Education

2000                        MFA, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY  

1996                          BFA, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC

Awards

2007                        Pew Fellowship, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2005                        Independence Foundation Grant, Philadelphia, PA

2004                        Window of Opportunity Grant, Leeway Foundation for the Arts, Philadephia, PA

                                 Creative Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON

2002                        Creative Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON

2000                        Purchase Award, Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY

Artist Residencies

2019                        University of Oregon, Eugene OR

2016 Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

2014-15                   Shigaraki Cultural Park, Shigaraki , Japan

2012                        National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2009                       Visiting Artist, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2008                       International Ceramic Research Center, Guldagergaard, Skaelskor, Denmark

 2003-07                 Resident Artist, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2002                        The Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

One Person Exhibitions

2021 Image Object, Window Gallery, Terminal Creek Gallery, Bowen Island, BC

2014                        Revisited In White, Schulman Projects, Baltimore, MD

2010                        reflectionnoitcelfer, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007                        Julie York, New Work, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006                        SOFA Chicago- Featured Artist, represented by Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005                        Challenge, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2004                        Julie York, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY

2003                        objectsymbolanguage, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 The Art of Seeing, People Places Things and Beyond, Buffalo, NY

2020         Future Memories, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

                   The Work of the Work, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC

2019         Malleable, Italian Cultural Centre Museum, Vancouver, BC

                    New Work, Hearth Gallery, Bowen Island, BC

2017        Made in Oregon, White Cube Gallery, Portland OR

2016         Faculty Show, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC

2015                         Reshaping the 2%, San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

2013                            inception, Schulman Projects, Baltimore, MD

                                    Materiality Speaking, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC

                                    The Sum of Its Parts, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM

                                    Code, NCECA Conference, Spring Street Studio, Houston, TX

2012                            SEVEN Rethinking Ceramics, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR

2011                             Ceramics is Dead, Huset, Aarhus, Denmark

                                    SOFA Chicago, represented by Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010                            New Work, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

                                    SOFA Chicago, represented by Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

                                    Of this Century, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2009                           State of the Union: Contemporary Craft in Dialogue, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

                                    The Margins, NCECA Conference, Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ

2008                           Aqua Wynwood, represented by Pentimenti Gallery, Miami, FL

                                    SOFA Chicago, represented by Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008                           Confrontation Clay, West Chester Arts Council @ the Art Exchange, Chester NY

                                    Group Dynamics, EO Art Lab, Chester, CT

                                    Full and Spare, Ceramics in the 21st Century, Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL

                                    Material Transcendence, NCECA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

                                    The Interpreted Figure, The Schein-Joseph International Museum, Alfred, NY

                                    Light and Image, The Object in View, Cummings Arts Center, New London, CT

                                    Material Transcendence, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

                                    Group Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007                           Aqua Art 07 Miami, represented by Pentimenti Gallery, Miami, FL

                                    Flow Miami Invitational Art Fair, represented by Mulry Fine Arts, Miami, FL

                                    Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, represented by Pentimenti Gallery, Portland, OR

                                    Unadorned, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM

                                    Palm Beach 3, represented by Mulry Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL

2006                           One Part Clay Avant-garde & Mixed Media, Dean Project, Long Island City, NY

                                    Iner_Logic, The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

                                    Past and Present –The Clay Studio, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM

                                    From The North, Canadian Ceramics Today, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

                                    James Renwick Alliance Auction, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC

2005                           3,000 +, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC           

                                    Breaking the Mold, Ohio Art League, Columbus, OH

                                    SOFA Chicago, represented by Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

                                    SOFA Palm Beach, represented by Perimeter Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

                                    White on White, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

                                    The Clay Studio: Thirty Years, (NCECA) School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

                                    Schools Out, National Conference on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Baltimore, MD

                                    30 Years of Excellence, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2004                           SOFA Chicago, represented by Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

                                    Collaborations in Clay II, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

                                    Philadelphia Clay Studio Resident Exhibition, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

                                    Mastery in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

                                    chaos/control, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

                                    From Pots to Poodles, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithboro, TN

2003                           Collaborations in Clay, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

                                    Mastery in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

                                    SOFA Chicago, represented by The Clay Studio, Chicago, IL

                                    Divergence: Contrasting Views in Clay, Harrisburg College, Harrisburg, PA

                                    Impending Lineage – Generations, (NCECA), San Diego, CA

                                    The Clay Studio Resident Artist Show, Long Beach Island Foundation Gallery, LBI, NJ

2002                           Ground Swell, Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, NY

                                    Mastery in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

                                    New Talent/ New Work, Philadelphia Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2001                            New Minimalism, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, Fredonia, NY

                                    New Directions in Contemporary Ceramics, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

                                    The Fall Collection, Diane Ferris Gallery, Vancouver, BC

                                    Matter, Chautauqua Center for the Arts, Chautauqua, NY

                                    Recent Acquisitions, Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2000                           New Directions in Contemporary Ceramics, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

                                    Craft Art 2000, Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY

                                    ANA 29, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

                                    Gloryhole Exhibition, Schein - Joseph International Museum, Alfred, NY

                                    Clay in Western New York, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Permanent Public Collections

                                    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

                                    Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

                                    Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY

                                    Schein - Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY

                                    The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Work Related Experience

2007                            Associate Professor, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC

Bibliography

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