Ron Fondaw
6760 Chamberlain Ave.
St. Louis, Mo 63130
(828) 231-4245
refondaw@wustl.edu
Education
1979
MFA, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
1976
BFA, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Professional and Teaching Experience
2001
Part of Design Team of HNTB Architecture & Engineers, Short Listed to Redesign 8th Street, Columbia, MO
1998
Part of Design team with Austin Tao Landscape Archt. For Metro Statiion at Forest Park, St Louis,MO
1995
Professor of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1994
Visiting Professor of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1979-94
Professor of Art, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
1978
Visiting Instructor of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Distinctions
1998
"Kransberg Award" - St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
1996/97
Pollock - Krasner Award
1992
Florida Arts Council Fellowship
1990
New Art Forms, Florida
1989
Awards in the Visual Arts 8
Fulbright Fellowship (India), declined
Fulbright Fellowship (India), declined
1988
National Endowment for the Arts
1985
Guggenheim Fellowship, Sculpture
1981
Florida Arts Council Fellowship
1977
Ford Foundation Fellowship
Selected Exhibitions
2009
"Fresh Art" Group exhibition, @ The Good Citizen Gallery, St. Louis,MO
2007
"Earth & Fire" Group exhibition , Boileau Gallery, St.Louis Univ. St. Louis, MO
2006
"Translucent"contemporary glass sculpture,Curated by Ron Fondaw as part of Annual GAS Conference
"A Mater of Scale"Outdoor sculpture,School of medicine, Washington Univ.St. Louis.Curated by International
art and artists
"A Mater of Scale"Outdoor sculpture,School of medicine, Washington Univ.St. Louis.Curated by International
art and artists
2005
"Poetic Process" Invitational,The regional arts commission gallery,St.Louis,Mo
2005
"Drawings and Models for Public Works" One Person show at The Schmidt Art Center, Bellville, IL
2005
"Material Attraction" Invitational ,The Jacoby art Center, Alton, IL
2004
"Ron Fondaw & Nine Hole", Two large scale adobe installations, Sept.24-Oct.31, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2003
"Artist in Permanent Collection", 30th Anniversary, Mitchell Museum of Art, Mt. Vernon, IL
2002
"The Future Is Right Now" Invitational, Six Artist, Ispace gallery, Chicago, IL
"Ron Fondaw", Solo Exhibition, Kansas city Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO
Sculptural Clay, Invitational, Daum Museum, Sadailia, MO
"Ron Fondaw", Solo Exhibition, Kansas city Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO
Sculptural Clay, Invitational, Daum Museum, Sadailia, MO
2001
"Archeology", Solo Exhibition, Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO
2000
"U.G.A. Cortona Faculty", Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona Italy
1999
"Ron Fondaw" Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
1998
"Ceramics in Public Spaces", The Ceramic Museum of Taipei Cultural Center, Taiwan
"St. Louis", The City Series, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
"St. Louis", The City Series, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
1998
"Ron Fondaw" One Person Show, The Goddard Gallery, Sadialia, MO
1997
"Ron Fondaw/Mappings in Clay and Metal", One Person Show, Eliott Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1996
"Ron Fondaw" One Person Show, Florida Community College, Jacksonville, FL.
1995
"Fusion", Solo Exhibition of Large Scale Ceramic and Iron Sculpture, The ClaytStudio,Philadelphia, PA
1994
"A Mix of Media", Four Artist Show, City Hall Gallery, Orlando, FL
1993
"Florida Fellows", Traveling Exhibition beginning at Center of Contemporary Art in Miami, FL
1992
"In the Tradition", Group Show, Anita Shapolski Gallery, New York, NY
1991
"Five by Invitation", The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
"Clay Today", Museum Mensinghe, Roden, Holland
"Florida Selects", Group Show, George Bolge Curator, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
"Clay Today", Museum Mensinghe, Roden, Holland
"Florida Selects", Group Show, George Bolge Curator, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1990
One Man Show, Drawings, The National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
1989
Ron Fondaw: Jane Sablow, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Awards in the Visual Arts 8 (AVA), Traveling Exhibition beginning at The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Awards in the Visual Arts 8 (AVA), Traveling Exhibition beginning at The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
1989
"Art as Architecture", Group Show, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY - traveled to Kingsborough College, Long Island, NY
1986
Material as Metaphor: Group Show of Clay Sculpture, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1985
Ceramics International, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, Republic of China
Contemporary American Ceramics, Twenty Artists, Newport Harbor art Museum, California
Contemporary American Ceramics, Twenty Artists, Newport Harbor art Museum, California
1983
Clay for the Walls, Group Show, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Selected Bibliography
Art & Perseption Magizine"Clay Art of Ron Fondaw" by, Tannya Heartman, Dec., 2009
"Sculpture on the Edge" Paula Harper, Art in America, Dec.2006
Studio Potter, Dec 2005 "Large Scale clay of Ron Fondaw
"Contemporary Ceramics", Susan Peterson, Watson Guptill, 2001
"Weathering Change", Julie Stevenson, Sculpture Magazine, September 2000, Vol. 19 no.7
"Art and Craft of Clay", Susan Peterson, 3rd Edition. Printice Hall, 2000
"Ron Fondaw", Robin Rice, Ceramic Monthly, March ‘97
"Urban Art of 50 Cities in USA", Shoichiro Higuch, Tokyo Press, 1990
"AVA 8", Jane Adams Allen, Exhibition Catalog, April 1989
"Sculpture Tests Its Muscles", New York Times, Michael Brenson, September 6, 1987
"Bayou Show, Pamela Lewis, The Houston Post, March 23, 1985
"Staring and Shivering", Helen Kohen, Art in America, Summer 1983
Installations
2009
"Moving Ahead" A commission for the 200 th birthday of Greensboro, NC
2007
"The Bison Gates 2" Southwest ILL College, Bellviille, IL
2006
" Impressions in Light and Dark" Bradley Univ. Peoria, IL
"Prspective is Everything" Sculpture Key West, Fl
"Prspective is Everything" Sculpture Key West, Fl
2006
"The Bison Gates" Site specific adobe gates, South west IL College,Bellvell, IL
2005
"Ion" Outdoor sculpture, earth cast concrete,Union Univ. Jackson,TN (temporary)
2003
"The Vertical Loop““, The Pageant Theater, Arts in Transit, St. Louis, MO (permanent)
2001
"The Langlois Bridge Full Circle"’ Henry Lay Sculpture Park, Louisiana, MO
2000
"Myth of Permanence", commissioned by NCECA, Denver, CO (temporary)
1999
"Who We Are", at the Forest Park Metro-Rail Station, St. Louis, MO
1999
"Rolling Along". Ceramic Mural, commissioned by the City of Columbia, MO
1998
"Whispering Walls", Site Specific Adobe, The Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mt. Vernon, IL
1998
"The Giving Tree", St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1995
"Nyflot", Adobe Installation, Steinberg Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
1994
"Cyclones Edge", Ceramic Mural for the City of Orlando, FL
1994
"Tapiola", site specific adobe installation, Watershed Center, Edgecomb, ME
1994
"3 Miles High", commission by Broward County, FL, ceramic tile
1993
Art in Public Places, State of Florida, Main Plaza, Department of Natural Resources, Marathon, FL
1992
"Ferros Dream", State of Florida, 2 murals at the main entrance of Florida International University, South Campus, Miami, FL
1991
"Round and Round Again", Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
1989
"Now and Never", Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1988
"Earth Structures", Outdoor Sculpture, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton,
1987
"Taukka", Artpark, Project Artist, Lewiston, NY "Sea of Divide"/10 paintings for the Medical Library, Miami, FL
1985
"Tymon", Bayou Show Outdoor Sculpture, Houston Festival, Houston, TX
1981
Set Design: Oedipus Rex, Players State Theater, Coconut Grove, FL
Collections:
Renwick Gallery, National Collection of Fine Art, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Little Rock Arts Center, Arkansas
Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, Tennessee
The Mitchell Museum of Art, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
American Express, Jacksonville, Florida
IBM Corporation, Communications Center, Raleigh, North Carolina
The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Columbus Museum of Fine art, Columbus, Ohio
Martin Z. Margulies, Grove Isle, Florida
Sun Bank, Orlando, Florida
The Center for Contemporary art, Vero Beach, FL
Grimmerhus, Middelfart, Denmark