Andrew Casto

EDUCATION

2010
M.F.A. The University of Iowa, 2010

2009
M.A. The University of Iowa

2001- 2002
Post Baccalaureate Studies The Ohio State University

2000
B.A. Earlham College

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
Breathe In, Breathe Out, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR

2017
Revelatory Dérive, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

2016
Recent Assemblages, The Salvatore Lanteri Gallery, Milan, Italy

2015
Solo invitational exhibition at Olive Deluce Gallery, Northwest Missouri State University

2012
An Exercise in Fluidity, The Janalyn Hanson White Gallery, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
National Debt Project with Nicole Wilson, Praise Shadows Gallery, Brookline, Mass
Let Them Eat Off the Plate, Superhouse Gallery, NYC, NY
Archie Bray Foundation Past Residents Exhibition, Helena, Montana
Nomad St. Moritz, Exhibitor, Daguet-Bresson, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Overture, Exhibitor, Daguet-Bresson, Paris

2023
PAD Design and Art London, with Daguet Bresson, Paris, France
CIRCA Conference Exhibition, The University of Colorado, Boulder
Fractured, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Summer in Bloom, Winston Wachter Gallery, New York
Collectible Brussels, Exhibitor, Ceramics Now/Daguet-Bresson Projects, Brussels, Belgium
CIRCA Last Call, Somerset OTR, Cincinnati, OH, in coordination with NCECA 2023

2022
Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Organic Matter, Winston Wachter, New York, NY

2021
Winston Watcher, Seattle, Washington

2020
In Pursuit of a Meaningful Mark, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami
The Backbone of Things, New Zealand Festival of Ceramics, Bowen Galleries, curated by Glenn Barkley, Auckland, New Zealand

2019
A Gifted Offering, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR
Younger Than That Now: Andrew Casto, Joshua Clark, Evan D’Orazo, and Matt Mitros, The White Brick Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
New Ceramics, Via Del Principe, Catania, Sicily, Italy
Andrew Casto, Penn State University HUB Robeson Center Galleries
Trans-Pacific Dialogue, Marrying Form and Surface Across the Globe: Glenn Barkley, Andrew Casto, David Hicks, King Houdekpinkou, and Viriginia Leonard. Concurrent NCECA exhibition, curated and organized by Andrew Casto and Mindy Solomon
Salon! Invited participant, Rozsa Gallery, Houghton, MI

2018
Pulse Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair, with Mindy Solomon Gallery
The University of Iowa Faculty Biennial
The University of Iowa Faculty Exhibition: Seoul National University of Technology,
Seoul, Korea
A Device for Measuring The Sonification of Everyday Things, concurrent NCECA
conference exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA
Paddle 8 Locust Projects Auction
Collective Design NYC with Mindy Solomon Gallery
Young Masters at Collect 2018, Saatchi Gallery, London
Paddle 8 Contemporary Ceramics 2018 Auction

2017
Pulse Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Vigorous Form, Re-examining The New Ceramic Pressence in Contemporary Art, Andrew Casto, Tessa Eastman, Shanon Goff, David Hicks, Linda Lopez and Alex Simpson, curated by Courtenay Moon. Unit 9 Huntington Estate Gallery, London, UK
If Not For Space, group exhibition curated by Emily Susanin Kessinger at Unity Gallery, Fairfield, IA
Vibrant Things, group exhibition with Evan d’Orazio and Hillary Harnishberger, curated by Aimee Odum, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York
Tresor Contemporary Craft 2017, Basel, Switzerland, exhibition with Puls Contemporary Ceramics
Cynthia Corbett Gallery Exclusive Online Summer Exhibition, Intimate Abstractions, curated by Nancy Selvin, Patricai Sweetow Gallery, Oakland, CA
Small Art Objects, Aqui Siam Ben Gallery, Vallauris, France
Young Masters Finalists Exhibition, Gallery 8, with Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK
Andrew Casto and Louise Hindsgavl, Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels, Belgium,
Paddle 8 Contemporary Ceramics 2017 Auction
Piles, Stacks, Lumps & Mounds, Sight Unseen Offsite, NYCxDesign, Design Week, New York City
Method Accumulation: Studies in Materiality and Existence, Pacific Northwest College of Art, concurrent NCECA 2017 exhibition
Sloppy Late Night Pop Up, group exhibition at Double Dragon PDX, Portland, OR
Form Over Function: Ceramic Sculptures, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle
Small Favors, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia
Art Palm Springs, Winston Wäcther Fine Art, Florida

2016
Small Treasures, Santa Fe Clay
4×4 Midwest Invitational, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO *Awarded grand prize
Seattle Art Fair, Winston Wächter Fine Art
Market Art+Design, Art Market Hamptons, Mindy Solomon Gallery
Andrew Casto, Aneta Regel, Guy Marshall-Brown, Invitational exhibition at Galleria Salvatore Lanteri, Milan, Italy
April Color, Winston Wäcther Fine Art, Seattle
Materiality, Methodology, Metamorphosis: Invitational Concurrent NCECA exhibition, self-curated and organized, Kansas City, MO
Accessibility by Design: Invitational Concurrent NCECA exhibition curated by Susan Beiner, Kansas City, MO
From There to Here: Invitational Concurrent NCECA exhibition curated by Kwok- Pong Tso, Kansas City, MO
The 72nd Scripps Ceramic Annual: Invitational exhibition at Scripps College in Los Angeles, California

2015
Midwest Life Vest, Recent work by Andrew Casto, Joanna Powell, Amy Santoferraro, and Jesse Ring. Walker Art Gallery, The University of Nebraska- Kearney
Art Market Hamptons, Market Art & Design, NY, Represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery
Three Wheel Studio Ceramics Annual Exhibition, *Invited artist, Providence, RI
The Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics Finalists Exhibition, Zanesville Museum of Contemporary Art, Zanesville, OH
Contemporary Ceramics 2015, Invitational exhibition at The Dairy Barn Arts Center curated by Brad Schweigger and Chuck McWeeny
The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Recent Work by Andrew Casto, Eutectic Back Room Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 NCECA Emerging Artists Exhibition, Providence, RI
All About Porcelain, juried exhibition at The Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT
Constructed, Invitational exhibition, Eastern Oregon University
Clay Center: Students and Faculty of The Midwest, Vernon Filley Art Museum, Pratt, KS

2014
KSU Ceramics Faculty and Student Exhibition, Garden City Community College, Garden City Kansas
7th Bienale De Ceramica winners exhibition, El Vendrell, Spain
Mixed Company, two person exhibition with Liz Howe, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR
The Clay Studio of Philadelphia Juried National

2013
Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft
Venues: Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; Fort Wayne Museum of
Art, Fort. Wayne, Indiana; Nora Eccles Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas. The 7th Bienale De Ceramica, El Vendrell, Spain
Visions in Clay, San Joaquin Delta College LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, California
Archie Bray Foundation Resident and Visiting Artists Exhibition, 18 Hands Gallery, Houston, TX, Concurrent NCECA Conference Exhibition

2012
The Fourth International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics, Ceramica Multiplex, Verazdin, Croatia, and Vienna, Austria
We Met in Iowa: Recent Work by Graduates and Faculty of the University of Iowa Ceramics Department. Exhibited at Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, Kansas, and Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
Nobody’s Darling Fellowship exhibition of completed works at The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
Ceramic Sculpture National, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO
UNICUM International Ceramics Trienale: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Biennale la Ceramique d’Andenne, Andenne, Belgium
Clay? IV: Kirkland Arts Center, Seattle, Washington
Table of Content: Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Helen E. Copeland Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
Backspace Gallery, Peoria, Illinois

2011
Archie Bray Resident Exhibition, Emerson Art Center, Bozeman, MT
2011 Archie Bray Artists in Residence Exhibition, Kolva- Sullivan Gallery, Spokane,
Washington
Craftsmanship, Content, Innovation: Red Lodge, Montana

2010
UN-wedged, November, 2010, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA. *Voted Honorable Mention.
ICMEA Ceramics Competition, Fuping, Shaanxi Province, China, first round selection, awarded FuLe Prize
The Lasting, two-person exhibition at The Quad Cities International Airport, Moline, IL

2009
New Work, two person exhibition at The Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, IA
Displacement, 12 artists at The Quad Cities International Airport, Moline, IL

2008
International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan, First Round Selection

TEACHING

2020-Present
Associate Professor of Art, Area Head of Ceramics, The University of Iowa
Adjunct Curator of Ceramics, The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art

2016-2020
Assistant Professor of Art, Program Head of Ceramics The University of Iowa

2014-2016
Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Kansas State University

2012-2014
Assistant Professor of Art, Mount Mercy University

2010-11
Adjunct Instructor of Art, The University of Iowa

2011
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Augustana College
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Knox College

2007-2010
Instructor of Record, The University of Iowa

AWARDS

2017
Stanley Foundation Grant for International Research, The University of Iowa

2016
Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant, The University of Iowa
Old Gold Fellowship, The University of Iowa
Springfield Museum of Art 4×4 Midwest Invitational Grand Prize Award

2015
NCECA and Windgate Charitable Foundation Emerging Artist grant.
College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Enhancement Grant, Kansas State University.
University Small Research Grant, awarded by the Office of Research, Kansas State
University
Faculty Development Award, Kansas State University
Academic Excellence Award, Kansas State University

2014
2nd Prize, 7th Bienalle of Ceramics, El Vendrell, Spain
Faculty Development Award, Kansas State University
2nd Place juror’s selection, Visions in Clay, San Joaquin Delta College, LH Horton
Jr. Gallery, Stockton, California

2012
Research grant, Rudy Autio Fund for Creative Development
3rd place jurors selection, Kirkland Arts Center, Clay? IV, Kirkland, WA

2011
MJD Fellowship, The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art, Helena, MT

2010
FuLe Prize, ICMEA (International Ceramics Magazine Editors Association) International Emerging Artist Competition, Fuping, China. Awarded one month residency in Fuping Pottery Art Village
2010 Honorable Mention, Pottery Northwest’s UN-wedged international juried exhibition, Seattle, WA

LECTURES, SYMPOSIUMS, WORKSHOPS

2023
Panel Discussion, CIRCA Symposium, The University of Colorado, Boulder

2022
Invited Artist Lecture, Van Zandt Visiting Artist, South Dakota State University.
Invited Artist Lecture, The University of Florida.
Panel Discussion, Lead Curator and Director, CIRCA Symposium, The University of Iowa

2020
Invited Artist Lecture, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia.
Invited Artist Lecture, Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Invited Lecture, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa.

2019
Panel Discussion, Trans-Pacific Dialogue: Marrying Form and Surface Across the Globe,
featuring Glenn Barkley, (AUS), Andrew Casto (USA), David Hicks (USA), King
Houdekpinkou (FRA), Virginia Leonard (NZ) and Mindy Solomon (US), organized and
moderated by Andrew Casto and Mindy Solomon. 52nd Annual NCECA Conference,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Panel Discussion, Trans-Pacific Dialogue: Marrying Form and Surface Across the Globe,
featuring Glenn Barkley, (AUS), Andrew Casto (USA), David Hicks (USA), King
Houdekpinkou (FRA), Virginia Leonard (NZ) and Mindy Solomon (US), organized and
moderated by Andrew Casto and Mindy Solomon. The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

2018
Panel Discussion, What We Made Sounds Like This, 51st Annual NCECA Conference,
Pittsburgh, PA, March, 2018, featuring Andrew Casto, Jean-Francois Charles, and Evan
D’Orazio.
College Art Association CAA Conversations Podcast: Andrew Casto and Bobby Tso,
“Teaching Contemporary Craft – Materiality and Concept in Ceramics”.

2017
Artist Lecture, Maharishi University of Management.
Artist Lecture and Workshop, Kent State University.

2016
Public Digital Arts Faculty Showcase, The University of Iowa – on research as related to
Public Digital Arts Cluster.
Panel Discussion, Springfield Museum of Art 4×4 Midwest Invitational.
Visiting Artist Lecture, The University of Iowa.
Artist Lecture/Gallery Talk, The Salvatore Lanteri Gallery, Milan.

2015
Artist Lecture, The University of Nebraska-Kearney.
2015 NCECA Emerging Artists Lecture, Providence, RI.
2015 NCECA Panel Discussion: Maintaining an Original Voice, Providence, RI.
Artist Lecture and Workshop, Northwest Missouri State University

2014
Artist Lecture, C.R.E.T.A. artist residency center, Rome, Italy.
Artist Lecture, 7th Bienale De Ceramica, El Vendrell, Spain.
Artist Lecture, The Oregon College of Arts and Crafts.
Artist Lecture and Workshop Presenter, The University of Kansas.
Artist Lecture, Kansas State University.

2013
Artwork included from the permanent collection of Arizona State University’s Ceramics
Research Center in the exhibition, symposium, and catalog for Crafting a Continuum:
Rethinking Contemporary Craft.

2012
Artist Lecture, Earlham College, Richmond, IN.
Artist Lecture, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS.
Artist Lecture to coincide with the solo exhibition An Exercise in Fluidity, Mount Mercy
University.
Artist Lecture, The University of Iowa.
Artist Lecture, The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT.
Artist Lecture, Mount Mercy University.
Visiting Artist Lecture and Student Critiques, The University of Wisconsin Madison.
Invitational Workshop Demonstrator and Artist Lecture, Archie Bray Days, The University
of Montana.

2011
Exhibition Curator: We Met in Iowa: Pittsburgh, KS, and Richmond, IN

RESIDENCIES

2017
A.I.R. Vallauris, Vallauris, France

2014
Artists invite Artists Residency, Process and Metamorphosis, Watershed Center for
The Ceramic Arts, New Castle, Maine

2011-12
MJD Fellow and long term Artist in Residence, The Archie Bray Foundation for
Ceramic Art, Helena, Montana