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Jay Kvapil is a California artist whose work has been shown at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Oakland Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and numerous other national and international exhibitions.
About Jay Kvapil
Jay Kvapil is a California artist whose work has been shown at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; the Oakland Museum; Scripps College; the San Jose Museum of Art; San Francisco State University; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; and numerous other national and international exhibitions. Jay is currently represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery, Galerie LeFebvre et Fils, Paris, and Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles. Recently, his work has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Sevres National Ceramics Museum, France, and the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento, California.
Upon finishing undergraduate studies, Jay studied tea ceremony ceramics in Japan at the Takatori Seizan Pottery on the island of Kyushu in Southern Japan in 1974-75. After returning to the United States, he received both his MA and MFA from San Jose State University where he also served as Conference Director for the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts Conference in San Jose, 1982.
Now Professor Emeritus, he served numerous roles at California State University Long Beach over 35 years, including Head of the Ceramics Program, Director of the School of Art, Associate Dean, and Interim Dean for the College of the Arts. He also served as Dean of the College of Arts, Media, and Communication at CSU Northridge. At the national level, he served as Board Member, Treasurer, and Member of the Commission on Accreditation of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
Jay Kvapil CV
EDUCATION
1981
MFA San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1979
MA San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1975
Study of Tea Ceremony Ware, Takatori Seizan Pottery, Kyushu, Japan
1973
BA University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Recent Landscapes, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Jay Kvapil: Lip, Body, and Foot, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Lost Words, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mimesis, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2018
That Obscure Object of Desire, Gallerie LeFebvre et Fils, Paris, France
Gallerie Dumonteil, Shanghai, China
2017
Gallerie LeFebvre et Fils, Paris, France
Water and Earth, Gallery Dumonteil, Shanghai, China
Landscapes, Magen H. Gallery, New York City, NY
2016
Luna, Galerie LeFebvre et Fils, Paris, France
2015
Chaos and Control, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
New Works, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Vessles 2010-2011, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1990
Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Now, juried exhibition at the Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1988
Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1986
Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
I Dreamt I Was Furniture, de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA
1984
Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982
Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1980
Elements Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York City, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Twelve, Group Exhibition at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
For The Love Of Clay, Galerie Lulla, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Obrigado à Terra, with Gallerie Lefebvre et Fils, Palacio Cadaval, Portugal
Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Cup, ATLA, Los Angeles, CA
Think Pinker, Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Matter & Form, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
A Confluence of Coastal Creativity, Mindy Solomon Gallery & Albertz Benda Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Untitld Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Rough Edges: An Exploration of Ceramic Form, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2019
The Seven Year Itch, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Transfigured., Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Collective Design Fair
Magen H. Gallery, FOG Design, San Francisco, CA
Next: 3D, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
2016
Salon Art and Design, New York, Galerie Lefebvre et Fils and Galerie du Passage,
Paris, France
2011
Group Show, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Ceramic Sculpture: Contemporary Past, Ancient Future, California State University,
Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
1995
Small Wonders, Brand Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1993
Ceramics ’93, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
1990
Satellite Exhibition, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1989
Artists Who Are Educators, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1988
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?, Group Exhibition, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
Professor’s Choice, Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
The Architectural Impact, Carr Gallery, Houston, TX
1985
International Ceramic Invitational, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
The Scripps Invitational, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1984
Private Domains, Elements Gallery, New York City, NY
New Directions in the New Decorative, University of Missouri, Columbia, MS
1983-1985
On and Off the Wall: Shaped and Colored, Oakland Museum of California, CA
1983
Building, Meyer, Breier, Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Small Spaces, Private Lives, Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Construction, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1982
Art and/or Craft, USA and Japan, Kanazawa City, Japan
The Painted Object, Meyer, Breier, Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pacific Currents: Ceramics ’82, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1981
American Porcelain, The Hand and The Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Form and Figure, Bay Area Ceramic Sculpture, CSU, Stanislaus, CA
Ceramics, Fourteen Artists, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Sixteen Bay Area Ceramists, Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
1980-1984
American Porcelain, New Dimensions in an Ancient Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. (4-year national & international tour)
ART FAIRS
2020
Untitled Art Fair, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
Gallerie Dumonteil, Design Shanghai Fair
Seattle Art Fair, Diana Rosenstein Gallery
2018
Gallerie Dumonteil, Guardian Fine Art Asia, Beijing
Gallerie LeFebvre et Fils, Paris, France, Beirut Art Fair
2017
Collective Design Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery
Magen H. Gallery, FOG Design, San Francisco
Magen H. Gallery, The Salon Art and Design
2016
Collective Design Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2022
Terrebonne, Jacqueline, The Artful Home, Galerie Magazine, Winter 2022/2023
2016
Luna, Christopher Miles, Galerie Lefebvre et Fils, 2016
2013
Review: Kvapil’s Ceramic Vessels, Vehicles for Color and Texture, Leah Ollman, Los
Angeles Times, Novemenber 21, 2013
2015
Jay Kvapil, Brilliance, Kathleen Whitney, Ceramics Monthly, 2015
2014
Ceramic Artist, Art Professor Jay Kvapil Named Dean of CSUN’S Curb College, California State University Northridge
1996
Sculpture: Contemporary Past, Ancient Future, Cal State Dominguez Hills, 1996
1993
Review of NCECA Exhibition at Golden West College, Ceramics Monthly, 1993
1992
The Craft and Art of Clay, Susan Peterson, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992.
1990
Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Now, juried exhibition at the Downey Museum of Art, 1990
1986
Tableau Fine Arts Magazine, The Netherlands, December, 1986
1985
Tableau Fine Arts Magazine, Taiwan, 1985
1984
Jay Kvapil, Ceramics Monthly, November, 1984
Cultural Kitsch is Capital, Miami News, July, 1984
Off the Wall Art: It’s Not So Crazy, Miami Herald, July 15, 1984
1983
Images in Clay Sculpture, Charlotte Speight, Harper & Row, New York, 1983
On and Off the Wall: Shaped and Colored at the Oakland Museum, Images and Issues,
January/February, 1983
Looking at Art the Way it is Meant to be Seen, Oakland Tribune, October 9, 1983
Art and/or Craft: USA and Japan, Kanazawa, Japan, MRO Publications, 1983
American Craft, Construction, June, 1983, p. 68
1982
NCECA: San Jose ’82, San Jose, CA, NCECA Publications, 1982
Neriage and Nerikome at Marcia Rodell, Ceramics Monthly, January,1982
1981
Porcelain, Traditions and New Visions, Jan Axel and Karen McCready, New York, NY,
Watson-Guptil Publications, 1981
American Porcelain, New Expressions in an Ancient Art, Lloyd E. Herman, Forest Grove,
Oregon, Timber Press, 1981
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1986-2020
Professor of Art, California State University, Long Beach, 1997 to present, currently Emeritus
2012-2018
Member, The Commission on Accreditation, National Association of Schools of Art and Design
2014-2015
Dean, Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication, California State University Northridge
2012-2013
Director, School of Art, California State University Long Beach
2006-2012
Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee, National Association of Schools of Art and Design
2002-2012
Member of the Board, National Association of Schools of Art and Design
2009-2011
Interim Dean, College of the Arts, CSULB
Member of the Board, Council for Long Beach Arts
2007-2009
Associate Dean, College of the Arts, California State University Long Beach
2005-2007
Graduate Advisor and NASAD Re-Accreditation Leader Department of Art, CSULB
1995-2005
Department Chair, Department of Art, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1998-2003
Member, Advisory Board for Pubic Art, Long Beach Public Corporation for the Arts
1992-1997
Associate Professor of Art, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1986-1992
Assistant Professor of Art, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1985-1986
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
1981-1982
Conference Director, National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts
COLLECTIONS
The Sevres Museum, Paris
Wonderul Company Collection
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Mr. Forrest Merrill
Mr. Jamie Bush
G. Ephis
Françoise Dumas
Jean-Victor Annichiarico
Jean-Marie Beaufils
Anne Neuve-Eglise
François Laffanour
Yves Venot
Jacques Grange
Pierre Passebon
Jean-Marc Lelouch
Eric Coatalem
Caroline & Paulo Pereira
Peter and Elvira Kerckhoffs
Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects
September 17 - October 22, 2022
Design District Pop-Up: Rough Edges, An Exploration of Ceramic Form
October 7 - October 30, 2020
Jay Kvapil: Mimesis
September 7-October 19, 2019
JAY KVAPIL’S WORK ACQUIRED FOR SÈVRES MUSEUM, FRANCE
April 12, 2018/by Frances TromblyArchitectural Digest mentions Jay Kvapil
March 13, 2018/by Frances TromblyJay Kvapil in Daniella on Design
March 13, 2018/by Frances TromblyJay Kvapil
Collective Design Fair 2018
March 9-11, 2018
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