B. Park Forest, IL
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021
Interventions: Fortuna, Inaugural Artist, Cheekwood Estate, Nashville, TN
2020/2021
Games of Chance, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Korean International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, South Korea
2018
Strange Arcadia, Spagnuolo Gallery, Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington, DC
Beth Katleman and Shari Mendelson, Todd Merrill Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Folly, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Beth Katleman: Recent Work, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1997
*Dream House, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
*Dream House (A Preview), Barneys New York Windows, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025/26
Marie Antoinette Style, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2024
Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY
The Importance of Being Furnished, Eustis Estate, Historic New England, Milton, MA
2023
Ceramics National Invitational Exhibition, Reuben Sauders Gallery, Wichita, KS
2022
Cast Illusions, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
2021
Beautes Equivoques, Bernardaud Foundation, Limoges, France
Hermerica, Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2020
Claytopia, Plaxall Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Vases & Vessels, David Gill Gallery, London, U.K.
2017
Confabulations of Millenia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
Winter Antiques Show, New York, NY
Design Miami, Miami, FL
2016
Unconventional Clay, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Winter Antiques Show, New York, NY
FOG Design+Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Clay: A Survey of Contemporary American Ceramics,
Western Carolina University Fine Arts Museum, Cullowee, NC
2015
Tchotchke: Mass-Produced Sentimental Objects in Contemporary Art,
The Gund Gallery, Gambier, Ohio
Collective NYC, New York, NY
Art Miami, Miami, FL
2014
Faberge Big Egg Hunt, New York, NY
Collective NYC, New York, NY
FOG Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
2013
Art Miami, Miami, FL
Art Southhampton, Southhampton, NY
Masterpiece London, London, England
Collective NYC, New York, NY
Zona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico
London Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
2012
Palm Beach International Art Fair, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary
G Seoul Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary
Design Miami/Basel, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland
2011
Design Miami, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary
Pavilion of of Art and Design/New York, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary
Pavilion of of Art and Design/London, Todd Merrill StudioContemporary
Flora and Fauna: MAD about Nature, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Design Miami/Basel, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland
Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary, Paris, France
Alchemy: From Dust to Form, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Florida Souvenirs: Sand, Surf and Sin from the Sunshine State
,
Mindy SolomonGallery,St. Petersburg, FL
2010
Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY and other venues in New York City.
Bright and White, Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Mindy Solomon Gallery at NCECA, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Selections from the Kohler Company Collection, 798 ArtZone, Beijing, China
New Works/Old Story, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2008
Handle With Care, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2006
From the Ground Up, Linda Ross Contemporary, Huntington Woods, MI
2005
Blue Plate Special, Chester Springs Studio, Chester County, PA
2002
International Infusion III, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2001
National Ceramic Invitational, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Telling Tales, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2000
Blown Away, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture and Functional Art (SOFA) Chicago, Leslie Ferrin Gallery
SOFA New York, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Ann Nathan Gallery
1999
Faculty Exhibition, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House, New York, NY
Sculpture and Functional Art (SOFA) Chicago, Ann Nathan Gallery
1998
Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum
Group Exhibition, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
From Foundation to Ornamentation, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997
Tweakville, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Catalogue)
Including Clay, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Incestuous, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, curated by Carter Kustera
The Pull of Beauty, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY and the National Building
Museum, Washington, D.C., curated by Kiki Smith and Victoria Milne
Faculty and Artists in Residence Exhibition, University of Georgia, Athens
1995
New Work from Cranbrook Academy of Art, John A. Wilson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1994
Artists from the Archie Bray Foundation, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
and University of Washington Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Beth Katleman + More in ‘Raid the Icebox Now’ at RISD," Cfile Online, February, 2020
"‘Games Of Chance’ — RISD Museum," Providence Daily Dose, Beth Comery, January 2020
"In Warhol's Footsteps," Elena Renkin, Providence Journal, September, 2019
"Hostile Nature: Beth Katleman's Ornate Sculptures, Liz Ohanesian, Hi-Fructose, Volume 49, 2018, p.43
"Inside Christian Dior's New London Store," Jo Tweedy, <i>Mail Online</i>, May 31, 2016</a>
"After Folly," Lilianne Milgrom, <i>Ceramics Monthly,</i> February 2016
"Fall Jewels: Off the Walls," Romy Oltuski and Amanda Weiner, Harpers Bazaar Magazine, September, 2015
"Beth Katleman: Domestic Nightmares in the Language of Kitsch, CFILE (Online), February 13, 2016
"White can be Imperceptive, Subversive, Unifying and Strange," CFILE (Online), July 23, 2015
"Three-in-One," Lilianne Milgrom, Ceramics Now Magazine, June 2015
"Blending Rococo and Kitsch: Beth Katleman Explores the Myths of Domesticity," Emily Rappaport, Artsy (online), March 30, 2015
"Orient Express," Francine Ballard, Paper City Magazine, April 2015
"A Design Fair with a Sense of Play," Sarah Archer, Hyperallergic, May 9, 2014
"1 Design Fair," Samuel Cochran, Architectural Digest, May 9, 2013
"A Great Relief," Nicole Swengley, Financial Times: How to Spend It, April 20, 2013
"From N.Y.: A Spotlight on Todd Merrill," Christina Kang, Trans Trend Magazine, Korea, Spring 2012, p. 52
"Roaming Gnomes of Basel" Anny Shaw, The Art Newspaper, June 15, 2011
"Blanche Colombe", Alexandra D'Arnoux, La Tribune & Moi (France), June 2011
"To Hide the Absurd in Elegance", Bruce Chao, Cacao Magazine (Taiwan), July 2011, p. 76
"What's In" Beryl Hsu, Grand Design Magazine (Shanghai)
"Beth Katleman on her Ceramic Curiosities," The New York Times, Currents by Penelope Green,
January 13, 2011
"Beth Katleman: Folly", Colette Copeland, Ceramics Art and Perception, September-November 2011,
p. 42.
"Beth Katlemn, Folly 2010," Bruce Helander, The Art Economist, Volume !, Issue 3, 2011,
p 78 and back cover.
"Folly" Ceramics Monthly, Exhibition Review, February 2011, p.24.
"Best of the Pavillion of Arts and Design," Artinfo, November 11, 2011 (Online)
"From Sinister Wallpaper to Man Ray's Earings, Artinfo's Higlights from the Inaugural PAD NY Fair"
Artinfo, November 10, 2011 (Online)
"A Globetrotting Display With American Flair," Karen Rosenberg, The New York Times,
Art Review, November 10, 2011
"Folly by Beth Katleman," Design Milk, 1/17/2011 (Online)
"Blown Away," Ken Johnson, The New York Times, Art Guide, August 2, 2000, p. E35
"Beth Katleman" David D.J. Rau, American Ceramics, Volume 13/1, February, 1999, p. 54.
"Bathroom" Tom Breidenbach, October, Artforum, 1998, p. 124.
"Bathroom" Holland Cotter, The New York Times, Art in Review, June 26, 1998, p. E38.
"Bathroom with Lots of Makeup" Lucie Young, The New York Times, March 20,1997, p. C3.
"A Sculptors Paradise" Lynn Shumow, Sculpture, Vol. 16 No.3, March 1997 p.39.
"Industrial Evolution" Steven Kapelke, New Art Examiner, Vol. 24,No.1 September 1996, p.21.
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
Peter Marino: Art Architecture, Brad Goldfarb, Phaidon Press, New York, NY 2016
Unconventional Clay, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MI 2016
Beth Katleman's Folly, Todd Merill, Todd Merrill Studio Contemporary, New York, NY 2011
New Works/Old Story: 80 Artists at the Passover Table, Connie Wolf, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 2009
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Timothy Anglin Burgard, Karin Breuer, Jill DAlessandro, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 2007
Teapots Transformed, Leslie Ferrin, Guild Publishing, Madison, WI 2000
Tweakville,David Hunt, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA ,1998
Handmade Tiles, Frank Giorgini, Altamont Press, June 1994.
COLLECTIONS
Nike, USA
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
M. H. de Young Museum, San Francisco,CA
Christian Dior Boutique, London
Christian Dior, Hong Kong
Ci Kim Arario Gallery Collection, South Korea
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Kohler Company Collection, Kohler, WI
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Right Management, Philadelphia, PA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023 New York State Council on the Arts Artist Fellow, Craft/Sculpture
2022 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency
2015 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2011 Moet Hennessey Prize, PAD New York
1997 Generation X Award and Residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
1996 Moravian Tile Works
1996 Residency (Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant)
1995 Arts/Industry Fellowship, Kohler Company and JM Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI
Resident Artist, University of Georgia Studies Abroad, Cortona, Italy
Artist in Residence, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute
2000 Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, New York University
1999 Instructor, Greenwich House Pottery
EDUCATION
1995 Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA
1986 Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, MBA - Arts Management
1981 Stanford University, BA - English