1968 BA, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Majors in Music & Anthropology
1990 MFA, Utah State University
Major in Ceramics. Emphases in Printmaking & Archelogy.
1996-present Associate Prof. of Art + Design, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
1992-1998 Exhibitions Director, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) (Curator, 6 International Exhibitions, 6 Regional Student Exhibitions)
1993-94 Assistant Professor of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
1979-96 Artist-in-Residence, Alliance for the Varied Arts, Logan, UT
1990 Guest Instructor, Kansas City Art Institute, K.C., MO
1987-89 Graduate Curatorial and Collections Assistant, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
1985-87 Teaching Assistant, Department of Art, U.S.U., Logan, UT
2007 Susan Harris, Solo Exhibition, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, FL
2004 Mythical Objects, St. George Art Museum, St. George, UT
2002 College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT
1997 Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden, UT
Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
1996 Braithwaite Museum Gallery, SUU, Cedar City, UT
1995 The Wetzman Collection, Birmingham, MI
1993 CVAA, Jackson, WY
1990 Greystone Gallery, Logan UT
1987 ZCMI, Salt Lake City, UT
2003 Mythical Objects, Glendinning Gallery, Utah Arts Council, SLC, UT
1993 Susan Harris and Kumiko Sudo, Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR
1992 Two Mythologies in Black and White, AVA Gallery, Logan, UT
1991 Susan Harris/Sharon Alderman, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake County Library, S.L.C., UT
2007 Black and White, Ball State University, Muncie IN
2006 Yixing Effect, Holter Museum of Art, Helena MT (Travelling)
Coming of Age: 21 Years of Ceramics, Utah State University, Hall Gallery, Portland, OR
Coming of Age: 21 Years of Ceramics, Utah State University, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
Tea Time: The Art of the Teapot, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Get Real, Springville Art Museum, Springville, UT (Catalog)
2005 Evocative Implements, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2005 Utah Designer Craft Alliance, Building Bridges, Ogden UT (award)
2004 Utah Ceramics Invitational 2004, Kimball Visual Arts Center, Ogden, UT
National Ceramics Invitational, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
2003 21st Century Ceramics, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
CLAYWEST: 2003 Intermountain Invitational, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
2001 Utah Arts Council, Recent Grantees Exhibition, SLC, UT
Yixing Effect, Invitational, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Clay/Wood/Fire/Salt Exhibition, Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC
2000 Y2 Clay at the D I A, Denver International Airport, Denver, CO
Boulder Arts & Crafts Cooperative, Wood-Salt-Soda, Boulder, CO
Karon Doherty Memorial Invitational, Sparks Gallery, Denver, CO
Off the Wall: Clay Art From Those Who Know, Brigham City Museum, B.C., UT
Works Under Fire, St. George Art Museum, St. George, UT
Clay/Wood/Fire/Salt Exhibition, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
1999 Native Soil, Chicago, IL
Objects of Desire, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1998 Greater Lafayette Art Museum, Teabowl Exhibition (Traveling)
1998 Orton International Cone Box Show (Traveling) (Two Jurors Awards) Baldwin University, Baker, KS
Baltimore Clayworks, 4th Annual Winterfest Holiday Invitational Exhibition
1997 Loveland Museum/Gallery, Contemporary American Ceramics, Loveland, CO
The Box: 3rd Annual Invitational Exhibition, Bonakeane Gallery, Portland, OR
Wood-Fired Ceramics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
A Centennial Celebration (A.C.S. Traveling Exhibition)
Utah Clay (Juried, traveling through 1997)
Toureen Du Jour, Northern Clay Center (Inaugural Exhibition), MN
1996 The Wetzman Collection, Japan (Group Show)
Cups and Goblets, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Portland, OR
Independent Makers, Ohio University, Athens, OH
1996 Interntional Orton Cone Box Show, Baker University, Baldwin, KS, (award)
Ransacked Tombs, Finch Lane Gallery, SLC, UT (three person)
1995 SOFA Chicago 1995: The International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1994 Necessity and Beyond, Hippodrome Galleries, Salt Lake City, UT
Tabletop Concepts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, and
American Ceramics Society, Indianapolis, IN
1993 International Traveling Ashtray Exhibition, San Diego, CA, etc.
Year of the American Craft: Utah Crafts 1993 Gittins Gallery, U. of U., S.L.C., UT
Year of the American Craft: Utah Crafts 1993 Brigham City Art Museum, Brigham City, UT
Small Pots, Utah Designer Craftsmen Gallery, S.L.C., UT
1992 Clay Cup IV, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, etc.
1991 Utah Contemporary Crafts Invitational, Brigham City Art Museum, Brigham City, UT
The Utah Invitational Ceramics Exhibition Collett Art Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden UT
1990 Ceramics Now, 1990, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
Clay Cup III, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
Utah Clay 1990 Invitational, U. of U. Museum of Fine Arts, S.L.C., UT
1989 Surface and Substance Berkeshire, Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Ceramic Invitational, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Lincoln Arts IInd Feats of Clay Exhibition, Lincoln, CA
1988 NCECA Juried Members Traveling Exhibition Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR, etc.
Wichita National Juried Exhibition, Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KA, (award)
Ann Bennion/ Susan Harris/Maggie Harrison, Utah Designer Craftsmen Gallery, S.L.C., UT
1987 Purchase Show, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
2003 The Regional, St. George Art Museum, (Award), St. George, UT
Statewide ’03 Craft and Photography Exhibition, (Juror’s Award), Orem, Utah
2002 Eccles Community Art Center, Black and White Show
The Regional, St. George Art Museum, St. George, UT
2001 Eccles Community Art Center, Statewide ‘01, Ogden, UT (2nd place award)
1999 Eccles Community Art Center, Statewide ‘99, Ogden, UT
St. George Art Museum Regional Juried Exhibition (Best of Show), St. George, UT
1998 Eccles Community Art Center, Black & White Show (honorable mention).
1997 Utah ‘97, Union Pacific Depot, Salt Lake City, UT
Eccles Community Art Center, Statewide '97, Ogden, UT
1995 UTAH '95, University of Utah Museum of Fine Arts, S.L.C., UT (Purchase award)
1994 Utah Arts Festival, Invited Artist, Salt Lake City, UT.
1992 Clay Cup IV, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, etc.
1991 Utah '91 Crafts, U. of Utah Museum of Fine Arts, S.L.C., UT (Award)
17th Annual Statewide Exhibition, Community Art Center, Ogden Utah (purchase award)
5th Annual Great Lakes Show, Lill St. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Statewide'88, Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden, UT
1987 Utah '87 Crafts, U. of U. Museum of Fine Arts, S.L.C., UT (purchase Award)
2005 Susan Harris – Thorns and Creatures, in Ceramics Art & Perception, #62, 2005, p.25-28
2005 Crowned with Thorns and Creatures of the Night, Frank McEntire, in Ovations, Quarterly Utah Arts Council News, Spring ’05.
2004 Susan D. Harris: Vessels (Exhibition Monograph)
1998 Honors and Fellows Exhibition, Ft. Worth Modern Art Museum, 1998 (Exhibition Catalog)
1997 ‘97 NCECA Clay National, 1997 (Exhibition Catalog)
1996 Independent Makers: Recent Works from 10 Ceramic Artists, CM, v.44, no. 7, September 1996
1996 Independent Makers: Recent Works from 10 Ceramic Artists. Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1996 (catalog essay).
1996 Triaxial Blend: Clay, Industry and Technology, NCECA, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1996 (Exhibition Catalog)
1995 '95 NCECA Clay National, 1995 (Exhibition Catalog)
1994 Émigres: Cultural References in Contemporary Clay, NCECA, 1994 (Exhibition Catalog)
1993 '93 NCECA Clay National, 1993 (Exhibition Catalog)
'93 NCECA Clay National, Ceramics: Art and Perception, V. 11 1993, Sydney, Australia
Walls. Ceramics Art and Perception, V. 6, 1991, Sydney, Australia
Walls: Large-Scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations (catalog) Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT, 1991
Bowls: Benchmarks and Drawings, Ceramics Monthly, V. 38, No. 1, January 1991
News and Retrospect, Ceramics Monthly, September 1988
The Potters of Utah, Studio Potter, December 1988
500 Pitchers: Contemporary Expressions of a Classic Form. Lark Books, 2006, p. 356
Yixing Effect: Echoes of the Chinese Scholar, Marvin Sweet. Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2006, image p. 179, Artist Statement, p. 189.
The Ceramic Spectrum: A Simplified Approach to Glaze and Color Development, Robin Hopper, Krause Publications, 2001, p. 232
Clay and Glazes for the Potter, Third Ed., Daniel Rhodes, Revised and Expanded by Robin Hopper, Krause Publications, 2000, p. 280
Functional Pottery: Form and Aesthetic in Pots of Purpose, 2nd. Ed., Robin Hopper, Krause Publications, 2000, pp. 56 and 85
Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface. Robin Hopper, Krause Publications, 2004, p. 98
21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada. Compiled by Bill Hunt, American Ceramics Society, 2003, p. 83
College of Eastern Utah Fine Art Collection, Price, UT
St. George Art Museum, St. George, UT
Salt Lake Country Fine Art Collection, S.L.C., UT
University of Utah Museum of Fine Arts, S.L.C., UT
State of Utah Permanent Collection of Art, S.L.C, UT
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
Weber State University Collett Fine Arts Gallery, Ogden, UT
Eccles Community Art Center, Permanent Collection, Ogden, UT
Wichita Art Association, Permanent Collection, Wichita, KA
2004 Faculty Development Grant (Monograph)
2002 Faculty Development Grant (Flyer)
1998 Utah Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant
1996 Special Project Grant, Marie Eccles Caine Foundation, Utah Clay Traveling Exhibition, with Betsey Quintana
1995 Special Project Grant, Marie Eccles Caine Foundation "The Art and Science of Clay"
1993 Utah Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant
1993 Special Project Grant, Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1992 Special Project Grant, Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1991 Purchase Grant, Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1990 National Association of Laboratory Schools Mini-Grant "Art Education Outreach: Integrating Fine Arts into the Classroom," with Edith Bowen Laboratory School, Utah State University, Logan, UT
1990 Utah Arts Council, Arts in Education Project Grant (With Edith Bowen Laboratory School)
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Fellow of the Council
Full Scholarship in Ceramics, Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation, Utah State University, 1986-1990
Fellow, Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, U.S.U., 1987-1989
CVAA, Jackson, Wyoming
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Cranbrook Academy, Michigan
Salt Lake Art Center, Utah
Riverton Community College, Wyoming
Casper College, Casper, Wyoming
Peter’s Valley Craft Education Center, Layton, NJ
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