Ron Fondaw

 

Education

1978 University of Illinois, Urbana, M. F. A.

1976 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, B. F. A.

 

Awards and Fellowships

2008     The Gephardt Institute, Award for Community Based Teaching

1999     Kransberg Award, administered by The St. Louis Art Musueum

• 1996-97 Pollock-Krasner Award
• 1992 Florida Fine Arts Council Fellowship-Sculpture
• 1990 New Art Forms, Miami, FL
• 1989 Awards in the Visual Arts 8
• Fulbright Fellowship, India (declined)
• 1988 National Endowment for the Arts 
• Artist-in-Residence, Kohler Co., Kohler, WI (Cast Iron Foundry)
• 1985 Guggenheim Fellowship, Sculpture
• Artist-in-Residence, Kohler Co., Kohler, WI (Pottery and Cast Iron Foundry)
• 1981 Florida Arts Council Fellowship
• 1977 Ford Foundation Fellowship

Solo & Invitational Exhibitions

2008   "Bison Gates" Site Specific Adobe sculpture, SWIC Campus, Bellville,IL

2007   "Earth & Fire" Boileau Gallery, SLU campus, St. Louis,Mo

2006  "Translusence" A curated exhibition of scuplture in glass, Des Lee Gallery , St. Louis, Mo

2005  " Drawings & Models" Proposals for public art, The Schmidt Art Center, Bellville, IL

2004   "Ron Fondaw, Large Scale Clay, The Northern Clay Center, Minniapolis, MN

2001  "Archeology" Gallery 210  UNSL St. Louis, Mo

• 1997 "Ron Fondaw / Mappings in Clay and Metal," Eliott Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
• 1996 "Ron Fondaw," Florida Community College, Jacksonville, FL
• 1995 "Fusion," The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
• 1991 "Recent Works," Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
• 1990 Drawings, The National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C.
• 1989 "Of Iron and Earth," Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
• 1987 "Ron Fondaw," Ormaond Beach Memorial Art Museum, Ormaond Beach, FL
• 1986 "Ron Fondaw," Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
• One Man Show, Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
• 1985 One Man Show of Sculpture, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
• "Fusion: Iron and Clay," John M. Kohler Arts Centre, Sheboygan, WI
• 1984 One Man Show, Painting and Sculpture, Gallery 24, Miami, FL
• One Man Show, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
• 1983 One Man Show, Gallery 24, Miami, FL
• 1982 One Man Show, Vallencia College, Orlando, FL
• 1981 One Man Show of Sculpture, Gallery 24, Miami, FL

Juried Exhibitions

• 1996 "Annual Juried Exhibition," The Little Rock Art Center, Little Rock, AR
• 1995 "Victrin" Site Specific Installation of ADOBE, Steinberg Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (temporary)
• 1992 "LaGrange National XVII," Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
• 1991 "National Sculpture Exhibition," Deland Museum of Art, Juror, Donald Kusbit, Deland, FL
• 1989 (traveling) "American Ceramics Now," De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE; and Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
• 1987 (traveling) "American Ceramics Now," The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Anerican Craft Museum, New York, NY; and Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
  "Florida Creates," Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
• 1986 Lock Haven Art Center: Annual Exhibition, Orlando, FL
• 1985 Birmingham Biennial, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
• 1980 "Tradition in the Making," Group Show, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
  "Annual Hort Memorial Exhibition," Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Merit Award)

Collections

• Renwick Gallery, National Collection of Fine Art, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C.
• Columbus Museum of Fine Art, Columbus, OH
• Little Rock Arts Center, AR
• Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN
• IBM Corporation, Communications Center, Raleigh, NC
• Martin Z. Margulies, Grove Isle, FL
• Southeast Bank, Miami, FL
• Citibank International, Miami, FL
• Sunbank, Orlando, FL
• Steven Chase & Associates, Rancho Mirage, CA
• Dr. Carl Djerassi, Woodside, CA
• Richard & Joy Haft, Miami, FL
• American Express, Jacksonville, FL
• John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
• Dade County Public Library, Miami, FL
• The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

Selected Bibliography

"Sculpture on The Edge" Paula Harper, Art in America, Dec. 2006

"Studio Potter"  Large Scale Clay By Ron Fondaw,Dec. 2005

"Contemporary Ceramics" Susan Peterson, Watson & Gulip press, 2001

"Waethering Change" Julie Stevenson, Sculpture Magizine, Sept.2000

"The Art & Craft of Clay",Susan Peperson, Printice Hall Press 2000

• Ceramics Monthly, Ron Fondaw, by Robin Rice, March, 1997
• "Fusion," The Work of Ron Fondaw, American Ceramics, Robin Rice, Spring, 1996
• The Art and Craft of Clay, Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall, 1995
• "Stiks and Stones," Elisa Turner, Art News, Summer, 1991
• "Round 'N Round Again," Bernadine Heller-Greenman, Art Papers, July, 1991
• "Sculpture City," Jane Dodds, Art in America, January, 1990
• "AVA 8," Thomas Patin, Artspace, May, 1990
• "Urban Art of 50 Cities in USA," Shoichiro Higuchi, Tokyo Press, 1990
• "AVA 8," Jane Adams Allen, Exhibition Catalog, April, 1989
• "Ron Fondaw," April Rapier, American Ceramics, May, 1986
• "The Power of What's Missing," Alexander Russo, The East Hampton Star, October 13, 1988
• "Sculpture Tests Its Muscles," New York Times, Michael Brenson, September 6, 1987
• "Bayou Show," Pamela Lewis, The Houston Post, March 23, 1985
• "State of the Art," Helen Kohen, The Miami Herald, June 9, 1985
• "Ceramic Sculpture of Ron Fondaw," American Ceramics, Paula Harper, Volume 2, #4, 1984
• "Staring and Shivering," Helen Kohen, Art in America, Summer, 1983

PUBLIC ART Installations

2008    Finalist for Down town Gargage, Greensboro,NC

 2003   "The Vertical Loop" 7 Totem Poles, Bi-State Arts in Transit Commission

1999    "Who We Are" Forest Park Metro Station, St. Louis, Mo

1999    " Rolling Along" Neon & Ceramic, City garage, Columbia, Mo

1996   "Comes Ashore"  Plaza Design, Marathon Key, FL