SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS www.marclancet.com
2003 Touching Stone Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001 100 Views From Home, International Ceramic Center, Skaelskor, Denmark
1999 Merced Community College
1998 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1997 Pence Gallery, Public Art Installation, Davis, CA
1994 Portland State University, OR
1991 Soco Contemporary Arts, Napa CA
1989 Monterey Peninsula College CA
1987 Solano Community College, Suisun CA
1985 Art Watch (Installation), Santa Barbara Museum of Art CA
1983 Auto Artisms, University Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara
1982 Rounded with a Sleep, R.M. Hutchins Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara CA
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 Marc Lancet and Sabine Turpeinen, Fluxus Plus Museum, Potsdam, Germany
2011 Marc Lancet and Masakazu Kusakabe, Shanghai and Jingdezhen, China
2009 Marc Lancet and Masakazu Kusakabe, Trax Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Yu Shin, Playful Mind; Uribe Studios, Santa Rosa, CA
2003 The Gillingham Totems, Marc Lancet and Allyson Diggle at Gillingham School, Gillingham, England
1999 Lancet and Kusakabe, Tracking Fire, A Pacific Rim Collaboration, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
1996 Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Translations in Clay, Lancet, Kusakabe, Clendenning; Fairfield Art Center Gallery, CA
1989 Metamorphoses, Pence Gallery, Davis CA
Gallery 44, Oakland CA
Alligator, San Francisco CA
1988 Wiseman Gallery, Rogue College, Grants Pass OR
SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2015 30 Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA (Annually from 1988)
2012 Focus on Figure, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
West Cost Wood-fire, Fine Arts Center, Arcata, CA
Totems, Teapots and Plates, Blueline Gallery, Roseville, CA
2011 International Symposium for Wood-fired Ceramics, Kohila, Estonia
Atmospheric Firing, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Friends and Fire-mates, Apple House Gallery, International Ceramic Center, Skaelskor, Denmark
Doceo Argilla – I Teach Clay, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA
2010 Wood-firing International, Gallery Klosterformat, Rostock, Germany
First European Wood-fire Conference Exhibition, Brollin, Germany
2007 Wood-fire International, University of Arizona, Flagstaff
2005 From Tiles to Totems, A Century In Northern California Ceramics, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2001 Summer Cups, Galerie Besson, London, England
2000 The Artists in Residence Program in the 1990's, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
1998 California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis CA, JUROR
1998 Sculpture in the New Millennium, LEF Foundation, St. Helena, CA
1997 Museo Internazionate Delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy
SOFA, Chicago, IL
1996 Celebrating Robert Arneson, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA and John Begruen Gallery, San Francisco
Gallery Dai Ichi Arts, New York, NY
1993 Born at the Park, Invited Artists Program Year One, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
1991 Matter/Mind = Sculpture 91, Chicago, IL
International Ceramics Exhibition. Kansas State Univ. Manhattan (2 Year Traveling)
1989 Torch and Anvil, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco CA
1988 West Coast Artists: Works in Clay, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis MO
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1985-Present Instructor - 3-Dimensional Art, (Tenured), Solano Community College, Suisun, California
1993-94 Visiting Professor, Sculpture, Portland State University, OR
1984-85 Lecturer - Sculpture, University of California, Santa Barbara
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2012 Volkshochschule Landshut, Landshut, Germany
2012 + 2003 International Ceramic Center, Skelskor, Denmark
2011 International Symposium for Wood-fired Ceramics, Kohila, Estonia
2003 Gillingham School, Gillingham, Dorset, England
1992 Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
1991 Gladding, McBean & Co, Architectural Terra Cotta, Lincoln CA
1980 Indiana University, Bloomington
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics, Co-authored with Masakazu Kusakabe, KP Pub, Iola, WI, 2005 (also in German and Chinese)
“Fluxus in a Bowl of Tea” Gedanken und Fundsachen, Urasenkestiftung Newsletter, Germany
“The Way of Clay – A Workshop with Marc Lancet”, Clay Times, Vol. 12 No. 6, November/December 2006
“The Vision of Kiln Artists”, Ceramics Technical, Volume 13, Australia, 2003
“Nina Hole”, Exhibition Catalog Essay, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007, 2001
Marc Lancet’s Totems, Art and Perception, Australia, 1997
“Why Wood?”, Ceramics Monthly, December, 2006
Hands in Clay, 5th ed; Speight, Charlotte; Toki, John; McGraw Hill, 2004
Clay and Glazes for the Potter 3rd ed; Rhodes, Daniel; Hopper, Robin, KP Publications, Iola, WI 2000
Functional Pottery 2nd ed; Hopper, Robin; KP Publications, Iola, WI, 2000
Ceramic Extruder for the Studio Potter; Conrad, John; Falcon Co.; San Diego, CA
30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Press, Davis, CA. 2011 (yearly since 2007)
Turning Wheel; The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism, Summer/Fall 2008 (also Spring 2006 and Winter (2005)
Lancet, Kusakabe Receive Noetic Sciences Grant, Artweek, 1998
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
International Ceramic Center, Skaelskor, Denmark
Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark
United States Embassy, Estonia
EDUCATION
1984 M.A. Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
1983 M.F.A., Sculpture, University of California, Santa Barbara
1979 - 80 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
1979 - 80 Apprentice in Fine Art Casting, Fonderie des Cloches, Bagnolet, France
1979 B.A. Fine Arts, Sculpture, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
SELECTED ART LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS PRESENTED
2012 Fluxus in a Bowl of Tea; Philosophical links between Fluxus and Chanoyu; Fluxus + Museum, Potsdam, Germany
Ichigo Ichiei, Art Performance, Fluxus + Museum, Potsdam, Germany
Medium + Method + Vision = Art, Volkshochschule Landshut, Landshut, Germany
Wheel as Tool, Medium + Method + Vision = Art Part II, Volkshochschule Landshut, Landshut, Germany
Double Phantasy - Woodfiring with Marc Lancet and Markus Böhm, Alt Gaarz, Germany
Ceramics for Chanoyu and Ikebana, Alt Gaarz, Germany
2011 The Art of Marc Lancet -- Search for Figure, Art Academy of Estonia
Art Saves Lives, Kohila, Estonia
Secrets of Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics, Book signings, Workshops, Lectures, Shanghai and Jingdezhen, China
2010 Aesthetics of Wood-fired Ceramics, First European Wood-fire Conference, Brollin, Germany
2009 Tea and Tea Ware, Demonstration and Tea Ceremony, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA
The Search For Figure, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Everything Goes, Mendocino Art Center, CA and Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
2007 Yohen, Changed by Fire, International Wood-fire Conference, University of Arizona, Flagstaff
Lecture and Book Signing for Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA
2001 Gillingham Totems, Gillingham School, Gillingham England
Figurative Sculpture in Clay, International Ceramic Center, Skaelskor, Denmark
2000 Primordial Fire, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
1999 Lancet/Kusakabe, A Pacific Rim Collaboration, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
Totems from the Fire (Community Arts Project), Where’s Fairfield Festival, CA
All Hallow’s Eve Primordial Fire, Nottingham Center for the Arts, San Diego, CA
The Influence of 16 Century Japanese Ceramics on 20th Century Sculpture, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
Primordial Fire, CA Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis CA
Awe From Chaos, Ceramics Workshop, Merced Community College, CA
SELECTED ART LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS PRESENTED (cont.)
1998 Building and Firing The Dancing Fire Wood Kiln, Solano Community College, Suisun, CA
The Return of Awe From Chaos, Ceramics, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV (1 week)
Tribal Artist in Search of a Tribe, CA Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis CA
Awe From Chaos, Workshop, Mendacino Art Center and Sonoma State University, Rhonert Park, CA
The Making and Breaking of Public Art, Vallejo Artist’s Guild, CA
1997 Primitive Firing of Large Scale Public Art, CA Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis CA
Large Scale Ceramic Public Sculpture, Artist Lecture, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
2-4-T, Masakazu Kusakabe and Marc Lancet, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA
1996 Awe From Chaos, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV
Traditional Japanese and Contemporary American Ceramics, Fairfield Center for the Creative Arts, CA
Trading Traditions, Japan and America, a Ceramic World View, Solano Community College, Suisun, CA
Post waste, Art and the Ecology of Disposal, Exhibitions and Performances. Fairfield, Benicia and Napa, CA
1995 Masakazu Kusakabe and Marc Lancet, Sierra Nevada College, NV, (Also Napa; CA Institute for the Arts, Valencia)
Anagama Wood Firing, Napa Valley College, CA
By Virtue of Age, Exhibitions and Performances. Fairfield, Benicia and Napa, CA
1994 Speaking of Art, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland Museum of Art, OR
Artist Lectures, Portland State University, OR; Artists Forum, Vallejo, CA
1993 AIDS: Art Breaks Silence, Exhibitions and Performances. Fairfield, Benicia and Napa, CA
Raku and Ceramic Construction Techniques, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
1992 American Style Raku, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
Artist Lecture, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
1991 Ceramic Sculpture, Matter/Mind = Sculpture 1991, Fermi Lab, Chicago, IL,
Extrusion Based Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture, CA Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis CA
Mold Making as a Tool for Artistic Expression; Sierra Nevada College, NV; Rancho Santiago College, LA, Napa, CA
HONORS AND AWARDS
2012 Community Artist Award, Pence Gallery, Davis CA
2011 United States Embassy Cultural Affairs Grant, Estonia
2011 5th Place, Technical Throwing, Baltimaade Blahtised Bsavitreimise Bvoistlused, 12th Open International Throwing
Championship, Estonia
2002 Best Artist-in-Residency, England 2001, Tate Modern, London England.
1999 Faculty Research Grant ¬- Wood Firing, Solano Community College, Suisun, CA
1998 Art and Healing Community Grant, Institute of Noetic Sciences, with Masakazu Kusakabe
Honorary Potters Merit Badge, Girl Scouts of America, Troops 507 and 311
Faculty Research Grant, The Dancing Fire Wood Kiln, Solano Community College, Suisun, CA
1997 Juror’s Award, California Clay Competition, Davis CA
Merit Award, Feats of Clay X, Gladding Mcbean & Co., Lincoln CA
1996 People’s Choice Award, California Clay Competition, Davis CA
1991 Faculty Research Grant ¬- Kiln Building, Solano Community College, Suisun, CA
Merit Award, Feats of Clay IV, Gladding Mcbean & Co., Lincoln CA
1990 Faculty Research Grant, Sculpture, Solano Community College, Suisun, CA
1988 Leila Brown Memorial Award, Sage Arts, Juror: Peter Sels, University of California, Berkeley
Certificate of Commendation, Academic Senate, Solano Community College, Suisun, CA
1984 Third Prize, L.A. '84, Brand Art Galleries, Glendale, CA
1982 Humanities Research Grant - Sculpture, University of California
1978 Presidents Undergraduate Fellowship - Sculpture, University of California
LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES : French
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