EXHIBITION HISTORY

Installation view of Monumental: The Art of Viola Frey at Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI, 2020. Photo courtesy of Flint Institute of the Arts.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Viola Frey, The Pit Palm Springs, Palm Springs, CA

2022

Distinctly Her Own: Sculptures by Viola Frey, California Museum, Sacramento, CA

Viola Frey: Faces, Masks, and Figurines, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2021

Viola Frey (The Space Just Between): Sculpture and Works on Paper 1970 – 1989, GAVLAK, Palm Beach, FL

2020

Monumental: The Art of Viola Frey, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (brochure)

2019

Viola Frey: Center Stage, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (catalogue)

Viola Frey: Her Self, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA (catalogue)

2018

The Future of Yesterday, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

2015

Viola Frey: A Personal Iconography, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)

2014

Collection in Focus: Viola Frey, di Rosa, Napa, CA (catalogue)

2012

Viola Frey: Echoes of Images, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2010

Viola Frey: A Legacy in Paint and Clay, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

Viola Frey: Every Man, Every Woman, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI (catalogue); also traveled to Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

2008

Viola Frey: Focus on the Figure, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007

Viola Frey: Relationships/Interrelationships, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2005

Viola Frey, Louis Wells Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC (catalogue)

Viola Frey: A Lasting Legacy, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue); also traveled to Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV; Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC

2003

Viola Frey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002

Viola Frey, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2001

Larger than Life: Ceramic Figures by Viola Frey, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; also traveled to Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

2000

Viola Frey (Focus on the Figure), Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999

Viola Frey, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Viola Frey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998

Viola Frey: Survey 1969-1981, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

1996

Plates, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Viola Frey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Viola Frey: An Exhibition of Small Scale Ceramic Sculpture by a Major American Artist, Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1995

Viola Frey: Arguments, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Viola Frey Ceramics: The Dinner Plates, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

1994

Viola Frey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Viola Frey: Plates 1968-1994, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue); also traveled to Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS; Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, SD

Viola Frey: Sculpture and Paintings, Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1993

Viola Frey, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

1992

Viola Frey, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World Wallpaper and Pink Lady, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

Viola Frey: Sculpture and Wallpaper, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA

Viola Frey: Works on Paper, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1991

Viola Frey, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA (catalogue)

Viola Frey, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

1990

Viola Frey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

1989

Viola Frey, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Viola Frey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1988

Manufacture de Sèvres, Atelier Expérimental de Recherche et de Création: Viola Frey, Hall du Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France

Viola Frey: Recent Work, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA

1987

Viola Frey, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Viola Frey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986

Viola Frey, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA

1985

Viola Frey: Paintings and Sculpture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1984

It’s All Part of the Clay: Viola Frey, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue); also traveled to Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

Viola Frey, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Viola Frey: Paintings and Sculpture, Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Viola Frey: Sculpture and Painting, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA

1983

Viola Frey: Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

1982

Currents 18: Viola Frey, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Viola Frey, Mark Twain Plaza Bank, Kansas City, MO

Viola Frey: Figures, Art Gallery/Visual Arts Center, CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA

Viola Frey, Art Collections, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1981

Viola Frey, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (catalogue); also traveled to Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Sheehan Art Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA; Blanden Memorial Gallery, Fort Dodge, IA; Matthew’s Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

1980

Viola Frey, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1978

Viola Frey: Ceramic Artist in Residence, Purdue University CA 5 Ceramic Studio, West Lafayette, IN

1975

Viola Frey: Recent Ceramic Sculpture, Hank Baum Gallery, Century City, CA

Viola Frey: Recent Ceramic Sculpture, Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Viola Frey: Recent Works, Wenger+Casat Galleries, La Jolla, CA

1974

Viola Frey “Seat of Civilization” Series, Wenger Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1970

Viola Frey: Artist in Residence, Pioneer Museum & Haggin Galleries, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA

1969

“Trophies in Clay” by Viola Frey, Chabot College Art Gallery, Hayward, CA

1966

Viola Frey: Pottery, Paintings, College of the Holy Names, Oakland, CA

Borkeramik Gallery, Chicago, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Going Our Way, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

Halfway to Sanity, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA

Jay DeFeo, Martha Shaw, Mildred Howard, Robert Therrien, Squeak Carnwath, Viola Frey, pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA

Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

She Laughs Back: Feminist Wit in 1970s Bay Area Art, University Art Gallery, CSU Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 

Studio Time + Studio Practice, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR

The Figure-The Face: Pastels from the Butler’s Collection, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (catalogue)

Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection and the Woman Behind It, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT (catalogue)

Whispers and Screams: Voices from the Belger Collection, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO

2023

Breaking Ground: Women in California Clay, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA

The Divine Feminine: Contemporary Women Sculptors, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Springs, FL (brochure)

Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Modern and Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (catalogue)

Moment Momentum, James Harris Gallery, Dallas, TX

(Mostly) Women (Mostly) Abstraction Pt. II, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY

RAM Staff Selects: A Community-Curated Exhibition, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

Threads That Bind: Elucidating Diverse Voices of Womanhood, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO

WARES! Extraordinary Ceramics and the Ordinary Home, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 

2022

After Viola, The Barn Gallery, YoloArts, Woodland, CA

Important Studio Ceramics, Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

On the Edge: CCA Clay, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA (catalogue)

Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Fine Art Boston, Boston, MA

The Object in its Place, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA

Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT (catalogue)

2021

Craft Front and Center, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

For the Record: Celebrating Art by Women, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Hard/Cover, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

In Search of Lost Time, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

Jennifer Rochlin, Bella Foster and Viola Frey, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA

Linger and Flow, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Making a Mark: American Women Artists, Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL

(Not) Quiet on the Western Front, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO

Playful/Pensive: Contemporary Artists and Contemporary Issues, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

Presenting 4 x 8-bridges, Et al., etc. on 8-bridges.com, San Francisco, CA

Reflect: Modern and Contemporary Highlights, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI

Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

The Flames: The Age of Ceramics, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France

The Incorrect Museum: Vignettes from the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA

When Nobody’s Watching, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2020

A Legacy of Firsts: The Everson Collects, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

An Earth Song, A Body Song: Figures with Landscapes, OMCAExpand

Clay (&c), Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA

Nasty Women, GAVLAK Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Sweet Land of Funk, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Winterfest: An Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

2019

100 Iconic Works From the Permanent Collection, The Baker Museum of Art, Naples, FL

20/20: A 20th Anniversary Survey, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL (catalogue); also traveled to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA  (2019-2020)

Chris Hood and Viola Frey, Et al, etc., San Francisco, CA

Clay, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Clayblazers: Women Artists of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, Arizona State Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Cool Clay: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Ceramics, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

Global Conversations: Art in Dialogue, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

Human Condition, KANEKO, Omaha, NE

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950 – 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Circle, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

The Figure, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2018

40 by 40: The 40th Anniversary Show, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA (catalogue)

A Look Back: Forty Years of the Foosaner Collection, Foosaner Art Museum, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

American Beauty, Design Museum Den Bosch, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times (Part 1), di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (catalogue)

Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times (Part 2), di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (catalogue)

Class Pictures, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

First Glimpse: Introduction to the Buck Collection, UCI Institute and Museum for California Art, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA

In the Company of Women, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Living with Clay: California Ceramics Collections, Nicholas & Lee Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (catalogue)

Ouch!, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO

Pop/Funk: Warhol and Frey, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Reverberations: A Visual Conversation, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

Sculptors and Their Drawings, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

The Elaine and Sidney Cohen Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

The Incongruous Body, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA

2017

Bay Area Clay—A Legacy of Social Consciousness, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA (catalogue)

Body Language: Figuration in Modern and Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, AZ

From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

In Praise of Women: Works from the Permanent Collection, Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH

Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (catalogue)

REWIND: 60 Years at CAC, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY

Story Telling about Life: 2017 Gyeonggi International Biennale, Icheon World Ceramics Center, Icheon Cerapia, Gyeonggi-do Provence, Republic of Korea (catalogue)

The Women, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA

Women Made: Female Artists from the Foosaner Collection, Foosaner Art Museum, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

2016

A Century of Collecting: Ceramics at the Everson from 1916 to the Present, Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, NY

EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA (catalogue)

Fired Up: Monumental Clay, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

From the Collection: Passion and Obsession, KANEKO, Omaha, NE

Function, Form, and Fantasy: Ceramics from the Dr. Robert and Deanna Harris Burger Collection, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (catalogue)

Now Where Were We?, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

The Human Spirit: Contemporary Figuration as an Expression of Humanism, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Tiny Treasures, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York

2015

CERAMIX: Art and Ceramics from Rodin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands, (catalogue); also concurrently traveled to la Maison Rouge, Paris, France, and Cité de la Céramique, Sévres, France 

Character Studies: Clay from the Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Father Clay—Bruce Duke Retrospective, Grand Theater Center for the Arts, Tracy, CA

Lukas Duwenhögger, Viola Frey, D’Ette Nogle, Joel Otterson, Carol Rama, Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Rodin to Warhol: 60th Anniversary Gifts and Recent Acquisitions, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

2014

Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX (catalogue); also traveled to Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH (2014-2015)

In Passionate Pursuit: The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection and Legacy, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (catalogue)

Magic Mud: Masterworks in Clay from RAM’s Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

The Female Gaze: The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO

The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (catalogue)

The Morgan Collection—Selections, University Art Gallery, Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa, AL

2013

A Riot of Color: The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Collaboration with Ruth Fine, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Adornment, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO

Color: The Splendor Of, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Fifty Gifts for Fifty Years, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Larger than Life: Exploring Scale in Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

The Landy Collection of Ceramics, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Winter Blues, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2012

40 Years, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Local Treasures: Bay Area Ceramics, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA (catalogue)

Renegade Humor, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX (catalogue)

The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue); also traveled to Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO

The Figure, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

To Be A Lady: Forty-Five Women in the Arts, Norte Maar, New York, NY (catalogue)

Women: By, Of, About, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2011

43rd Annual Arkansas Art Center Collector’s Showcase, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

Clay Bodies: Reinterpreting the Figure, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (catalogue)

Discerning Taste: Paintings from the Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Looking at You Looking at Me, di Rosa, Napa, CA

2010

Beneath the Surface – Excavating the Belger Collection, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO

Cross Currents in 20th Century Art: Prints and Ceramics from the Anne C. and Harry Wollman Collection, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH

Go Figure!, Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)

Refraction: Contemporary Art from the Harn Museum Collection, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Summer, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Tomorrow’s Legacies: Gifts Celebrating the Next 125 Years, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

2009

50/50: Fifty Gifts Celebrating 50 Years, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue); also traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)

TITANS: Robert Arneson and Viola Frey, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Titans II: Viola Frey and Robert Arneson, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2008

Bay Area Ceramic Sculpture: Collection in Context, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA

Carolina Collects, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC (catalogue)

Multiple Personalities: Figural Sculpture and Contemporary Craft, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

NANCY HOFFMAN GALLERY: SUMMER SOHO, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Out of Shape: Bodies in Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (catalogue)

Re-considering Color: Postmodern Classical II, Olympic Tower Atrium, Onassis Cultural Center, New York, NY (catalogue)

The Art of a City: The History of the San Francisco Arts Festival 1946–1986, San Francisco International Airport, South San Francisco, CA

Threads of History, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2007

A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

CCA: 100 Years in the Making, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

CCA[C]@di Rosa Preserve: Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of the California College of the Arts, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA

Innovation & Change: Ceramics from the Arizona State University Art Museum, organized by Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (catalogue); traveled to Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; J. Wayne Stark Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art & Culture, Las Cruces, NM; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL (2007-2010)

Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (catalogue)

2006

A Ceramic Legacy: The Stéphane Janssen and R. Michael Johns Collection, The Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (catalogue)

Circles, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Drawing the Line, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Poetic Expressions of Morality: Figurative Ceramics from the Porter*Price Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; also traveled to Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL

The Family of Clay: CCA Ceramics 1950-2005, Steven Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA

The Human Form in Clay: The Mind’s Eye, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shiga, Japan (catalogue); also traveled to The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan; Shizuoka Art Gallery, Shizuoka City, Japan (2006-2007)

2005

Artist/Teacher/Artist, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

Connoisseurs of Clay: Collecting Contemporary Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (catalogue)

Dual Vision: The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (catalogue); also traveled to Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI

Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture by Robert Arneson, Visiting Professors, and Students at the University of California at Davis, the Paula and Ross Turk Collection, Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (catalogue) 

The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA (catalogue); also traveled to Maine College of Arts, Portland, ME; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL; and others (2005-2016)

The Long & Short of It, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA 

2004

Inside Out: Selections the San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalogue)

Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collections at Stanford University Alumni and Friends, Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (catalogue)

The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selected Works from the di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC (catalogue); also traveled to di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA (2004-2005)

2003

American Art Today: Faces and Figures, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (catalogue)

On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)

Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002

Celebrating Thirty Years, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)

Functionalism to Funk: California Ceramics, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

Major Figures: A Group Show of Figural Ceramics, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA

Selections from Valley Collections, Inaugural Exhibition in the Ceramics Research Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

The 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Carl Schlosberg: Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA

The Erotic Life of Clay, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

2001

Allan Chasonoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC

Artists’ Tiles: Beyond Tradition, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA

Comic Relief, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Figuration in Clay: A Collection, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (catalogue)

Form 45: On Paper II, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

From the Figure to the Body: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

I Love New York, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Objects of Desire II, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; also traveled to Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX

The Body Project, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

2000

Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue); also traveled to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, AZ; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (2000-2001)

Expanded Visions: Ceramic Art in the 1970s–80s from the Collection of Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (catalogue)

GLASS: A CELEBRATION, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Legacy III: Contemporary Women Artists, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL

Masters of Contemporary Sculpture, University of California San Francisco, Laurel Heights Campus, San Francisco, CA

The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (catalogue); also traveled to San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

1999

Art & Industry: Contemporary Porcelain from Sèvres, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

Born of Clay 3, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY

Gateways, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Objects of Desire, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Pioneers and Terriers: Colenbrander, Ohr and USA Clay Today, Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Size Matters: Mega vs. Mini, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

1998

20/20 The 20th Anniversary Exhibition, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

A Fire For Ceramics: Contemporary Art from the Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason Collection, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA (catalogue)

Fifty Years-Fifty Artists, Butler Institute of American Art, Trumbull Branch, Howland, OH

The 25th Anniversary Celebration of Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts: Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA

Uit het EKWC, Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

1997

5th Anniversary Celebration: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

Arbus to Zynsky, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Color Detour, Apex Art, New York, NY

The Hergenrader Collection of Contemporary Art, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992–1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (catalogue)

1996

Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA (catalogue)

Real(ist) Women, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

Six From California, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Vessels, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

1995

Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (catalogue); also traveled to Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; American Craft Museum, New York, NY (1995-1996)

From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plates: 16 Contemporary Sculptor/Printmakers, The Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH (catalogue); also traveled to Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH; Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX; McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH; Shafer Art Gallery, Barton County Community College, Great Bend, KS (1995-1997)

In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the ’90s, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY (catalogue)

Light Interpretations: A Hanukah Menorah Invitiational, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Louis Mueller and Viola Frey, Galerie Carin Delcourt van Krimpen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1994

Contemporary American Ceramics: From the Dean Thompson Collection, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS

Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collection, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalogue)

The 58th National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

The Figure, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

The Women’s Mentor Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

1993

Contemporary Crafts and The Saxe Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (catalogue); also traveled to St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC (1993-1994)

Five Bay Area Artists: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

From the Fire, Three Exhibitions in Clay: Incendiary Spirits, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA (catalogue)

Hybridization: Contemporary Northern California Crafts, 1975 – Present, California College of the Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Nine Decades: The Northern California Craft Movement 1907 to Present (three-part concurrent exhibit), California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA; Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Tales and Traditions: Storytelling in Twentieth-Century American Craft, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)

1992

Cross Section, Battery Park City and the World Financial Center, New York, NY

Objects and Drawings from the Sanford M. and Diane Besser Collection, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR (catalogue); also traveled to The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

Summer Selection: Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Video, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The Figure: Two Bay Area Artists, Christopher Brown and Viola Frey, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS (catalogue)

Viola Frey and Dennis Gallagher, Esprit Sculpture Garden, San Francisco, CA

What’s New: Invitational Group Exhibition of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

Works on Paper: The Craft Artist as Draftsman, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

1991

American Life in American Art 1950-1990: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

De-Persona, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (catalogue)

Diverse Directions, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA

Experiencing Sculpture: The Figure in American Art, 1850 to 1990, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

Not On Canvas, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA

Selections from Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation Collection of Northern California Art, Redding Museum of Art and History, Redding, CA (catalogue)

Selections from the Collection of Stéphane Janssen and Michael Johns, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (catalogue)

Smith Collects Contemporary, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (catalogue)

The 1980s: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The New Bronze Age, The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)

Walls: Large-Scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT (catalogue)

1990

Art at Gateway Center, Gateway Center, Prudential Services Company, Newark, NJ

Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960s: Then and Now, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Building a Permanent Collection: A Perspective on the 1980s, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

Functional Fantasy, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA

National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR (catalogue)

Oakland’s Artists ’90, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalogue)

Thirty Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA (catalogue)

1989

2D/3D: Sculptors Drawing, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

30 Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA (catalogue)

A Rain of Talent: Umbrella Art, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA; also traveled to Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; American Craft Museum, New York, NY (1989-1990)

American Pop Culture Today, Laforet Museum, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)

California Crafts XVI: Selections from One Man’s Collection, Hubert A. Arnold, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (catalogue)

Ceramic Traditions: Figuration, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA (catalogue)

Craft Today USA, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France (catalogue); also traveled to Museum of Applied Art, Helsinki, Finland; Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; and others (1989-1993)

Eternal Shades, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)

Kansas City Collects: Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (catalogue)

Perth International Crafts Triennial, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (catalogue)

Selections from the Joyce and Jay Cooper Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (catalogue)

The Eighties in Review, Whitney Museum of American Art at Fairfield County, Stamford, CT

The Figure: Selections from the Arkansas Art Center Foundation Collection, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR (catalogue)

1988

Bronze Works: Northern California Artists, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA

Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY (catalogue)

Columnar, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

Heroics: A Critical View, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada (catalogue)

Just Like A Woman, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC (catalogue)

Not So Naive: Bay Area Artists and Outsider Art, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

Portraits: Here’s Looking at You, Alaska Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, AK (catalogue)

The Figure as Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975, Erwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS (catalogue); also traveled to Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (1988-1989)

Twelve Artists, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA (catalogue)

Urban Figures, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY

1987

American Ceramics Now: 27th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (catalogue); also traveled to American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA; and others (1987-1989)

Bay Area Artists: Small Works Invitational, Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Bay Area Drawing, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

California Figurative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA (catalogue)

Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (catalogue); also traveled to Roland Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and others (1987-1989)

Contemporary Ceramics from the Smits Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)

Figurative Clay ’87, University Center Gallery, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL

Quatre Américains à la Manufacture de Sèvres, American Center, Paris, France (catalogue)

The Eloquent Object: The Evolution of American Art in Craft Media since 1945, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (catalogue); also traveled to The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (1987-1989)

What’s New? American Ceramics since 1980, The Alfred and Mary Shands Collection, JBSpeed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (catalogue)

1986

American Potters Today, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)

California Sculpture: 1959-1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY (catalogue); also traveled to Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (1986-1988)

Featured Artists of N.E.C.A. 1986, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX

Gallery Artists, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Inez Storer and Viola Frey, Site 311, Pacific Grove, CA

Material and Metaphor: Contemporary American Ceramic Sculpture, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (catalogue)

Miniature Worlds: The San Francisco Bay Area, 1965-1975, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Sculptors’ Drawings: Terry Allen, Viola Frey, Robert McCauley, Mary Miss, Dann Nardi, Judy Pfaff, Michael Singer, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA (catalogue); also traveled to Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; Dexter Art Gallery, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA; and others (1986-1987)

Second Newport Biennial: The Bay Area, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)

1985

American Clay Artists: Philadelphia ’85, Port of History Museum: City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)

CCAC Faculty Show, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

In the Eye of the Beholder: A Portrait of Our Time, College Art Gallery, SUNY/The College at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY (catalogue)

Recent Ceramic Sculpture, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (catalogue)

Surface, Function, Shape: Selections from the Earl Millard Collection, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL (catalogue)

1984

A Passionate Vision: Contemporary Ceramics from the Daniel Jacobs Collection, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)

American Sculpture: Three Decades, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue)

Contemporary Ceramic Vessels: Two Los Angeles Collections, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)

Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (catalogue)

Figurative Sculpture: Ten Artists/Two Decades, University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)

Platters and Related Forms, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL (catalogue)

The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1983

A Personal View: Selections from the Joan Mannheimer Ceramic Collection, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas City, MO (catalogue)

Ceramic Echoes: Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (catalogue)

Clay for Walls: Surface Reliefs by American Artists, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

Contemporary Clay Sculpture: Selections from the Daniel Jacobs Collection, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY

Resource/Reservoir, CCAC: 75 Years, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Small Figures, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Raw Edge: Ceramics of the ’80s, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (catalogue)

1982

100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (catalogue)

Art and/or Craft; USA and Japan, Kanazawa City, Japan (catalogue)

Clay Bodies: Autio, DeStaebler, Frey, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD (catalogue)

Continuum, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Carmichael, CA

Figurative Clay Sculpture: Northern California, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Narrative Ceramics, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA

NCECA ’82, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Pacific Currents/Ceramics 1982, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalogue)

Three Dimensions: Glass, Clay, Fiber, The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY

1981

CCAC Alumni Exhibition, California College of the Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

The Animal Image: Contemporary Objects and the Beast, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)

The Clay Figure, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1980

Clay Plus, Purdue University Union Gallery, West Lafayette, IN

Contemporary Ceramics: A Response to Wedgwood, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA; also traveled to University Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

Seven Ceramic Sculptors, Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA

The Vessel, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX (catalogue)

1979

A Century of Ceramics in the United States: 1878 – 1978, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (catalogue); also traveled to Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Arts in the DeWaters Art Center, Flint, MI; and others (1979-1982)

Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA (catalogue)

Spaces, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA (catalogue)

Teachers and Their Pupils, Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA

The Unpainted Portrait: Contemporary Portraiture in a Nontraditional Media, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalogue)

West Coast Clay Spectrum, Security Pacific Bank Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)

1978

Contemporary Crafts from Greenwich Area Collections, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich Public Library, New York, NY

1977

A Teapot Show, El Camino College Art Gallery, El Camino, CA (catalogue)

Overglaze Imagery: Cone 019-016, Art Gallery/Visual Arts Center, CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA (catalogue)

Viewpoint: Ceramics 1977, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA (catalogue)

1976

CCAC Clay ’76, Chabot College Art Gallery, Hayward, CA

1975

San Francisco Museum of Art Presents First Artists’ Soap Box Derby, McLaren Park, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Capricorn Crafts Exhibit, Capricorn Asunder Gallery, The San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA

1974

Baroque ’74, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (catalogue)

U.I.A.C. (Union of Independent Art Colleges) Crafts Exhibition, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1973

27th Annual San Francisco Outdoor Art Festival, Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco, CA

California Crafts 1973 Invitational, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA (catalogue)

Invitational Craft Exhibition, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (catalogue)

Media Survey ’73, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA

The Great Oakland Myth, Wenger Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1972

Ceramics West, Utah State University, Logan, UT

1971

Association of San Francisco Potters: Ceramic Statement 1971, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

California Design XI, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)

1970

Chico State College Ceramic National Invitational, Chico State College, Chico, CA

1969

CCAC Alumni Painting and Sculpture Show, California College of the Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1968

25th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (catalogue)

California Design X, University of Davis Extension, Davis, CA

CCAC Faculty Show, Crown Zellerbach Building, San Francisco, CA

Media ’68, Civic Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1967

Association of San Francisco Potters, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR

Ceramics by Viola Frey and Peter Layton, Gallery 38, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1966

Association of San Francisco Potters: 21st Biennial Ceramic Exhibition, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

1965

California Crafts IV 1965 Invitational, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Collector: Object / Environment, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (catalogue)

One Score: 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Association of San Francisco Potters, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

1963

22nd Ceramic National Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (catalogue)

Emergence: Student – Craftsmen, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (catalogue)

1962

Stone Forms: Association of San Francisco Potters 12th Exhibition, de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Young Americans 1962, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (catalogue)

1961

American Crafts: New Talent, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champagne, IL

California Crafts II, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Contemporary Craftsmen of the Far West, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (catalogue)

First California Craftsmen’s Biennial, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA

1959

10 Potters, Greenwich House Pottery, New York City, NY

1954

The Thirteenth Annual Pacific Coast Ceramic Exhibition, The Rotunda Gallery, City of Paris, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

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