Wayne Higby/Studio Exterior

Alfrd Station，New York USA 2003

Wayne Higby is a ceramic artist and educator. His one person show at the America Craft Museum in 1973 launched a major career in ceramic Art. His unique vision of American Landscape and its manifestation in work ranging from vessel form to tile and sculpture has brought him international recognition. His work is held in the permanent collections of numerous at museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. He is Professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, where he has served as chairman of the Board of Trustees, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer lsle, Maine, and as a member of the Governing Council of the International Academy of Ceramics. Higby is a published authority on Ceramic Art, acknowledged for his articulate lectures, essays and critical evaluations. Higby is also Honorary Professor of art at the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute and at Shanghai University, People’s Republic of China. Since 1991, he has traveled and lectured extensively in China and is currently working closely with the artists of China in their efforts to create a revitalized Chinese Ceramic Art.

BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE

Born 1943, Colorado Springs, CO

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MFA, 1968

University of Colorado, Boulder, BFA, 1966

FACULTY

New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1973~present IAC member, Council of Directors, International Academy of Ceramics

PRIZES

2002 Distingui shed Educator Award, James Renwick Alliance

2000 Honorary Professor of Art, College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University

1998 Recognition of Excellence, American Ceramic Society

1995 American Craft Movement Visionary Award, American Craft Museum

Honorary Professor of Art, College of Fine Arts, Jingdezhen

Ceramic Institute, P.R. China

1993 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York

1990 Master Teacher Award, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

1989, 1985 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

Lake Powell Memory——The Cliffs III

Porcelain 38.1cm*43.2cm*22.9cm 1996 Wayne Higby

Intangible Notch

The Installation Earthenware,Raku Technique 346cm*305cm*397cm Arrow International Headquartes Reading,Pennsylvania USA,1995

Kiln area

Alfrd Station，New York USA 2003

Higby Studio

Wayne Higby and assistant Lee Somers Unstacking porcelain firing Alfred Station, New York USA 2003

Wayne Hegby

With model of Miller Performing Arts Bulding Showing proposed porcelain wall

Interior view

Model of Miller Performing Arts Building Showing proposed Porcelain wall

Interior

With model of Miller Performing Arts Building Alfred University,Alfred New York USA 2003

SOLO EXHIBITl0NS

1999 “Wayne Higby: Landscape as Memory 1990~1999”, Museum of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland

1991, 1997 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1988, 1990 Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, NY

1979 Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1996 Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1975, 1978, 1980 Exhibit A, Gallery of American Ceramics, Evanston IL

1973 Museum of Contemporary Crafts (American Craft Museum), New York,NY

1969 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

Wayne Higby

Working on porcelain wall skech Alfred station,New York,studio USA 2003

Wayne Higby

with assistants Lee Somers and Don Kaake viewing site of porelain wall Miller Performing Arts Building Alfred University,Alfred,New York USA 2003

COLLECTIONS

American Craft Museum

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art

Honolulu Academy of Art

Denver Art Museum

Everson Museum of Art

Jingdezhen Museum of Art, P.R. China

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Museum Het Kruithuis, the Netherlands

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

NationaI Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Wayne Higby

With sketch for porcelain wall Alfred station,New York studio Usa 2003

Higby Studio Interior

Alfred Station,New York USA 2003