Department of Art

At the intersection of Pop Street and Highbrow Avenue is where you’ll find my work. Remember, television made me what I am today.

Education

• MFA, University of Washington
• BFA, Dayton Art Institute

Selected Exhibitions

2002

Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic (traveling exhibition), Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Escape from the Vault: The Contemporary Museum Breaks Out, The Contemporary Museum of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Major Figures, Invitational, Ferrin Gallery, Berkshires, Lenox, MA
Terra Sutra, 21 Century Ceramic Erotic Art, Incubator Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2001

The Poetics of Clay, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Museum of Art and Design, Taideteollisuusmueso, Helsinki, Finland
Floating Time/Heironymous Bosch: A Legacy 2001, Bizarre Realism, 2, Wanenbrocdersmuis Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Our Cups Runneth Over, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
10th annual Figural Ceramic Exhibition, University of Wisconsin Arts Center Gallery, Whitewater, WI
Cups 2001, Annual Sculptural Cup Invitational, Fifth Element Gallery, Portland, OR

2000

Couplets: Dualities in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Everson Museum Ceramic National, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

1999

What’s Shakin?, Fifth Element Gallery, Portland, OR
Erotica in Ceramic Art, SOFA NYC, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA

1998

Malice in Kinderland: Mark Burns/New Work, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Celebrating American Craft, Det Danske Kunstidustrimuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Loving Cups (The Night of 101 Cups 4), Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Mark Burns/New Work, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Salt & Pepper: Shake & Grind, Clay Studio/Salon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
New Acquisitions, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1996

25 at 25, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA

1995

Cups Four, Artworks Gallery, Seattle, WA New Narrative Teapots, Pinchpot/Ferrin Galleries, Boston, MA

1994

The Extravagant Teapot, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
Las Vegas, U.S.A., Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV

1993

Legacy / Five Perspectives, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1992

A Tea Party, Chicago International New Art Forms, Exposition Hall, Chicago, IL

Selected Publications

• Garth Clark, The Artful Teapot, Watson-Guptill, New York, 2001
• Mark DelVecchico, PostModern Ceramics, Thames and Hudson Publishers, London, 2001
• Leslie Ferrin, Teapots Transformed: The Exploration of an Object, Guild Publishers, 2001

Selected Collections

• Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Japan
• Taideteollisuusmueso, Helsinki, Finland Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
• Contemporary Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI American Craft Museum, New York, NY
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
• Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Arkansas Arts Center/Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR
• Henry Gallery Collection, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Prof. Burns Explains Teapot Anatomy to You, 2000, earthenware with glazes and wood,
  20″ x 16″ x 10″
• Collection of Sonny and Gloria Kamm