I’m a full-time studio artist based in Atlantic Beach, Florida, specializing in abstract sculptural ceramics. I’ve exhibited extensively worldwide and throughout the United States and was previously represented exclusively by Longstreth Goldberg Contemporary Art (LGCA) beginning in 2004. In 2010, I became the Director of Exhibitions at LGCA, the largest contemporary art gallery in Southwest Florida. You can now also find my work through Ferrari Gallery in Dallas.
BFA Kansas City Art Institute 1995 – Ken Ferguson, Victor Babu, George Timock & Pete Pinnell
MFA Florida State University 1999
2023 58th Premio Faenza, Italy
2020 The Old Anthropocene
2020 Founder and CEO TelevisiAPP
2019 Naples Art Fair, Florida (Juror)
2019 Korean Ceramics Biennale, South Korea
2018 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Taipei, Taiwan (invitation, Ting Ju Shao curator)
2018- 2021 KAJ Gallery Contemporary Art, Naples, Florida (Director)
2018 New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum, Solo Exhibition, Taiwan
2017 Kogei World Competition, Kanazawa, Japan
2017 McKnight Artist Fellowship, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2017 Taoxicuan Jingdezhen, International Studio Artist-in-Residence
2016/ 2017 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, New Taipei City, Gold Prize / Lecture / Residency
2016/ 17 Shangyu Int’l Ceramic Center, Artist-in-Residence
2016 Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics, OH
2015 8th GICB, South Korea – Special Prize
2014 Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board- New Money Systems Board / Media & Arts Board
2013 National Art Encounter 2012/13, Von Lebig Art Center, Naples, FL
2013 62nd Florida Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL
2012 Life Death & Everything Between, TAGA Gallery, Chico’s Headquarters, Ft Myers, FL
2012 ArtFest Fort Myers, FL (juror)
2011 Craft Triennial Silvermine Arts, New Canaan, CT
2011 X Biennal Internacional de Ceramics, Manises, Spain (catalog)
2011 6th GICB, South Korea (catalog, film)
2011 Cheongju Int’l Craft Biennale, Cheongju, South Korea (catalog)
2011 Intellectual Complexities, Longstreth Goldberg Art, Naples, FL (solo)
2011 Naples Inaugural Contemporary Crafts Exhibition- (I was the exhibition coordinator
and organizer. Mark Richard Leach was the juror. I also produced a full color catalog)
2010 Selections from the Vault, Ohr-O’keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2004 & 2009 Giants of Sculpture, Naples, FL
2008 Kosmas Ballis- New Ceramic Sculpture, Fort Myers, FL (solo)
2006 Perchance to Dream, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA (catalog)
2005 GICBiennale South Korea (catalog)
2005 Museo Internazionale Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy (catalog)
2005 Ceramics Technical 18 (cover – Australian ceramics publication)
2005 NCECA Baltimore (solo) & 2001 NCECA Clay National, Charlotte, NC
2004 Jane Hartsook Gallery, NYC (Betty Woodman curator)
2000 The Evolutionary Bouquet- Chicago, IL (solo)
In addition to the above, I have also won 4 best of show awards (pre- 2010) and have shown in numerous exhibitions in 40 different states. I have received several artist grants, and have work in numerous private and public collections, including The Smithsonian via the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi, MS. Current representation is thru Ferrari Gallery, Dallas, TX.