JOHN MASON
Date
of Birth: 1927, Madrid, Nebraska
Studio
in Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
Chouinard
Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
Otis
Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
REPRESENTATION
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2000 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Habatat/Shaw Gallery, Pontiac, MI
1994 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1986 L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1981 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY
1979 University of Nevada, Reno
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Minneapolis College of Art & Design
California State University at Long Beach
University of Kentucky, Lexington
1978 University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Minneapolis
Institute of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Selected Group Shows
1976 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA1974 Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA
1966 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1963 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1961 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1960 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1959 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Selected 2001 High Fire: Significant Ceramic Sculpture: John Mason,
Peter Group Voulkos, Rudy Autio, Toshiko Takaezu, Anne Currier,
Jun Kaneko Exhibitions Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri2000 Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, travels to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO;
The Tucson Museum of Art , and Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art1999 Anne and Sam Davis Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960 - 1974, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA1998 Clay into Art: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramics Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Current Trends in Ceramics, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Revolution in Clay - The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1992 The 1992 International Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, National Museum of History, Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan
1989 Craft Today USA, American Craft Museum, New York
1988 East-West, Contemporary Ceramics, Art Center of Korean Culture & Arts, Seoul Olympic Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea
1987 American Ceramics Now: The 27th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1987 The Eloquent Object Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, OK
1986 Craft-Today - Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, NY
1985 Pacific Connections, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
1984 The 20th Century: San Francisco Museum of Art Collection, San Francisco, CA First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections, 1940-1980 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1982 100 Years of California Sculpture, The Oakland Museum, Oakland,CA
1981 Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1976 California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Franciso Museum of Modern Art
200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1972 Sculpture Off the Pedestal, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI
1971 Contemporary Ceramic Art, U.S.A., Canada, Mexico & Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1969 Kompas 4, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1967 American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum Collections
The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Aichi Prefecture Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki Prefecture, Japan
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA State of California, Sacramento, CA
City of Boise, Boise, ID
Nelson-Atlkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
National Museum of History, Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Gifu Prefecture Museum, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
