VIOLA FREY b. 1933, Lodi, CA. Education: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (MFA, 1958); California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland (BFA, 1956); Stockton Delta College, Stockton, CA (1952-1953). Selected Solo Exhibitions: Viola Frey: Plates 1968-1994, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Wichita Center for the Arts, KS (1994); Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (1992); Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA (1992); It’s All Part of the Clay: Viola Frey, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA, Erie Art Museum, PA (1984); Viola Frey, The Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada (1983); Viola Frey: A Retrospective, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, Oakland Museum of California, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, Blanden Memorial Art Gallery, Fort Dodge, IA, St. Louis Museum of Art, MO, Seattle Art Museum, WA and other museums throughout US and Canada. Selected Group Exhibitions: Expanded Visions, Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA (2000); In Celebration, Part II, Highlights from the Collection of Contemporary Sculpture, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA (1998); 20/20: The 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA (1998); The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions, 1992-1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1997); Breaking Barriers, American Craft Museum, New York, NY, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (1994-1996); Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections, Oakland Museum of California (1994); Figures of Contemporary Sculpture (1970-1990): Images of Man, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Daimaru Museum of Art, Osaka-Umeda, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; Okun Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Selected Collections: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, MI; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Oakland Museum of California; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Shigarakii Ceramic Sculptural Park, Japan; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Selected Awards and Honors: National Endowment for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship Grant in Sculpture (1986); Awards of Honor, The Arts Commission of San Francisco, Sculpture (1986); National Endowment for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship Grant (1978).

Donated by Viola Frey, Courtesy Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco