| BORN: 1939
Antigo, Wisconsin
EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin- Madison 1957-1962, B.S.,
M.S. - Art and Art Education
TEACHING: 1963-67 Professor of Art, Wisconsin State University,
Whitewater, WI (Ceramics)
1968-1996 - California State University, Hayward, CA 1968-1996 (Currently
Professor Emeritus of Ceramics)
CURRENTLY: Artist/ sculptor represented on the
internet by: www.claytonbailey.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1974 Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, CA
1975 "Wonders of the World", M.H. DeYoung Museum, San Francisco,
CA Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 "Robot Sculpture", Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
(Catalog)
1982 "Dr. Gladstone's Museum", Natural History Museum,
San Diego, CA
1983 Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco, CA Redding Museum, Redding,
CA
1983 "Science Fiction Sculpture", Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut
Creek, CA (Catalog)
1984 Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
1984 Monterey Peninsula Museum, Monterey, CA
1984 Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
1985 Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1986 University Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
1989 Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1990 "Return of Bigfoot", Redding Museum, Redding, CA
1991 "Robot Sculptures", Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
1993 "Kaolithic Wonders of the World",University of San Diego,
San Diego, CA Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 "Handgun Hand-Out"-Joseph Chowning Gallery, S.F., CA
1995 "Robot Wars", Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco,
CA
1999 "Robot Sculptures", Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1968 Chicago & Vicinity Artists, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago,
IL
1969 Objects U.S.A., Smithsonian Traveling Art Exhibit
1973 Clayworks, 20 Americans, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC
1973- A Decade of American Ceramic Art (R.J. Monson Collection) Museum
of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (Catalog)
1973 Super Ceramics, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1974 The Sensitive Cup Show, Hokkoku Shimbun, Korinbo, Japan
1975 California Ceramics, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1975 Master Craftsmen, Carborundum Museum, Niagara Falls, NY
1976 Tureens, Campbell Museum, Camden, NJ
1977 Ceram-O-Rama, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1978 Civilizations, J.M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (Catalog)
1979 A Century of Ceramics In America, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1980 American Porcelain, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. (Catalog)
1981 The Animal Image, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C
1982 Northern California Art of the 60's, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara,
CA (Catalog
1983 The Robot Exhibit: American Crafts Museum, New York, NY
1983 Narrative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
(Catalog)
1984 Crime & Punishment, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA (Catalog)
1984 SF/SF - San Francisco Science Fiction, San Francisco Arts Commission
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 Clocktower Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1985 "Future World Expo '85", Moscone Center, San Francisco,
CA (Poster)
1985 "California Art, 1945-1985", Oakland Museum,
Oakland, CA (Catalog)
1986 Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1986 "Robot Sculptures", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1988 "Four Decades of Assemblage Art", Corcoran Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA (Catalog)
1989 "Possessions", Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
1989 "The Tool Show", San Francisco International Airport, S.F.,
CA
1990 "Pseudo-Scientific Sculpture", Exploratorium, San Francisco,
CA
1990 "Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960's", Braunstein/Quay Gallery,
S.F., CA
1990 "Artist Made Machines", Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle,
WA
1992 "Automates et Robots, Institut Francaise de Thessalonique, Greece
1993 "Face Vessels", San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum,
San Francisco, CA
1993 "Pacific Rim Ceramic Sculptors", Honolulu Academy of Art,
Honolulu, HI
1993 "30 California Ceramic Sculptors", Natsoulas Gallery, Davis,
CA
1993 "The Sculptors of Cal. State-Hayward", Hayward Arts Commission,
CA
1994 "Year of American Craft", Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, Iowa
1994 "Here and Now; The Rene di Rosa Collection", Oakland Museum,
CA
1994 "Pets: Artists and an American Obsession", Wustum Museum,
Racine, WI
1994 "The Chair Affair", Oakland Museum of Art , Oakland CA (Catalog)
1997 "Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object", California College
of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, 1997, (Catalog)
1997 "Hello Again", Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, New
York, NY
1997 "Trashformations", Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA (Catalog)
1998 "Feats of Clay", Lincoln (CA) Art Center, Juror, (Catalog)
1998 "NCECA Honors and Fellows", Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth
TX (Catalog)
1998 "30 Ceramic Sculptors", Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1998 "The Toki Collection of Ceramics", Pence Gallery, Davis,
CA (Catalog)
1998 "Sculptural Perspectives for the New Millennium" Lef Foundation,
St. Helena, CA
1999 "Radios - ON THE AIR"- San Francisco International Airport,
September 1999 - January 2000
1999 "What Is Art ?", Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (Curated by
William Wiley)
2000 "Nest Egg Omlette", Linc Real Art Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
2000 "Bay Area Figuration", Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kansas City, KS,
2000 "Confrontational Clay",Curated by Judith Schwartz, Exhibits
USA Touring Exhibition, (Catalog)
2000 "Bay Area Figuration", San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose,
CA, Sept. 3, 2000- November 26, 2000
2001"Confrontational Clay", American Craft Museum, NYC, (Catalog)
2002 "The Pilot Hill Collection", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento,
CA
2002 "Return Engagement", Copia: The American Center for Wine
Food and the Arts, Napa, CA
2003 "Sci-Fi Western", 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street, San
Francisco, CA, (Catalog)
2003 "Short Stories: Narrative Ceramic Art", Center For Ceramic
Arts, Berkeley, CA
2003 "The Other Side", B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA
2003 "21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada",
Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio, (Catalog)
2004 "Humor, Irony and Wit: Ceramic Funk from the Sixties", Arizona
State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, (Catalog)
2004 "Multiples- A Clay Invitational", Lincoln Arts, Lincoln,
CA
2004 "Selected Works From The diRosa Preserve", Kreeger Museum,
Washington DC, traveling- (Catalog)
2005 "A Century of Northern California Ceramics", Art Foundry
Gallery, Sacramernto, CA
2005 "The Toki Collection", Diablo College Art Gallery, Pleasant
Hill, CA (Catalog)
2005 "30 Ceramic Sculptors", Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA (Catalog)
2005 "A Cup-Sized History of West Coast Ceramics", Henry Art
Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2005 "Face To Face", Sierra College, Rocklin, CA
2005 "Fired at Davis- Figurative Ceramic Sculpture", The Ross
Turk Collection, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
(Catalog)
2006 "30 Ceramic Sculptors", Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2006 "Menagerie" - Artists Look at Animals, Museum of Craft and
Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 "California in Connecticut", Joanne and Wm. Rees Collection,
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT (Catalog)
2007 "30 Ceramic Sculptors", Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2007 "California Collections: Ted and Ruth Nash Collection "-
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2007 "Nor-Cal Clay", Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2007 "The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection", DeYoung Museum,
San Francisco, CA (Catalog)
2008 "Bay Area Ceramic Sculpture", diRosa Preserve, Napa, CA,
March - May 2008
2008 "Good Doll, Bad Doll", Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena,
CA, March - June 2008
2008 " The Amalgamists", Solano College Gallery, Fairfield, CA
2008 "Robots:Evolution of an Icon", San Jose Museum of Art, San
Jose, CA.
2008 "Masters of Disguise", Mint Museum of Craft and Design,
Charlotte, N.C.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
1963 American Craft Council Grant
1963 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1979 National Endowment for the Arts Grant Recipient
1982 Fellow N.C.E.C.A.(National Council on Education in Ceramic Arts)
1984
U.S. Patent #4440390 issued to Clayton G. Bailey for a "Novelty Squirting
Cup"
1990 Panelist, California Arts Council, Artists Fellowship Program
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Grant Recipient
1998 Celestial Seasonings, Inc. - "A Loose Interpretation III,"
Boulder, Colorado, Received Honorable Mention- for creation of Celeste,
the Robot Teabag
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Light Rail, Sacramento, CA (16th Street Station Pavement Tiles)
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