PAUL MATHIEU Download

EDUCATION
1987    MFA, UCLA, Los Angeles,
1984    MA, SFSU, San Francisco,
1982    The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta,
1982    UQAM, Montreal, Diploma in Printmaking,
1979    North Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stoke-on Trent, UK,
1977    Alberta College of Art, Calgary,
1975    Cégep du Vieux-Montréal.

GRANTS, PRIZES AWARDS and BURSARIES
2013 and 2007 SSHRC Research Grants,
2010    Voulkos Fellow, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana,
2008    Vancouver Mayor’s Art Award,
2007    Saydie Bronfman Award for Crafts
2007    Governor General Award in Visual Arts,
2005    Canada Arts Council Travel Grant,
2004    Lighton International Artist Exchange Program, Kansas City Artists Coalition,
2000    Chalmers Award for Excellence in Crafts,
1996    “A” Grant, Canada Arts Council,
1994    6th National Ceramics Biennial (Trois-Rivières and Public Prizes),
1993    Tama Art Studio Artist in Residence Program, Tokyo, Japan,
1992    Pierre Legault Prize, 5th National Ceramics Biennial,
1992    “B” Grant, Canada Arts Council,
1991    Bourse “A”, Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Quebec,
1991    Project Grant, Canada Arts Council,
1990    Prize, 4th National Ceramics Biennial, Trois-Rivières,
1989    Bourse “B”, Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Quebec,
1986    Prize, 2nd National Ceramics Biennial, Trois-Rivières,
1986    UCLA Graduate Fellowship,
1985    Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Quebec (Travel Grant),
1982-87 Fonds FCAR, Quebec (Graduate Research Grant),
1985    Grand Prix des Métiers d’Art,
1984    Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Quebec (Expenses Grant),
1978    “B” Grant, Canada Arts Council.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020-22  ECUAD, non-regular faculty
1996-2019  Emily Carr University of Art+Design, Vancouver, B.C., Emeritus Professor
1996    Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
­­­­1991-96  Concordia University, Montreal
1995    Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C.
1991    Allende Institute, San Miguel, GTO, Mexico
1988    Université du Québec, Montreal
1980-81  Cégep du Vieux Montréal
1984    San Francisco State University (teaching assistantship)
1985/88  Cégep du Vieux Montréal
1976-80  Centre des Arts Visuels, Montreal

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS (with catalogue **)
2019    “Ionic Bonds”, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC**
2019    “The Raiders”, BAF, Bowen Island, BC
2017    “Western Front Society 44th Anniversary Auction”, Vancouver BC
2019    “Contemporary Celadon in the Collection”, Shangyu Celadon Art Museum, Shangyu, China
2016    “Ceramics and Print”, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA
2019    “3000 Years of Porcelain”, MOA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2019    “Blue and White Porcelain in History and Today” **,,Yingge Museum,Taipei,Taiwan
2019    “Kitchen Midden”, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver
2019    “Contemporary Teapots in the Collection” **, Shigaraki Ceramics Museum, Shigaraki, Japan
2019    “Camp Fires”, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
2015    “Camp Fires”, McCord Museum, Montréal, PQ
2014    “Camp Fires”, Gardiner Museum, Toronto **,
2019    “Making Otherwise”, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa **
2012    “Go East”, Gardiner Museum, Toronto **,
2019    “Elegant Disorders”, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver “Remaking Research” ** Emily Carr Concourse Gallery
2010    “Clay Throwdown”, Bellevue Art Museum
2009    NCECA National, Tempe, AZ **
2007    Governor General Awards, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa **
2006    “China Trade”, Centre A, Vancouver **
2005    “The Visceral Vessel”, San Antonio, Texas
2004    “Hot Clay”, Surrey Art Gallery **
2002    International Ceramics Exhibition, Mino, Japan **
2019    International Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan **
2001    75th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, ACAD, Calgary
2000    World Ceramic Exhibition, Korea **
2019    “Color and Fire”, Los Angeles County Museum, LA, CA **
1999    9th National Ceramics Biennial, Trois-Rivières **
1997    “Foulem, Mathieu, Milette”, Musée du Québec **
1996    “White on White”, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo and touring (Shanghai) **
1995    NCECA Clay National, Minneapolis and touring **
1994    6th National Ceramics Biennial, Trois-Rivières **
2019    Tama Art Studio, Machida Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan **
2019    “Gayramics”, New Orleans Lesbian and Gay Centre, LA, USA.
1993    “Subversive Crafts”, MIT List Visual Arts Centre, MA. **
2019    “The Illusion of Place”, Greenwich House Pottery, N.Y.
2019    “Les Vaisseaux d’Art”, Musée Marcil, St-Lambert, Québec **
2019    “Four Quebecers in Syracuse”, Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y.**
1992    International Ceramic Competition, Mino, Japan **
2019    International Ceramic Invitational, Taipei, Taiwan **
2019    5th National Ceramics Biennial, Trois-Rivières **
2019    The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver **
2019    “Gayramics”, Galerie Lieu Ouest, Montreal
2019    The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh **
2019    “The Eccentric Teapot”, Shigaraki Museum, Japan
2019    “Containers Revisited”, NCECA, Philadelphia **
2019    Canadian Teapot Invitational, Drexel University, PA.
1991    The Hand and Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ (NCECA) **
2019    “Quebec Impressions in Clay”, Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Montreal
2019    4th National Ceramic Invitational, The Canton Art Institute, Ohio **
1990    Canadian Ceramics, Barbara Silverberg, Montreal. **
2019    4th National Ceramics Biennial, Trois-Rivières. **
2019    28th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY **
1989    “The Eccentric Teapot”, Garth Clark Gallery, N.Y./L.A.
2019    International Ceramics Exhibition, Mino, Japan. **
1988    3rd National Ceramics Biennial, Trois-Rivières. **
2019    “Fired Imagination”, Canadian/Australian Exchange.
1987    “Drawn to the Surface”, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. **
2019    “L’Excellence en Céramique au Canada #1”, G.B.S., Montreal. **
2019    American Ceramics Now, Syracuse, N.Y. **
2019    “Beyond the Object”, Saskatchewan Craft Council. **
1986    2nd National Ceramics Biennial, Trois-Rivières. **
1985    Concorso Intl. della Ceramica d’Arte, Faenza, Italy. **
2019    Grand Prix des Métiers d’Art, Montréal. **
2019    International Ceramics Exhibition 1985, Taipei, Taiwan. **
To 1974  many more…

SOLO SHOWS
2020   “The Archive 1972-2020”, permanent installation on the family farm, ongoing indefinitely
2019    “Tile Panels”, Faculty Space, ECUAD
2019    “Photos and Pots (after J.W.)”, the Commons, ECUAD
2019    “Narcissus (stacks)”, Faculty Space, ECUAD
2018    “Nude Pastels after Degas”, No Name Gallery, ECUAD
2017    “Flower Vases with Flowers in a Vase”, No Name Gallery, ECUAD
2016    “China Syndrome”, Burlington Art Gallery, Burlington, ON **
2019    “RightSideUP”, with Landon Mackenzie, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC **
2012    “Flower Vases with Flowers in a Vase”, Ottawa School of Art
2006    “Making China in China”, Richmond Art Gallery, B.C. **
2003    East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii
2002    Prime Gallery, Toronto 1999 Stride Gallery, Calgary **
1998    10 Years Survey, Burlington Art Centre, Ontario.**
1995    Prime Gallery, Toronto.
1993    Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York.
1991    Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Montreal.
1990    Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago.
2019    Prime Canadian Crafts, Toronto.
2019    Michel Tétreault Art Contemporain, Montreal.
1988    Garth Clark Gallery, New York.
1987    Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles.
1985-87  “Le Souci de Soi”, Travelling: Banff, Vancouver, Montreal. **
1982-84  Interaction, Montreal.
1981    Prime Canadian Crafts, Toronto.
1976-81  Centre des Arts Visuels, Montreal.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS on my work (catalogues listed with group exhibitions **)
2017    “Another China: Experimental Design Practices in Bone China Factories in China”,
2019   NCECA Journal, Yanze Jiang, March 2017
2016    “Paul Mathieu: The China Syndrome”, Janna Hiemstra and Jonathan Smith, Art Gallery of Burlington
2019   “RightSideUp”, Julie Oakes, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
2014    “Camp Fires: The Queer Baroque of Léopold L. Foulem, Richard Milette and Paul Mathieu, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
2009    “Contemporary Ceramics; An International Perspective”, Thames and Hudson
2008    “Porcelain: The Masters”, Lark Books
2007    “Governor General’s Awards 2007”, Paul Bourassa, catalogue essay
2019   “Ancient Affections”, Liz Magor, in Craft: Perception and Practice 3
2019   “Confrontational Ceramics”, Judith Schwartz, A&C Black, London
2006    “Ancient Affections” in “Making China in China”, Liz Magor, catalogue essay
2019   “Paul Mathieu in San Bao”, Elaine Hardman, Ceramics: Art and Perception
2019   “Narrative Ceramics”, Matthias Ostermann, A&C Black, London
2019   “Paul Mathieu in China”, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Australia
2005    “Cultural Interaction”, Keramik Magazin, Germany, Barbara Kaiser
2019   “Paul Mathieu”, Ceramic Art Magazine, China, Shen Min
2004    “20th Century Ceramics”, Edmund de Waal, Thames and Hudson, UK
2019   “The Persistence of Crafts”, Paul Greenhalgh ed., Rutgers U. Press
2019   “Une Histoire de l’Art du Québec”, Musée du Québec
2019   “Craft: Perception and Practice, a Canadian Discourse” #2
2003    “20th Century Disasters (+ 1) and 20th Century Sculptures”, Anna Marie Larsen, Artichoke Magazine
2001    “Post Modern Ceramics”, Mark del Vecchio, Thames and Hudson, USA
2000    “Color and Fire”, Los Angeles County Museum
2019   “Painted Clay”, Paul Scott, Watson-Guptill, New-York
2019   “The Inquiring Mind of Paul Mathieu”, Paula Gustafson, Ontario Craft 1999
2019   “10000 years of Pottery”, Emmanuel Cooper, British Museum
1996    “The Best of Pottery”, Angela Fina and Jonathan Fairbanks, Rockport, USA
1995    “Getting to the Heart of the Matter”, Gloria Lesser, Ceramics: Art&Perception, Australia
1990    “Clay Today”, L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2019   “The Book of Cups”, Garth Clark, Abbeville Press
2019   “The Eccentric Teapot”, Garth Clark, Abbeville Press
1989    Vie des Arts Magazine, Summer, p.21
1986    American Ceramics Magazine, Vol.5, No.1
1985    “Le Souci de Soi”, Lorne Falke and Marie Perreault, The Banff Centre

TEXTS I PUBLISHED
2022     “Ceramics! The Art of the Future? A History and A Theory”
2022     “Making china in China, A Potter’s Memoir”, both on my website
2022     “Ceramics!…” 24 visual audio lectures, on Youtube
2019    (all at www.paulmathieu.ca):
2022     “ The usurpers have no clothes”,
2022     “The little P…..”,
2022     “Crafts Hangzhou 2016” and “Crafts, 2018”,
2022     “Archeological Expedition, Field Journal”,
2022     “Alison Britton: Words and Things,
2022     “Suzanne Wolfe: Ubiquity and Quiddity”, Ceramics Monthly, Fall 2020
2017    “Reflections on Edmund deWaal’s Phaidon Monograph”, Ceramics: Art & Perception, Australia,
2017    “What do we talk about when we talk about Crafts?”, proceedings of Hangzhou International Conference on Contemporary Crafts, Hangzhou, China, Spring 2017,
2017    “Shelter: Ceramics and Architecture”, Studio Potter Magazine, Spring issue.
2016    “Object Theory” in “The Ceramics Reader” anthology, Kevin Petrie and Andrew Livingstone, ed., Bloomsbury Academic, UK,
2017    “A Visit to the V&A”, Ceramics: Art&Perception (online), May 2016,
2017    “Fab Lab or Fib Lab”, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 30-35.
2015    “The Influence of Chinese Porcelain on Contemporary Ceramics”, DAO Magazine, China.
2014    “Multiplicities”, Craft Journal,
2017    “The Influence of Sancai on Contemporary Ceramics”, DAO Magazine, China.
2012    “Portage and Main(tenance) Rory MacDonald”, Ceramics: Art&Perception.
2011    “The Dirt on Dirt on Delight”, Ceramics: Art&Perception,
2017    “Go Figure”, NCECA Journal,
2017    “Beyond the Brickyard”,Archie Bray Foundation.
2010    “Léopold L. Foulem in Vallauris”, New Ceramics, 6/10 (Germany), Takeshi Yasuda, Kilmog Press, NZ,
2017    “Comment: How to write critically about Ceramics”, Ceramics Monthly, Sept.
2009-2010;  “Ceramic Excellence”, Archie Bray Foundation.
2009    “The Art of the Future: 14 Essays on Ceramics”, at www.paulmathieu.ca
2007    “Thrown”, Craft: Perception and Practice 3.
2007    “Object Theory”, Utopic Impulses anthology.
2005    “Towards a Unified Theory of Crafts”, in Crafts: Perception and Practice 2: A Canadian Perspective, anthology edited by Paula Gustafson.
2004    “The Influence of Chinese Porcelain on Contemporary Ceramics”, Jingdezhen, China.
2003    “SEXPOTS: Eroticism in Ceramics”, book published by A&C Black, London U.K., and Rutgers University Press (U.S.A.); and Haupt (Switzerland) in a German translation.
2002    “Léopold L. Foulem: Abstractions Très Singulières”, éditions Materia, Québec.
2001    “Michael Frimkess: A Reappraisal”, Ceramics Art&Perception (Australia),
2017    “Leopold L. Foulem’s Singular Abstractions”, Keramieki Techni (Greece),
2017    “Towards a Unified Theory of Crafts”, Artichoke Magazine, Canada.
2000    “Towards a Unified Theory of Crafts”, Studio Potter (USA),
2017    “Leopold L. Foulem’s Monochrome Abstractions”, Artichoke Magazine,
2017    “Les Abstractions Monochromes de Léopold L. Foulem”, La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre (France),
2017    “Julia Galloway: The Pottery of Extremes”, Ceramics: Art&Perception (Australia).
1999    “The Depreciated Legacy” (conference), on CD-ROM and Website for Australian Ceramics Conference, Perth, Australia.
1998    “Speaking Volume: Ceramics and Text” (conference), NCECA Journal,
2017    “The Politics of Exclusion”, Contact Magazine.
1997    “Pushing Boundaries: The Pottery of Takeshi Yasuda”, Ceramics: Art&Perception.
1996    “Erotics and Aesthetics: Ceramics and Sexualities” (conference), NCECA Minneapolis.
1995    “The Space of Pottery: an Investigation of the Nature of Crafts”, in Making and Metaphor, edited by Gloria A. Hickey.
1994    “The Space of Pottery”, ESPACE Sculpture (Canada).
1993    “The Sculpture of Georges Jeanclos”, Ontario Craft.
1992    “Roseline Delisle: an Appreciation”, Contact magazine.
1991    “The Space of Pottery”, Studio Potter (USA), vol. 19, #2.

BOOKS I PUBLISHED
2022    “Making china in China, A Potter’s Memoir”, at www.paulmathieu.ca
2010    “Ceramics! The Art of the Future? A History and A Theory”, at www.paulmathieu.ca/theartofthefuture.
2003    “Sexpots; Eroticism in Ceramics”, A&C Black, London, UK, Rutgers University Press, USA and in a German translation by Haupt, Switzerland.

FUNDED RESEARCH
Ceramics and the Archive Partnership Development Grant 2013 ($136,000), SSHRC.
Ceramics and the Archive, SSHRC Insight Grant 2007 ($96,000).

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum for Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
The Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.
Musée du Québec, Quebec, Canada
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Collection Lavalin
Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
The Greater Victoria Art Gallery
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Nelson Fine Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri
The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
International Ceramics Museum, Kecskemet, Hungary
Museum of Arts and Design MAD, New-York

INVITED AND FEATURED CONFERENCE SPEAKER
2017    NCECA Portland, “Another China”, panel with Yanze Jiang, China and Janet deBoos, Australia,
2017    ECUAD Vancouver, Symposium with Yanze Jiang and Janet deBoos, March 21, 2017.
2016    International Conference on Contemporary Crafts, Hangzhou, China, December, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA,
2017    California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art CCACA, Davis, CA, “Drinking the Kool-Aid”, April 2016.
2015    NCECA Providence, RI, “Picture This! Ceramics and Pictorial Spaces”.
2013    Oregon College of Art and Craft.
2012    Hindsight/Foresight, Ottawa.
2010    Critical Santa Fe, Symposium Bellevue Art Museum.
2009    Australian National Conference, Sydney.
2008    NCECA Conference, Pittsburgh.
2007    Neo-Craft Symposium, Halifax, Nova Scotia Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Arts, Toronto.
2005    Canadian Art College Association, Victoria, B.C.
2017     Potter’s Guild of BC conference, keynote speaker, Ladysmith, BC.
2004    Porcelain Millennium International Conference, Jingdezhen, China,
2017     Tangents: Ceramics and Beyond, University of Indiana, Bloomington.
2002    East/West Exchange Conference, Hawaii, USA.
2000    Art College Association, Toronto, Ontario,
2017     East/West Craft Conference, Harbourfront, Toronto.
1999    Keynote Speaker, Australian Ceramics Annual Conference, Perth.
1998    National Conference on Education in the Ceramic Arts, Kansas City,
2017     Canadian Art College Association, Waterloo, Ontario.
1996    National Conference on Education in the Ceramic Arts, Minneapolis.
1994    Making and Metaphor, Canadian Museum of Civilization.
1986    Emerging Talent, NCECA St-Louis.

RESEARCH TRIPS
2001   Peru
1997   England and France
1996   China

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCIES
2016    Shangyu International Celadon Artists Residency, Shangyu, China, June 2016.
2014, 2013, 2011, and 2009  Huaguang Zibo Bone China Factory, Shandong, China.
2012    Kecskemet International Ceramics Studio, Hungary.
2010    Voulkos Fellow, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
2008-07 The Pottery Workshop Experimental Factory, Jingdezhen, China.
2005    San Bao, Jingdezhen, China.
2004    San Bao, Jingdezhen, China.
2003    San Bao, Jingdezhen, China.
2001    International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary.
1998    East/West International Exchange, University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
1996    Pop/Mass and Sub Cultures, Senior Artist, The Banff Centre.
1994    Tama International Residency, Machida, Japan.

GUEST ARTIST

over the years at the following institutions:

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
CAFA, Beijing, China, 2014
Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
Oregon College of Art and Craft
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Ottawa School of Art
UQAM, Montreal
University of Lethbridge, Alberta
Ceramics Institute, Jingdezhen, China
The Pottery Workshop, Hong-Kong and Jingdezhen, China
Tama Art University, Machida, Japan
Royal College of Art, London
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Concordia University, Montreal
University of Waterloo, Ontario
University of Indiana, Bloomington
University of Regina, Saskatchewan
Alberta College of Art, Calgary
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
George Brown College,Toronto
The Banff Centre, Banff
Gardiner Museum of Ceramics, Toronto
University of Washington, Seattle
Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle
University of Colorado, Boulder
San Francisco State University
Kansas City Art Institute
Los Angeles City College
Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver
Langara College, Vancouver
Kwantlen University College, Vancouver
Centre de Céramique Bonsecours, Montréal
La Maison du Potier, Québec
Centre des Arts Visuels, Montréal