REINERTSON / RESUME
EDUCATION
1984 M.F.A. University of California, Davis
1982 B.A., University of California, Davis
1983 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012-16 San Francisco Art Institute, Adjunct Professor, Ceramic Sculpture
2009-18 Diablo Valley College, Lecturer, Ceramics, Figure Sculpture
2007-08 U C Berkeley, Lecturer, Ceramic Sculpture
2004-15 Solano Community College, Lecturer, Ceramics, Figure Sculpture
2004 College of Marin, Adjunct Professor, Ceramic Sculpture
1997-99 Santa Clara University, Lecturer, Ceramics, Figure Sculpture, Drawing
1987-94 California State University, Chico, Associate Professor, Ceramics and Figure Sculpture
1985-87 California State University, Stanislaus, Lecturer, Ceramics and Drawing
1984 Louisiana State University, Visiting Artist, Ceramics
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2022 Joan Didion, Sacramento City Main Library
2020 California Railroad Museum Founder, Denny Anspach, California RR Museum, Sacramento
2019 Neptune’s Daughter, Bronze, City of Benicia, Downtown Waterfront
2019 Pelicans at Rest, Kaiser Permanente, Fremont, CA, Bench Art Collaboration with Jack Ruszel
2017 Sleep of Reason, Gorilla Doctors Organization, UC Davis, Wildlife Health Center
2016 Coach Jim Sochor, Bronze, University of California at Davis, Sochor Stadium
2009 Rosa Parks Commission, finalist, National Statuary Hall, Washington DC
2007 Mother Earth, Bronze, Suisun Valley, CA
2006 Ohlone , Bronze, Almaden Community Center and Branch Library, San Jose
2005 Baseball Players (’91), Bronze, West Sacramento City Hall
2005 Tin-Can Girls, 911 Dispatch Facility Public Art Project, City of Sacramento
2002 St. Ignatius of Loyola, Bronze, Santa Clara University, CA
2002 Justice Stanley Mosk, Bronze, California State Courthouse, Sacramento
2001 Cesar Chavez Memorial, Bronze, Chavez Plaza Park, City of Sacramento
2001 Mother and Child Sculpture Garden, Bronze, Terrazzo, City of Palm Desert
2000 St. Thomas More, Bronze, Santa Clara University, CA
1999 Martin Luther King Memorial, Bronze, City of Riverside, CA
1997 Tevye, Bronze, Ohlone College, Performing Arts Center, Fremont, CA
1996 Senator Dianne Feinstein, Bronze, City Hall, San Francisco
1995 Willie Brown, Jr., Bronze, City Hall, San Francisco
1994 Guam Memorial /March to Manengon, Bronze, Guam
1994 Valley Harvest, Bronze, Centennial Commission for City of Vacaville
1992 John Shelley, Bronze, City Hall, San Francisco
1992 Mother and Child, Bronze, UC Medical Center, Sacramento
1991 Dogs Playing, Bronze, UC Medical Center, Sacramento,
1989 Martin Luther King, Jr., Bronze, City of Kalamazoo, Michigan
1987 Martin Luther King, Jr., Ceramic, King Hall Law School, U.C. Davis
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2023 Racine Museum of Art, Vignettes: Concentrated Views of RAM’s Collection, Wisconsin
2022 American Museum of Ceramic Art, Breaking Ground: Women in California Ceramics
2021 Crocker Art Museum, Wolf Rider, Permanent Collection, exhibiting in Contemporary Art Wing
2018 Haggin Museum, Stockton, Full Sun: American Women Artists Illuminate the Haggin
2017 Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Forge and Stone; Contemporary California Women Sculptors
2014 American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA, Large As Life: Betty Davenport Ford, Elaine Katzer, Lisa Reinertson
2014 Turtle Bay Art Museum, Redding, CA, Good Dog; Art of Man’s Best Friend
2010 Crocker Art Museum, New Works
2008 The Grand Ceramics Theatre, Museo Internazionale delle Arti, Turino, Italy
2005 Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Fired at Davis/Figurative Ceramic Sculpture
2005 Euphrat Museum, Shared Passions
1999 The Charles Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, WI, The Nude in Clay
1997 Museo Internationale Della Ceramica, Faenza, Italy, Ceramic Invitational
1996 Oakland Museum Sculpture Court, Bay Area Sculptors
1996 Wignall Museum; Downey Museum of Art; Loyola Marymount University, Exploring a Movement: Feminist Visions In Clay,
1993 Honolulu Academy of Arts, First Annual Pacific Rim Sculpture Conference
1993 California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, West Coast Clay Movement
1990 IV Concorso Nazionale Della Ceramica D’Arte, Savona, Italy
1990 National Museum of Ceramic Art, Maryland, American Ceramic Sculpture
1988 Midwest Museum of American Art, Indiana, Ross Turk Collection
1984 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 59th Annual Crocker-Kingsley
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Borderlands / Lisa Reinertson, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
2015 Sentient Beings / Lisa Reinertson, Roscoe Ceramic Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Edge of Extinction / Lisa Reinertson, Pence Gallery, Davis
2013 Life Observed / Lisa Reinertson, SMAART Gallery, San Francisco
2012 Life on Earth, Lisa Reinertson/Sculpture, Lee Wilder Snider/ Paintings, Gallery 621, Benicia
2005 Lisa Reinertson, A Selected Survey, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1997 Lisa Reinertson, Santa Clara University, CA
1997 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1992 James Snidle Gallery, Chico, CA
1991 Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
1990 Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
1989 Introductions/ Lisa Reinertson, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 The University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico
1987 Himovitz/Solomon Gallery, Sacramento, California
1986 Lisa Reinertson, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California
1984 University of California, Davis, Nelson Gallery
SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2022 Terracotta Corridor: An Exhibition of 21 Monumental Clay Sculptures, Napa Rail District
2022 Pervasive Innovation: Ceramic Sculpture in Northern California, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, CA
2022 Pay Dirt, Blue Line Arts Gallery, Roseville, CA
2022 Tap Roots: Ceramic Artist Educators of California, Arts Benicia and Epperson Gallery
2021 Lisa Reinertson and Francois LeClerc, Epperson Gallery. CA
2020 Clay (&c), Petaluma Art Center, Petaluma, CA
2018 Natural Affinity/California Women in the Landscape, Public Art In Sonoma Plaza
2017 Bay Area Clay: A Legacy of Social Consciousness, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College,
NCECA Conference, Arts Benicia, and the Pence Gallery, Davis. Curated by Lisa Reinertson
2016 Bay Area Contemporary Ceramic Sculptors, Cosumnes River College Art Gallery
2016 The Great California Art Movement / UC Davis Faculty and Alumni, Natsoulas Gallery
2016 Sculpture in the Garden, Sam Maloof Foundation, Claremont, CA
2014 Dynamic Narratives, National Association of Women Artists, N.Y.
2013 Bedford Gallery, Peaceable Kingdom, Walnut Creek, CA
2013 NCECA, Houston, Dynamic Narratives
2012 Ecumene: Global Interface in American Ceramics, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Large Scale Ceramics, Cal Shakes Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Orinda, CA
2011 Santa Fe Clay, Summer Artist Exhibition
2010 Ceramics Annual of America, Fort Mason, S.F.
2009 Faculty Exhibition, Diablo Valley College
2009 NCECA Conference, Tempe Arizona, Natsoulas Gallery Exhibition
2007 Northwest Ceramics Invitational, Turman Larison Gallery, Helena, Montana
2004 UC Davis Memorial Union Gallery, Eve Aesthetic, Figurative Art from TB-9
2003 NCECA Conference, San Diego, Northern California Ceramics
1999 Contemporary Art/ Daniel Jacobs Collection, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VI
1998 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1997 Air Gallery, London, England, Up Against It
1994 Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, Presence and Scale
1991 NCECA Conference Exhibition, Tempe, Arizona
1991 TB-9, curated by Robert Arneson, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis
1990 Claremont College, 46th Annual Scripps Ceramics Show
1989 Contemporary Ceramics: The Artists of TB-9, CSU Fullerton, Elaine Levin, curator
1987 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Mother Earth
1985 Richmond Art Center, Sacramento/Davis Interface
1985 Southern Exposure Gallery, S.F., CA., Content Art: Contemporary Issues
1985 National Arts Club, New York, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe 89th Annual
1984 Louisiana State University, Union Art Gallery, Art Faculty Exhibition
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Terracotta Corridor: Mission Clay Art and Industry Program Catalog, Abby Wasserman, editor, 2023
Breaking Ground: Women in California Clay, American Museum of Ceramic Art Exhibition Catalog, Beth Ann Gerstein, Jo Lauria, 2022
The Figure in Clay, (Image), Cristina Cordova, 2022
Lisa Reinertson, Artist biography and monograph, Natsoulas Press, 2021
Full Sun: American Women Artists Illuminate the Haggin Museum, 2018, Catalog
Time Magazine, Inside the Push for More Public Statues of Notable Women, photo, Aug. 2017
Bay Area Clay: A Legacy of Social Consciousness, 2017, Exhibition Catalogue
Sacramento Bee, Sculpture Informs Their Powerful Messages, Victoria Dalkey, 2013
Ceramic Art and Perception, Lisa Reinertson; Edge of Extinction, issue 94, 2013
Lisa Reinertson: Edge of Extinction, exhibition catalog, 2013
500 Figures in Clay, vol. 2, Lark Publishing
Good Dog; Art of Man’s Best Friend, Turtle Bay Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, 2013
Ecumene: Global Interface in American Ceramics/ National Exhibition, Santa Fe, catalogue, 2012
The Art Collection of UC Davis Health Care System, by Susan Willoughby, 2012
Artemis Sculpt: The Art of Lisa Reinertson, Jessa Berkner, 2011
Lisa Reinertson, A selected survey of Artist’s work/ essay by Joan De Paoli, John Natsoulas Press, 2005
Fired At Davis/Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 2005
Ignatius: Holy Man of the Renaisance, Statue of St. Ignatius, Micheal Pastizzo, Santa Clara Magazine, 2004
Art/Ethics: Reframing the Ethics and Aesthetics of Judgment, Estella Lauter, Univ. of Tennessee, 2001
March for Justice Cast in Memory, Dorothy Korber, Sacramento Bee, 2001 (Chavez Memorial)
Working With Clay, Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall, 1999
Artworks For Elementary School Teachers, Herberhoz, Mc Graw Hill Publishing, 1998
The Evocative Object, Ceramics Art and Perception, by Mark Messenger, 1998
A Fire For Ceramics, Garth Clark and Suzanne Foley, 1998
The Nude In Clay, Exhibition Catalogue, 1998
Mostra Mercato della Ceramica Artistica, Museo Internationale della Ceramica, Faenza, Italy, 1997
New York Times, Week In Review, Michael Wines, May 1997
Exploring a Movement: Feminist Visions in Clay, Exhibition Catalogue, 1995.
Artweek, photo, (Guam Commission) 1994
An Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century North American Women Artists, Garland Publishing, New York and London, Jules Hetland, 1992.
Sculptural Perspectives for the Nineties, Exhibition Catalogue, 1991
Ceramics Monthly, Carolyn Crane, Up Front, 2nd Annual California Conference, 1991.
Contemporary Ceramics: The Artists of TB-9, Elaine Levin, Exhibition Catalogue, 1989
Contemporary American Craft Art/A Collector’s Guide, Barbara Mayer, 1988 p. 65, Peregrine Smith
Contrapposto, 1988, Art Journal, California State University, Chico,
Kalamazoo Gazette, Craig, Thomas, King In Bronze and Stone, Sept. 4, 1989
Artweek, Saunthy Singh, Lively Ceramic Sculpture, September, 1986
Ceramics Monthly, photo, August 1995
Sacramento Bee, Ellen Schlesinger, May 5, 1984
San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, photo, August 22, 1982
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2019 La Meridiana School of Ceramics Workshop, Tuscany, Italy
2019 Sonoma Valley Art Center Workshop
2018 San Miguel de Allende Ceramic Workshop, Estudio Paloma, Mexico
2017 La Meridiana School of Ceramics Workshop, Tuscany, Italy
2016 Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center Workshop
2016 Quyle Kilns Workshop, Murphy’s, CA
2015 Sierra Nevada College Workshop, Lisa Reinertson and Michelle Gregor
2014 Todos Santos Workshop, Lisa Reinertson and John Toki, Mexico
2011 Santa Fe Clay Summer Workshop
1992 Chicago Art Institute, Visiting Artist
1991 Kansas City Art Institute, Visiting Artist
SELECTED LECTURES/JUROR/CURATORIAL
2022 Tap Roots / Ceramic Artist Educators of California, co-curated by Lisa Reinertson, Arts Benicia, and Epperson Gallery, 2022 NCECA affiliated exhibition
2022 NCECA Portrait Demo and Lecture, Sacramento Convention Center
2019 Sausalito Arts Festival Juror
2019 Crocker Kingsley Artist Lecture, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2017 Bay Area Clay: A Legacy of Social Consciousness, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College,
NCECA Conference, Arts Benicia, and the Pence Gallery, Davis. Curated by Lisa Reinertson
2015 Visions in Clay, Exhibition Juror, Delta College Art Gallery
2013 Pence Gallery, “Hope for Endangered Animals” Lecture with Dr. Gilardi of Gorilla Doctors
2011 Santa Fe Clay, Artist Lecture
2011 S.F. Art Institute Colloquium
2010 California College of the Arts
2008 Helena Montana, Turman Larson Gallery, Lecture
2002 California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Artist Lecture, Davis
1997 California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis, California
1994 Pacific Rim Sculpture Conference, Lecture, Honolulu, HI
1993 Sacramento Light-Rail Commission, Sacramento, California
1992 Chicago Art Institute, Visiting Artist Lecture
1991 Kansas City Art Institute, Visiting Artist Lecture
1991 NCECA Conference, Emerging Artist Lecture, Tempe, Arizona
1988 NCECA Conference, Panel discussion, Political Content, with Richard Notkin, Portland
AWARDS
2017 NEA Grant to Arts Benicia for Bay Area Clay Exhibition, curated by Lisa Reinertson
1992 Professional Achievement Honor, California State University, Chico
1991 Emerging Artist, NCECA
1990 California State Legislative Resolution for Martin Luther King, Jr., Commission
1989 Research Award, California State University, Chico
1985 Grand Central Gallery Educational Association Award, New York
1983 Andy Warhol Award, University of California, Davis
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
American Museum of Ceramic Art
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Arizona State University Art Museum
Mint Museum of Craft and Design
Racine Art Museum, WI
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA
Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
OTHER ART RELATED
2021 NCECA Planning Committee Member for Sacramento Conference 2022
2011 Mission Clay Pipes Project, Phoenix AZ
2011 Co- founding Member, Gallery 261, Benicia
2002 Marble Carving, Carrara, Italy, Manuel Neri’s studio
OTHER LIFE RELATED
2018 Gorilla Trek, Rwanda
2014-15 SF International Bird Rescue Volunteer
Progressive Democrats of Benicia Steering Committee
Married to Jack Ruszel. Two daughters, Jessa Brie Moreno and Sierra Reinertson. Three Stepsons, Kevin, Tom and John Ruszel. Four Grandchildren, Kamala Lily Schainker, Paloma Moreno, Liam and Rhys Ruszel. One dog, Charlie.