VIOLA FREY

1933 - 2004

Born in Lodi, California.

"Viola Frey: A Lasting Legacy,"
Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, West Virginia;
Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina;
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

Carin Delcourt van Krimpen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"Viola Frey: Plates 1968-94."
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York.
Traveling to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi;
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio;
Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota;
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham;
Wichita Center for the Arts, Kansas.

Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico

Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California

The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fresno Museum of Art, California

Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"Viola Frey, Works on Paper," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

"Viola Frey: A Bricoleur of the 20th Century," Pacific Bell, San Ramon, California

Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis

"It's all Part of the Clay: Viola Frey," Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia. Traveling to: Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Quay Gallery, San Francisco

"Viola Frey: Figures," California State University, Fullerton

"Viola Frey: A Retrospective,"
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.
Traveling to: Blanden Memorial Art Gallery, Fort Dodge, Iowa;
Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama;
Illinois State University, Norman;
The Oakland Museum, California;
Seattle Art Museum, Washington;
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington;
St. Louis Museum of Art, Missouri; other museums throughout the U.S. and Canada.

"Objects of Desire," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"Porcelains from Sevres," American Craft Museum, New York

"Scale Matters: Mega vs. Mini," Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida

"Summer Light," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"Works on Paper," Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan

"small scale LARGE SCALE," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"25 Years," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"20/20, The 20th Anniversary Exhibition," University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, California

"Color Detour," Apex Art Gallery, New York

"Contemporary Masters," Pewabic Pottery, Detroit

"Nancy Hoffman: A Perspective on Art," Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis

"Ceramic Sculpture from the East Bay," California State University, Hayward

"Large Drawings and Objects: Expressive Voices of the Meaningful," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock

"Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves," California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California

"Portrait of Our Time," Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan

"Small Scale," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"Summer Pleasures, Summer Treasures," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"Paper View," Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

"Review/Preview," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

Traveling to: Albany Museum of Art, Georgia;
Madison Art Center, Wisconsin; Portland Art Museum, Oregon

"The Figure," Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey

"Series and Editions," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"20th Annual Exhibition," The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"20 Years," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

Esprit Sculpture Park, San Francisco, California

"The Figure: Two Bay Area Artists," Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas

"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, New Mexico

"Preview," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"Sculpture," Kingsborough Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York

"What's New," Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

"Works on Paper: The Craft Artist as Draftsman," Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

"Experiencing Sculpture: The Figure in American Art," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

"de-Persona," The Oakland Museum, California

"The Figurine High and Low," Jane Hartsook/Greenwich House Pottery, New York

"National Objects International," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock

"Reprise," Phyllis Roth Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey (Drawings by Selected Artists from the Exhibitors at Phyllis Roth Gallery)

"Selections from the diRosa Collection," Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding, California

"Selections from the Permanent Collections," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

"Smith Collects Contemporary," Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts

"American Craft Museum: Building a Permanent Collection" American Craft Museum, New York

"Drawings by Sculptors," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"Eight Ceramic Artists," The Atrium Gallery, School of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs

"Inaugural Sculpture Exhibition," Gateway Complex, The Prudential Services Company, Newark, New Jersey

"National Drawing Invitational," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock

"Oakland's Artist '90," The Oakland Museum, California

"Pygmalion: The Female Form in Sculpture," Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey

"Walls Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations," Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan

"Works on Paper," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

"Craft Today: U.S.A., "American Craft Museum, New York. Traveling to: Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; Museum of Applied Art, Helsinki; Museum fur kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw; Musee des Arts Decoratif, Lausanne; Museum of Decorative Applied and Folk Art, Moscow; State Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara; The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Norway; St. Peter's Abbey, Ghent; Amerika Haus, Berlin; The Zappeion, Athens; Slovak National Gallery Bratislava, Czechoslovakia; The Grassi Museum, Leipzig; Sala Sant Jaume de la Fundacio "La Caiza," Barcelona; The Gulbenkian, Lisbon.

"The Figure," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock

"Images of American Pop Culture Today III," LaForet Museum, Tokyo

"Rain of Talent: Umbrella Art," The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"Summer Pleasures: Water," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"30 Ceramic Sculptors," Natsoulas Noveloza Gallery, Davis, California

"Bronze Works," Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California at Davis

"Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art," The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York

"Columnar," The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

"East Side-West Side," Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

"An Evening of Contemporary Art at the Bayly," Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

"The Figure and Clay," Pewabic Pottery, Detroit

"Heroics," Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, The School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada

"just like a woman," Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina

"Manufacture de Sevres, Atelier experimental de recherche et de creation," Hall du Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris

"Portraits: Here's Looking at You," Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska

"Urban Figures," Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York

"Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup and Vase," Seattle Art Museum, Washington. Traveling to: Gibson Gallery, Potsdam College; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Santa Barbara Museum, California; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona.

"The Eloquent Object," Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Traveling to: The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Oakland Museum, California; The Orlando Museum of Art, Florida; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

"Bay Area Artists--Small Works Invitational," Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco

"The Bay Area Collects: A Focus on Sculpture," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

"Bay Area Drawing," Richmond Art Center, California

"Biennale de Chateauroux," Mairie de Chateauroux, France

"California Figurative Sculpture," Palm Springs Desert Museum, California

"Contemporary American Drawings," Wake Forest University, Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

"Figurative Clay '87," University Center Gallery, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Illinois

"Imaginary Acquaintances: Contemporary Sculpture and Paintings of People," 101 California Lobby Gallery and the Airports Commission Gallery, San Francisco

"Quartre Americains a la Manufacture de Sevres," American Center, Paris

"Sculptors' Drawings," University of Idaho, Moscow; California State University, Sonoma

"Works on Paper," Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, New York

"Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical," American Craft Museum, New York. Traveling to: The Denver Art Museum, Colorado; The Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

"California College of Arts and Crafts Faculty Show: Works in Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Metal and Wood," Victor Fischer Galleries, Oakland, California

"Celebrating Women," Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center

"Collector's Gallery XX," McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas

"Contemporary American Studio Pottery: An Overview," Victoria and Albert Museum, London

"Featured Artists of N.E.C.A. 1986," Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas

"Inez Storer & Viola Frey," Site 311, Pacific Grove, California

"Material and Metaphor: Contemporary American Ceramic Sculpture," Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Illinois

"New Views: Works in Clay and Bronze," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

"Painters Who Sculpt," Palo Alto Cultural Center, California

"Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

"Second Newport Biennial: The Bay Area," Newport Harbor Art Museum, California

Seven Dials Gallery, London

"Summer Group Show," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"West Coast Clay," Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, California

"Works on Paper," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980," The Oakland Museum, California

Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles

"California Sends Her Best," Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

"California College of Arts and Crafts Faculty Show," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, California

"The Figure in Ceramics," Rathbone Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, New York

"Fired Clay: Vessel and Image," Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

"In the Eye of the Beholder," College Art Gallery, State University of New Paltz, New York

"M. Lee Fatherree: Photographs of Artists," Bank of America Concourse Gallery, San Francisco

"Menagerie: Animal Images by Contemporary Artists," San Francisco International Airport, California

"Past Models, Future Shapes," Sun Valley Center Gallery, Idaho

"Recent Ceramic Sculpture," University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

"Surface/Function/Shape: Selections from the Earl Millard Collection," University Center Gallery, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Illinois

"Winter Solstice," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

"Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

"Ceramic Sculptors: Sculpture & Drawings," Weil Gallery, Corpus Christi State University, Texas

"Contemporary Ceramic Vessels Two Los Angeles Collections: The Betty Asher Collection; The Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

"Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

"Figurative Sculpture: Ten Artists/Two Decades," University Art Museum, California State University-Long Beach, California

"Here and Now: FATIMAH &/OR FRED?," Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina

"A Passionate Vision: Contemporary Ceramics from the Daniel Jacobs Collection," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts

"Platters and Related Forms," Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago; Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Illinois

"The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

"California Clay Works," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

"Ceramic Echoes," Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

"College of Arts and Crafts: Faculty," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

"Contemporary Clay Sculpture: Selections from the Daniel Jacobs Collection," Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York

"December Exhibition," Quay Gallery, San Francisco

"Faculty Exhibit - '83," Cohen Gallery, Denver, Colorado

"Narrative Ceramics," Impressions Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

"Nuclear Age: Tradition and Transition," Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

"A Personal View/Selections from the Joan Mannheimer Ceramic Collection," University of Missouri, Kansas City

"The Raw Edge: Ceramics of the '80's," Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York

"Small Figures," Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles

"Statements," Craftsmen's Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska

"Clay Bodies/Autio, DeStaebler & Frey," Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore

"Collectors Weekend," American Craft Museum, New York

"College of Arts and Crafts: Faculty," Richmond Art Center, California

"Figurative Clay," Quay Gallery, San Francisco

"It Figures," Trans America Pyramid, San Francisco

"Narrative Ceramics," Impressions Gallery, Boston

"Northern California Narrative Sculpture," Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, California

"100 Years of California Sculpture," Oakland Museum, California

"Pacific Currents: Ceramics 1982," San Jose Museum, California

"Painterly Ceramics," College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California

"Three Dimensions: Clay, Glass, Fiber," The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York

"West Coast Ceramic Artists," San Jose State University, California

"Plate Etudes," Pence Gallery, Davis, California

"Sculpture and Clay," Walter Philips Gallery, Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada

"Wedgwood Invitational," Buten Museum of Wedgwood, Pennsylvania

"Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture," Davis, California

"Spaces," Walnut Creek Civic Arts Center, California

"The Unpainted Portrait," Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

"West Coast Clay Spectrum," Security Pacific, Los Angeles

"Ceramic Invitational," Sacramento, California

Grossmont College, El Cajon, California

"Overglaze Imagery: Cone 019-016," Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton

College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California

"Craft Show," Zellerbach, San Francisco

"Faculty Show," California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland

Lincoln Square Gallery, Oakland, California

"Media '68," Walnut Creek Art Center, California

"Crafts Today, I," Museum West, San Francisco

"Phelan Competition," Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Hansen Gallery, Walnut Creek, California

Lincoln Square Gallery, Oakland, California

"San Francisco Art Festival," San Francisco

"San Francisco Potters," De Young Museum, San Francisco

"Walnut Creek Festival," Walnut Creek, California

"Crocker Invitational," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

"San Francisco Potters," De Young Museum, San Francisco

Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, California

"San Francisco Art Festival," California

"Emergence," Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York

Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, California

Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California

Hansen Gallery, Walnut Creek, California

Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California

"San Francisco Potters," De Young Museum, San Francisco

"Walnut Creek Art Festival," Walnut Creek, California

"Young Americans," Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York

"California Craftsmen Biennial," Oakland, California

"California State Fair," Sacramento, California

Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California

"San Francisco Art Festival," San Francisco

"San Francisco Potters," De Young Museum San Francisco; Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California

COLLECTIONS

American Craft Museum, New York

The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Manufacture de Sevres, Paris

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minnesota

Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Oakland Museum, California

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

Philip Morris, New York

Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, New Jersey

The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan

J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Wichita Center for the Arts, Kansas