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SERGEI ISUPOV
Born: August 17, 1963, Stravapole, Russia EDUCATION: 1990 Art Institute of Tallinn, Estonia B.A./M.F.A. Ceramics 1982 Ukrainian State Art School, Kiev AWARDS: 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award 1995 Juror’s Merit Award for Excellence in Ceramics; Transitions ‘95, Kentucky Arts Council Marketing Program 1991 “Best Young Estonian Artist” (under age 30) by the Union of Artists of Estonia Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Estonia 1990 Invitation Scholarship to 1990 Oslo International Ceramics Symposium PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Arkansas Center for the Decorative Arts, Littlerock, AR Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Daum Museum of 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 Houston Museum of Art, Houston, TX Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA Sparta Teapot Museum, Sparta, NC Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Tallinn Museum of Applied Art, Estonia Museum of Applied Art, Tuman, Russia Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Summe, Ukraine Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Norwegian Museum of Art, Trondheim, Norway Museum of Arts + Design, New York, NY Museum of International Ceramics, Keckemet, Hungary Museum fur Angewandte, Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC PUBLICATIONS: Confrontational Ceramics, Dr. Judith Schwartz; 2008; University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA Masters: Porcelain, Curated by Richard Burkett, 2008, Lark Books, A Division of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.: New York, NY Voices: Invitational Exhibition, 2008, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts .Cent “The Basso & Brooke Issue, ‘Ornament’”, Summer 2008, “Lullabies” Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection, Gerald W.R. Ward, Julie Muniz, Matthew Kangas; 2007, MFA Publications, Boston, MA “Teapots: Makers and Collectors”, 2006, Dona Z. Meilach, Schiffer Publishing The Figure in Clay, 2005. Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, New York, NY The Ceramic Narrative; Matthias Osterman, 2005; A&C Black Publishers, London, UK Electric Kiln Ceramics, Richard Zakin, 2005 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors; 2005, John Natsoulas Press, Davis, CA Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface, Robin Hopper, 2004, Krause Publications Inc., Iola, Wisconsin Art and Antiques, May 2004, “All Fired Up”, Bobbie Leigh 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form, 2004, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, New York, NY Kerameiki Techni - International Ceramic Art Review, Issue 44, August 2003, “Trans Mission by Andy Nasisse Sex Pots: Eroticism in Ceramics, Paul Mathieu, 2003, Rutgers University Press, Rutgers, NJ American Style, 2003, “Fragile”, Jane Friedman Ceramic Arts & Perception, 2003, Issue 51, “Sergei Isupov – On Multi stable Ground, Glen Brown Penland Book of Ceramics: Masterclasses in Ceramic Techniques, Deborah Morgenthal, 2003, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, New York, NY 500 Teapots: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design, 2002 Kathy Triplett, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, New York, NY The Ceramic Surface; Matthias Osterman, 2002; A&C Black Publishers, London, UK Kerameiki Techni – International Ceramic Art Review, Issue 38, August 2001, Review by Susan Barry Postmodern Ceramics, Mark Del Vecchio, 2001; Thames & Hudson; New York, NY American Craft Magazine, October 2001, “Ceramic National 2000”, Janice T. Paine The Artful Teapot, Garth Clark, 2001, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, NY Ceramics Monthly, April, 2000, Erotic Clay Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection; Mary Douglas; 2000; Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object; Leslie Ferrin; 2000; GUILD Publishing, Madison, WI Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950 - 2000; Jo Lauria; 2000; Rizzoli International Publications, NY, NY Confrontational Clay: Artist as Social Critic; Dr. Judith Schwartz; 2000; Exhibits USA, Mid Atlantic Arts Alliance; Kansas City, MO Everson Ceramic National 2000; Tom Piche’; Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, NY American Ceramics, 13/2 (May), 1999, “Sergei Isupov,” Rick Newby American Craft Magazine, February, 1999, "Sergei Isupov," by Karen Chambers Ceramics Monthly, February, 1999, “Nude in Clay” Ceramic Arts & Perception, 1999, Issue 38, “Erotica in Ceramic Art, Sexual, Sensual & Suggestive”, Leon Nigrosh Kerameiki Techni - International Ceramic Art Review, Issue 30, December 1998, "Sergei Isupov: From Stavropol to Louisville," by Karen Chambers SELECTED RESIDENCIES: 2007 International Ceramics Studio, Artist Residency, Kecskemet, Hungary Estonia, University of Tallinn, Artist in Residence 2006 Jam Factory, 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, 3 wk. session 2003 Artist in Residence; John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Program at Kohler Company, Kohler, WI Artist in Residence; The Littleton Studios, Spruce Pine, NC 2000 Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, Figurative Sculpture in Porcelain, 2 wk. session 1993 Director’s Scholarship, six-week residency, International Ceramics Center, Kecskemet, Hungary SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection, Museum of Arts + Design, New York, NY 2007 Solo Exhibition: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing; Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA and Pittsfield, MA 2006 Harvey K. Littleton and Friends: A Legacy of Transforming Object, Image and Idea, Western Carolina University Museum of Fine Art, Dullowhee, NC 2005 The Artful Teapot:20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Curator, Garth Clark 2004 “Standing Room Only”, 2004 Scripps 60th Ceramic Annual, Williamson Gallery, 2003 ”Triennial 9 Form and Content: Corporal Identity”, Museum of Arts and Design, 2002 Tastefully Tawdry, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2001 “American Ceramic Art at the New Millennium”; World Ceramics Exposition; 2000 Everson Ceramic National; The 30th Ceramic National Exhibition; 1999 “Body Parts”, Group Show, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI 1998 “Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art”,Group Show, JB Speed Museum, Louisville,KY 1997 “New Clay”, Two Person Show, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996 “Altered States: Contemporary American Ceramics”, Denver Center 1995 Solo Exhibition, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1994 Solo Exhibition, Mosabaka Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 1992 Eastern European Ceramics, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, Traveling USA 1990 New Soviet Art, Fourth Dimension Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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