Matthew Marks Gallery

Ron Nagle

  • Born: San Francisco, 1939

    Education: San Francisco State College, B.A. 1961

    Currently lives and works in San Francisco.

  • One-Person Exhibitions

    2023

    Conniption, Modern Art, London (catalogue)
    Extraterrestrials
    , Modern Art, London (catalogue)
    Fast of Words
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2021

    Necessary Obstacles, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2020

    Handsome Drifter
    , University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (catalogue)
    Lincolnshire Squire, Modern Art, London (catalogue)

    2019

    Getting to No
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
    Euphoric Recall, Fridericianum, Kassel
    Midnight Stroll, The Perimeter, London
    Nocturn Around, Vienna Secession

    2017

    Ice Breaker
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
    Amended Testimony, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London (catalogue)

    2015

    Five O’Clock Shadow
    , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Chewing Gum Monuments, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (catalogue)

    2014

    Peripheral Cognition
    , San Diego Museum of Art (catalogue)

    2012

    Odd Ball,
    Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels (catalogue)

    2011

    Hamiltoe
    , Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    Sleep Study, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris; Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels (catalogue)

    2010

    Sculpture
    , James Harris Gallery, Seattle
    Spit Shine, James Kelly Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

    2009

    Bookends, Weeromas, and Flareware
    , George Adams Gallery, New York

    2008

    Duo Mysto
    , Don Ed Hardy & Ron Nagle,Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    Ron Nagle is a Sweetheart, Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels
    New Sculpture, George Adams Gallery, New York

    2006

    Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX
    Garth Clark Gallery, New York

    2005

    Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, San Jose State University, CA
    Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

    2004

    Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

    2003

    Dolphin, Kansas City, MO
    Garth Clark Gallery, New York

    2002

    Variety Show
    , Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles

    2001

    Garth Clark Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2000

    Perimeter Gallery, Chicago

    1999

    Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    Garth Clark Gallery, New York

    1998

    Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

    1997

    Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI

    1996

    Garth Clark Gallery, New York
    Byron Cohen / Lennie Berkowitz Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
    Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI

    1995

    Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
    Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York

    1993

    A Survey Exhibition 1958–1993
    , Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA. Traveled to Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue)

    1992

    Bella Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
    Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento

    1991

    Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

    1989

    Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

    1988

    Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

    1985

    Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

    1984

    Quay Gallery, San Francisco
    Betsy Rosenfeld Gallery, Chicago

    1983

    Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
    Delahunty Gallery, Dallas

    1982

    Quay Gallery, San Francisco
    Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis

    1981

    Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

    1979

    Currents 4
    , Saint Louis Art Museum (catalogue)
    Matrix Gallery I, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley

    1978

    Adaline Kent Award Exhibition
    , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)

    1977

    Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI

    1975

    Quay Gallery, San Francisco

    1968

    Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles
    Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2023

    Reveal: Recent Acquisitions 2020–2023, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
    Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

    2022

    California Clay: The Big Bang, Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Clarinda, IA

    2021

    The Flames: The Age of Ceramics, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (catalogue)

    2020

    Artifices Instables:
    Histoires de Céramiques, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco — Villa Sauber (catalogue)

    2019

    Closer Look: Intimate-Scale, Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
    , Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
    Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2018

    Handheld
    , The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
    Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect, Le Consortium, Dijon, France. Traveled to Aspen Art Museum, CO

    2017

    That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920–Today
    , Tate St Ives, United Kingdom
    Small Gifts from Big Donors – Part 3, Racine Art Museum, WI
    Something Living, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2016

    Lineage: Mentorship & Learning
    , American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
    Ceramix: From Rodin to Schütte, La Maison Rouge, Paris
    The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Lighting the Fire: Ceramics Education in the American West, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT

    2015

    Outside the Lines: Color Across the Collections
    , Newark Museum
    The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

    2014

    Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Eagle Collection,
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Traveled to Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Canton Museum of Art, OH (catalogue)
    Color Shift, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
    Cross Section: Recent Acquisitions, Mills College Museum, Oakland, CA
    Ron Nagle / George Ohr: Look Closer, Look Again, George Adams Gallery, New York

    2013

    Burn These Eyes Captain and Throw Them in the Sea!,
    Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul
    Grapevine, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
    The Encyclopedia Palace, Venice Biennale

    2012

    Le monde comme volonté et comme papier peint
    , Le Consortium, Dijon, France
    Automaton, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
    Légèreté?, Maison Particulière, Brussels

    2011

    Everything You Can Imagine is Real
    , Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
    Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
    Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
    Paul Clay, Salon 94, New York
    Contemporary Ceramics, Danese Gallery, New York
    Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    2010

    TEFAF Showcase
    , Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Maastricht, Netherlands

    2009

    Electric Mud
    , Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston (catalogue)
    Get with the Program, George Adams Gallery, New York
    Not New Work: Vincent Fecteau Selects from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Down to Earth, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium
    Dirt on Delight, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

    2008

    The Scholar's Eye: Contemporary Ceramics from the Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection
    , Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    2007

    Moon Proof Madness
    , Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
    California Collections: Start Here, Oakland Museum of California
    The Enigmatic Object, George Adams Gallery, New York
    Craft in America: Expanding Traditions, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR

    2006

    One of a Kind – The Studio Craft Movement, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    (The coffee was very slow in coming.) An Exhibition of Cups, Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI
    A Ceramic Legacy: The Stephanie Janssen and R. Michael Johns Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe (catalogue)
    Ceram-a-Rama: California Dreamin', Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe

    2005

    Artist / Teacher / Artist
    , Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, CA

    2004

    25th Anniversary Exhibition
    , University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

    2003

    Postmodern Ceramics
    , Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
    The Artful Teapot, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto

    2002

    Ceramic Modernism
    , Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
    Poetics of Clay, Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki

    2001

    USA Clay
    , Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
    West of Westermann, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York

    2000

    Paper Cuts
    , Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    Made in California: Art, Image and Identity 1900–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

    1999

    Bay Area Now II
    , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (catalogue)
    Eye Candy, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

    1998

    SOFA – 1998 NYC
    , Park Avenue Armory, New York (catalogue)
    Clay into Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)
    More than Clay: The Toki Collection of Ceramics, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA. Traveled to Richmond Art Center, VA (catalogue)
    Points of Origin: Sources of Academic Influence, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York

    1997

    L'Chaim! A Kiddush Cup Invitational
    , Jewish Museum, San Francisco
    Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
    The Renwick at 25, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
    REVOLUTION, 314 W. Institute Place, Chicago
    Abstract Expressionist Ceramics: Myth and Reality Revisited, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
    The Third Annual Exposition of SOFA: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Coconut Grove Conventions Center, Miami
    Celebrating American Craft: American Craft 1975–1995, Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen (catalogue)
    Homage to George Herriman, curated by Bill Berkson, Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco
    The Minimalist Object, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York

    1996

    Made in Kent
    , Kent State University School of Art Gallery, OH
    The Fine Art of Craft and Sculpture, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
    California Funk, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
    SUM: Selections and Introductions, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI
    Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
    Fin de Siecle II, (Reinterpreting the 70's), Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
    Night of 101 Cups, Benefit for the Ceramic Arts Foundation, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
    Illustrious History: 1871–Present, Montgomery Gallery and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
    Sampling, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    East Bay Ceramic Artists, University Art Gallery, California State University East Bay, Hayward
    Clay: Recent Ceramic Sculpture, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA

    1995

    Discards
    , Haines Gallery, San Francisco
    Spokane Art School and Momentum Gallery, WA

    1994

    Night of the Mosque
    , Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
    Summer Group Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    Commodities, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
    Bay Area Ceramics, Bank of America Corporation Headquarters, San Francisco
    Shrines, Symbols and Cherished Objects, Fuller Museum of Art, Boston
    Here and Now, Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections, Oakland Museum of California
    Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
    Group Show from the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
    The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
    Ceramic Sculpture, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

    1993

    93 Holiday Greetings and Wishes for 94
    , Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York

    1992

    Contemporary Uses of Wax & Encaustic
    , Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA

    1990

    Functional Fantasy
    , Transamerica, San Francisco
    Rituals of Tea XI, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
    Vessels: From Use to Symbol, American Craft Museum, New York
    Buildings with Clay, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland
    Ceramics for the Marer Collection, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, CA
    Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960's: Then and Now, 1990, Braunstein / Quay Gallery, San Francisco

    1989

    Surface and Form
    , National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore (catalogue)
    American Clay Artists, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia (catalogue)

    1988

    Greenwich House Permanent Collection
    , Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York
    Expression in Color, Ceramics, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit
    From the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
    OSO Bay Biennial, Corpus Christi State University, TX

    1987

    American Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical
    , American Craft Museum, New York. Traveled to Denver Art Museum; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (catalogue)
    Bronze, Plaster and Polyester, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia (catalogue)
    Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase, Seattle Art Museum. Traveled to Portland Art Museum, OR; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Gibson Gallery, Potsdam College, NY; Tucson Museum of Art; and Santa Barbara Museum, CA (catalogue)
    Gallery Group Exhibition, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
    The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK. Traveled to Oakland Museum of California; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center; Orlando Museum of Art, FL; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
    American Ceramics Now: The 27th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. Traveled to American Craft Museum, New York; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; and Birmingham Museum of Art, AL (catalogue)
    Shoebox Show, Art Store Gallery, Oakland, CA

    1986

    American Potters Today
    , Victoria & Albert Museum, London (catalogue)
    Art Department Faculty Retrospective Exhibition, Mills College, Oakland, CA
    Abstract Energy Now, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
    New Views, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    Featured Artists of N.E.C.A. 1986, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio
    Pacific Connections, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University (catalogue)
    Sculpture, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo

    1985

    Fired Clay: Vessel and Image
    , Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis
    M. Lee Fatherree Photographs of Artists, Concourse Gallery, Bank of America World
    Headquarters, San Francisco
    Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980, Oakland Museum of California (catalogue)
    Organic Abstractions, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
    Ceramics: An American Survey, Museo de la Cerámica, Barcelona (catalogue)
    Past Models, Future Shapes, Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum, ID
    Clay, Dayton Art Institute, OH (catalogue)
    California Sends Her Best, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
    Surface / Function / Shape: Selections from the Earl Millard Collection, University Center Gallery, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (catalogue)
    The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)

    1984

    The Dilexi Years: 1958–1970
    , Oakland Museum of California (catalogue)
    Preview, Sarah Squeri Gallery, Cincinnati
    Contemporary Ceramic Vessels: Two Los Angeles Collections (The Betty Asher Collection The
    Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection), Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
    A Passionate Vision: Selections from the Daniel Jacobs Collection, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)

    1983

    Selections of Contemporary Drawings
    , Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco
    California Clayworks: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    California Clay in the Rockies, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
    Who's Afraid of American Pottery?, Museum of Contemporary Art, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
    Contemporary Clay Sculpture: The Daniel Jacobs Collection, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY

    1982

    Northern California Art of the Sixties
    , de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA (catalogue)
    American Clay II, Meredith Contemporary Art, Baltimore (catalogue)
    Twenty American Artists: Sculpture 1982, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
    Miniatures '82, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

    1981

    Polychrome
    , Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
    California Innovations, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton. Traveled to Palm
    Springs Desert Museum, CA (catalogue)
    Centering on Contemporary Clay, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
    Clay, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence

    1980

    Sculpture in California 1975–1980
    , San Diego Museum of Art
    Betty Asher's Cups, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
    The Vessel, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas (catalogue)
    Continental Clay Connection, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
    The Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia (catalogue)
    A Century of Ceramics in the U.S., Everson Museum, New York
    West Coast Ceramics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)

    1978

    Foundations in Clay
    , Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art

    1977

    Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
    , William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (catalogue)

    1976

    American Crafts
    , 1976, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)

    1975

    Super Mud
    , Carborundum Museum of Ceramics, Niagara Falls, NY

    1974

    California Ceramics and Glass
    , Oakland Museum of California (catalogue)
    Second Annual Cup Show, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
    Fred and Mary Marer Collection, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (catalogue)

    1973

    Thinking, Touching, Drinking Cup Show
    , Invitational Kyoto (catalogue)

    1972

    Cup Show
    , David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
    A Decade of Ceramic Art: The Joseph Monsen Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art (catalogue)

    1971

    Coffee, Tea & Other Cups
    , Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York

    1970

    Teacups, Teapots, Gorillas, Etc.
    , Moore College of Art, Philadelphia (catalogue)
    Objects: U.S.A., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (catalogue)

    1968

    American Craftsmen Invitational
    , Henry Gallery, Seattle (catalogue)

    1966

    Abstract Expressionist Ceramics
    , University of California, Irvine. Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Art (catalogue)

    1965

    New Ceramic Forms
    , Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York

    1963

    Work in Clay by Six Artists
    , San Francisco Museum of Art

    1962

    Three Potters
    , Lewis Vidal Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA