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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
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Master of Fine Arts, Plastic Arts, 1981
Master of Arts, Ceramics, 1979
Takatori Seizan Pottery, Kyushu, Japan, 1975
Study of Tea Ceremony Ware
Achieved the rank of Journeyman Potter
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 1969 to 1973
Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, Literature, 1973
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco, Represented by Diane Rosenstein Gallery
2019
Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, 2019
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL, 2019
Gallerie LeFebvre et Fils, Paris, France, 2016, 2017, 2018, and Beirut Art Fair, 2018
Gallerie Dumonteil, Shanghai, China, 2018
Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2011, 2013, 2015
Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA, 1993
Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, 1988
Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1986 and 1984
San Francisco State University, CA, 1986
I Dreamt I Was Furniture, de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA, 1986
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 1982
Elements Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 1980
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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 FairMagen H. Gallery, FOG Design, San Francisco, CANext: 3D, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
2016
Salon Art and Design, New York, Galerie Lefebvre et Fils and Galerie du Passage, Paris, France
2011
Group Shot, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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
Artists Who Are Educators, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco
1989
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?, Group Exhibition, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
1988
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
On and Off the Wall: Shaped and Colored, Oakland Museum of California, CA
1984
Private Domains, Elements Gallery, New York City, NY
New Directions in the New Decorative, University of Missouri, Columbia, MS
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
American Porcelain, New Dimensions in an Ancient Art, Smithsonian Institution, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Luna, Catalog essay by Christopher Miles, for Galerie Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, 2016
Ceramic Vessels, Vehicles for Color and Texture, Review in Los Angeles Times of Solo Exhibition at Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, 2013 by Leah Ollman
Jay Kvapil, Brilliance, Kathleen Whitney, article and color spread in Ceramics Monthly, Magazine, 2015
Sculpture: Contemporary Past, Ancient Future, Cal State Dominguez Hills, 1996
The Craft and Art of Clay (general ceramics text), Susan Peterson, Englewood Cliffs,New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1992
Ceramics Monthly, Review of NCECA Exhibition at Golden West College, 1993
Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Now, juried exhibition at the Downey Museum of Art, 1990
Tableau, review of exhibition at Dorothy Weiss Gallery, Fine Arts Magazine, The Netherlands, December, 1986
Taiwan,1985
Jay Kvapil, color photo exposé, review of Domestic Monuments, exhibition at the Dorothy Weiss Gallery, Ceramics Monthly, November, 1984
Cultural Kitsch is Capital, review of On and Off the Wall…, exhibition at the
Oakland Museum, Miami News, July, 1984
Off the Wall Art: It’s Not So Crazy, review, Miami Herald, July 15, 1984
Images in Clay Sculpture, Charlotte Speight, New York, Harper & Row, 1983
On and Off the Wall: Shaped and Colored at the Oakland Museum, review,
Images and Issues, January/February, 1983
Looking at Art the Way it is Meant to be Seen, review, Oakland Tribune, October 9, 1983
Art and/or Craft: USA and Japan, catalog to the exhibition, Kanazawa, Japan,
MRO Publications, 1983
American Craft, Construction, June, 1983, p. 68
NCECA: San Jose ’82, book published to accompany the conference, Chamberlain,
Bettelheim, Kvapil, San Jose, CA, NCECA Publications, 1982
Neriage and Nerikome at Marcia Rodell, review of exhibition, Ceramics Monthly,January,1982
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
Dean, Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication, California State
University Northridge, 2014-15
Director, School of Art, California State University Long Beach, 2012-13
Interim Dean, College of the Arts, CSULB, 2009-11
Member, The Commission on Accreditation, National Association of Schools of Art and Design, 2012-2018
Member of the Board, Council for Long Beach Arts, 2009-2011
Associate Dean, College of the Arts, California State University Long Beach, 2007-09
Graduate Advisor and NASAD Re-Accreditation Leader Department of Art, CSULB, 2005 to 2007
Department Chair, Department of Art, California State University, Long Beach,1995 to 2005
Professor of Art, California State University, Long Beach, 1997 to present, currently Emeritus
Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee, National Association of Schools of Art and Design, 2006 to 2012
Member of the Board, National Association of Schools of Art and Design, 2002 to 2012
Member, Advisory Board for Pubic Art, Long Beach Public Corporation for the Arts,1998 to 2003
Associate Professor of Art, California State University, Long Beach, 1992 to 1997
Assistant Professor of Art, California State University, Long Beach, 1986 to 1992
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, 1985 to 1986
Conference Director, National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts, 1981 to 1982
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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