United States Potters Association Prize, 15th National Ceramic Exhibition, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, NY
1951
Bachelor of Science in Applied Art, Montana State College, Bozeman, MT
1952
Master of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1953
Abraham & Straus General Award
1955
Gold Medal, International Ceramic Exhibition, Cannes, France
1959
Silver Medal, International Ceramic Exhibit, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ostend, Belgium
1959
Rodin Museum Prize in Sculpture, 1st Paris Biennial, Paris, France
1963
Ford Foundation Purchase Award
1971
Fellowship Grant: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
1984
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
1986
Gold Medal, American Crafts Council, New York, NY
1992
Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1997
Masters of the Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance
1997
Distinguished Artists Award, Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association
1997
Ceramic Lifetime Achievement of the Year Award, Friends of Contemporary Ceramics
1997
NCECA Award, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
1998
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, NY
2000
Died: in Bowling Green, OH
Exhibitions
2001
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo) Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA(solo) Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA (solo)
2000
Living With Form: The Horn Collection of Contemporary Craft, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Cross-Currents in Modern Art: A Tribute to Peter Selz, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Art Kansas City, MO (solo) Gallerymateria, Scottsdale, AZ (solo) Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO (solo)
1999
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Mussi Artworks Foundry & Gallery, Berkeley, CA (solo) History and Highlights: The Art Gallery's Collection, The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, UNH Durham, NH The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
1998
Art From Around the Bay: Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) Anderson Ranch Artists, Evelyn Siegel Gallery, Forth Worth, TX NCECA 198 Honors & Fellows Exhibition, Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, Forth Worth, TX
1997
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo) University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (solo) Abstract Expressionist Ceramics: Myth and Reality Revisited 1954-1966, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth Century Decorative Arts, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Montreal, Canada
1996
Collection Highlights: 1945 to the Present, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Generations: The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
1995
Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Andover Alumni Collectors, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Retrospective, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo) Retrospective, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (solo)
1994
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY Kunstrernes Hus, Saltholmsgade, Denmark Museum of Ceramics, The Grimmerhus, Denmark The Archie Bray Foundation: A Ceramic Tradition, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1993
Braunstein/Quay Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL Kunst Industri Museet, Oslo, Norway Lillehammer Bys Malerisamling, Lillehammer Bys Malerisamling, Lillehammer, Norway The Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation, 1951-1993, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Visions II, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA Essentials, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY Clay 1993, A National Survey, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA Vessels: Constructed/De-Constructed, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA Hordaland Artists Center, Hordaland Artists Center, Bergen, Norway RAM Gallery, RAM Gallery, Oslo, Norway Nordenfeljeldske Applied Art Museum, Nordenfeljeldske Applied Art Museum, Ironheim, Norway
1992
Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, NY Louis Newman Galleries, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA (solo) Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1991
Twining Gallery, New York, NY Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) Recent Fires; Contemporary American Ceramics 1940-1990, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960's: Then and Now, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
1989
Surreal Ceramics, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 30 Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA 3 Sculptors: New Work, Dorothy Dehner, Peter Voulkos, Claire Zeisler, Claire Zeisler, , Twining Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Peter Seltz Selects, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Counter Visions: Pioneers in Bay Area Art, San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA Thomas Segal Gallery Boston, MA (solo) More Than Clay: The Toki Collection of Ceramics, Richmond Art Center Richmond, CA Twining Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1987
Braunstein/Quay Gallery San Francisco, CA (solo) The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa, OK Images Gallery, Sun Valley, ID Contemporary American Ceramicws, National Museum of Modern Art Seoul, Korea
1986
Braunstein Gallery San Francisco, CA Four Californians: Sculpture by Robert Brady, Tony Costanzo, Richard Shaw and Peter Voulkos, Robert Brady, To, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C. West Coast Clay, Civic Arts Gallery Walnut Creek, CA Voulkos & Co: The Vessel Redefined 1950-1960, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1985
Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL (solo)
1984
Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL (solo) Clay: 1984, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) Osobay Biennial, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, TX American Sculpture: Three Decades, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Beauties & Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY SF-LA, Gille Mansillon Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Clay Vessels, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1983
Pt. of View, Tokyo, Japan Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY Early Works, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA Masters in Clay, American Art, Inc., Atlanta, GA
1982
Two Person Exhibit, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (solo) Contemporary Clay, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA Peter's Valley Anagama, Greenwich House New York, NY Prime Evidence, Exhibit A Gallery Evanston, IL Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1981
Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL (solo) Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL (solo) Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1980
Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo) Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS (solo) Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA Sculpture in California, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Matter, Memory, Meaning, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
1979
California Clay, Florida State University, Tallahasee, FL Century of Clay, The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY Olin Art Gallery, Whitman College, Walla-Walla, WA Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo) Hills Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
1978
Retrospecive Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo) Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL (solo) First Invitational Ceramic Sculpture Exhibit, North Illinois University Museum, IL Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1977
Modern Era, Update, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
1976
Yaw Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI (solo) Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI (solo)
1975
Kansas City Institute of Art, Kansas City, MO (solo) Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Sculpture: American Directions 1945-1975, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. Bay Area Sculpture Retrospective I, James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1973
Galarie Allen Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1970
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1969
International Fair, U.S. Pavillion, International Fair, U.S. Pavillion Osaka, Japan David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968
Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1967
Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Sculpture of the 60's, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1966
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, U.C. Irvine, Irvine, CA
1965
White House Festival of the Arts, Washington, D.C. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo) David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964
Gallery Unlimited, San Francisco, CA (solo) Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1963
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA Stanford Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA World's Fair Art Pavilion, Seattle, WA David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1961
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Bonnier's New York, New York, NY Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1960
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
1959
Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA International Ceramics Exhibit, Ostend, Belgiurm 1st Paris Biennale, Museum of Modern Art Paris, France Nordness Gallery, New York, NY Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1958
U.S. Pavilion, Brussels World Fair, Brussels, Belgium Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (solo)
1957
Ceramics & Painting, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1956
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1955
International Exposition of Ceramics, Cannes, France
1954
America House Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1953
Art Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (solo)
1952
America House Gallery, New York, NY Gumps Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Public Collections:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, NC Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Modern Art, Gifu, Japan Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Literature
1996
Peter Voulkos & Jun Kaneko: Shigaraki Project. Nagoya, Japan: Kenji Taki Gallery, 1996 (catalogue)
1995
Slivka, Rose and Karen Tsujimoto. The Art of Peter Voulkos. Kodansha International in collaboration with The Oakland Museum, 1995
