Installation view of Viola Frey: Foundations at Bedford Gallery at Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, January 10 – April 5, 2026. Photo: Shaun Roberts.
CURRENT & UPCOMING
Through July 12, 2026
Bodies and Souls
Concurrently at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Woodmere, Philadelphia, PA
Through March 5, 2028
A Shared Journey: The Barkan Contemporary Ceramic Collection at the RISD Museum (catalogue)
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
August 27, 2026 – October 2, 2026
Visions in Clay juried show, with works by Viola Frey (SJDC Alum Emeritus, 1951-1953)
Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
Opening Reception: August 27th, 5-7pm
RECENT EXHIBITIONS | 2025-26
California Clay, Hastings College Jackson Dinsdale Art Center, Hastings, NE
Halfway to Sanity, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
Finding the Center: The Clay Art Center Historic Collection, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Making Her Mark, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Making Moves: A Collection of Feminisms, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Monumental: Larger than Life-Size, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
RBG at 50: Focus on Ceramics, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Rhaposody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (catalogue)
Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today (catalogue), Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, NY
Studio Time + Studio Practice, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR
Summer in Black and White, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Viola Frey: Foundations, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Arts Center, Walnut Creek, CA
Viola Frey: Transitory Fragments, pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Viola Frey: Observed and Gathered, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA