
2012 The Land within the Sea II / NCECA Conference, Seattle, WA / single channel HD, color / https://vimeo.com/137668234
2008 Paradise Reconsidered (Projects and Research) / Osher Fellowship Talk, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, single channel, color, sound / https://vimeo.com/137688262
2008 Yerba Buena Complex: Facies I; Yerba Buena Complex: Facies II; Yerba Buena Complex: Facies III, three channel video installation, color, sound, 00:45:00.
2008 Yerba Buena Complex: Facies I-III, single channel video, color, sound / 00:22:00.
2004 Between Object and System I, single channel video, sound, 00:09:00 / https://vimeo.com/106033687
1996 Pitzer Project: a Prototype System for the Production and Distribution of Ancient Sunlight, single channel video, color, sound, https://vimeo.com/139406136
1994 Gradient, single channel video, color, sound, 00:06:00.
1994 Deluge (Radiant Sleep/Helium Ash), single channel video, color, sound, 00:20:00 / https://vimeo.com/139406135.
1992 Tyler Project: Metabolism and Mortality/O2, single channel video, color, sound, 00:14:30.
1991 51 Million BTU’s/Metabolism Study/C3H8, e-, NaCl, single channel video projection, salt crystal screen installation, color, sound, 00:47:00, v. II, 00:23:30.
1990 51 Million BTU’s, 3 channel video installation, color, sound, 00:26:00.
Awards/Fellowships:
2013 Americans for the Arts, Public Art Network, 2013 Year in Review, John Roloff: Artlantic/Etude Atlantis.
2010-12 New Frontiers, NEA Grant, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA - Pier 15/17 Research/proposals
2008-09 Bernard Osher Fellowship, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2008 National Science Foundation Grant, Exploratorium, Ft. Mason Research/Proposals.
2002 Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design, NY Art Commission (with Werner Klotz)
1990 Visual Arts Award, California Arts Council
1986 Visual Arts Award, National Endowment for the Arts
1983 Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
1980 Visual Arts Award, National Endowment for the Arts
1977 Visual Arts Award, National Endowment for the Arts
Museum/Private Collections:
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY
University Art Museum, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Museum of American Crafts, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Lannon Foundation, Palm Beach, FL
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
1440 Multiversity, Scotts Valley, CA
Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Cornell University, Ithica, NY
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
Colorado Collection, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Viart Corporation
Robert Pfannebecker, Lancaster, PA
Hootkin Collection, New York, NY
Rene deRosa Collection, Napa, CA
Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA.
Fung/Talley Collection, Carmel, Woodside, CA
(Numerous additional private collections)
Public Art Collections (Extant):
Burlingame, CA
City of Sacramento, CA
CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA.
Elkhorn Slough Estuarine Reserve, Moss Landing, CA
Hartford School Of Art, Hartford, CT
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA.
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NY, NY
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
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Design Team/Collaboration Experience:
2017 Oakland Estuary Channel Project, Oakland, CA (originally with Lewis DeSoto and Sasaki and Assoc., 2006-2008).
2002-04 The Snow Show, Kemi, Finland, with Liz Diller and Rick Scofidio, NY, an exhibition of 30 artist/architect collaborative teams constructing snow and ice architecture.
2003-10 Site Index, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, collaboration with Rebecca Krinke, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, UMN.
2001-04 Staten Island Ferries/New Kennedy Class, NYC, NY, with the German artist Werner Klotz.
1999 Blue Portal, 880 Underpass, Oakland, CA, project finalist with Dan Dodt, electrical engineer and owner, Dodt Electrical, San Francisco, CA.
1993 Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain (Seasons Of The Sea ‘Adrift’), Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA, with MGA Partners Architects, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.
1992 Sears Business Park, Chicago, IL, project finalist With Homart Development, Co, Johnson, Johnson & Roy, ASLA, and other artists.
1992 Fragment: The Hidden Sea (Island Of Refuge), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, with Tom Richman and Associates, ASLA.
1991 Embarcadero Promenade, San Francisco, CA, project finalist with Ed Haag and Associates, ASLA.
1987 Inspiration Point, Newport Harbor, CA, project finalist with George Hargraves and Associates, ASLA.
1987 Todos Santos Park, Concord, CA, project finalist with George Hargraves and Associates, ASLA.
1986 Isla De Umunnum (Island of the Hummingbirds), Elkhorn Slough National Esturine Reserve, Moss Landing, CA. A collaboration with artist, Heather McGill, reserve scientists, CA Department of Fish and Game and local native plant societies.
1985 Candlestick Point Recreation Area, San Francisco, CA, artist/landscape architect design team for master plan of park development and integrated individual projects. With Martha Swartz, ASLA, California State Park personnel and other artists.
Lectures, Panels, Visiting Artist Positions:
2022 Synapse 15: Intersections of Art and Science, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH (artist, architect, scientist panel, moderated by Matthew Kolodziej).
2022 The Ground We Grew From (Jim Melchert, Richard Shaw, Bob Brady, John Roloff), B. Sakata Garo, Gallery, Sacramento, CA, NCECA 2022 (moderated by Coreen Abbott)
2019 Forrest/Roloff Collaborations, co-lecture with Neil Forrest, NCECA 2019, Minneapolis, MN.
2018 Sentient Terrains: Land/Sea, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada (presentation and artist panel).
2017 Organic Logic: Artist Talk #1 (Jim Melchert/John Roloff/Stephanie Syjuco), 500 Capp Project, San Francisco, CA (artist panel).
2017 Sentient Terrains/Cascadia, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (public lecture, visiting artist, site work).
2016 Sentient Terrains IV, Future Stratigraphies, Sydney College of Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia (symposium keynote talk/panel, master class, visiting artist).
2015 Francisco Pinheiro, John Roloff (USA) e Jaume Vanlentines-Álvarez (ESP) // Quarta-feira, 24 de Junho, Carpe Diem, Lisbon, Portugal (Skype - public panel/conversation)
2015 Sentient Terrains III, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (public lecture)
2014 The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. (panel with Ann Agee, Beth Cavener, Judy Moonelis, moderator Paul Sacaridiz).
2013 Sentient Terrains (Selected Projects), Mills College, Oakland, CA (classroom lecture)
2013 Sentient Terrains II, Climate Change Group/Chip Lord, Kadist, San Francisco, CA (invitational lecture)
2013 Thought as Material, ReModel2, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA (public lecture, panel)
2013 Selected Projects: SF Wharf and Related Proj., Sherwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA (invitational lecture)
2012 Sentient Terrains: Selected Work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (public lecture)
2012 The Land Within the Sea III, CCACA Conference, Davis, CA (public lecture)
2012 Trans-materiality/Notes, ReModel1, CCA, San Francisco, CA (public lecture, panel)
2012 The Land Within the Sea II, NCECA Conference, Seattle WA, (public lecture).
2011 The Fractal Sublime/Laramide, “Ceramics as Time-based Medium” panel, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (public panel).
2011 The Sea Within the Land: Selected Projects, v 1.2, “Open Art: Artists and the Environment” panel, Crocker
Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (public panel).
2011 The Land Within Sea, v1.0, California College of Art, Oakland, CA (public lecture)
2011 Uncertainty of the Expanded Field – Talk and Discussion on West Coast Sculpture, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (panel)
2010 Edges of Light, Benicia Art Center, Benicia, CA (panel)
2010 The Sea Within the Land, v1.1, Ohio University, Athens, OH (public lecture)
2010 The Sea Within the Land, v1.0, University of Akron, Akron, OH (public lecture)
2010 Synapse Charrette on Water, Synapse Center for Art and Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH (visiting artist)
2010 Geologic Lens: Conversations/Analogies, ‘Sculpture, Society and Environment,’ International Sculpture Center, 2010 Conference: ‘What is Sculpture in the 21st Century,’ London, UK (public lecture and panel).
2010 Geologic Lens: Conversations/Analogies, ‘Transformative Processes in Environmental Art Panel,’ KALA, Berkeley, CA (public lecture and panel).
2009 Ceramic and Related Works, v1.5, Sonoma State University, Rhonert Park, CA (public lecture).
2009 Ceramic and Related Works, v1.4, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (visiting artist, public lecture).
2009 Ceramics: Geologic Lens/Systemic Practice, 5th International Ceramic Symposium - Ceramics & Ecology, Icheon, Republic of Korea (lecture and panel).
2009 Ceramic and Related Works, v1.3, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (public lecture).
2009 Perils in the Sublime, NCECA Conference, Phoenix, AZ (lecture and panel)
2009 San Francisco Wharf Complex and Selected Work, ‘Meeting of the Minds’ series, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2008 Pier Research and Concepts, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (Osher Fellowship lecture)
2008 Paradise Reconsidered, Projects and Research, v1.4, CSSSA, CalArts, Valencia (visiting artist/workshop, public lecture).
2008 Paradise Reconsidered, Projects and Research, v1.3, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (lecture, Ft Mason, NSF Grant project consultant/commission).
2008 Paradise Reconsidered, Projects and Research, v1.2, UC Santa Barbara, Media Arts and, Technology and Art Dept., (visiting artist, lecture at both venues).
2007 Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, (consultant for new facility at Pier 15/17)
2007 Paradise Reconsidered, Projects and Research, v1.1, California College of the Arts, ‘Object Agents: Contemporary Sculpture and the Social Life of Objects,’ San Francisco, CA (lecture, visiting artist).
2007 Ceramics and Related Works, v1.1, California College of the Arts, Ceramics Dept., Oakland, CA (lecture).
2007 Paradise Reconsidered, Recent Projects and Research, v 1.0, SFAI Faculty Colloquium, (colloquium presentation/lecture)
2006 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska (visiting artist, lecture)
2006 High 5 Respite, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA (panel, lecture)
2006 Mills College, Oakland, CA (lecture)
2005 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, (lecture, visiting artist)
2005 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Tech Sublime Symposium (panel)
2004 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, CALA, Site Index exhibition, (ground breaking, lecture)
2004 The Snow Show Symposium, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland (panel)
2003 Washington University, St. Louis, MO (lecture, visiting artist)2003
2003 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Graduate Lecture Series (lecture)
2002 California College of Arts and Crafts, Dept. of Architecture, San Francisco, CA (visiting critic)
2002 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, CALA building opening (lecture, exhibition)
2002 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (lecture)
2002 NCECA Conference, Kansas City, MO (panel)
2001 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (lecture, visiting artist)
2001 California State University, San Francisco, Graduate Dept. (lecture)
2001 California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA (lecture)
2001 Alfred University, Alfred, NY (panel, Fluency exhibition)
2000 University of Washington, Seattle, WA (lecture, New Prometheans exhibition)
2000 California State University, Fresno (lecture)
2000 Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM (lecture)
2000 Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID (visiting artist, may have been 1999?).
1999 University of Washington, Seattle, WA (lecture)
1999 California State University, San Francisco, Graduate Dept. (lecture)
1999 California State University, San Francisco, Photo Dept. (lecture)
1999 Mills College, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1999 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (lecture)
1998 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (lecture)
1998 UC Davis, Landscape Architecture Department. (lecture)
1997 Re-inventing the Terrain, CSU Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA (lecture, visiting artist, panel)
1997 California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art ‘97, Davis, CA (lecture)
1996 Organic Logic, Moltkerei Werkstadtt, Cologne, Germany (lecture)
1996 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA (lecture)
1996 Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburg, PA (lecture, visiting artist)
1996 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture and artist symposium)
1996 Pitzer College, Claremont CA, (visiting artist)
1994 A Radical Public? Towards an Informed, Educated, “Elitist” Public, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (visiting artist/faculty)
1994 Color in the Shadows, Bay Area Cyber Art, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (artist panel)
1993 Eve Laramee and John Roloff, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (joint lecture)
1993 Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA (artist panel)
1992 Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA (visiting artist)
1992 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, NCECA Conference (lecture)
1991 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (lecture)
1991 University of Southern Main, Portland, ME (lecture)
1990 Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (lecture)
1990 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (visiting artist)
1990 Haida Project, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (panel)
1990 CSU Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (lecture)
1990 Materials from the Earth: Developing a Dialog, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (visiting artist/faculty)
1990 UC Davis, Davis, CA (lecture)
1990 The Map is Not the Territory, NCECA, Cincinnati, OH (panel).
1990 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (lecture)
1989 Off-Site, Artists in Response to the Environment, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (panel)
1989 California State University Humboldt, Arcata, CA (artist in residence)
1989 Arvada Art Center, Arvada, CO (artist in residence)
1988 Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT (artist in residence)
1988 Kilns in Clay – An Investigation into Structure, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (visiting artist/faculty)
1987 University of Colorado, Boulder CO (lecture)
1987 University of Miami, Miami, FL (lecture, workshop)
1987 California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA (lecture)
1987 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1986 San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (lecture)
1986 San Francisco Arts Commission, A Symposium on Public Art, San Francisco, CA (panel)
1986 California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (lecture)
1986 Moore College, Philadelphia, PA (lecture)
1986 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (lecture)
1986 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, (lecture, workshop)
1986 University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (lecture)
1985 Sacramento Municipal Arts Commission, Sacramento, CA (public art selection panel)
1985 University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV (artist in residence)
1985 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (lecture)
1985 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (lecture)
1985 University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA (lecture)
1985 California State University San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (lecture)
1984 Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art, Tiburon CA (visiting artist)
1984 Pewabic Pottery, Detroit MI, (visiting artist)
1984 Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA (residency)
1984 California State University Hayward, Hayward, CA (panel)
1984 San Francisco Arts Commission, A Symposium on Controversial Public Art, San Francisco, CA (panel)
1984 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1983 Port of San Francisco, Sculpture on the Bay, San Francisco, CA (visiting artist)
1983 Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada (visiting artist)
1982 International Sculpture Conference, Oakland, CA (participating artist)
1982 NCECA Conference, California State University, San Jose, San Jose, CA (panel)
1982 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1981 Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT (lecture)
1981 CSU Sonoma, Rhonert Park, CA (lecture)
1981 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1980 University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (lecture)
1980 California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA (lecture)
1980 University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (visiting artist)
1980 University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA (lecture)
1980 California State University San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (lecture)
1980 NCECA Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (panel)
1980 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (visiting artist)
1980 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1979 Memphis Clay, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN (visiting artist, workshop)
1979 Mills College, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1979 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1979 Pitzer College, Claremont CA, (lecture)
1979 University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (visiting artist)
1978 University of Montana, Missoula, MT (lecture)
1978 Vail Institute for Summer Studies, Vail, CO (visiting artist)
1978 University of Washington, Seattle, WA (lecture, workshop)
1978 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA (lecture)
1977 Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL (lecture)
1977 Vail Institute for Summer Studies, Vail, CO (visiting artist)
1977 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (lecture)
1977 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (lecture)
1977 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (lecture)
1976 California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (lecture)
1976 California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (lecture)
1976 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (lecture)
1975 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (lecture)
1975 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (lecture)
1975 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (lecture)
1974 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (lecture)
Education:
American River Junior College, 1965-1966
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 1966-1970, double major, Geology & Art, BA Art
California State University, Humboldt, Arcata, CA, 1971-1973, MA Art
Teaching:
Professor Emeritus, Sculpture/Ceramic Department, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2017-present
Professor, Sculpture/Ceramic Department, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1973-74, 1978-2017,
Department Chair, 2003-2013, Fall 2017, Area Head, 2015-Spring 2017.
Mills College, Oakland, CA, Instructor, part-time (concurrent with SFAI), 1980-1987, 1988-1991.
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1987-88 (on leave from SFAI).
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1974-1978.
Graduate Instructor, CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA, 1972-73
Instructor, Woodland Art Center, Woodland, CA 1971
Instructor, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA 1969-70
Represented By:
Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA 1975-1978
Fuller-Goldeen/Gross, San Francisco, CA 1978-1990
Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY, 1996-2003
Anglim/Trimble Gallery (formerly: Gallery Paule Anglim/Anglim Gilbert), San Francisco, CA, 1990-present