BRUCE TAYLOR
Academic History
1989 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, MFA, with Honours
1985 Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff Alberta, Canada
1983 Pilchuck School of Glass, Washington,
1981 Pilchuck School of Glass, Washington,
1983 Alberta College of Art, Calgary Alberta, Canada
Selected Solo and 2 Person Exhibitions
2018-Solo Exhibition, Bruce Taylor, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London Ontario, Oct 2018
2011 Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake, ON (March 2011)
2010 “Lucid Dreaming” Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Christian Bernard Singer, Curator
2005 “Indefinite Space“, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery
2004 “Indefinite Space" University of Waterloo Gallery, Anna-Marie Larson, Curator
1996 “Harmony”, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1996 “Harmonic Proportions”, University of Waterloo Department of Fine Arts Gallery, Mixed Media Drawings, Joe Wyatt Curator
1995 Cambridge Library Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario, 2 person exhibition Mary Misner Curator
1994 Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Installation, Jonathan SmithCurator
1992 Galerie Art 8, TroisRivieres, Quebec
1985 Little Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
1984 Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon World Ceramic Center September 2019
2018- Anatomy of a Collector, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ont., Curated by Brian Cooke, Jan 14- April 29th 2018 https://tomthomson.org/event/anatomy-of-a-collector/
Fireworks 2017-19 FUSION: The tradition of the Fireworks exhibition started over 35 years ago. This biennial juried exhibition of ceramics and glass will travel for two years to galleries throughout
Ontario. 2018- Cup Show, Juried Exhibition, Clay Art Vegas Las Vegas, NV, January 4, 2018 to February 24, 2018
2018- Dish, Juried exhibition, Yuill Gallery, Medalta Oct. 19 2017-Jan. 24th 2018
2018 SIP: A Ceramic Cup Show, Savannah Clay Community, Savannah, GA, https://www.savannahclaycommunity.com/sip-a-ceramic-cup-show-2018.html
2017 Fireworks, Museum London, London, June
2016 Domestic design, Architecture Gallery University of Florida, May
2016 Matter of Clay, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London Ont., Aug
2016 Coffee & Clay Exhibition, Pottery Northwest Gallery, Seattle, WA, May
2015 Summer Fun and Games, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London Ont., Aug
2015 Under Cover, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London Ont., Feb
2014 “Academia” Earls Court Gallery, Hamilton Ontario
2014 Anniversary Exhibition, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London Ont., April
2014 Mugs, Exhibition, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London Ont., April
2013“Something old Something New”, 8th Cheongju International Craft BiennaleCheongju, Korea
2013 "Tour de Force" Jonathon Bancroft- Snell Gallery, London On, March
2013 artcetera, Elora Centre for the Arts, Exhibition
2012 Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan Ceramics Biennale
2012 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Selected works from Ceramic Visions: 2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale
2012 “Fusion” Jonathon Bancroft- Snell Gallery, London On (May)
2012 "Yesterday and Today" Jonathon Bancroft- Snell Gallery, London On (Aug)
2011 Alchemy: From Dust to Form, Harn Museum of Art Gainesville, FL
2008 SculptArt in the Med. Garden Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington
2006 Canadian Contemporary Ceramics Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, curated Joanne Marion and Les Manning
2006 Sight Unseen: Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Curated David Court
2005, “Indefinite Space“,Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery
2004 Athens Olympics, International Olympic Park, Amaroussion, Greece, Invited
2004 “Indefinite Space“, University of Waterloo Gallery, Anna-Marie Larson curator
2003 “21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada”, Canzani Centre Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, Bill Hunt curator
2003 “Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery Biannual Exhibition”, Kitchener, Ontario, Allan Mackay curator
2003 “Genius-Loci”, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, invitational exhibition
2002 “Ceramic Modernism: Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and Their Legacy, The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario, Sue Jefferies curator
2002 “Waterloo Collects”, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, invitational exhibition
2002 “SOFA”, The Fifth Annual International Exposition of Sculptural objects & Functional Art, New York, New York, invitational exhibition
2001 “Toronto International Art Fair” Oct., Toronto, Ontario, invitational exhibition
2001 “World Contemporary Ceramics” Kwango-dong, Ichon-shi, Kyonggi-do, Korea, Sangho Shin curator
2001 “Earth Works”, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Sue Jefferies curator
2000 “Framed”, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, invitational exhibition
2000 “Earth Works”, EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany, Sue Jefferies curator
2000 “1000 Mile Apart”, Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan,
Invitational Exhibitions2000 “The Art Of Living”, Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
2000 Faculty Exhibition, University of Waterloo, Department of Fine Arts, Waterloo, Ontario
1998 “Framed”, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, invitational exhibition
1998 “A Question of Identity”, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, invitational exhibition
1997 “Box”, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, invitational exhibition
1997 “Making an Impression”, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario
1996 “White on White”, Gardener Museum of Ceramics, Toronto Ontario, Travelling Exhibition, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, Tokyo Japan, Shanghai, China, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Singapore, Sue Jefferies and Anne McPherson curators
1995 Gardener Museum of Ceramics, Toronto, Ontario, Group exhibition
1993 Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, Catalogue, invitational exhibition,
1992 International Exhibition of Ceramic Art, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan ROC, invitational exhibition
1992 “Containers Revisited 1975- 1992”, Tyler Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Juried Exhibition,
1992 “Artistic Generations”, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, invitational exhibition
1991 “Necessary space”: Invitational Group exhibition, Mount Saint Vincent, University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nick Webb curator
1991 Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Montreal, Quebec, invitational exhibition
1991 “On Reflection”, Petro Can Exhibition Gallery, Calgary Alberta, Paula Gustafson curator
1990 “National Biennial of Ceramics”, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, Prix d’Excellence, Juried Exhibition, catalogue
1989 Graduating Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
1988 “Contemporary Containers”, Perkins Art Centre, Moorestown, New Jersey, invitational exhibition
1987 “Ceramics”, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1987 Faculty Show, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1986 “Handspirits”, Beaver House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Travelling Exhibition, Nickel Arts Museum Calgary, Alberta, Cartwright Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Catalogue
1985 Second Story Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1984 Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
1983 Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1983 Graduation Show, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1983 Rubaiyat Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1982 Beaver House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Juried Exhibitions2013“Something old Something New”, 8th Cheongju International Craft Biennale Cheongju, Korea
2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale (Bronze Award) Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts,
2011 Alchemy: From Dust to Form, Harn Museum of Art Gainesville, FL
1996 National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec Canada, Invitational Exhibition, catalogue
1994 National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec Canada, Juried exhibition, catalogue
1992 Mino Ceramic Exhibition, Mino, Japan, Juried exhibition, catalogue
1990 4th National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois-Rivieres Quebec Canada, Juried exhibition, Prix d’Excellence, catalogue
1989 2nd international Ceramics Competition, Mino Japan, Juried exhibition, Grand prize, catalogue
1988 3rd National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada. Juried exhibition, catalogue
1987 Glass Exhibition, Muttart Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Juried exhibition
Awards and Prizes
2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale (Bronze Award) Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City
2004 Commissioned sculpture for 2004 Summer Olympics Greece
1997 Elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics
1991 Joseph S Stauffer Prize, The Canada Council 1991 Joseph S Stauffer Prize, for meritorious achievement in the arts
1989 Prix d’Excellence, National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
1989 Grand Prize, Mino, Japan, International Ceramics Exhibition 1989
1988 Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
1988 Alberta Potters Association Scholarship Award
1988 Visual Arts Senior Award, Province of British Columbia
1984 Louise McKinney Award, Alberta Heritage Fund
Curatorial
1996 Guest Curator, “Risk” Queens Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Studio Residents Exhibition
Articles Published
1989 “Bruce Taylor” Profile, Edited by Wendy Morrison. Contact Magazine, Fall, Issue Number 78, Photograph.
1985 “Ceramists on Raku”, Edited by Frances Burke, Contact Magazine, Winter Issue Number 61, Photograph.
Catalogues, Reviews and Articles on the Artists Work, Selected
2014 “Awesome Art Times Two” Grand Magazine, Barbara Aggerholm, Jan.
2013 Cheongju International Craft Biennale , Exhibition Catalogue
2012 Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan Ceramics Biennale
2012 May 2012 News letter, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London Ontario
2011 Alchemy: From Dust to Form, Harn Museum of Art Gainesville, FL
2012 Elenor Wilson Blog, http://elenorwilson.blogspot.ca/2012/07/this-just-in.html
2011 Imprint, Feb. Bruce Taylor: Pottery That Won’t Fit on Your Kitchen Counter, Chelsea Schmaltz
2010 “Lucid Dreaming” Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Christian Bernard Singer, Curator
2002 Catalogue, SOFA New York, The Fifth Annual International Exposition of Sculptural Objects & Functional Art, image p. 122
2002 Globe and Mail Toronto “Ceramic Modernism: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Legacy”, By Sarah Milroy, Saturday, August 24, 2002 – Page R7
2002 Catalogue, World Contemporary Ceramics, Kwango-dong, Ichon-shi, Kyonggi-do, Korea, p. 152-155
2001 Catalogue, Earth Works: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics, Gardiner Museum, Text by Susan Jefferies, p. 11
2001 Catalogue, Toronto 2001 International Art Fair, p. 141
2001 Book Mastering the Craft, Ceramics, 2nd edition” Richard Zakin , p.71
2001 Hamilton Spectator, Wednesday, February 7, Regina Haggo, under Art Matters
2001 Book The Ceramic Spectrum, 2nd Edition, Hopper Robin, Images
2000 Fusion Magazine, Volume 25, #1, Text by Susan Jefferies
1998 Catalogue, A Question of Identity, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, invitational exhibition, p. 36
1998 Hamilton Spectator, Elaine Huje, BAC lauded, Sept 1
1998 Kitchener Waterloo Record, Lynn Jackson, Aug. 8th
1997 Ontario Craft, Wendy Jacob, Road Show Winter
1997 American Craft, “White on White” Text by Susan Jefferies, Anne McPherson, p. 36-39
1997 Ceramics: Arts and Perception, Ronald Kuchta, No 27,
1996 Catalogue, White on White, Canadian Contemporary Ceramics, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo and Gardener Museum of Ceramics, Toronto. Text by Susan Jefferies, Anne McPherson, p.27
1996 Catalogue, Terre en Transit, National Biennial of Ceramics, Text by Christiane Simoneau, Trois-Rivieres Quebec p. 36
1996 Kerameika Techni, “Bruce Taylor,”Kostas Tarkassis, Greece, p. 20-24
1996 Ceramica International, “Bruce Taylor,” Antonio Vivas Zamorano, Spain, Volume 55 p. 34-35
1996 Kitchener Waterloo Record, Robert Reid, May 7, Photograph
1995 Cambridge Reporter, Jonathan Harrison, July 25
1995 Ontario Craft Magazine, Betty Ann Jordan, Spring. Photograph
1995 Book, Hand Formed Ceramics: Creating Form and Surface, Richard Zakin, Guest artist p. 176-177.
1994 Ceramics: Arts and Perception, “Acquired Identities in Contemporary Ceramics” Ronald Kuchta, No 14, p.29-35
1994 Kitchener Waterloo Record, Robert Reid, Kitchener, Wednesday, April 6, Photograph
1994 Magazine, Art Le Sabord, # 37, p. 50
1994 Catalogue, Clay…Matter of Expression: National Biennial of Ceramics, Text by Therese Chabot, Trois-Rivieres Quebec p. 36
1993 Catalogue, Vision to Reality, Moving the Spirit, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, p. 38-39.
1993 Canadian Art, “Moving the Spirit,” Volume 10 Number 3, Anne McPherson, p. 89.
1993 The Globe and Mail, Kate Taylor, June 19
1992 Kitchener Waterloo Record, Robert Reid, Sept. 2, Photograph
1992 Arts Atlantic, “Necessary Space,” Robin Metcalf, 43 Volume 11, Number 3, Photograph
1992 Catalogue, Containers Revisited 1975-1992, Text By Mark Pharis, p.
1992 Contact Magazine “Necessary Space”, Robin Metcalf, Winter Issue, Number 87, Photograph
1992 Catalogue, Necessary Space, Text by Nick Webb, Art Gallery Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1992 Catalogue, The 3rd international Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan, p.107
1992 Catalogue, International Invitational Exhibition of Ceramic Art, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan ROC, p.68
1991 Ceramics Monthly, “Bruce Taylor”, Text by Paula Gustafson, May 1991 cover, p. 37-40
1991 Ceramics: Art and Perception, “Tradition and Invention”, Ronald Kuchta, Issue 4, Photograph.
1990 Craft News, July, Photograph
1990 Catalogue, “4th National Biennial of Ceramics”, Trois-Rivieres Quebec Canada, Prix d’Excellence,
1990 CJST News Fall, Volume 4, No 1, Photograph
1990 Ceramics Monthly, News and Retrospect, May, Photograph.
1990 Globe and Mail, “Canadian Potters Take Top Prize”, Anne McPherson, January 2
1989 The Daily Gleaner, Visual Arts in Review, Christina Sabat, Oct. 21
1989 Calgary Herald, Arts, Christina Sabat, Nov.7
1989 Contact Magazine, “Report From Bruce Taylor”, Fall Issue Number 78, p 12-13
1989 Catalogue, The 2nd international Ceramics Competition, Mino Japan
1989 Contact Magazine, “Canadians Receive Honours”, Wendy Morrison, Winter Issue Number 79, p. 9-11
1988 Catalogue, 3rd National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec p. 64
1988 Contact Magazine, Universities and Colleges, Wendy Morrison, summer, Number 73, Photograph
1985 Calgary Herald, Arts Review, Oct. 5, Photograph
1985 Catalogue, Handspirits, Text by Luke Lindoe, Donald McKinley
1984 Catalogue, Alberta Clay comes of Age Text by Frances Burke
Invited Lectures/ Conferences/Visiting Artist
2018 Invited guest lecture for the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London Ontario, Oct
2017 Invited Juror, Insights Exhibition, Wellington County Museum, Elora On
2017 Insights Exhibition, , Wellington County Museum, Walk with the Jurors
2016 Invited guest lecture, Sheridan College Mississauga On
2016 Invited guest lecture, BealArts London, On
2014 Invited guest lecture, Elora Art Centre
2013 Invited guest lecture, Central Technical School, The Art Centre Toronto On
2013 Invited guest lecture, Sheridan College Mississauga On
2012 Invited guest lecture, 2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City
2012 “Unmonumental “Invited guest lecture, Canadian Society for Aesthetics, The Congress, University of Waterloo
2011 Invited guest lecture at La Mine D’Art, Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake
2010 Invited guest lecture at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
2009 Invited guest lecture and critique. McMaster University (Feb)
2008 Invited guest lecture and workshop, The Art Gallery of South Western Manitoba, (Feb)
2006 Invited guest lecture at Robert Langen Gallery WLU (Waterloo Potters)
2005 Invited guest lecture at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery
2005 Invited guest lecture at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
2001 Invited lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Ceramics Department
2001 Invited lecturer and forum, in conjunction with “Earth Works: Contemporary Canadian Ceramics”, Gardiner Museum, Toronto Ontario
2000 Visiting Artist, Sheridan College, Oakville Ontario, Lectures and workshops
2000 Invited lecture and demonstration, “1000 Miles Apart” Ceramic Conference, Department of Fine Art University of Regina, Saskatchewan
1999 Invited lecture, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo Ontario,
1998 Invited lecture, International Academy of Ceramics, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
1997 Visiting Artist, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Lectures and workshops
1997 Visiting Artist, Hong Kong Potters, Hong Kong, Lectures and workshops, spring
1997 Visiting Artist, Ceramics Department, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Lectures and workshop
1997 Invited lecture, Taiwan Ceramic Museum, in conjunction with their Inaugural Exhibition
1997 Invited lecture, KW Society of Artist, Kitchener, Ontario
1997 Invited lecture and forum, White on White Exhibition, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario
1997 Invited lecture, Hwataoyao Botanical Garden, Ceramic Studio & Wood Kilns, Taiwan ROC
1996 Invited lecture, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1995 Invited lecture, Toronto Potters Association, Toronto, Ontario
1993 Invited lecture, Watershed Centre for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine
1993 Invited lecture, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo On,
1993 Visiting Artist, Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario, Lectures and workshops
1993 Visiting Artist, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Lectures and workshops
1993 Visiting Artist, Ontario College of Art, Toronto Ontario, Lectures and workshops
1992 Visiting Artist, Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Lectures and workshops
1992 Invited lecture, Master Classes, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington Ontario
1991 Visiting Artist, University of Moncton, Moncton New Brunswick
1991 Invited lecture, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
1991 Invited lecture and forum, Calgary Ceramics Symposium, Calgary, Alberta
1991 Invited lecture, Yarmouth Pottery Guild, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
1990 Invited lecture, Emily Carr School of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia
1990 Invited lecture, Architectural Spaces, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Artist in Residence
2001 Artist in Residence, Ceramics Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1993 Artist in Residence, Watershed Centre for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine
Workshops Taught
1996 Mould Making, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1992 Master Classes Workshop, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario
1991 Casting Workshop, Yarmouth Pottery Guild, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
1990 Architectural Spaces Workshop, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Interviews
1997 Video Interview, “White on White Exhibition,” Sue Jefferies, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Ontario
Represented in the following public collections:
Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City Taiwan
International Olympic Park, Athens Olympics, , Amaroussion, Greece
The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, ON
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo ON.
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Tajimi City, Mino District, Japan
Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington ON.
World Ceramic Centre in Ichon Korea
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax NS
Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat AB
University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON.