About Sergei Isupov
Isupov is a master of nonlinear narration. Combined with his unmatched, masterful skills as both painter and sculptor, the resulting works draw from the past and reflect on the present. Semi-autobiographical, Isupov’s intimate narratives interweave poignant representations of men and women, parents and children, shown alongside one another, their pets pointing to the naive sense of security we hold in our daily lives. These works explore individual, interior landscapes and the continually expanding dualities of the self within complex psychological relationships. Intensely personal yet universal, these works in the context of the present day, remind and call upon us to value, protect and preserve the precarious balance we all stand to lose at any present moment.
Isupov graduated from the Art Institute of Tallinn, Estonia in 1990 with a BA/MFA in Ceramics. In 1994 he immigrated to the United States. Isupov has a long international resume with work included in numerous collections and exhibitions, including the National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (TX), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Racine Art Museum (WI) and Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA).
His work is featured in numerous books, catalogs and magazines including Postmodern Ceramics, Sex Pots: Eroticism in Ceramics, The Ceramic Surface; Shy Boy, She-Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft; Confrontational Ceramics. He teaches workshops and lectures internationally at museums, universities, and art centers. Recent residencies include Archie Bray Foundation, Helena (MT), The International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemét, Hungary, and Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark.
In 2001 was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. He works in porcelain using traditional hand-building and sculpting techniques to combine surface and form with narrative painting using stains and clear glaze.
Sergei Isupov is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.
Visit Ferrin Contemporary online to learn more, and inquire about available works.
Biography
(b. 1963, Stavropol, USSR, lives in USA, Estonia)
Isupov is the son of a painter and sculptor. While born in Stravapole, Russia in 1963, Isupov was raised in Ukraine from 1964, educated in Kyiv and moved to attend the university of art in Tallinn, Estonia in 1984 at a time when these now separate countries were part of the USSR. Isupov’s family, his father, mother and brother, all established artists, currently reside in Kyiv, Ukraine. With the backdrop of the current war there and threats of Russian aggression in Estonia, Isupov’s studio work took on an urgency to counter the overwhelming anxiety and concern for his family facing down threats to their safety and the loss of their formerly peaceful lives. Now, with his wife, artist Kadri Pärnaments and their daughter Roosi, they divide their time between two studios/homes in the USA and Estonia.
Artist Statement
“I am a student of the universe and a participant in the harmonic chaos of contrasts and opposites: dark – light; male-female; good – evil. Working instinctually and using my observations, I create a new, intimate universe that reveals the relationships, connections and contradictions as I perceive them. I find clay to be the most versatile material and it is well suited to the expression of my ideas. I consider my sculptures to be a canvas for my paintings. All the plastic, graphic and painting elements of a piece function as complementary parts of the work.”
Often called an erotic Surrealist for his daring representations of sexuality, relationships, and human encounter, Isupov takes narrative subject matter and merges it with ceramic sculptural form. Drawing on personal experience, and human observation, he creates works that integrate autobiography with universal narrative.
He states, “Everything that surrounds and excites me is automatically processed and transformed into…an artwork. […] The essence of my work is not in the medium or the creative process, but in the human beings and their incredible diversity. When I think of myself and my works, I’m not sure I create them, perhaps they create me.”
While the robust, and racially distinct facial traits make each sculpture unique, they also make the body of work capable of representing universal experiences. The bold color palette, heavily tattooed faces, and textured surfaces relate these works to the aesthetics of traditional Russian art, as well as to contemporary styles of illustration.
“My work portrays characters placed in situations that are drawn from my imagination but based on my life experiences. My artworks capture a composite of fleeting moments, hand gestures, eye movements that follow and reveal the sentiments expressed. These details are all derived from actual observations but are gathered or collected over my lifetime. Through the drawn images and sculpted forms, I capture faces, body types and use symbolic elements to compose, in the same way as you might create a collage. These ideas drift and migrate throughout my work without direct regard to specific individuals, chronology or geography. Universalism is implied and personal interpretation expected. Through my work I get to report about and explore human encounters, comment on the relationships between man and woman, and eventually their sexual union that leads to the final outcome – the passing on of DNA which is the ultimate collection – a combined set of genes and a new life, represented in the child.”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
“Sergei Isupov: Proximal Duality”, TurnPark Art Space, West Stockbridge, MA
“SERGEI ISUPOV: Past & Present”, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
2019
“SURREAL PROMENADE: Sergei Isupov”, The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN
2018
“Directions,” Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
2017
“Sergei Isupov: Selections from Hidden Messages,” Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
2016
“Sergei Isupov: Hidden Messages,” Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
“Head On,” de Menil Gallery, Groton School, Groton, MA
“FIREFEST”, STARworks, Star, NC
2015
“Sergei Isupov,” Kasher | Potamkin, New York, NY
2014
“Promenade,” Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Collection Focus: Sergei Isupov,” Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
“New Work: Sergei Isupov,” Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Sergei Isupov,” Ferrin Contemporary at Independent Art Projects, North Adams, MA
“Here and There,” International Biennial of the Vallauris Institute, Hôtel de Ville, Vallauris, France
“Here and There, solo exhibition, HOP Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2013
“Call of the Wild,” Barry Friedman Gallery Ltd., New York, NY
“Here and There,” HOP Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010
“He + She,” Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
“Firmly Standing,” Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
2009
“Androgyny,” Solo Exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ; Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, MO
2008
“Androgyny,” The Preview, Solo Exhibition: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing; Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
2007
“Sculpture, Painting, Drawing,” Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, and Pittsfield, MA
2003
“Sculpture,” Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
1995
Solo Exhibition, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Solo Exhibition, Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1993
Solo Exhibition, Mosabaka Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Solo Exhibition, Vasa Gallery, Falun, Sweden
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Figuring Space“, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2022
“Our America, Whose America?”, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
“HEY! Le Dessin“, Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
2021
“PROJECT SANDS X: Beyond the Blue – An Exhibition of Ceramic Extraordinaires“, ART MACAO: Macao International Art Biennale 2021, Macao, China
2020
“ABOUT FACE: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture“, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Figge Art Museum, Davenport IA
2019
“Composing Form“, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
“ABOUT FACE: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture“, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
2018
“DIRECTIONS: Sergei Isupov“, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
“Masters in Craft“, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY
“Animal Kingdom”, William Baczek Gallery, Northampton, MA
2017
“SERGEI ISUPOV: Hidden Messages“, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
“Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational,” Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
“Alice in Wonderland,” Guldagergaard, Skælskør, Denmark
“Alice in Wonderland,” Officinesaffi, Milan, Italy
2016
“EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes,” Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
“Selected Work from Current Projects,” Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
NCECA pre-conference, exhibition & workshop, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS
“Recent American Ceramics from the Collection,” Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
“GrowlerFest,” Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS
“SERGEI ISUPOV: Head On“, de Menil Gallery at Groton School, Groton, MA
2015
“Selfies: 50 at 50”, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas
“Fashion in Art”, Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, Seattle, WA
“Convergence and Transcendence”, Icheon Special Exhibition at “Color: Ceramic Spectrum,” Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2015, Republic of Korea
“Of Earth + Sea: Contemporary Artists Respond to the New Bedford Whaling Museum Collection”, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA
“Family Affair: Sergei Isupov, Kadri Parnamets, Roosi Parnamets“, Independent Art Projects, North Adams, MA
“Revealing Identity”, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
“ErotiCLAY”, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
“Selected Works from Current Projects”, Ferrin Contemporary at Independent Art Projects, North Adams, MA
“Selected Works from Current Projects”, Ferrin Contemporary, New York Ceramics Fair & Glass Fair, New York, NY
“Everything is All White“, Kasher | Potamkin, New York, NY
“Immersion: Becoming You”, Kate Shin Gallery, Waterfall Mansion, New York, NY
“InCiteful Clay“, touring exhibition, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS, CSU, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
2014
“Intangible Beauty: Beautiful Women and the Endless Void,” Kasher | Potamkin, New York, NY
“Craft Matters,” Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
“Promenade,” Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Collection Focus: Sergei Isupov, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
“InCiteful Clay,” touring exhibition, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, FL, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
“Collaboration and Revelation,” Kohler Arts and Industry 40th Anniversary Exhibition, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
“TEN-IN-ONE,” Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
“Contemporary Figure,” Deedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
“Body Language,” Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
“The Bacchanalistas: Passions + Pleasure,” Bohemian Hall, New York, NY
2013
“Body and Soul,” Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
“Clay Bodies,” Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
“Animal Stories,” Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
SOFA: CHICAGO, presented by Barry Friedman, Chicago, IL
2012
“Clay & Prints, 8 artists 2 medium,” Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
“Covet,” Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
Heated Exchange, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL
2011
“Pursuit of Porcelain”, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
Art Miami, presented by Ferrin Gallery, Miami, FL
“Collective Minds: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramic Collection of Patrick Doust and
Richard North,” Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, IL
“Claybodies: Reinterpreting the Figure,” Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
“Luminous Impressions: Selections from Littleton Studios,” The Art Galleries, Florida Gulf Coast
University, Fort Myers, FL
2010
“The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories,” Albany Institute, Albany, NY
“Nude in Chicago,” Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Different Lines: Drawings by Craft Artists,” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
“Couples,” Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
“The Hermaphrodites: Living In Two Worlds,” Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Transcending the Figure: Contemporary Ceramics,” The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
“Corporeal Manifestations,” Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
“Illumination,” Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
2009
“Figuration to Fragmentation: The Human Form in Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture,” Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
“The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories,” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
“Steeped in History: The Art of Tea,” Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2008
“Voices,” 2008 NCECA Invitational Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA
“Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection,” Museum of Arts + Design, New York, NY
2007
“Shy Boy, She-Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft,” Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection: A Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2006
“Harvey K. Littleton and Friends: A Legacy of Transforming Object, Image and Idea,” Western Carolina University Museum of Fine Art, Dullowhee, NC
Resident and Invited International Artist Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation: North Gallery, Helena, MT
“Surface Tension,” JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, South Australia
“Life Insight: The Human Experience,” The Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY
“The Body Ceramic,” Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
“The Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft,” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2005
“The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Curator, Garth Clark
“A Tale to Tell,” John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Transformations: the Language of Craft,” National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
“120 Definitions of Temptation,” Korea Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2005, International Invitational Exhibition, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju City, Republic of Korea
“30 Ceramic Sculptors,” John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
“Portraiture: Patron, Artist, Subject,” Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
“House of Wonder: Surrealism + Still Life + Objects of Curiosity,” Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
“Terra Sutra: Erotica II,” Montage Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“Excess: A Group Exhibition,” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
“Faunatical: Ceramic Artists and the Forms of Nature,” 35th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Crossman Gallery, Whitewater, WI
“Particles of Passion: The Art of Clay,” Academy of Art Museum, Easton, MD
2004
“Standing Room Only,” Scripps 60th Ceramic Annual, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
“A Family of Artists,” Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
“New Prints 2004,″ International Print Center New York, NY
2003
“Triennial 9 Form and Content: Corporal Identity,” Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY & Museum fur Angewandte, Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
“Trans-Mission,” Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, GA
“Short Stories,” Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
“Subject-Me-Object,” Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
“Vivat! Chamotte,” Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
“Clay Works: American Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art,” USB Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Being Human: The Figure Expressed,” Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Erotic Life of Clay – Sex Pots,” San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2002
“Tastefully Tawdry,” Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Major Figures: Group Show of Figural Ceramics,” Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
“The Figure in Ceramic,” Lewis & Clark College; Portland, OR; Catalogue
“Figural Ceramics,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
“Big Head: Ceramic Sculpture on a Heroic Scale,” Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
“Biological Mutiny,” Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
“Terra Sutra: 21st Century Erotic Ceramics,” Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“Being Human: The Figure Expressed,” Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Modern Bestiary: Artists View the Animal Kingdom,” Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
2001
“American Ceramic Art at the New Millenium,” World Ceramics Exposition, Seoul, Korea; Catalogue
“Clay 2001,” Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
National Clay Invitational, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
“Erotica in Ceramic Art II,” Gallery Camino Real; Boca Raton, FL
31st Annual Ceramics Exhibit, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
“Expressing the Human Form,” Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
“Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection,” Mint Museum of Craft + Design; Charlotte, NC
2000
Everson Ceramic National, The 30th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Catalogue
“Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950 – 2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Catalogue
“Masterworks from the Collection, Mint Museum of Craft & Design,” Charlotte, NC; Catalogue
“Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic,” A Touring Exhibit with Exhibits USA curated by Judith Schwartz; University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, January 2000 – October 2001; Catalogue
“Bridge VI,” Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
“New Sculpture,” Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999
“Body Parts,” Group Show, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
“The Nude in Clay II,” Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine WI, curator Karen Johnson Boyd
1998
“Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art,” Group Show, J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
“5th Scripps Ceramic Annual,” Scripps College, Claremont, CA, curator Cindy Kolodziejski
“Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award,” Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, Juror Torbjorn Kvasbo
“To Have and To Hold,” Spruill Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Dress Up,” Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI
1997
“New Clay,” Two Person Show, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“All Figural: Many Media,” Contemporary Art from the Kamm Collection, California State University, Northridge, CA
“Go Figure: A National Ceramic Invitational,” Montgomery College, curator Kevin Hluch, Rockville, MD
1996
“Altered States: Contemporary American Ceramics,” Denver Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, CO
“Bags and Baggage: New Form/New Function,” Arrowmont School for the Arts, Juror, Ruth Cloudman, Gatlinburg, TN
1993
International Art Expo, Exhibition Center, Seoul, Korea
International Symposium, St. Petersburg, Russia
International Symposium, Kecskemet, Hungary
“From Dreams to Reality,” Northern European Art, traveling the Baltics, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark
1992
“Eastern European Ceramics,” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, Traveling USA
1990
“New Soviet Art,” Fourth Dimension Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“USSR Ceramists,” Charity Exposition, Hammer Center, Moscow
Oslo International Ceramics Symposium, Norway
PUBLIC ART
2022
“Miss Comet”, Mosaic installation produced for Reflections, Cummington Cultural District,
Cummington, MA & Hilltown Open Studio Tour, Hilltown Arts Alliance, Cummington, MA
2021
“Earth & Sky”, Fire Sculpture produced for ANNUAL TURNPARK SUMMER FESTIVAL: Healing
Flames, TurnPark Art Space, West Stockbridge, MA
Hilltown Open Studio Tour, Hilltown Arts Alliance, Cummington, MA
2017
Firefest, Guldageraard International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark
2016
Firefest, Starworks, Star, NC
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Center for the Decorative Arts, Little Rock, AR
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Kamm Teapot Foundation, Statesville, NC
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AB
Museum of Applied Art, Tuman, Russia
Museum of Arts + Design, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Summe, Ukraine
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Museum of International Ceramics, Keckemet, Hungary
Museum fur Angewandte, Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Norwegian Museum of Art, Trondheim, Norway
Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC
Tallinn Museum of Applied Art, Estonia
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
PUBLICATIONS
2023
“The Clay Studio: Figuring Space”, The Clay Studio, Exhibition Catalog
2021
“Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT”, Ferrin Contemporary, Exhibition Catalog
2018
“Ferrin Contemporary Gallery, It’s about some sort of transition or searching,” John Seven, The
Berkshire Eagle, May, 14, 2018
2016
“Family Affair: Isupov and Pärnamets,” Anthony Stellacio, Ceramics: Art and Perception,
No. 103, 2016
Heads Up in Groton, MA, Nancye Tuttle, Lowell Sun website, January 18, 2016
2015
“Sergei Isupov’s Surreal Ceramics Combine Paintings with Sculpture,” Anna Carey, Hi Fructose,
The New Contemporary Art Magazine, November 24, 2015
2014
“Sergei Isupov’s Surreal Ceramics Combine Paintings with Sculpture,” Anna CareyPosted,
Aug 29, 2014
“The Contemporary figure,” Dedee Shattuck Gallery, exhibition catalog, Westport, MA,
2014, 22–25
“Craft Matters,” Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2014
“Collection Focus: Sergei Isupov at RAM,” 2014, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WA
“A Clay Bestiary,” video, Bill Ivie, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, Dec. 2014
“Sergei Isupov’s Surreal Ceramics Combine Paintings with Sculpture,” Anna Carey,
High-Fructose, August
“New Sergei Isupov work added to the collection,” Nicole Lechner, ASU Museum blog, June, 2014
“Captured Imagination: The Enigma of Sergei Isupov,” Anthony E. Stellaccio, Ceramics Monthly,
May 2014, pgs 49–52
“Sergei Isupov: Un misterio dentro de un puzzle, dentro de un enigma,” Antonio Vivas, Revista
Internacional Ceramica, No. 135 2014, pgs 126–129
2013
Ceramics: Art and Perception – “Breaking Through Illusions”
Artist Profile By David Jones
2012
Ceramics: Art and Perception – “The Pursuit of Porcelain”
Group Show Review By Colette Copeland
2010
Ceramics: Art and Perception – “Transplanted and Transformed”
Artist Profile (with Akio Takamori)By Judith Schwartz
December 15, 2010 “He + She” The Ceramics of Sergei Isupov
Artist Profile By Bobbie Leigh
August 7, 2010 Sergei Isupov: Estonia’s Daily News
Artist Profile By Tanel Veenre
July 25, 2009
Financial Times – “Nature is Right Outside My Door”
Artist Profile By Sonya Bekkerman
November 5, 2006
Chicago Tribune – “Art Show a Study in Body Language”
SOFA Chicago 2006 Review By Mary Daniels
2001
“Sergei Isupov”, Essay By Susan Barry
1999
“Erotica in Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual & Suggestive”, Exhibition Article By Leon Nigrosh
“Whirlwind Unguarded Love Teapot”, Essay By Timothy Anglin Burgard
WORKSHOPS
2023
Facial Features with Sergei Isupov & Jonathan Christensen Caballero Workshop & Lecture:
Figuring Space Symposium, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2020
The Ceramics Congress Korea 2020, Internationally Online Conference, The Ceramic School
2019
Figural Sculpture: Ideation to Materialization, Studio Asuurheraamika, Tallin, Estonia
Figural Sculpture: Ideation to Materialization, Project Art, Cummington, MA
2018
Figure – Ground: Illustrated Sculpture Workshop with Sergei Isupov, Project Art, Cummington, MA
Figure – Ground: Illustrated Sculpture Workshop with Sergei Isupov, Project Art, Tallinn, Estonia
2017
Figure – Ground: Illustrated Sculpture Workshop with Sergei Isupov, Project Art, Cummington, MA
Master Potter Series: Sergei Isupov “Layered in Surreality,” Workshop, Walnut Creek Center for Community Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Lecture, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Lecture, Sierra Nevada College, Holman Arts and Media Center, Incline Village, NV
2016
NCECA Pre-conference Workshop, Providence, RI
Visiting Artist Workshop, Community Clay Association at the College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
2015
Artist-in-Residence and workshop presenter, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2014
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, Lecture and Juror of annual exhibition
2012-3
Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskø, Denmark
2012
February 16 – 19, Alabama Clay Conference, Birmingham, AL
March 16 – 18, Travel Arte, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
April 21, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
2009
Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
2008
James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Workshop: Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC
Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO
James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Lecture, Renwick Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2007
International Ceramics Studio, Artist Residency, Kecskemet, Hungary
Estonia, University of Tallinn, Artist in Residence
2006
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Artist Talk
JamFactory, Adelaide, South Australia, Artist in Residence
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT, Artist in Residence, International Symposium
Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, Figurative Sculpture in Porcelain, three-week session
2005
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art
Yixing Conference, Yixing, China, Guest Artist
2004
Hawaii Craftsmen Society, Honolulu, HI
Kawai Crafts Guild, Kawai, HI
2003
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Program at Kohler Company, Kohler, WI
Artist in Residence, Littleton Studios, Spruce Pine, NC
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, Workshop Presentation
Santa Fe Clay; Santa Fe, NM; Visiting Artist
American Craft Council Southeast Regional Conference, Longwood College, Farmville, VA, Workshop Presentation
2001
NCECA, Charlotte, NC, demonstrating artist
State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
2000
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Workshop Presentation
Figurative Sculpture in Porcelain, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, Two-week session
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Ceramic National Panel
Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL, Lecture and Demonstration
Carnegie Museum of Art and Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, Lecture
Littleton Studios, Spruce Pine, NC
1999
workshop presentation, SOFA New York, NYC, Interview with Judith Schwartz University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH,
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
1998
Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
Scripps College, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Renwick Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Workshop Presentation, Washington DC
SOFA Miami 1997, Miami, FL, Slide Presentation
1996
Indiana State University Southeast, New Albany, IN
