LAUREN GROSSMAN
BORN: TUCSON, ARIZONA
RESIDES: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
 
EDUCATION
1981-83 University of Washington, Seattle, WA
B.F.A. Ceramic Sculpture, Magna Cum Laude
1980-81 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1978-80 Washington University, St. Louis, MO
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006 Visiting Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  Also 2002, 2000, 1997,1995
   
2005-6 Award Recipient, Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA
   
2005 Arts/Industry Resident, Kohler Company, Kohler, WI
   
2003 Visiting Faculty, University of Washington Rome Center, Rome, Italy
2000 PONCHO Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA
1997 "Seattle Artists 1997" Award Recipient, Seattle Arts Commission
1992-93 Board Member, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1991-96 Instructor, Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
1991 Artist-in-Residence, Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
1990 Arts/Industry Resident, Kohler Company, Kohler, WI
1988 Workshop Instructor, Istituto Per l'Arte Ceramica, Faenza, Italy
1986 Artist-in-Residence, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1984-87 Artist-in-Residence, Washington State Arts Commission
   
1984 Founding member D’Art Collective
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 “Not Consumed”, Howard House Gallery, Seattle, WA
   
2002 "Scapegoat Variations", Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
1999 "Descent into Limbo", William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 "Bearing the body of Christ", William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 "Entry Into Jerusalem", Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Northview Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
1994 "Discrete Objects", William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 "Magdalene In the Wilderness", William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 "Make an Effort to Remember...", collaborative installation with Borgia-
Aberle and Weslien, JM Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1990 "Rusted Eden", William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1989 "Noli Me Tangere", William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 "Hoops of Real Fire", Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1985 Allied Arts Gallery, Yakima, WA
1984 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983 Short Form Gallery, Seattle, WA
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 "Unnatural History", Kittridge Gallery, U of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
   
2004 Seattle Perspective, Wa State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2003 "UW Ceramics Program 1969-1996", The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2002 "Seattle Collects 2002", City Space, Seattle, WA
2000 "Ceramic National", Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (until 2002)
"CoCA Credits", Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
"4 x 4", Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
1999 "Artificial Life", Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
"within/without", Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1998 "Horsehead Project", Sand Point Naval Base, Seattle, WA
1997 "Wit and Wisdom", Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
1994 "Figure and Ground", Port Angeles Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
"Process", Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
1993 Maveety Gallery, Salishan, OR
"Screams with Laughter", Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, BC
1992 "Figures of Stature", Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
"Carnival Culture", Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
"Seattle Invitational", Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 "The Artist in the Art", Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
1990 "The Human Form", Dinnerware gallery, Tucson, AZ; & Grand Canyon College,
Phoenix, AZ
"Washington Crafts: Then and Now", Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
"The 28th Ceramic National", Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Flint Institute of Art, MI
Utah Museum, Salt Lake City, UT
1989 "Califia-Artists' Books", Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Surreal Ceramics", JM Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1988 "Scripps Ceramic Annual", Lang Gallery, Claremont, CA
Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR
"Personal Form: Books and the Artist", Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 "Seattle Sculpture 1927-87", Bumberbiennale, Seattle, WA
1986 "Underground Seattle", Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
1985 "neon Plus", Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
1984 "Introspectives", Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY
1980 "Copper II: Metalsmithing National", University Museum, Tucson, AZ
1979 "El Paso Biennial", El Paso, TX
 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
City Light Collection, City of Seattle, WA
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Matthews Collection, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
Microsoft Inc., Redmond, WA
Special Collections, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 “Artists take on religion…”, Lucia Enriquez, Seattle Times, March 17
   
  “Exploring Religious Fanaticism”, Regina Hackett, Seattle P-I, March 17
   
  “Don’t Call It Religious Art”, Jen Graves, The Stranger, Vol 15, No 25.
   
  “Lauren Grossman’s Not Consumed”, Peter Gaucys, The Stranger, Vol 15, No 24
   
2005 The Figure in Clay, Suzanne Tourtillott, Editor, Lark Books
   
  Home Is Where You're Going, Linton + Morgan, Editors, Cathedral Hill Press
   
2003 “Lauren Grossman at…”, Matthew Kangas, Art in America, Feb
2002 “Sculptures take Biblical…”, Victoria Josslin, Seattle P-I, July 15
2001 "Burning Passion", Regina Hackett, Seattle P-I, March 20
1999 “Grossman’s Herd Dominates...”, Regina Hackett, Seattle P-I, Oct. 18
"Artificial Life", Meg Shiffler, Consolidated Works
1996 “Bearing the body of Christ”, Carol Adelman, Art Access, Vol 5, No. 6
"Jesus Machine", Eric Fredericksen, The Stranger, June 27
1995 Matthew Kangas, Sculpture, Jan/Feb
Victoria Josslin, Reflex, November, Vol.9, No.10
1994 "Skin Treatments", Stephen Garrow, Reflex, Oct/Nov
1993 "Bible Stories", Deborah Haynes, Artweek, March 4
"Figurativity", Ruth Askey, Visions Art Quarterly, Summer
"Contemporary Figurative Sculpture", Lauren Grossman, Artweek, 4/8
Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest,
Brunsman and Askey, editors, Midmarch Press
1992 "Make an Effort to Remember...", Nancy Bless, JM Kohler Arts Center
"Monumental Ceramics", Beth Sellars, Cheney Cowles Museum
"Sheboygan Show Daring...", James Auer, Milwaukee Journal, 12/29
1991 Matthew Kangas, Sculpture, March/April, Vol. 10, No.2
"Fracturing Genesis", Lee Goss, Reflex, Jan/Feb
1990 "Lauren Grossman",Matthew Kangas, American Ceramics, Vol. 8, No. 1
1989 "Subtle Invocations of the Macabre", Ron Glowen, Artweek, May 20
"Grossman's Art Not for the Squeamish", Regina Hackett, Seattle P-I, May 5
1988 "Scripps Ceramic Annual", Mac McCloud, Ceramics Monthly, Nov
"anche in America si fa ceramica", Il Progresso, N.5-9 Marzo
1987 "Bad Taste's Good Omen ", Regina Hackett, Seattle P-I, April 10
1986 "Underground Seattle at COCA", Matthew Kangas, Art in America, Dec