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About Andrew Casto
Andrew Casto (b. Ohio, USA, 1977) lives and works in Iowa City, USA. He was the 2011 MJD fellow at The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art in Helena, Montana, and has exhibited work internationally in Spain, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Belgium, New Zealand, China, Switzerland, France, and Japan. Casto was a recipient of a 2015 Emerging Artist award by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), and was a finalist for the 2017 Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize with Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London.
Casto has exhibited in over eighty group exhibitions, with recent solo exhibitions at Galleria Salvatore Lanteri in Milan, Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, and Eutectic Gallery in Portland. Casto is currently Associate Professor of Art and Program Head of Ceramics at The University of Iowa, as well as Adjunct Curator of Ceramics for The Stanley Museum of Art.
Andrew Casto CV
EXHIBITIONS
2020
In Search of a Meaningful Mark, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, March, 2020.
The Backbone of Things, New Zealand Festival of Ceramics, Bowen Galleries, curated by Glenn Barkley, Auckland, Feb, 2020.
2019
A Gifted Offering, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR, December, 2019.
Younger Than That Now: Andrew Casto, Joshua Clark, Evan D’Orazo, and Matt Mitros, The White Brick Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan, August, 2019.
New Ceramics, Via Del Principe, Catania, Sicily, Italy, June/ July, 2019.
Andrew Casto, Penn State University HUB Robeson Center Galleries. May 15 – September 30, 2019.
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, March, 2019.
Salon! Invited participant, Rozsa Gallery, Houghton, MI, February 2019.
Breathe In, Breathe Out, *Solo, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR February, 2019.
2018
Pulse Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair, with Mindy Solomon Gallery, December, 2018.
The University of Iowa Faculty Biennial, September 2018.
The University of Iowa Faculty Exhibition: Seoul National University of Technology, Seoul, Korea, October, 2018.
A Device for Measuring The Sonification of Everyday Things, concurrent NCECA conference exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA, March, 2018.
Paddle 8 Locust Projects Auction, accessible at
https://paddle8.com/auction/locust-projects/, March 28-April 7, 2018.
Collective Design NYC with Mindy Solomon Gallery, March 9-11, 2018.
Young Masters at Collect 2018, Saatchi Gallery, London, February 2018.
Paddle 8 Contemporary Ceramics 2018 Auction, accessible at
https://paddle8.com/auction/contemporary-ceramics/.
2017
Method Accumulation: Studies in Materiality and Existence, Pacific Northwest College of Art, concurrent NCECA 2017 exhibition, March, 2017.
Sloppy Late Night Pop Up, group exhibition at Double Dragon PDX, Portland, OR, March, 2017.
Revelatory Dérive, solo exhibition at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, March/April, 2017.
Small Favors, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, February, 2017.
Art Palm Springs, Winston Wäcther Fine Art, Florida, February 2017.
2016
Small Treasures, Santa Fe Clay, December, 2016.
4×4 Midwest Invitational, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO, September, 2016. *Awarded grand prize.
Seattle Art Fair, Winston Wächter Fine Art, August, 2016.
Market Art+Design, Art Market Hamptons, Mindy Solomon Gallery, July 2016.
Andrew Casto, Aneta Regel, Guy Marshall-Brown, Invitational exhibition at Galleria Salvatore Lanteri, Milan, Italy, June/July, 2016.
April Color, Winston Wäcther Fine Art, Seattle, April, 2016.
Materiality, Methodology, Metamorphosis: Invitational Concurrent NCECA exhibition, self-curated and organized, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Accessibility by Design: Invitational Concurrent NCECA exhibition curated by Susan Beiner, Kansas City, MO, March, 2016.
From There to Here: Invitational Concurrent NCECA exhibition curated by Kwok-Pong Tso, Kansas City, MO, March, 2016.
The 72nd Scripps Ceramic Annual: Invitational exhibition at Scripps College in Los Angeles, California, January-April 2016.
Andrew Casto, The Salvatore Lanteri Gallery, Milan, Italy, Jan 14-February 30, 2016. *Solo international exhibition.
2015
Midwest Life Vest, Recent work by Andrew Casto, Joanna Powell, Amy Santoferraro, and Jesse Ring. Walker Art Gallery, The University of Nebraska-Kearney, Sept./Oct, 2015.
Art Market Hamptons, Market Art & Design, NY, Represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery.
Three Wheel Studio Ceramics Annual Exhibition, *Invited artist, Providence, RI, Oct, 2015.
The Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics Finalists Exhibition, Zanesville Museum of Contemporary Art, Zanesville, OH, Sept 2015-Jan 2016.
Contemporary Ceramics 2015, Invitational exhibition at The Dairy Barn Arts Center curated by Brad Schweigger and Chuck McWeeny, Sept, 2015.
The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR, June 2015.
Recent Work by Andrew Casto, Eutectic Back Room Gallery, Portland, OR, June, 2015.
Recent Work: Solo invitational exhibition at Olive Deluce Gallery, Northwest Missouri State Universtiy, March, 2015.
2015 NCECA Emerging Artists Exhibition, Providence, RI, March, 2015.
All About Porcelain, juried exhibition at The Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT, Feb, 2015.
Constructed, Invitational exhibition, Eastern Oregon University, Feb, 2015.
Clay Center: Students and Faculty of The Midwest, Vernon Filley Art Museum, Pratt, KS, Jan, 2015.
2014
KSU Ceramics Faculty and Student Exhibition, Garden City Community College, Garden City Kansas, Nov, 2014.
7th Bienale De Ceramica winners exhibition, El Vendrell, Spain, Oct, 2014.
Mixed Company, two person exhibition with Liz Howe, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR, Aug-Sept, 2014.
The Clay Studio of Philadelphia Juried National, March 7-30, 2014.
2013
Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft, Sept 7, 2013-Aug 30, 2015. 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, Oct-Nov, 2013.
Visions in Clay, San Joaquin Delta College LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, California, June, 2013.
Archie Bray Foundation Resident and Visiting Artists Exhibition, 18 Hands Gallery, Houston, TX, Concurrent NCECA Conference Exhibition, March, 2013.
2012
The Fourth International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics, Ceramica Multiplex, Verazdin, Croatia, and Vienna, Austria, Aug-Dec, 2012.
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, Dec, 2012.
An Exercise in Fluidity, Solo exhibition at The Janalyn Hanson White Gallery, Mount Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September, 2012.
Nobody’s Darling Fellowship exhibition of completed works at The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana, Aug-Sept, 2012.
2012 Ceramic Sculpture National, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO. Summer, 2012, *invited artist.
UNICUM International Ceramics Trienale: Ljubljana, Slovenia, Summer, 2012.
Biennale la Ceramique d’Andenne, Andenne, Belgium, May, 2012.
Clay? IV: Kirkland Arts Center, Seattle, Washington, March, 2012.
Table of Content: Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington, March, 2012.
Helen E. Copeland Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, Feb, 2012.
Backspace Gallery, Peoria, Illinois, Feb, 2012.
2011
Archie Bray Resident Exhibition, Emerson Art Center, Bozeman, MT, Nov,, 2011.
2011 Archie Bray Artists in Residence Exhibition, Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, Washington, Oct-Nov, 2011.
Craftsmanship, Content, Innovation: Red Lodge, Montana, May 2011.
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, Oct, 2010.
The Lasting, two-person exhibition at The Quad Cities International Airport, Moline, IL. July, 2010.
2009
New Work, two person exhibition at The Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, July-August, 2009.
Displacement, 12 artists at The Quad Cities International Airport, Moline, IL, May-June, 2009.
2008
International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan, First Round Selection, March, 2008.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. The University of Iowa, 2010
M.A. The University of Iowa, 2009
Post Baccalaureate Studies, The Ohio State University, 2001-2002
B.A. Earlham College, 2000
TEACHING
2016-present
Assistant Professor of Art, 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.
2011
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Knox College.
2007-2010
Instructor of Record, The University of Iowa.
AWARDS
2017
A.I.R. Vallauris, Vallauris, France.
2016
Springfield Museum of Art 4×4 Midwest Invitational Grand Prize Award.
2015
NCECA and Windgate Charitable Foundation Emerging Artist grant.
2014
2nd Prize, 7th Bienalle of Ceramics, El Vendrell, Spain.
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, March, 2012.
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, 2010. Awarded one-month residency in Fuping Pottery Art Village (forthcoming).
2010
Honorable Mention, Pottery Northwest’s UN-wedged international juried exhibition, Seattle, WA, October, 2010.
LECTURES, SYMPOSIUMS, WORKSHOPS
2017
Artist Lecture and Workshop, Kent State University, March, 2017.
2016
Panel Discussion, Springfield Museum of Art 4×4 Midwest Invitational, Oct, 2016.
Visiting Artist Lecture, The University of Iowa, February, 2016.
Artist Lecture/Gallery Talk, The Salvatore Lanteri Gallery, Milan, Italy, January 16th, 2016.
2015
Artist Lecture, The University of Nebraska-Kearney, Oct, 2015.
2015 NCECA Emerging Artists Lecture, Providence, RI, March, 2015.
2015 NCECA Panel Discussion: Maintaining an Original Voice, Providence, RI, March, 2015
Artist Lecture and Workshop, Northwest Missouri State University, April, 2015.
2014
Artist Lecture, C.R.E.T.A. artist residency center, Rome, Italy, Oct, 2014.
Artist Lecture, 7th Bienale De Ceramica, El Vendrell, Spain, Oct, 2014.
Artist Lecture, The Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Sept, 2014.
Artist Lecture and Workshop Presenter, The University of Kansas, March, 2014.
Artist Lecture, Kansas State University, Feb 2014.
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, Sept, 2013.
2012
Artist Lecture, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, Dec, 2012.
Artist Lecture, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, Nov, 2012.
Artist Lecture to coincide with the solo exhibition An Exercise in Fluidity, Mount Mercy University, November, 2012.
Artist Lecture, The University of Iowa, Oct, 2012.
Artist Lecture, The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT, July, 2012.
Artist Lecture, Mount Mercy University, April, 2012.
Visiting Artist Lecture and Student Critiques, The University of Wisconsin Madison, March, 2012.
Invitational Workshop Demonstrator and Artist Lecture, Archie Bray Days, The University of Montana, Feb, 2012.
2011
Exhibition Curator: We Met in Iowa: Pittsburgh, KS, and Richmond, IN, 2012-13.
RESIDENCIES
2014
Arists invite Artists Residency, Process and Metamorphosis, Watershed Center for
The Ceramic Arts, NewCastle, Maine.
2011-12
MJD Fellow and long term Artist in Residence, The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art, Helena, Montana.
PUBLICATIONS
2020
Het grote Keramiek, Andrew Casto, Schoonheid Gebeurt, pg. 46-51, Mels Boom, Amsterdam.
2019
52nd Annual NCECA Journal, “Trans-Pacific Dialogue, Marrying Form and Surface
Across the Globe”; Article in conjunction with exhibition of the same title.
2018
51st Annual NCECA Journal, “A Device for Measuring the Sonification of Everyday Things”; Article in conjunction with exhibition of the same title.
2015
49th Annual NCECA Journal, “The Poetics of Growth” (personal narrative and images).
2011-present
Art Axis, contemporary ceramics artist resource, online profile visible at www.artaxis.org.
Access Ceramics, contemporary ceramics image resource, online profile visible at www.accessceramics.org.
2011
Photo credit: Ceramics Monthly Magazine, October, 2011.
Photo credit: 45th Annual NCECA Journal, March, 2011.
2010
The Weight of Knowing,The University of Iowa Press, May, 2010.
2007
Comment Feature, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, April, 2007.
REVIEWS/FEATURES
2016
TL Mag, Featured as upcoming artist at Puls Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, December, 2016.
Ceramics at a Breakthrough Art Fair, Editor’s Roundtable, by Matthew Kangas, Visual Art Source, accessible via http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=17&aID=3553
Art LTD, March/April, 2016 “Beyond the Object: The 72nd Scripps Ceramic Annual” pg. 24.
Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Image feature, February, 2016.
2015
…But Why Ceramics? New Ceramic Magazine, by Palma Bobos, Sept/Oct, 2015.
Exhibition Review, Constructed (Exhibition at Eastern Oregon University) in CFile, online journal, www.cfileonline.org.
Ceramics Now Magazine, interview and images, Issue 3, June, 2015.
2014
Seventh Bienale De Ceramica, catalog, article by Marius Domingo, critic and juror.
2013
Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft, edited by Peter Held and Heather Sealy-Lineberry, The University of North Carolina Press and Arizona State University.
Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Image featured, December 2013.
Ceramics Monthly Magazine, October 2013, exhibition image from Visions in Clay 2013.
2012
Ceramic Excellence, featured artist monograph produced via The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art, in conjunction with The Jentel Critical Writing Residency Program, written by Tanya Hartman.
2010
DAO Clayform, 2010 no.2, Published by Fuping Pottery Art Village, Fuping, China.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Regidoria de Cultura, El Vendrell, Spain
The Arizona State University Museum of Art Ceramics Research Center
Centre Culturel d’Andenne, International Ceramics Collection, Andenne, Belgium
Foundacio Apelles Fenosa, Terragona/Catalonia, Spain
UNICUM International Collection, Carinthian Gallery of Fine Arts, Gradec, Slovenia
Fidelity Investments Corperate Art Colelction
The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
FuLe International Ceramic Art Museum, DAO Art Space, Fuping, China
Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, USA
Maruchu Gallery, Toki City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Fractured: Andrew Casto, David Hicks, Francie Bishop Good
June 10–July 29, 2023
Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects
September 17 - October 22, 2022
In Pursuit of A Meaningful Mark
March 14 - April 25, 2020
Both Galleries
Both Galleries
Linda Lopez, Andrew Casto, and David Hicks in Vigorous Form
November 17, 2017/by FulanoAndrew Casto, Linda Lopez and David Hicks in Architectural Digest
November 17, 2017/by Frances TromblyThe New Zeitgeist of Contemporary Ceramics
November 13, 2017/by Frances TromblyAndrew Casto: Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize 2017 Shortlist
May 12, 2017/by FulanoRevelatory Dérive
April 5, 2017/by FulanoAndrew Casto
Andrew Casto:Revelatory Dérive
March 11 - May 14, 2017
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