John Roloff

Lives and works in Oakland, CA USA

Bio:
John Roloff is a visual artist who works conceptually with site, process and natural systems.  He is known for his ceramic works and outdoor kiln/furnace projects done from the 1970’s into the 1990’s, as well as other large-scale environmental projects, gallery installations and objects investigating geologic and natural phenomena.  Based on an extensive background and ongoing research in the earth sciences, he works from geochemical and global metabolic perspectives. His work since the late 1960’s engages poetic and site-specific relationships between material, concept and performance in the domains of geology, ecology, architecture, ceramics, industry, metabolic systems and history.  The ship is a central image of his work, metaphorically evoking psychological and transformative processes of the sea and land in geologic and contemporary time.   He studied geology at UC Davis, Davis, CA with Professor Eldridge Moores and others during the formative days of plate tectonics in the late-1960’s.  Contemporaneous with geology he studied art with Bob Arneson and William T. Wiley also at UC Davis.  He received a master’s degree in art in 1973 from CSU Humboldt.  In addition to numerous environmental, site-specific installations in the US, Canada and Europe, his work has been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, UC Berkeley Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, Photoscene Cologne and the Venice Architectural and Art Biennales, The Snow Show in Kemi, Finland and Artlantic: wonder, Atlantic City, NJ.  Art works in the public realm that explore geologic and related concepts can be found at sites such as: Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, I-5 Colonnade Park, Seattle, WA and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. He has received 3 artist’s visual arts fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a California Arts Council grant for visual artists and a Bernard Osher Fellowship at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA.   He is represented by Anglim Trimble Gallery in San Francisco and is Professor Emeritus of Sculpture/Ceramics at the San Francisco Art Institute.  More information is available at www.johnroloff.com.

Environmental Installations/Commissions:

2022     Anson Burlingame and the Principles of Eternal Justice, Burlingame, CA.
2021     Virtual Harvest, Coleman Highline/P4, Santa Clara, CA.
2017     Stratigraphic Columns/Salinia, 1440 Multiversity, Scotts Valley, CA
2017     Expanded Ceramics/Earth Reversal/Peat Excavation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2016     Land/Sea: Hawkesbury Facies, Sydney College of Art, Sydney, Australia.
2016     Magma Chambers (Corvus/Orchidacaea/Kolumbo), Domaine Sigalas, Santorini, Greece.
2016     Venice Substructure Complex, site studies/concepts, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy
2015     Landscape Projection: The Sea within the Land (Salinian/Franciscan), Fung Collaboratives Carmel site, Carmel, CA.
2013     Rapson Group, Rapson Hall, College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2012-13 Étude Atlantis, Atlantic City Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ, Fung Collaborative Projects
2009-10 Quaternary Explorations: Tule Elk Habitat, site studies, Presidio, San Francisco, CA
2008-12 San Francisco Wharf Complex, site studies, NFS/Bernard Osher/NEA grant/fellowship, San Francisco, CA
2006-12 Oakland Estuary Channel Project, with Lewis deSoto and Sasaki & Associates, Oakland, CA
2006     The Seventh Climate (Paradise Reconsidered), I-5 Colonnade Project, Pro Parks Levy, Seattle, WA.
2006     Protogaea Civica III (Santa Rosa, CA), Stratigraphic Column III (San Andreas), Sonoma Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA.
2005     Protogaea Civica (Geology Flags: Franciscan Formation/San Francisco, CA II), San Francisco Civic        Center, San Francisco, CA
2005     Valley Scan, San Fernando Valley Metro Rapid Transitway Project, Los Angeles, CA.
2004     Pure Mix, The Snow Show, Kemi, Finland (collaboration with Diller + Scofidio).
2004     Site Index, Rapson Hall, College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2002     Stratigraphic Column, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA.
2000     Wrangelia I & II, proposal drawings, commissioned by the Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2000-05 The Middle of the World, Staten Island Ferries artwork, NYC, NY (collaboration with Werner Klotz).
1999     Eocene/Pliocene, Paradise Wood Sculpture Grove, Santa Rosa, CA.
1996     Pitzer Project: A Prototype System for the Production and Redistribution of Ancient Sunlight, Pitzer          College, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA.
1996     Compost Project, ALTER Project, Slippery Rock College, Slippery Rock, PA.
1993     Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain (Seasons of the Sea ‘Adrift’), Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA.
1993     Fragment: The Hidden Sea (Island of Refuge), Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1992     Metabolism and Mortality/O2, Tyler School Of Art, Elkins Park, PA.
1989     Humboldt Ship, CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA.
1989     Vanishing Ship (Third State), Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA.
1988     Oculus:  Dead Sea/Oil Field, Arvada Art Center, Arvada, CO.
1988     Oculus:  Emerson/ Beebe, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and The Santa Barbara Museum of      Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA.
1988     Untitled (Earth Orchid), Hartford School of Art, Hartford, CT.
1988     Isla De Umunnum (Island of the Hummingbirds), Elkhorn Slough Estuarine Reserve, Moss Landing, CA.
1987     Talking Tree/Glacial Epoch, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV.
1986     Winter Stream/Drifting Rowboat (Overturned), San Francisco, CA.
1986     Ancient Valley (Sea Floor), Swanston Light Rail Station, Sacramento, CA.
1985     Ancient Shoreline:  Island for Lake Lahontan, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV.
1984     Wave Ship (of Fire)/Ice Ship (of Glass), Detroit, MI.
1984     Collision:  Lava Ship/Trellis Ship, San Rafael, CA.
1982     Mountain Kiln/Black Orchid, Sculpture 12/ISC, Oakland, CA.
1981     Wave Kiln 1 and 2, Mills College, Oakland, CA.
1980     Prairie Starfish/Glacial Epoch, Craven, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1980     Land Monitor/Fired Volcanic Boulder, Albuquerque, NM.
1979     Beach Kiln (Monitor), Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA
1979     Fired and Glazed Earth Piece, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.

One Person Exhibitions:
2024     Sentient Terrains/LA, Dog’s Breakfast, Los Angeles, CA
2023     Sentient Terrains, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022     Venice Substructure Complex, Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice, It.
2019     The Sea Within the Land, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012     The Sea Within the Sea, Sherwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011     Phantom Herd and Selected Works, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2006     Thermodynamics of Silence/New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2002     Holocene Passage, “Intervening the Space, “Archivio Emily Harvey, “NEXT,” La Biennale di Venezia, Mostra Internazionale di Architettura Venice, Italy.
2001     Original Depositional Environment, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2000     John Roloff: Displacements, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalog).
1999     Morphology of Change, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY.
1999     Terrain into Architecture: Projection and Displacement, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD.
1998     The Rising Sea, Images and Constructions from South Florida and Other Selected Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida (catalog).
1998     Dialogues with Nature, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY.
1998     Agricola:  Four Works 1994-97, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA.
1996     Draped Flames, Manchester CG, Pittsburgh, PA.
1992     Metafossil, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
1989     Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1988     Hartford School Of Art, Hartford CT.
1987     University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
1986     Selections from: Night Ship/Dark Current/The Frozen Sea, Himovitz-Solomon Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1985     John Roloff: Ceramics and Drawings, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV.
1984     Night Ships/The Frozen Sea, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1982     Kiln Projects: Works in Progress, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
1981     Theo Portnoy Gallery, New York, NY.
1981     Land Monitors, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1980     Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1979     Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1977     Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA.
1975     The River at the Bottom of the Sea – In Exile, Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA.
1975     University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
1973     CSU, Humboldt, Arcata, CA.

Group Exhibitions:
2024     Becoming Geological/Neo-Mineralia, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2024     Land Art/Site Specific Projects / We are Open Worldwide, CREA-Cantieri-del-Contemporaneo / NoTitleGallery, Venice, Italy.
2022     Synapse 15: Intersections of Art and Science, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH.         (curated by Mathew Kolodziej, catalog).
2022     Divinations, with Neil Forrest, Sheraton Grand Hotel, NCECA Conference, Sacramento, CA.
2019     Strange, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
2019     Two Sites with a Similar Problem, with Neil Forrest, Architecture Library, Rapson Hall, University of        Minnesota, NCECA Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
2018      40 by 40: The Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA (curated by Michael Schwager, catalog).
2017     Diderot/Forrest/Roloff, with Neil Forrest, Bison Building, NCECA Conference, Portland, OR
2017     Organic Logic: Howard Fried, John Roloff, Mark Thompson, 500 Capp St., San Francisco, CA (curated by Tanya Zimbardo, SFMOMA).
2016     Future Stratigraphies, Sydney College of Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
2016     Contemporary Scarecrows, Domaine Sigalas, Oia, Thera, Santorini, Greece.
2016     Craft for a Modern World, The Renwick Gallery Collection, Renwick Gallery, Washington DC (curated by Nora Atkinson, book).
2016     Great California Art Movement, 1960’s-1990’s: UC Davis Fine Art Alumni Exhibition, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA (catalog).
2015     Data Clay: Digital Strategies for Parsing the Earth, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA.
2015     Hydrarchy: Power, Globalism and the Sea, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
2014     Sym.b.osis: Art and Science Intersect, Agrella Art Gallery, Santa Rosa JC, Santa Rosa, CA
2014     The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture,              Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
2014     Great Lakes, with Neil Forrest, NCECA Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
2013     Solid Concept, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2012     Artists of the Metro Orange Line, Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, CA.
2011     Ground Water: Out of Sight/Site Out of Mind, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH.
2011     Overturned: Clay Without Limits, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, (curated by Gwen Chanzit, catalog).
2010-11 Habitats, Presidio, San Francisco, CA, Fore-Site Foundation, San Francisco, CA.
2010     Edges of Light, Benicia Art Center, Benicia, CA.
2009     Wonderland – TAAD/Queen Amie Studio, collaboration with Doug Hall, San Francisco, CA (curated by Lance Fung, catalog).
2009     Adventures of the Fire, The 5th World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea (curated by Jeonghee Choi, catalog).
2009     Perils in the Sublime (A Poetic Consideration of Ecology, Landscape and Reconstruction), NCECA 2009, Phoenix, AZ.
2008     Conceptual Art from California, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, n.n.k., Berlin, Germany, curated by Kathrin Becker.
2008     Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Kate Eilertson/Berin Golau (catalog).
2008     We Remember the Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, curated by Mary Ellen Johnson.
2008     Observing, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, curated by Susan Schwartzenberg.
2007     Excavations, Johansson Projects, Ego Park Gallery, Oakland, CA.
2005     High 5, site works, International Center for the Arts, SFSU, San Francisco, CA.
2005     Metro Orange Line Art Exhibition, Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA.
2005     Tales from the Kiln: Contemporary Ceramics, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
2005     Western Biennale of Art, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith (catalog).
2005     Technological Sublime, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, curated by Lisa Tamaris-Becker (catalog).
2004     Material Matters, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2004     Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces, Camera Work, San Francisco, CA, curated by Paule Levine (catalog-special issue of Camera Work Journal).
2004     Process, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, curated by Chandra Cerrito (catalog).
2004     Site Index: Rebecca Krinke/John Roloff, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2004     Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA and Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art,            Pasadena, CA (catalog), curated by Karen Moss.
2004     The Snow Show, Kemi, Finland, curated by Lance Fung.
2003     The Snow Show: New York, Scandinavia House, New York, NY.
2003     The Snow Show: Venice, Palazzo Zorzi, Venice Art Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2002     Richard Barnes, John Roloff, Kim Kuros, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA.
2001     Extraordinary, SFAI Faculty Exhibition, SFAI, San Francisco, CA, curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn,        Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA.
2001     Fluency, Alfred State University, Alfred, NY (catalog).
2001     Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Helen Drutt (catalog).
2001     Adrift, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA.
2000     Bounded Intervals, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI (catalog).
2000     New Prometheans, COCA and University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2000     Open House: Art on Site 1, 362 Waller St., San Francisco, CA (brochure, video catalog).
2000     hunt, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ.
2000     Observation/Revelation: Plants and Insects through the Lens of Art, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, (catalog).
2000     terra sacâre, Puffin Room, New York, NY.
1998     MATRIX/Berkeley: 20 Years, University Art Museum, UCB, Berkeley, CA (catalog).      
1997     Downtown Arts Festival, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY.
1997     The Nature of Materials, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY.
1997     Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object, CCAC, Oakland, CA.
1996     Photoscene Cologne, EAC--Versuchsreihe, Cologne, Germany.
1996     Tom Marioni-John Roloff, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
1995     Facing Eden:  100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (catalog).
1995     From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate: 16 Contemporary Sculptor/Printmakers, Touring Exhibition, CCAC, 1995; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, 1995; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 1996; Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, 1996, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX, 1996; McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, 1996 97; Barton County College, Shafer `Art Gallery, Great Bend, KS, 1997.
1994     Color in the Shadows, Bay Area Cyber Art, CCAC, Oakland, CA, curated by Mark Bartlett (catalog).
1992     Fragile Ecologies:  Artist’s Interpretations and Solutions, Queens Museum Of Art, Queens, NY, curated by Barbara Matilsky (traveling exhibit, book).
1991     Constructions Of Meaning, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, (catalog).
1990     American Ceramics, Priamàr Fortress, Palazzo della Sibilla, Savona, Italy.
1990     Public Art - Models and Drawings, Art Department Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
1990     San Francisco/Leningrad Ecological Arts Project. Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1989     The Boat Show, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
1989     Eco-Systems, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.
1986     Second Newport Biennial:  The Bay Area, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog).
1986     Poetry of the Physical, Museum of American Crafts, New York, NY (traveling show, catalog).
1986     Material and Metaphor, Contemporary American Ceramic Sculpture, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL (catalog).
1986     Voyages, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalog).
1986     10 Years After: Richard Shaw, Ed Blackburn, Tony Costanza, Red Ekks, John Roloff, CSU Fullerton, CA.
1986     Ken Little/John Roloff, two-person show, Maryland Institute, College of Art Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland
1985     Contemporary American Ceramics:  Twenty Artists, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog).
1984     A Passionate Vision, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.
1983     Ceramic Directions: A Contemporary Overview, SUNY, Stoneybrook, NY (catalog).
1983     Process in Site-Specific Sculpture: California Documentations, Lisa Hein, John Roloff, Christian Schiess,  Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
1982     Nature as Metaphor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalog).
1982     Six Artists, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
1982     Forgotten Dimension, A Survey of Small Sculpture in California, Now, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA,      traveling exhibition (catalog).
1981-83 Matter, Meaning and Memory, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI, traveling                      exhibition (catalog).
1981     John Roloff-Franklin Williams, Sonoma, State University, Rhonert Park, CA.
1980     Five Sculptors, Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, (catalog).
1980     Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalog).
1980     Continental Clay Connection, Norman McKenzie Gallery, Regina, Sasketchewan, Canada            (catalog).
1979     Northern California Clay Routes, Sculpture Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,    CA (catalog).
1979     Trains, Planes, Boats, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (catalog).
1979     Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture, UC Davis, Davis, CA.
1978     Clay from Molds, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalog).
1978     Landscape, New Views, Cornell University, Ithica, NY.
1977     Scripps National Ceramic Invitational, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (catalog).
1977     Ceramic Conjunction Invitational, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalog).
1977     Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (catalog).
1977     Drinking Companions, Part I, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI.
1976     Richard Shaw, Ed Blackburn, Tony Costanza, Red Ekks, John Roloff, CSU Fullerton, CA (catalog).
1976     Works in Clay, University of Akron, Akron, OH (catalog).
1976     Invitational Show, CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA.
1976     Drawing Show, Bradley University, Peoria, Il.
1975     OK Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, (catalog).
1975     Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY (catalog).
1975     Clay USA, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC (catalog).
1975     Images of Cups, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
1975     Brand V Ceramic Conjunction, Glendale, CA (catalog).
1974     Clay Images, CSU, Los Angeles, CA (catalog).
1974     Brand IV Ceramic Conjunction, Glendale, CA (catalog).
1974     California Ceramics and Glass, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalog).
1974     Ceramic Invitational, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1974     Faculty Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
1973     Natives of TB-9, Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1973     Group Show, Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1972     Plates, Platters and Bowls Invitational, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho.
1972     Faculty Show, CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA.
1972     Graduate Students from Sac State and UC Davis, Artist’s Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
1972     Group Show, Redwood Art Association, Arcata, CA.
1972     Student Show, CSU Humboldt, awarded the “Ceramic Guild Award.”
1971     Two Person Show with Chuck Forsman, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA.
1970     Coffee, Tea and Other Cups, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (catalog).
1970     The Davis Bunch, Artist Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA.

Selected Writings:
Ceramics: Geologic Lens-Systemic Practice, International Ceramic Symposium - Ceramics & Ecology Catalog,      World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Icheon, Republic of Korea, 2009, pg 38-42.
Devonian Shale: Aquifer I, limited edition of 4 books, FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2001
Devonian Shale: Aquifer I, The NCECA Journal 2002, v. XXIII, NCECA, Erie, CO, 2003, pg. 38-40.
Expanded Ceramics/Holocene Agriculture (The Plow as Instrument/Ceramic Materials / An         Ecological/Agricultural/Geologic Context, 2017-2021), pub., 2024.
Expanded Landscapes: NCECA Journal 2009, NCECA Publications, Vol. 30, pg. 36-37, 114.
Kiln Projects, Artery Magazine, February/March, 1983, pg. 6.
Kiln Projects: Material and Process Experiments in/of the Landscape, unpublished essay, 2004    https://www.johnroloff.com/kiln.proj_text04b.html
Making the Connection, San Francisco Art Institute Magazine, summer, 2005, pg. 10-11.
Organic Logic, New Observations Magazine, #127, New York, NY, co-editor with Mark Bartlett, fall/winter 2000.
Project: Metafossil, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2013.
Project: Oculus, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2009.
Project: Land Kilns, Anglim Gilbert Gallery and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA 2018.
San Francisco Wharf Complex, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2013.
Selected Ceramic Ships/Tableaux, Public/Private Collections, Studio/Gallery, 1975-2023, Anglim/Trimble Gallery  and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2024
Sentient Terrains, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2014.
The Sea Within the Land / Sentient Terrains, Anglim/Trimble Gallery and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA
The Sea Within the Land/Laramide, Gallery Paule Anglim and FractalTerror Press, Oakland, CA, 2011.
Untitled Essay, Ten Years Later, exhibition, catalog, CSU, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, 1987.
Untitled Essay, 51 Million BTU’s, documentation catalog, 1990.
Venice Substructure Complex, limited edition, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy, 2016.

Selected Internet Presence:
Anglim Gilbert Gallery (formerly Gallery Paule Anglim): http://www.anglimgilbertgallery.com/Roloff.html
Anthropocene Projections: http://anthroposcenemanifesto.com/2015/07/john-roloff-anthropocene-projections/
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/past_acquisitions.cfm
John Roloff Papers, 1980-2002: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/john-roloff-papers-11587
Oral history interview with John Roloff, 2009 August 17-18:
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-john-roloff-15703
http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=4107
Art Cyclopedia:  http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/roloff_john.html
Art in Context: http://www.artincontext.org/artist/r/john_roloff/images.htm
The Edge: John Roloff – Paradise Reconsidered: http://blog.novedge.com/2014/09/the-edge-john-roloff.html
The-Artists.Org: http://the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=5E606B00-D087-4290-AC32A9BBE9F2C1FE
Capp St Project / San Francisco, CA / Organic Logic: Howard Fried, John Roloff. Mark Thompson
http://500cappstreet.org/current-exhibitions/organic-logic/
Capp St Project / San Francisco, CA / Organic Logic Artist Talk #1 / Jim Melchert, John Roloff, Stephanie Syjuco
http://500cappstreet.org/events/organic-logic-artist-talk-1/
Djerassi Resident Artist Program: http://www.djerassi.org/sculpture/vanishingship.html
Fung Collaboratives/Artlantic/Lance Fung Gallery, NYC/Snow Show/Holocene Passage:
http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/projects/past/artlantic/artists/john-roloff-2/description/
http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/ny-gallery/artists/john-roloff/exhibition-description/
http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/projects/past/the-snow-show-finland/artists/john-roloff-diller-scofidio/description/
http://www.fungcollaboratives.org/projects/past/holocene/description/
Future Stratigraphy / Sydney College of the Arts, Exhibition/Master Class / Symposium, 2016
http://sydney.edu.au/sca/research/new-materialism/stratigraphy_events.shtml#masterclass
Future Stratigraphy Keynote Lecture: John Roloff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJs5XhllFwY&list=PLzhYMSyUQO6Snbw3Q06sJT5HYjjW4aHLZ&index=2
Green Museum: http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-52.html
John Roloff, Ceramics Now:  https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/john-roloff/
John Roloff, Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/library-search?q=John%20Roloff
Le Millieu du Monde (The Middle of the World) / Staten Island Ferry artwork:    http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/klotz_roloff.shtml
New Materialism in Contemporary Art / Future Stratigraphy: Masterclass with John Roloff
https://newmaterialismincontemporaryart.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/future-stratigraphy-masterclass-with-john-roloff/
New Materialism in Contemporary Art / Future Stratigraphy Symposium
https://newmaterialismincontemporaryart.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/future-stratigraphy-symposium/
Neil Forrest & John Roloff: Divinations, 2022, Ceramics Now 
https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artworks/neil-forrest-john-roloff-divinations-2022/
Organic Logic: http://www.globalpostmark.net/OrganicLogic/terrane.html
San Francisco Art Institute: http://www.sfai.edu
Scarecrows – Metamatic: taf - http://theartfoundation.metamatic.gr/EN/Event/3727/SCARECROWS/
City of Seattle, I-5 Colonnade Project:  http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/proparks/projects/i-5openspace.htm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/250696_park03.html
SINK: Ethereal Walkway for a Calm Sea: http://dev.hypercyclestudio.com/sink/site/#/artistic/_john_roloff
SOMA / Public Art and Architcture from Around the World –
http://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/tag/soma/page/2
Stengle, Barbara, John Roloff’s Thyroid Portraits, Knights:    http://www.csuchico.edu/art/contrapposto/contrapposto99/pages/essays/themeaboutexh/stengleroloff.html
The Snow Show: http://www.thesnowshow.net/gallery/realizations/dillerscof-roloff.php

Selected Videography:
2023     Sentient Terrains Walkthrough, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, CA, https://vimeo.com/844077123
2022     Venice Substructure Complex Walkthrough, Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice, Italy, https://vimeo.com/815929658
2017     Expanded Ceramics/Earth Reversal/Peat Excavation, single channel HD, color / 00:03:37
https://vimeo.com/211202549
2016     Study: Hawkesbury Facies I, single channel HD, color / 00:04:22 / https://vimeo.com/191903876
2016     Magma Chambers (Corvus/Orchidacaea/Kolumbus), single channel HD, color / 00:02:36 / https://vimeo.com/182937693
2015     San Francisco Wharf Complex / American Industrial Center Carbonate Group, single channel HD, color, 05:51:06 / https://vimeo.com/138269748
2014     San Francisco Wharf Complex, single channel HD, color, 00:17:00 / https://vimeo.com/105900403
2013     Étude Atlantis, single channel HD, color, sound, 00:03:38 / https://vimeo.com/106083377
2013     Seventh Climate (Paradise Reconsidered), Solid Concept, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, 00:05:00 single channel HD, color/audio / https://vimeo.com/105946219
2012     The Land within the Sea II / NCECA Conference, Seattle, WA / single channel HD, color / https://vimeo.com/137668234
2008     Paradise Reconsidered (Projects and Research) / Osher Fellowship Talk, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, single channel, color, sound / https://vimeo.com/137688262
2008     Yerba Buena Complex: Facies I; Yerba Buena Complex: Facies II; Yerba Buena Complex: Facies III, three channel video installation, color, sound, 00:45:00.
2008     Yerba Buena Complex: Facies I-III, single channel video, color, sound / 00:22:00.
2004     Between Object and System I, single channel video, sound, 00:09:00 / https://vimeo.com/106033687
1996     Pitzer Project: a Prototype System for the Production and Distribution of Ancient Sunlight, single channel video, color, sound, https://vimeo.com/139406136
1994     Gradient, single channel video, color, sound, 00:06:00.
1994     Deluge (Radiant Sleep/Helium Ash), single channel video, color, sound, 00:20:00 / https://vimeo.com/139406135.
1992     Tyler Project:  Metabolism and Mortality/O2, single channel video, color, sound, 00:14:30.
1991     51 Million BTU’s/Metabolism Study/C3H8, e-, NaCl, single channel video projection, salt crystal screen      installation, color, sound, 00:47:00, v. II, 00:23:30.
1990     51 Million BTU’s, 3 channel video installation, color, sound, 00:26:00.

Awards/Fellowships:
2013     Americans for the Arts, Public Art Network, 2013 Year in Review, John Roloff: Artlantic/Etude Atlantis.
2010-12 New Frontiers, NEA Grant, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA - Pier 15/17 Research/proposals
2008-09 Bernard Osher Fellowship, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2008     National Science Foundation Grant, Exploratorium, Ft. Mason Research/Proposals.
2002     Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design, NY Art Commission (with Werner Klotz)
1990     Visual Arts Award, California Arts Council
1986     Visual Arts Award, National Endowment for the Arts
1983     Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
1980     Visual Arts Award, National Endowment for the Arts
1977     Visual Arts Award, National Endowment for the Arts

Museum/Private Collections:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY
University Art Museum, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Museum of American Crafts, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Lannon Foundation, Palm Beach, FL
Mint Museum, Charlotte, SC
1440 Multiversity, Scotts Valley, CA
Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Cornell University, Ithica, NY
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
Colorado Collection, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Viart Corporation
Robert Pfannebecker, Lancaster, PA
Hootkin Collection, New York, NY
Rene deRosa Collection, Napa, CA
Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA.
Fung/Talley Collection, Carmel, Woodside, CA
(Numerous additional private collections)

Public Art Collections (Extant):
City of Sacramento, CA
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
Hartford School of Art, Hartford, CT
Elkhorn Slough Estuarine Reserve, Moss Landing, CA
Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA.
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NY, NY
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA

Bibliography:
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Design Team/Collaboration Experience:  
2017     Oakland Estuary Channel Project, Oakland, CA (originally with Lewis DeSoto and Sasaki and Assoc., 2006-2008).
2002-04 The Snow Show, Kemi, Finland, with Liz Diller and Rick Scofidio, NY, an exhibition of 30 artist/architect   collaborative teams constructing snow and ice architecture.            
2003-10 Site Index, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,      MN, collaboration with Rebecca Krinke, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, UMN.
2001-04 Staten Island Ferries/New Kennedy Class, NYC, NY, with the German artist Werner Klotz.
1999     Blue Portal, 880 Underpass, Oakland, CA, project finalist with Dan Dodt, electrical engineer and owner,    Dodt Electrical, San Francisco, CA.
1993     Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain (Seasons Of The Sea ‘Adrift’), Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA, with MGA Partners Architects, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.  
1992     Sears Business Park, Chicago, IL, project finalist With Homart Development, Co, Johnson, Johnson &       Roy, ASLA, and other artists.       
1992     Fragment:  The Hidden Sea (Island Of Refuge), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, with Tom Richman and Associates, ASLA.
1991     Embarcadero Promenade, San Francisco, CA, project finalist with Ed Haag and Associates, ASLA.          
1987     Inspiration Point, Newport Harbor, CA, project finalist with George Hargraves and Associates, ASLA.      
1987     Todos Santos Park, Concord, CA, project finalist with George Hargraves and Associates, ASLA.
1986     Isla De Umunnum (Island of the Hummingbirds), Elkhorn Slough National Esturine Reserve, Moss            Landing, CA. A collaboration with artist, Heather McGill, reserve scientists, CA Department of Fish and           Game and local native plant societies.
1985     Candlestick Point Recreation Area, San Francisco, CA, artist/landscape architect design team for master     plan of park development and integrated individual projects. With Martha Swartz, ASLA, California State            Park personnel and other artists.

 

Lectures, Panels, Visiting Artist Positions:
2024     Becoming Geological/Neo-Mineralia, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (art/science panel)
2022     The Ground we Grew From (Melchert/Shaw/Roloff/Brady), Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA, (panel)
2022     Synapse 15: Intersections of Art and Science, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH          (artist, architect, scientist panel, moderated by Matthew Kolodziej).
2022     The Ground We Grew From (Jim Melchert, Richard Shaw, Bob Brady, John Roloff), B. Sakata Garo, Gallery, Sacramento, CA, NCECA 2022 (moderated by Coreen Abbott)
2019     Forrest/Roloff Collaborations, co-lecture with Neil Forrest, NCECA 2019, Minneapolis, MN.
2018     Sentient Terrains: Land/Sea, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada (presentation and artist panel).
2017     Organic Logic: Artist Talk #1 (Jim Melchert/John Roloff/Stephanie Syjuco), 500 Capp Project, San Francisco, CA (artist panel).
2017     Sentient Terrains/Cascadia, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (public lecture, visiting artist, site work: Expanded Ceramics/Earth Reversal/Peat Excavation, UW campus).
2016     Sentient Terrains IV, Future Stratigraphies, Sydney College of Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia (symposium keynote talk/panel, master class, visiting artist).
2015     Francisco Pinheiro, John Roloff (USA) e Jaume Vanlentines-Álvarez (ESP) // Quarta-feira, 24 de Junho, Carpe Diem, Lisbon, Portugal (Skype - public panel/conversation)
2015     Sentient Terrains III, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (public lecture)
2014     The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. (panel with Ann Agee, Beth Cavener, Judy Moonelis, moderator Paul Sacaridiz).
2013     Sentient Terrains (Selected Projects), Mills College, Oakland, CA (classroom lecture)
2013     Sentient Terrains II, Climate Change Group/Chip Lord, Kadist, San Francisco, CA (invitational lecture)
2013     Thought as Material, ReModel2, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA (public lecture, panel)
2013     Selected Projects: SF Wharf and Related Proj., Sherwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA (invitational lecture)
2012     Sentient Terrains: Selected Work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (public lecture)
2012     The Land Within the Sea III, CCACA Conference, Davis, CA (public lecture)
2012     Trans-materiality/Notes, ReModel1, CCA, San Francisco, CA (public lecture, panel)
2012     The Land Within the Sea II, NCECA Conference, Seattle WA, (public lecture).
2011     The Fractal Sublime/Laramide, “Ceramics as Time-based Medium” panel, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (public panel).
2011     The Sea Within the Land: Selected Projects, v 1.2, “Open Art: Artists and the Environment” panel, Crocker
Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (public panel).
2011     The Land Within Sea, v1.0, California College of Art, Oakland, CA (public lecture)
2011     Uncertainty of the Expanded Field – Talk and Discussion on West Coast Sculpture, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (panel)
2010     Edges of Light, Benicia Art Center, Benicia, CA (panel)
2010     The Sea Within the Land, v1.1, Ohio University, Athens, OH (public lecture)
2010     The Sea Within the Land, v1.0, University of Akron, Akron, OH (public lecture)
2010     Synapse Charrette on Water, Synapse Center for Art and Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH           (visiting artist)
2010     Geologic Lens: Conversations/Analogies, ‘Sculpture, Society and Environment,’ International Sculpture                 Center, 2010 Conference: ‘What is Sculpture in the 21st Century,’ London, UK (public lecture and panel).
2010     Geologic Lens: Conversations/Analogies, ‘Transformative Processes in Environmental Art Panel,’ KALA,              Berkeley, CA (public lecture and panel).
2009     Ceramic and Related Works, v1.5, Sonoma State University, Rhonert Park, CA (public lecture).
2009     Ceramic and Related Works, v1.4, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (visiting artist, public lecture).
2009     Ceramics: Geologic Lens/Systemic Practice, 5th International Ceramic Symposium - Ceramics & Ecology,                         Icheon, Republic of Korea (lecture and panel).
2009     Ceramic and Related Works, v1.3, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (public lecture).
2009     Perils in the Sublime, NCECA Conference, Phoenix, AZ (lecture and panel)
2009     San Francisco Wharf Complex and Selected Work, ‘Meeting of the Minds’ series, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2008     Pier Research and Concepts, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (Osher Fellowship lecture)
2008     Paradise Reconsidered, Projects and Research, v1.4, CSSSA, CalArts, Valencia (visiting artist/workshop,              public lecture).
2008     Paradise Reconsidered, Projects and Research, v1.3, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (lecture, Ft Mason, NSF Grant project consultant/commission).
2008     Paradise Reconsidered, Projects and Research, v1.2, UC Santa Barbara, Media Arts and, Technology and              Art Dept., (visiting artist, lecture at both venues).
2007     Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, (consultant for new facility at Pier 15/17)
2007     Paradise Reconsidered, Projects and Research, v1.1, California College of the Arts, ‘Object Agents: Con-              temporary Sculpture and the Social Life of Objects,’ San Francisco, CA (lecture, visiting artist).
2007     Ceramics and Related Works, v1.1, California College of the Arts, Ceramics Dept., Oakland, CA (lecture).
2007     Paradise Reconsidered, Recent Projects and Research, v 1.0, SFAI Faculty Colloquium, (colloquium presentation/lecture)
2006     University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska (visiting artist, lecture)
2006     High 5 Respite, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA (panel, lecture)
2006     Mills College, Oakland, CA (lecture)
2005     Stanford University, Stanford, CA, (lecture, visiting artist)
2005     University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Tech Sublime Symposium (panel)
2004     University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, CALA, Site Index exhibition, (ground breaking, lecture)
2004     The Snow Show Symposium, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland (panel)

2003     San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Graduate Lecture Series (lecture)
2002     California College of Arts and Crafts, Dept. of Architecture, San Francisco, CA (visiting critic)
2002     University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, CALA building opening (lecture, exhibition)
2002     UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (lecture)
2002     NCECA Conference, Kansas City, MO (panel)
2001     University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (lecture, visiting artist)
2001     California State University, San Francisco, Graduate Dept. (lecture)
2001     California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA (lecture)
2001     Alfred University, Alfred, NY (panel, Fluency exhibition)
2000     University of Washington, Seattle, WA (lecture, New Prometheans exhibition)
2000     California State University, Fresno (lecture)
2000     Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM (lecture)
2000     Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID (visiting artist, may have been 1999?).
1999     University of Washington, Seattle, WA (lecture)
1999     California State University, San Francisco, Graduate Dept. (lecture)
1999     California State University, San Francisco, Photo Dept. (lecture)
1999     Mills College, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1999     Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (lecture)
1998     University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (lecture)
1998     UC Davis, Landscape Architecture Department. (lecture)
1997     Re-inventing the Terrain, CSU Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA (lecture, visiting artist, panel)
1997     California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art ‘97, Davis, CA (lecture)
1996     Organic Logic, Moltkerei Werkstadtt, Cologne, Germany (lecture)
1996     Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA (lecture)
1996     Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburg, PA (lecture, visiting artist)
1996     California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture and artist symposium)
1996     Pitzer College, Claremont CA, (visiting artist)
1994     A Radical Public? Towards an Informed, Educated, “Elitist” Public, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (visiting artist/faculty)
1994     Color in the Shadows, Bay Area Cyber Art, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (artist        panel)
1993     Eve Laramee and John Roloff, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (joint lecture)
1993     Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA (artist panel)
1992     Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA (visiting artist)
1992     Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, NCECA Conference (lecture)
1991     Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (lecture)
1991     University of Southern Main, Portland, ME (lecture)
1990     Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (lecture)
1990     Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (visiting artist)
1990     Haida Project, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (panel)
1990     CSU Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (lecture)
1990     Materials from the Earth: Developing a Dialog, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (visiting artist/faculty)
1990     UC Davis, Davis, CA (lecture)
1990     The Map is Not the Territory, NCECA, Cincinnati, OH (panel).
1990     Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (lecture)
1989     Off-Site, Artists in Response to the Environment, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (panel)
1989     California State University Humboldt, Arcata, CA (artist in residence)
1989     Arvada Art Center, Arvada, CO (artist in residence)
1988     Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT (artist in residence)
1988     Kilns in Clay – An Investigation into Structure, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (visiting artist/faculty)
1987     University of Colorado, Boulder CO (lecture)
1987     University of Miami, Miami, FL (lecture, workshop)
1987     California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA (lecture)
1987     California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1986     San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (lecture)
1986     San Francisco Arts Commission, A Symposium on Public Art, San Francisco, CA (panel)
1986     California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (lecture)
1986     Moore College, Philadelphia, PA (lecture)
1986     Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (lecture)
1986     University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, (lecture, workshop)
1986     University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (lecture)
1985     Sacramento Municipal Arts Commission, Sacramento, CA (public art selection panel)
1985     University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV (artist in residence)
1985     San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (lecture)
1985     University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (lecture)
1985     University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA (lecture)
1985     California State University San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (lecture)
1984     Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art, Tiburon CA (visiting artist)
1984     Pewabic Pottery, Detroit MI, (visiting artist)
1984     Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA (residency)
1984     California State University Hayward, Hayward, CA (panel)
1984     San Francisco Arts Commission, A Symposium on Controversial Public Art, San Francisco, CA (panel)
1984     California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1983     Port of San Francisco, Sculpture on the Bay, San Francisco, CA (visiting artist)
1983     Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada (visiting artist)
1982     International Sculpture Conference, Oakland, CA (participating artist)
1982     NCECA Conference, California State University, San Jose, San Jose, CA (panel)
1982     California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1981     Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT (lecture)
1981     CSU Sonoma, Rohnert Park, CA (lecture)
1981     California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1980     University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (lecture)
1980     California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA (lecture)
1980     University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (visiting artist)
1980     University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA (lecture)
1980     California State University San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (lecture)
1980     NCECA Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (panel)
1980     University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (visiting artist)
1980     California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1979     Memphis Clay, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN (visiting artist, workshop)
1979     Mills College, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1979     California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (lecture)
1979     Pitzer College, Claremont CA, (lecture)
1979     University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (visiting artist)
1978     University of Montana, Missoula, MT (lecture)
1978     Vail Institute for Summer Studies, Vail, CO (visiting artist)
1978     University of Washington, Seattle, WA (lecture, workshop)
1978     University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA (lecture)
1977     Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL (lecture)
1977     Vail Institute for Summer Studies, Vail, CO (visiting artist)
1977     Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (lecture)
1977     University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (lecture)
1977     University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (lecture)
1976     California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (lecture)
1976     California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (lecture)
1976     San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (lecture)
1975     Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (lecture)
1975     University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (lecture)
1975     University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (lecture)
1974     San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (lecture)

Education:
American River Junior College, 1965-1966
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 1966-1970, Art/Geology, BA Art
California State University, Humboldt, Arcata, CA, 1971-1973, MA Art

Teaching:
Professor Emeritus, Sculpture/Ceramic Department, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2017- present
Professor, Sculpture/Ceramic Department, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1973-74, 1978-2017,
 Department Chair, 2003-2013, Fall 2017, Area Head, 2015-Spring 2017.
University of California Berkeley, visiting instructor, 1983.
Mills College, Oakland, CA, Instructor, part-time (concurrent with SFAI), 1980-1987, 1988-1991.
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1987-88 (on leave from SFAI).
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1974-1978.
Graduate Instructor, CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA, 1972-73
Instructor, Woodland Art Center, Woodland, CA 1971
Instructor, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA 1969-70

Represented By:
Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA 1975-1978
Fuller-Goldeen/Gross, San Francisco, CA 1978-1990
Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY, 1996-2003
Anglim/Trimble Gallery (formerly: Gallery Paule Anglim/Anglim Gilbert), San Francisco, CA, 1990-present