RICHARD CLEAVER
richardcleaverartist@mindspring.com
www. richardcleaverartist.com
EDUCATION
1980 M.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1977 B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 Baltimore Clayworks, Night Visions, Baltimore, MD
2017 Delaware Art Museum, Tableau: The Art of Richard Cleaver
2007 American University Museum, Family Fiction, Washington, DC
2007 Kohler Art Center, Shebogan, WI
2005 Baltimore Museum of Art, Gathering at the Latrobe Spring House, Baltimore, MD
2002 Villa Julie College, Dream Sequences, Stevenson, MD
2000 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Scenes from Inside, Miami, FL
1998 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, Biographical Icons, New York, NY
1998 The Noyes Museum, All the World’s a Stage, Oceanville, NJ
1996 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, Open Closets, New York, NY
1995 Rosenberg Gallery, Public Histories, Private Lives, Goucher College,
Baltimore, MD
1994 Paris-New York-Kent Gallery, Kent, CT
1993 Franz Bader Gallery, Contemporary Icons, Washington, DC
1993 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1993 Arlington Art Center, VA
1992 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1991 Knight Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2022 Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, This Present Moment, Washington, DC
2011 Fuller Craft Museum, Fresh Figures
2010 NCECA Philadelphia, Dis/Arming Domesticity
2010 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baker Artist Award Winners
2008 Arzona State University Art Museum, A Human Impulse: figuration from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection
2008 SOFA Chicago
2008 Westchester Arts Council, NY, Confrontational Ceramics
2007 Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, Building a Legacy
2007 Baltimore Museum of Art, Sondheim Prize Finalists
2006 Fuller Craft Museum, The Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft, Brockton, MA
2006 Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Life Insight: The Human Experience
2006 Tell Me a Story, Santa Fe Clay, NM
2003 Peabody Essex Museum, Family Ties, Salem, MA
2003 Park School,Breaking New Ground, Baltimore, MD
2001 Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Exhibition
2000 Delaware Art Museum, Selections from Biennial Acquisitions
2000 The Contemporary Museum, Snapshots, Baltimore, MD
2000 Rosenberg Gallery, Obsessions, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
2000 Susan Cummins Gallery, Perches in the Soul, Mill Valley, CA
2000 Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Exhibition
1999 Nathan D. Rosen Museum, Updating Ceremonial Objects: A Cup for Miriam, Boca Raton, FL
1999 Artscape , Baltimore, MD
1999 Delaware Art Museum, Blurring Boundaries: Objects in Craft Media
From the Collections
1998 Fort Lewis College, Selections from Soho, Durango, CO
1998 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, Summer Group Exhibition
1998 Delaware Art Museum, Delaware Biennial
1997 Loveland Museum, Contemporary American Ceramics, Loveland, CO
1997 Maryland Art Place, Critics Residency Program, Baltimore
1996 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Art Sites, Washington, DC
1996 Artscape, Secrets, Baltimore, MD
1995 The St. Paul Companies, Out of the Fire, Minneapolis, MN
1995 Galeries Francoise, The Dog as Symbol and Metaphor, Brooklandville, MD
1995 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, Gallery Artists, New York, NY
1995 University of Maryland Art Gallery, Soul Mates, College Park, MD
1995 Towson State University, Actual Size, MD
1993 Artscape, Gods and Saints, Baltimore, MD
1990 International Sculpture Center,Encierro: Captured Spaces, Washington, DC
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2017 Studios of Key West, FL Residency
2011 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
2010 The Mary Sawyer Baker Prize
2008 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund
2007 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant 2003 Trawick Award 1st prize
2007 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
1999 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
1995 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1992 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Baltimore Museum of Art
Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Jonathan Binstock, New York, NY
Gail Brown, Philadelphia, PA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Erie Art Museum, PA
Harvey Fierstein Collection, New York, NY
Marge and Philip Kalodner Colletion, Philadelphia, PA
Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Collection, Washington, DC
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
George and Dorothy Saxe Collection, DeYoung Museum,San Francisco,CA
Judith Schwartz, New York, NY
The St. Paul Companies, Minneapolis, MN
Sallie Mae Loan Corporation, Washington, DC
Sigal Collection, Washington, D.C.
My sculptures integrate ceramic, which is the primary medium, with wood, fresh water pearls, semi-precious stones, gold leaf and oil paint. They are made complete with secret compartments which serve as hiding places for multiple and often times personal meanings. My recent work is based on narratives drawn from personal and historical events that are overlapped with subconscious images. The figures are like actors on a stage, enigmatic yet tense while being enveloped or encrusted within layers of overgrowth concealing a world within.
- Richard Cleaver