About Richard Cleaver

Cleaver, Richard (b. 1952, New Jersey, lives in Baltimore, MD) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and has been carving figures out of clay for over thirty years.

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The artist has exhibited across the nation, including solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), American University Museum (D.C.), Kohler Arts Center (WI), the Noyes Museum (NJ), the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (New York and Miami), and in group exhibitions at Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA), International Sculpture Center (Washington, DC), Arizona State University Art Museum, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and the Erie Art Museum (PA). His work is in the collections of the George and Dorothy Saxe Collection at the DeYoung Museum, Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Awards include the National Endowment for the Arts, Evergreen Foundation, Franz and Virginia Bader Fund, Maryland State Arts Council, the Trawick Prize and the Mary Sawyers Baker Prize.

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Education
1980	M.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1977	B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

Solo Exhibitions
2007	American University Museum, Family Fiction, Washington, DC
2006	John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2005	Baltimore Museum of Art, Gathering at the Latrobe Springhouse
2002	Villa Julie College, Dream Sequences, Stevenson, MD
2000	Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Scenes from Inside, Miami, FL
1998	Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, Biographical Icons, New York, NY The Noyes Museum, All the World’s a Stage, Oceanville, NJ
1996	Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, Open Closets, New York, NY
1995	Rosenberg Gallery, Public Histories, Private Lives, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
1994	Paris-New York-Kent Gallery, Kent, CT
1993	Franz Bader Gallery, Contemporary Icons, Washington, DC Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA Arlington Art Center, VA
1992	Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1991	Knight Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010	NCECA Philadelphia, Dis/Arming Domesticity Baltimore Museum of Art, Baker Artist Award Winners
2008	Arizona State University Art Museum, A Human Impulse: Figuration from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection SOFA Chicago Westchester Arts Council, NY, Confrontational Ceramics
2007	Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, Building a Legacy Baltimore Museum of Art, Sondheim Prize Finalists
2006	Fuller Craft Museum, The Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft, Brockton, MA Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Life Insight: The Human Experience Tell Me a Story, Santa Fe Clay, NM
2003	Peabody Essex Museum, Family Ties, Salem, MA Park School, Breaking New Ground, Baltimore, MD
2001	Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Exhibition
2000	Delaware Art Museum, Selections from Biennial Acquisitions The Contemporary Museum, Snapshots, Baltimore, MD Rosenberg Gallery, Obsessions, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD Susan Cummins Gallery, Perches in the Soul, Mill Valley, CA Maryland Institute College of Art, Faculty Exhibition
1999	Nathan D. Rosen Museum, Updating Ceremonial Objects: A Cup for Miriam, Boca Raton, FL Artscape, Baltimore, MD Delaware Art Museum, Blurring Boundaries: Objects in Craft Media From the Collections
1998	Fort Lewis College, Selections from Soho, Durango, CO Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, Summer Group Exhibition Delaware Art Museum, Delaware Biennial
1997	Loveland Museum, Contemporary American Ceramics, Loveland, CO Maryland Art Place, Critics Residency Program, Baltimore
1996	Corcoran Gallery of Art, Art Sites, Washington, DC Artscape, Secrets, Baltimore, MD
1995	The St. Paul Companies, Out of the Fire, Minneapolis, MN Galeries Francoise, The Dog as Symbol and Metaphor, Brooklandville, MD Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, Gallery Artists, New York, NY University of Maryland Art Gallery, Soul Mates, College Park Towson State University, Actual Size, MD
1993	Artscape, Gods and Saints, Baltimore, MD
1990	International Sculpture Center, Encierro: Captured Spaces, Washington, DC

Grants And Awards
2011	Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2010	The Mary Sawyers Baker Prize
2008	Franz and Virginia Bader Fund
2007	Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
2003	Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Arts Award (1st prize) Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
1999	Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
1995	Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
1994	National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1992	Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant

Collections
	Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA George and Dorothy Saxe Collection, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, NM Erie Art Museum, PA Marge and Philip Kalodner Colletion, Philadelphia, PA Judith Schwartz, New York, NY The St. Paul Companies, Minneapolis, MN Sallie Mae Loan Corporation, Washington, DC Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Collection, Washington, DC

About Richard Cleaver

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