Artist List    Connie Kiener    Images  |  Bio Born: 1945, Portland, Oregon EDUCATION Maiolica Ceramic Training, Umbria, Italy 1979, 1983, 1993,1998 Chouinard Art Institute, CalArts. Los Angeles, CA 1965-69 Museum Art School (Pacific Northwest College of Art), Portland, OR 1963-64 AWARDS Retreat, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME 2005 Video for Oregon Art Beat, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, OR 2004 Oregon Convention Center Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR 2003 Canada Council Grant, Visual Arts Bursary, Vancouver, B.C. 1971 L.I.P. Grant, Vancouver, B.C. 1973 Full tuition scholarship, Chouinard Institute, CalArts, Los Angeles, CA 1966-69 Ford Foundation Grant, Museum Art School, PNCA, Portland, OR 1963-64 ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2007 Marghitta Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR 2005 Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX 2004 Margot Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003 Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2000 Twist, Portland, OR 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995 Vancouver Women’s Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. 1972, 1976,1979 Mudlark Gallery, Portland, OR 1970 GROUP EXHIBITIONS Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2005, 2007, 2008 “It’s All About Maps,” Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, OR, curator Leo Michelson 2007 “20th Anniversary Group Show,” The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 “2006 Sitka Art Invitational,” Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR 2006 “Al Fresco,” Racine Art Museum, Racine Wisconsin 2006 “Body Language,” Stamm Center, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR 2006 “The Art of the Teapot,” Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI 2006 “Figuring the Feminine,” Portland Community College, Portland, OR, catalogue 2006 “Northwest Collects Teapots,” Contemporary Crafts Gallery 2005 Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 “The Informed Surface,” Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD 2005 Sitka Invitational, Sitka, OR 2005 “Northwest Visits Northeast,” The Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA 2005 “Navigators,” Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA 2005 “Collecting Ceramics,” Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR 2005 SOFA Exposition, Lacoste Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Juried Group Exposition, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR 2004 “After Pallisy,” Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA 2003 “Autobiographical Ceramics, Ferrin Gallery, Concord, MA 2003 Ferrin Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Teapot Invitational, Sybaris Gallery,Royal Oal, MI 2002 “Contemporary Maiolica,” Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM 2002 “USA Clay,” Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., video 2001 “Collecting Ceramics,” Renwich Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1998 SOFA Exposition, Latie Gingrass Gallery, Chicago, IL 1996 McMinnville Art Association Gallery, McMinnville, OR 1981, 1996 Art Quake Exposition, Portland, OR 1995 Lakewood Center Gallery, Lake Oswego Gallery, OR 1985 Sea Star Gallery Invitational, Big Fork, MT 1984 Real Mother Goose Invitational, Portland, OR 1984 Columbia Art Gallery Invitational, Hood River, OR 1984 “Ten-Ten,” Teapot Show, University of Portland, OR 1981 Salem Art Association Gallery, Salem, OR 1981 Southern California College Invitational, Los Angeles, CA 1969 SELECTED COLLECTIONS Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX Arizona State University Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, KS The White House, Washington, D.C. Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), Portland, OR Sonny and Gloria Kamm Teapot Collection, Los Angeles, CA Arkansas Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Museo Internazionale Della Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy Fidelity Investment, Boston, MA PUBLICATIONS Row, D.K. “It’s All About Maps,” The Oregonian, July 13,2007, A&E, p. 37 Gallivan, Joseph, “Polymers, shuttles keep art bonded,” PortlandTribune, February 27, 2007, pp. B1, B4 Row, D.K. “Laura Russo toasts 20 years atop Portland’s Art World,” The Sunday Oregonian, October 15, 2006, pp. O1 and O11 Catalogue, “Figuring the Feminine,” Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 2006 Taylor, Sue, “Review: Connie Kiener, Marghitta Feldman Gallery“ American Craft, 2005 Oregon Art Beat, “Connie Kiener,” Fall 2004, Oregon Public Broadcasting, producer KC Cowen Lamb, Kathy, “An Artist Crafts a Compact Hillside Sanctuary,” Oregonian, Homes & Gardens, 2004 Ferrin, Leslie, 500 Figures in Clay, Lark Books, publisher, 2004 Richardson, Charlotte, “Crafting in Portland,” American Style Magazine, April 2004 Osterman, Matthias, The Ceramic Surface, A & C Black, Publishers, 2002 Video, “The Art of Craft: Connie Kiener Ceramics, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 2001 “Beautiful Backsplashes,” Better Homes and Gardens, Kitchen and Bath, 2001 Mershon, Helen, “ The Art of Tile,” Oregonian, Homes and Gardens, May 1, 1997 Humphrey, Linda, “Kitchen Craftsmanship,” Home, October 1995 Wichert, Geoffrey, “Natural Illusions, “ American Craft, October / November 1994 Mershon, Helen, “Arts & Craftsman, “ The Oregonian, December 9, 1990 VanDemarr, Lee, “Maiolica Renaissance Woman,” Stepping Out, Issue 25, 1987 Greer, Jennifer, “A Renaissance Woman,” Creative Ideas for Living, May 1986