BRIEF RESUME
EDWARD S. EBERLE
Born 1944, Tarentum, PA
EDUCATION
1972 MFA, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, NY
1967 BS, Edinboro State College, PA
AWARDS
2018 Honorary Member, National Council on the Education for Ceramic Arts
1993 Individual Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts
1989 Individual Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
1986 Individual Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts
EXHIBITIONS
(* catalogue, + traveling)
ONE PERSON
2019 The Space Between, Installations, Eberle Studios & Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 “ Retrospective, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX +
2017 “ Retrospective, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA +
2016 Edward Eberle Retrospective, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pgh., PA *
2014 Hoyt Center for the Arts, New Castle, PA
2008 Perimeter Gallery, from Prow to Gravity, Chicago
2007 Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1999 Edw. Eberle, Drawing on Paper and Porcelain, Columbus Museum of Art, OH
_“The Phenomenology of Ten Vessels”, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1998 Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
_Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA
1997 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
_Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
_Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1993 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
_California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA
_Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1991 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
_Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
_Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1990 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
_The Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
_Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1988 Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1987 The Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1982 Clifford Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA
1980 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1977 Ceramic Drawings, Slippery Rock State College, PA
_Crandall Art Gallery, Mount Union College, Alliance, OH
_Comments on the Bowl, The Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA
1976 Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1971 Graduate Show, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
SELECTED GROUP
2020 I am a Story: Self Portraits, The Warehouse, Milwaukee, WI
2019 About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Montgomery Museum of Fine
Arts, Montgomery, AL
_Represent: Exploring Portraits from RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum
2018 Revive, Remix, Respond: Ceramic Artists and the Frick Pittsburgh
Frick Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
_Honoring Karen Johnson Boyd: Contemp. Ceramics, Racine Art Museum, WI
2016 EXPOSED: Heads, Busts & Nudes, Ferrin Contemporary at MASS MoCA Way,
North Adams, MA
2016 Duets: RAM Pairs Contemporaary Craft Artists, Racine Art Museum, WI
2015 Mindful: Exploring Mental Health Through Art, Society for Contemporary
Craft, Pittsburgh +
2014 Bodies at Rest: Figurative Clay from RAM’s Collection, NCECA, Wisconsin
Center, WI
2013 Stark Contrasts: Black and White Ceramics from RAM’s Collection, Racine Art
Museum, Racine, WI
2011 Pittsburgh Biennial, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
_Not So Still Life, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2010 The Space Between, Santa Fe Clay, with Peter Beasecker
_Mentor Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2009 Go Figure! The Human Form in RAM’s Collections, Racine Art Museum
_New and Novel 2009: Recent Gifts to RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum
2008 Frank Ross Legacy Exhibition, Manchester Craftsman’s Guild, for NCECA,
Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Opposites Attract, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2006 Inspired Utility: Exceptional Ceramic Vessels, Main Line Art Ctr., Haverford,PA
_National Biennial Ceramics Invitational, Parkland College, IL
_Treasure Hunt: Works From RAM’s Storage, Racine Art Museum, WI
2005 Transformations: the Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra *
_Excess, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
_The Visceral Vessel, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
_Two Media, Two Expressions, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
2004 Clay Invitational 2004, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
_Double Vision, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN *
_The Perfect Collection: A Shared Vision for Contemporary Craft,
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
2003 Ceramic Faculty Selects: Clay from the Permanent Collection, Arizona State
University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
_Gestures, site-specific sculpture, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
_Transmission, Museum of Art, Macon, GA
_21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada, Columbus College of
Art and Design, OH
_Great Pots, Newark Museum of Art, NJ*
2002 Postmodern Ceramics, Dolphin, Kansas City, MO
_The Legacy of Innovation; a Tribute to Ken Ferguson, Dolphin,KC
2000 Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design,
Charlotte, NC *
_Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA *+
1999 Contained Narratives, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
_The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA *
_Toronto Collects, The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
_Eberle, Kraus, Myers - Storytellers, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
_The Contemporary Vessel – New Works in Clay, Dolphin, Kansas City, MO
1997 1997 Projects Exhibition, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
1995 The Nude in Clay, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
_Black/White, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1994 Objects & Drawings II: Working in Other Dimensions, Arkansas Art Center,
Little Rock, AR
1993 Clay 1993: A National Survey, The William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 The Narrative Vessel, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI*
1990 Clay, Color, Content: The 28th Ceramic National, Everson Museum of Art,
Syracuse, NY *+
_Collecting Contemporary Ceramics, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh, PA
1989 Surface and Form, The National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore, MD *
_Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oaks, MI
1988 The Figure and Clay, The Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI*
_Drawn to the Vessel, Sims Fine Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
_Midwest Invitational Ceramics Exhibition, Parkland Art Gallery, Champlain, IL
_A Pot is a Pot, or is it? Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
1987 Drawn to the Surface: Artists in Clay and Glass, Pittsburgh Center for the
Arts, Pittsburgh, PA *
_Mendelson Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
_Textures, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
_The Figurative Image, America House Gallery, Tenafly, NJ
_Three Rivers Arts Festival, Highlight Award, Pittsburgh, PA
1986 G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
_Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
_Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York City, NY *+
_Cross Creek Gallery, Malibu, CA
1985 Figure/Form: Seven from the AAP, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
_Invitational, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA *
_Sewickley Academy Gallery, Sewickley, PA
_Bowman and Penelec Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
1984 Contemporary Ceramics, Azuma Gallery, New York City, NY
_Pennsylvania Ceramists, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
_Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA
1983 Clay Expressions, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro, PA
1982 National Ceramic Invitational, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
_Birds and Cats, The Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA
1981 Recent Acquisitions, Entrance Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
_Art as Craft, Youngstown State University, OH
1980 Clay Communications, National Ceramic Sculpture Invitational, Louisville
School of Art, Anchorage, KY
_Crosscurrents 1980, Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV
1979 Grid, University of Pittsburgh Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
_Ceramic Sculpture Invitational, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, PA
_Sculptors and Sculptor's Drawings, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro State College,
Edinboro, PA
_Permanence/Impermanence, Society of Sculptors, Pittsburgh, PA
_Associated Artists Annual, Pittsburgh, PA
1978 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
_Society of Sculptors, Pittsburgh, PA
1977 Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, William Hayes Ackland Memorial Museum,
University of NC, Chapel Hill, NC
_Associated Artists Annual, Pittsburgh, PA
1976 Objects, East Coast Ceramic Invitational, University of Akron, OH
_100 Artists Celebrate 200 Years, Xerox
_National Invitational, Fairtree Gallery, New York City, NY
1975 National Ceramic Invitational, Edinboro State College, Edinboro, PA
_All White, The Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1974 Thiel College Invitational, Greenville, PA
_Pennsylvania '74, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA +
_Gallery 252, Philadelphia, PA
1973 Fairtree Gallery, New York City, NY
_Gallery 252, Philadelphia, PA
_Craftsmen '73, Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA
1972 9th Southern Tier Art and Craft Show, Corning, NY
_27th Ceramics International, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1971 New York State Crafts Fair, Ithaca, NY
_Finger Lakes Regional, Rochester, NY
_8th Southern Tier Art and Craft Show, Corning, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Arkansas Art Center
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Boca Museum, Boca Raton, FL
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chazen Musuem of Art, University of Wisconson-Madison
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
Flint Institute of Arts, MI
Hoyt Center for the Arts
Huntington Museum of Art, WV
Lannan Foundation
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, VA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Art, Houston, TX
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, KA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Newark Museum of Art, NJ
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
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Del Vecchio, Mark. Postmodern Ceramics, London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
Dietz, Ulysses. Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy. Guild:
Madison, WI, 2003
Douglas, Mary F., Editor. Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection. Charlotte, NC: Mint
Museum of Craft + Design, 2000.
Green, Joshua. Edward Eberle, Pottery Poetics and the Competition of Surprises, NCECA
Blog, 2018
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