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JAMES MELCHERT b. 1930, New Bremen, OH. Education: University of California at Berkeley (MA, 1961); University of Chicago (MFA, 1957); Princeton University, NJ (AB, 1952). Selected Solo Exhibitions: Kala Institute, Berkeley (1991); Century Association, New York City (1991); Grey Gallery, East Carolina State, Greenville, NC (1990); College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA (1989); University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (1983); San Francisco Art Institute (1981); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1975). Selected Group Exhibitions: Abstract Expressionist Ceramics Revisited, Garth Clark Gallery, New York City (1997); Potent Matter/Pertinent Material, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago Art Institute (1995); Working in Other Dimensions, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock (1994); Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections, Oakland Museum of California (1994); Beyond Boundaries: Art of the Ô60Õs and Ô70Õs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1993); the Projected Image, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1991); The Precious Object, Oakland Museum of California (1987); California Painting and Sculpture, The Object as Poet, The Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC (1977); Words at Liberty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1977). Selected Collections: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Video Archives, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; American Craft Museum, New York City; Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco; Oakland Museum of California; di Rosa Preserve, Napa; University Art Museum, UC, Berkeley; Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Yale University, New Haven, CT. Selected Awards and Honors: Award for Design Collaboration, Boston Society of Architects (1995); Citation for Distinguished Service in the Visual Arts, National Association of Schools of Art and Design (1993); Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, Maryland Institute, College of Art (1993); Member, The Century Association (1989); Award of Distinction, National Council of Art Administrators (1989); Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council (1988); Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, San Francisco Art Institute (1984); National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship (1973); Adeline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute (1970); Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship (1964); Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1961-1962).
Donated by Jim Melchert
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