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2007 McLanahan Gallery, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona, Altoona, PA
2004 Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Indianapolis Art Center, Hurt Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, a separate installation of 36 large-scale ceramic tiles, was also exhibited at the Ruth Lilly Library, also in the Indianapolis Art Center. Both exhibitions coincided with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts 2004 Conference
2003 El Jardin de las Esculturas, Xalapa, Veracurz, Mexico Leedy/Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, 2002/2003
2001 Leedy/Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL
1999 Ron Kovatch - A Ten-Year Survey, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
1998 Galleria de Artes Plasticas, University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
1997 Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Tolgyfa Gallery, Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, Budapest, Hungary
1995 Gender: A Ceramics Installation, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO
2008 GLUE, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
Flesh and Blood, Jacob Foran & Ron Kovatch, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL
RED, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, traveling venues:
Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Wright State University, Dayton OH (April-May)
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (June-July)
Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM (August-September)
Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului, HI (October-November)
2007 Construct Realities, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, Ohio
Agape, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, traveling venues:
Clemson University, Lee Gallery, Clemson, SC
Utah State University, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
Robert Rauchenberg Gallery, Edison College, Fort Meyers, FL
University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
Object Enshrined, Louisville Visual Art Association, The Water Tower, Louisville,KY
2006 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI.
2006 traveling venues:
East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, HA
Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Freemont, CA
Murray State University, The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray, KY
University of Mississippi, Art Gallery, University, MS
30/30, Lill Street Art Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Day of the Dead, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
50,000 Watts: Ceramics by Dan Anderson & Drawings by Ron Kovatch, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL
2004SOFA CHICAGO 2004, Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Chicago, IL
Forms, McMaster Gallery, Univerity of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Natural Selection, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Robert Archambeau: Artist, Teacher, Collector, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada (3 works from Archambeau’s collection exhibited)
Contemporary Works in Clay, Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Eight Fluid Ounces, Louisiana State University, School of Art Gallery
2003Contemporary Ceramic Invitational, Heuser Art Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Hundreds of Cups, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Objects of Desire, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern University, Chicago, IL
Group Invitational, Xen Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2002Clay Sculpture Invitational, Daum Museum of Art,
Sedalia, MO
Clay City, New Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Inspired in Illinois, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL
2001Hardened by Fire, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Summer Faculty Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2000Who Knows Where or When: Artists Look at Geography and Time, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI
1999Erotica In Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual and Suggestive, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
SOFA 1999 NYC, International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art, represented by Ferrin Gallery, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY
The End is Near: Artist Look at the Twentieth Century, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI
National Ceramics Invitational,"Denise Bibro Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1998Boxes, Barriers, and Intimate Spaces, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD
International Contemporary Ceramics from the Igal and Diane Silber Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts 50th Anniversary Traveling Collection Exhibition:
Walter J. Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS, 1998 Clement Allison Gallery, Tusculum College, Greenville, TN,1997
Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO, 1997
1997The Non-Traditional Object, Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, (Two-person exhibit, including Kitty Ross)
Visual Artists Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 1990, 1994, 1996
Visual Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1990
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Master of Fine Arts, 1987
Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1976
University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, School of Art and Design, Professor, Crafts Program Chair, 2000-present
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design, Associate Professor, 1993-2000
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design, Assistant Professor, Ceramics Program Chair, 1989- 1993
Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, Indiana, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1988- 1989
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Visiting Artist/Instructor, 1988
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
The Arkansas Art Center/Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AK
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Evansville Museum of Art and Sciences, Evansville, IN
Marion College, Indianapolis, IN
Ringling School of Art and Design(print collection), Sarasota, FL
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Fister, Cherie. "Ron Kovatch," AMERICAN CERAMICS. Winter Issue, 1988.
Hunt, William. "1990 NEA Grant," CERAMICS MONTHLY. December, 1990.
Madonick, Michael. "Ron Kovatch," CERAMICS MONTHLY. May, 1992:
pp. 32-33.
Merino, Tony. "Midwestern Clay: Anatomy and Architecture," CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 12, Sydney, Australia, 1993: pp. 69-71.
Hluch, Kevin. "Ceramics and Sculpture," CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 23, Sydney, Australia, 1996: pp. 76- 81.
Clark, Bede. "Ron Kovatch’s Gender Project," CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 24, Sydney, Australia, 1996: pp. 62- 65.
Kovatch, Ron. "An Installation Project," Ceramics Technical, Issue 3, 1996: pp. 86-90.
Kangus, Matthew. "Exhibitions," AMERICAN CERAMICS. Volume 12,m Number 2, 1996: p. 52
Mansfield, Janet. "The Diane and Igal Silber Collection," CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 31, Sydney, Australia, 1998: pp. 33-39.
Mickelson Taylor, Liegh. "Boxes, Barriers, and Intimate Spaces," CERAMICS MONTHLY. March, 1999: pp. 12.
Nigrosh, Leon. "Erotica in Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual and Suggestive," CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 38, Sydney, Australia, 2000: pp. 19-23.
Stengel, Gil. "Ron Kovatch’s Non-traditional Objects," CERAMICS: ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 40, Sydney, Australia, 2000: pp. 16-19.
Smith, Phil, "Ron Kovatch: In Search of an Archetype," DIALOG,
March/April, 2001
Williams, Gerry. "20 Potters in the Land of Lincoln," THE STUDIO POTTER, Vol. 32, June, 2003: page 59.
O’Donnell, Laura. "Sanctity, Voyeurism, Reflection and Necessity: Ron Kovatch’s Ceramic TV Sets," CERAMICS ART AND PERCEPTION. Issue 56, Sydney, Australia, 2004: pp. 55-57.
University of Ohio, Athens, OH, 2007
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2004
University of Miami at Coral Gables, Miami, FL 2003
Lill Street Art Center/Gallery, Chicago, IL 2002
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 2001
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 2001
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, 2001
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2000
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2000
Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA, 1999
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL, 1999
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1998
Central College, Houston Community College System,
Houston, TX, 1998
University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 1998
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, 1997
Tolgyfa Gallery, Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, Budapest,
Hungary, 1997
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1996
The Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO, 1995
School of Fine Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995
New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1994
School of Fine Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1993
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993
CONFRONTATIONAL CERAMICS, Judith Schwartz (due out spring 2008),
A&C Black, London
CERAMICS: A POTTERS HANDBOOK, Glenn C. Nelson & Richard Burkett, Wadsworth Thomas Learning Inc. 2002, Plate 39
WORKING WITH CLAY, Second Edition, Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle New Jersey, 2003, Page 37
SEX POTS: EROTICISM IN CERAMICS, Paul Mathieu, Rutgers University Press, 2003
SMASHING GLAZES: 53 ARTISTS SHARE INSIGHTS AND RECIPES, Susan Peterson, Guild.com
Ceramics Installation Project, lecturer, and panelist, Mid- America College Art Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 1995
Architectonic Clay: Built in Diversity, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, New Orleans, LA, 1995
Recent Sculptural Ceramics, The Great Lakes Regional Symposium on Crafts, sponsored by the American Crafts Council, hosted by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 1994
Breaking the Mold: American Crafts of the ‘90s, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, 1993
The State of Ceramic Art Today, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1993