SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Leedy/Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO, 2001.
McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL, 2000/2001.
"Ron Kovatch - A Ten Year Survey," Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL, 1999.
Galleria de Artes Plasticas, University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 1998.
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1997.
Tolgyfa Gallery, Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, Budapest, Hungary,1997.
Boger Gallery, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO, 1996.
"Gender: A Ceramics Installation,"George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University
of Missouri-Columbia, MO, 1995.
Stranton Gallery, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, 1995.
"Architectural References", Artifacts Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, 1993.
The Farrell Collection, Washington D.C., 1993.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (INVITATIONAL)
"Hardened by Fire, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University,
Charleston, IL, 2001
"Paper Pots." John Elder Gallery, New York, NY, 2000.
"Who Knows Where or When: Artists Look at Geography and Time," Charles A.
Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI, 2000.
"Erotica In Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual and Suggestive," Ferrin Gallery,
Northampton, MA, 1999.
"SOFA 1999 NYC," International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects and
Functional Art, represented by Ferrin Gallery, Seventh Regiment Armory,
New York, NY, 1999.
"The End is Near: Artist Look at the Twentieth Century," Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI 1999.
"National Ceramics Invitational," Denise Bibro Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY 1999.
"Paper Pots," John Elder Gallery, New York, NY, 1998.
"Boxes, Barriers, and Intimate Spaces," Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD, 1998.
"International Contemporary Ceramics from the Igal and Diane Silber
Collection," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California,1998.
"One Firing," Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Macomb, IL, 1998.
"Form and Function," Sisson Gallery, Henry Ford Community College,
Dearborn, MI, 1997.
"Metals/Ceramics," Art and Design Gallery, Southwest Missouri State
University, Springfield, MO, 1997.
"Wood-Fired Ceramics," Boger Gallery, College of the Ozarks, Lookout Point, MO 1997.
"Common Materials/Uncommon Ideas," Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 1997.
"The Non-Traditional Object," Altgeld Gallery, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, IL, 1997
(two-person exhibit, including Katherine Ross).
"Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts 50th Anniversary Traveling Collection Exhibition," Clement Allison Gallery, Tusculum College, Greenville, TN,
1997; traveled to: Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University,
Warrensburg, MO, 1997; Walter J. Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS, 1998.
"Objects of Desire," Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 1997.
"Rendezvous," Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE, 1997.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (JURIED)
"Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award," Auckland Museum (Te Papa Whakahiku),
Auckland, New Zealand, 1998.
"The Twelfth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition," San Angelo Museumof
Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX, 1998.

AWARDS
Visual Artists Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 1990, 1994, 1996.
Visual Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1990.

LECTURES
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2000.
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2000.
Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA, 1999.
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL, 1999.
Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, 1999.
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1998.
Central College, Houston Community College System, Houston, TX, 1998.
University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, 1998.
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, 1997.
Tolgyfa Gallery, Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, Budapest, Hungary,1997.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1996.
The Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri at Columbia,
Columbia, MO, 1995.
School of Fine Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995.
New York College of ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1994.
School of Fine Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1993.
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C, 1993.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois, Master of Fine Arts,1987
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics, 1976

ACADEMIC POSITIONS SINCE FINAL DEGREE
University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, School of Art and Design,
Professor, Ceramics Department Head, 2000-present.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design,
Associate Professor, Ceramics Department Head, 1993-2000.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design,
Assistant Professor, Ceramics Department Head, 1989-1993.
Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Bloomington,
Indiana, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1988-1989.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Visiting
Artist/Instructor, 1988.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Muscatatuck Pottery Vernon, Indiana, owned and operated a pottery
studio and business, 1978-1985.
Exhibition Juror "Container/Containment," sponsored by the National
Society of Arts and Letters, Lakeview Museum,
Peoria, IL, 1996.
"Annual Clay and Paper Exhibition," Octagon Art
Center, Ames, IO, 2000.
Exhibition Curator "Alfred Now," co-curated with Mark Warwick, 1994,
authored the exhibition catalog forward,1994.
Articles in Journals "An Installation Project," Ceramics Technical,
Issue 3, 1996: pp. 86-90.


SUBJECT OF FEATURE ARTICLES
Holohan, Michael. "Ron Kovatch," Ceramics Monthly. September, 1987.
Fister, Cherie. "Ron Kovatch," American Ceramics. Winter Issue, 1988.
Hunt, William. "1990 NEA Grant," Ceramics Monthly. December, 1990.
Madonick, Michael. "Ron Kovatch," Ceramics Monthly. May, 1992: pp.32-33.
Merino, Tony. "Midwestern Clay: Anatomy and Architecture," Ceramics Art
and Perception. Issue 12, Sydney, Australia, 1993: pp. 69-71.
Hluch, Kevin. "Ceramics and Sculpture," Ceramics Art and Perception.
Issue 23, Sydney, Australia,
1996: pp. 76-81.
Clark, Bede. "Ron Kovatch's Gender Project," Ceramics Art and Perception.
Issue 24, Sydney, Australia, 1996: pp. 62-65.
Kangus, Matthew. "Exhibitions," (review), "American Ceramics. Volume12,m
Number 2, 1996: p. 52
Mansfield, Janet. "The Diane and Igal Silber Collection," Ceramics Art
and Perception. Issue 31, Sydney, Australia, 1998: pp. 33-39.
Mickelson Taylor, Liegh. "Boxes, Barriers, and Intimate Spaces," CeramicsMonthly. March,
1999: pp. 12.
Nigrosh, Leon. "Erotica in Ceramic Art: Sexual, Sensual and Suggestive,"
Ceramics Art and Perception.
Issue 38, Sydney, Australia, 2000: pp. 19-23.
Stengel, Gil. "Ron Kovatch's Non-traditional Objects," Ceramics Art and
Perception. Issue 40, Sydney,
Australia, 2000: pp. 16-19.


WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Arkansas Art Center/Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AK
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Evansville Museum of Art and Sciences, Evansville, IN
Kansas City Art Institute (teaching collection), Kansas City, MO
Marion College, Indianapolis, IN
Ringling School of Art and Design (print collection), Sarasota, FL
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

CONTACT INFORMATION

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