Anthony Sonnenberg
1986, Graham TX
Lives and works in Fayetteville AR
Represented by Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX and Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles CA & Palm Beach FL
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Education:
2012 University of Washington, Seattle WA, M.F.A. SCULPTURE
2009 University of Texas, Austin TX, B.A. Art Studio with an emphasis in Italian and Art
History 2005-09
2007 University of Texas Study Abroad Program, Castilion Fiorentino, Italy Summer 2007
Teaching:
2021 Adjunct Professor, Ceramics, Hendrix College, Conway AR
2019 Instructor - Summer Course @ Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residencies, Saugatuck MI
2018-2021 Visiting Assistant Professor in Ceramics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR
2017 Instructor - Glassel School of Art @ MFAH, Houston TX
- Ceramic
2015-2017 Adjunct Professor - Lone Star College, Kingwood TX
2011-2012 Instructor of Record- University of Washington, Seattle WA - Ceramic and 3D Foundations
Guest Lecturer/Panel Member:
2023 - Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Delta Voices Panel Member, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts - Little Rock, AR
Herron School of Art - Indianapolis, IN
2022 - Towson University - Towson MD
2021 Panel Member, "Trends in Materiality: Ephemeral Clay " Panel Discussion, part of Contemporary Clay 2021 at Wester Carolina University
Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore MD
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX
Baylor University, Waco, TX
2020 Eastern Pribble Lecture Series, Pratt MWP College of Art and Design,
Brooklyn and Utica NY
2018 California State University, Long Beach University of Texas, Austin TX
South West School of Art, San Antonio TX
2017 Maine College of Art, Portland ME 2013 University of Texas @ Austin
Pilchuck Glass School
Oregon College of Arts and Crafts
2012 Cornish College of the Arts
Residencies:
2022 Township 10 Ceramic Residency, Ashville NC
2021 Windgate Museum Of Art Inaugural Artist-In-Residence, Conway AR
2019 Inverse Performance Residency, Questa College, San Luis Obisbo, CA
2018 CSULB-CCC Summer Resident Artist, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2017 Ox-Bow School of artists and artist's residencies, Saugatuck MI
Yaddo Artist Residency
2016 Resident at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX 2015-16 Resident in the Lawndale Artists Studio Program, Houston, TX
2014 Artist in Resident at Sculpture Space, Utica NY
Summer Resident at Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena MT
2012 Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
2008 Summer Resident at Ox-Bow School of artists and artist's residencies, Saugatuck MI
Grants/Fellowships/Awards:
2014 RPF Grant - The New Foundation - Seattle WA
2013 Finalist, Betty Bowen Award, Seattle Art Museum
2011 Peoples Choice Award - The 2011 Juried Exhibition, Punch Gallery, Seattle WA
Julaine Martin Endowed Scholarship in the Arts
Jack and Layne Kleinhart Fellowship in the Arts
Selected Exhibitions:
Solo
2023 Cannons Buried in Flowers - Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Beauty Parlor - Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
You Make Me Feel Mighty Real - Windgate Museum of Art @Hendrix College, Conway AR
2021 I’m Going to Dance the Way I Feel - Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami FL
I’m Not Here. This Isn’t Happening - Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2019 In Times Like These - Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
2018 Still Stage, Set Life - Art Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont, TX
2017 Let Your Flowers Grow - Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
2016 Apollo and Dionysus - Art Palace Gallery, Houston TX 2015 Fat Equals Flavor - Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
With Wild Abandon - Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX
2013 Time After Time After Time – The Old Jail Art Center, Albany TX 2012 Still Lives – Vignettes, Seattle, WA
All That Glitters – CMA Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010 Beauty is Not Benign – Co-lab Projects, Austin, TX
2009 Let the Golden Age Begin – Old Post Office Museum and Art Center, Graham TX
Collaborations, two & three person
2019 Zina Al-Shukri – Paolo Arao – Anthony Sonnenberg, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Fransisco CA
2014 Pulliam Fine Arts presents: Anthony Sonnenberg and Saya Moriyasu - The Window Project, PDX Contemporary, Portland OR
2013 Self - with Rodrigo Valenzuela – 4Culture Gallery – Seattle WA 2012 Sticks and Stones – SOIL Gallery, Seattle WA
Best Not To Be - with Graham Downing – 2012 City Arts Festival – Seattle WA
Live Performance
2013 Captain Dirty Bear and his Dirty Cub Cadets Contemplate the Impossibility of Permanence in the Physical World - New and Greatest Hits: Selected Work by Texas Biennial Artists 2005-2011, Big Medium, Austin TX
2011 Captain Dirty Bear Ask a Question – Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA
Group
2021 Ceramics Now - Galerie Italienne - Paris, France
Fairyland - Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Magic Touch - Dinner Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change - The Toledo
Museum of Art, Toledo OH
State of the Arts 2020 - The Momentary, Bentonville, AR
The Backbone of Things - Te Auaha, Wellington, NZ
2019 Inaugural Exhibition - Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Solid Gold: Fuller at Fifty - Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA
Stonewall 50 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX
2018 Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
Rough Trade - Allegheny College Art Gallery, Meadville PA
In Residence - Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston TX
You Say Radical! I Say Feminist! - Archer Gallery @ Clark College, Vancouver WA
Inaugural Group Exhibition - Gavlak Gallery Palm Beach, Palm Beach FL
2017 Confabulations of Millenia, Institute of Contemporary Art @ MeCA, Portland ME
Morph - Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York NY
2016 Double Digits: Lawndale's Artist Studio Program, 10 Years and Counting, Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX
2014 Natural Beauties: Jewelry from Art Nouveau to Now, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
VANITAS (eat, drink and be merry), Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University, Seattle WA
Open Archive, Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2013 The Obsessive Unknown Origins of Grotesques Irregularity, LxWxH Gallery, Seattle WA
Nouveau Baroque – Gallery Fukai, Vancouver B.C. ONN/OF Light Festival – Seattle WA
2012 Thesis Exhibition – Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA 2012 2011 NEPO 5k DON’T RUN – NEPO House – Seattle WA 2011
The 2011 Texas Biennial –- Austin TX
-Curator: Virginia Rutledge, Independent Curator and Art Historian
Collections:
Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville AR The Archie Bray Permanent Collection, Helena, MT Fidelity Investment Corporate Collection
Beth DeWoody
Marguerite Hoffman
Deedie Rose
Catherine Rose