Monica Van den Dool
monica@monicavandendool.com
www.monicavandendool.com
Education
1992-1995 MFA – Sculpture, Montana State University, Bozeman MT1990-1992 Unclassified Graduate Studies (Emphasis in Ceramics/Sculpture), San Jose State University,
San Jose CA
1986-1990 BA – English, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Monica Van den Dool, New Ceramic Work Roscoe Ceramic Gallery, Oaland CA2010 Monica Van den Dool John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
2007 Specters: Ceramic Narrative Tableaux L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery, Delta Center for the Arts,
San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton CA
1996 Monica Van den Dool Art Department Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
1995 M.F.A. Thesis Show Haynes Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman MT
1994 Monica Van den Dool Exit Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman MT
1992 Mingle Installation Lord John’s Inn, Santa Clara CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Spatial/Digital Media Faculty Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University,San Jose CA
2011 Contemporary Clay Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
2011 Alumni Show Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
2011 Faculty Show Art Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill CA
2011 Obsessive Allegories Gallery One Eleven, Wiscasset ME
2011 Bear Canyon and Beyond: An Exhibition of MSU Ceramic Alumni Helen E. Copeland Gallery,
School of Art, Montana State University, Bozeman MT
2011 Contemporary Figurative Ceramics Jessie Wilber Gallery,
The Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Bozeman MT
2011 2011 Artist Invitational Conley Gallery, Department of Art and Design,
California State University Fresno, Fresno CA
2011 2011 NCECA Biennial Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL
2011 Constructs: The Ceramic Sculpture of Monica Van den Dool and Karl McDade 1078 Gallery,
Chico CA
2010 Critical Chaos (in conjunction with NCECA Symposium: Critical Santa Fe) Visual Arts Gallery,
Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe NM
2010 University of California, Berkeley Faculty Show Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley CA
2010 To Die For Projects Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2010 Earth Bound City Windows Gallery, San Jose City Hall, San Jose CA
2009 Norcal Clay II Freightdoor Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
2009 Clay Mentors II Clay Mix, Fresno CA
2009 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
2009 Spatial Arts Faculty Exhibition Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University,
San Jose CA
2008 Not Fit for Human Consumption Gallery 5, Richmond VA
2008 The Art of War: An Anti-War Exhibition John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
2008 Object(ions) Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2008 A Human Impulse: Figuration from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection
Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe AZ
2008 Western Sundry Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge MT
2008 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
2007 Norcal Clay Freightdoor Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
2007 Figuratively Speaking Heritage Fine Arts Collaborative, San Jose CA
2007 The Dirty Dozen Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
2007 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
2007 Creatures of Magic and Myth Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma CA
2006 By the Hand Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek CA
2006 Archie Bray International Archie Bray Foundation, Helena MT
2006 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
2006 Cruder (Monica Van den Dool, Stan Welsh, Annabeth Rosen, Arthur Gonzales, Kim Tucker,
Karl McDade) Hoffman Gallery, Portland OR
2006 War Fair Gallery 114, Portland OR
2006 Spatial Arts Faculty Exhibition Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University,
San Jose CA
2005 Fear Dust: Fallout of the Invasion Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2005 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
2004 Stories: Ceramic Narrative, Symbol and Text West Fine Arts Gallery, Texas Woman’s University,
Denton TX
2004 Faculty Show Art Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill CA
2004 Women’s Work Art Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill CA
2004 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
2003 Northern California Clay NCECA Conference, San Diego CA
2003 Monica Van den Dool and Tim Jag 21 Grand, Oakland CA
2003 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
2002 The Bird Show Jean and Charles Shultz Information Center, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA
2002 Bay Area Selections - Ceramics Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
2002 Spatial Arts Faculty Exhibition Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University,
San Jose CA
2002 Crude–Four California Sculptors Dirt Gallery, Kansas City MO
2002 Biological Mutiny University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA
2001 Significant Species 1078 Gallery, Chico CA
2001 through January 2005 A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence
Organizer: Holter Museum of Art, Helena MT
Venues: Holter Museum of Art, Helena MT
Boise Art Museum, Boise ID
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne IN
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo MI
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred NY
Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan KS
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon GA
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL
Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth VA
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables FL
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga TN
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington KY
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane WA
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln NE
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland FL
2001 Archie Bray Foundation Anniversary Scholarship Auction Exhibition Helena Civic Center, Helena MT
2000 Invitational Group Exhibition San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco CA
2000 Ceramic Soup Louie Art Gallery, Ohlone College, Fremont CA
2000 Life from Clay San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA
2000 Push Push: 1st Regional Invitational Exhibit The Reynolds Gallery,
University of the Pacific Art Center, Stockton CA
2000 Beneath the Skin: Anatomy as Iconography Works/San José, San Jose CA
2000 Alumillennium Art Department Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
2000 Salon des ICA San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA
1999 Circus Revisualized Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
1999 Sculptures & Paintings: Selected Works Heritage Bank Bldg, San Jose CA
1999 Presence Contract Design Center, San Francisco CA (Curator - Marvin Schenk)
1998 Introductions 1998 Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento CA
1998 Self-Expressions Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento CA
1998 The 3rd Time I Saw Phyllis, She Exploded Contract Design Center, San Francisco CA
(Curator - Richard Berger)
1998 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
1998 Pacific Rim Sculptors Hayward Arts Council–City Hall Galleria, Hayward CA
1998 Ceramic Jungle San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA
1997 Thirty Ceramic Sculptors John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
1997 Ceramics Invitational Art Department Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
1997 Pacific Rim Sculptors Group Members Exhibition Contract Design Center, San Francisco CA
(Curator - Bella Feldman
1996 Resident Artist Exhibition The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena MT
1996 Narrative Clay Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls MT
1996 Two Views Copper Village Museum, Anaconda MT
1996 Re/casting Characters: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture Holter Museum of Art, Helena MT
1996 North American Sculpture Exhibition Foothills Art Center, Golden CO (Juror - Manuel Neri)
1995 Four Montana Artists Lincoln School Building, Livingston MT
1995 Resident Artist Exhibition The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena MT
1995 MSU Graduate Student Show Haynes Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman MT
1995 ANA 24 Holter Museum of Art, Helena MT (Juror - Lloyd Herman)
1994 Statements 2 Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman MT
1994 ANA 23 Holter Museum of Art, Helena MT (Juror - Ted Waddell)
1993 MSU Graduate Student Show DeWeese Gallery, Bozeman MT
1993 Statements Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman MT
1992 MSU Graduate Student Show Haynes Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman MT
1992 The Ocean Blue Installation at the Fourth Floor Project, San Jose CA
1992 Discovery ’92 California Crafts Museum, San Francisco CA
Awards
2007 Kiln God Scholarship Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle ME2002 Emerging Artist National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
2002 Ernie Kim Award Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
Collections
Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Arizona
Archie Bray Foundation, Montana
Di Rosa Preserve, California
Sandy Besser, New Mexico
Kolva/Sullivan Collection, Washington
Bibliography
“2011 NCECA Biennial Exhibition Catalog” National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, 2011.
“30 Ceramic Sculptors 2011 Catalogue” John Natsoulas Gallery, 2010.
“30 Ceramic Sculptors 2010 Catalogue” John Natsoulas Gallery, 2010.
“View of the Boneyard” Monica Van den Dool. The NCECA Journal 2010.
“30 Ceramic Sculptors 2009 Catalogue” John Natsoulas Gallery, 2009.
“Peep Show” Paulette Roberts-Pullen. Style Weekly: Richmond VA, November 25, 2008.
A Human Impulse: Figuration from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection.
Editor Peter Held with essay by
Kate Bonansinga. Full color catalogue published by Arizona Sate University Art Museum, 2008.
“30 Ceramic Sculptors 2008 Catalogue” John Natsoulas Gallery, 2008.
“Previews: Monica Van den Dool” Debra Koppman. Artweek October, 2007.
“30 Ceramic Sculptors 2007 Catalogue” John Natsoulas Gallery, 2007.
“30 Ceramic Sculptors 2006 Catalogue” John Natsoulas Gallery, 2006.
“Cruder Catalog” Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, 2006.
“NCECA Roundup” Katherine Bovee. PORT April 05, 2006.
“Subbacultcha – Fear Itself” Natalie Nichols. LA City Beat March 17, 2005.
“Awake at the Wheel” Lindsey Westbrook. East Bay Express 2002.
“Emerging Artist: Monica Van den Dool” Monica Van den Dool. The NCECA Journal 2002.
“Biological Mutiny Art Show Questions Current Science” Jennifer Simons. Sonoma State Star 2002.
A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence.
Editor Peter Held with essays by
Rick Newby, Chere Jiusto, Patricia Failing, and Janet Koplos. Full color catalogue published by
University of Washington Press, 2001.
“Feet of Clay – And Hands And Arms And Faces” Jack Fischer. San Jose Mercury News November 12, 2000.
“A Body of Work” Steven Rosen. The Denver Post May 23, 1996.
Residencies
2007 “Artists Invite Artists,” Summer Session, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle ME1995-1996 The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena MT
Teaching Experience
1998-2012 Lecturer, San Jose State University, San Jose CA Art 46–Beginning Ceramics,Art 133–Ceramic Sculpture, Art 134–Advanced Ceramics, Art 137–Figure Modeling,
Art 198–B.F.A. Seminar
2011-2012 Senior Lecturer, California College of the Arts, Oakland CA
Ceramics 37–Advanced Workshop: Epic Productions, Ceramics 100–Playing with Fire
2010-2012 Instructor, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill CA Art 154–Handbuilding,
Art 155–Ceramic Sculpture
2008-2010 Lecturer, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA
Art 14–The Language of Sculpture
2007 Instructor, San Ramon College, San Ramon CA Art 157–Handbuilding
2004 Instructor, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill CA Art 155–Ceramic Sculpture,
Art 156–Figurative Sculpture
2003 Lecturer, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA Art 63–Basic Ceramics, Art 163–Ceramics,
Art 165–Advanced Ceramics
2001 Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA SC 101–Form and Processes
2000 Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA SC 120–Ceramic Sculpture I and II
1995-1996 Instructor, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena MT Handbuilding, community class
1995-1996 Member of Montana Artists in the Schools/Communities Program
1994-1995 Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record), Montana State University, Bozeman MT
Art 111–3-D Fundamentals
1994 Teaching Assistant, Montana State University, Bozeman MT
Assisted in teaching Summer field school of Art 430–Indigenous Clay
1992-1993 Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record), Montana State University, Bozeman MT
Art 114–Art Fundamentals
Workshops/Lectures
2011 lecture, Department of Art and Art History, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA2011 lecture, “2011 Artist Invitational” Department of Art and Design,
California State University Fresno, Fresno CA
2010 lecture, “Monica Van den Dool” California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis CA
2010 lecture (panelist and moderator), “To Die For: Themes of Mortality in Contemporary Ceramics”,
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Philadelphia PA
2008 demonstration, “Monica Van den Dool” Clay Mix Gallery, Fresno CA
2008 lecture/demonstration, College of Marin, Kentfield CA
2008 lecture, California College of the Arts, Oakland CA
2007 lecture/demonstration, San Joaquin Delta Community College, Stockton CA
2007 demonstration, “California College of the Arts Ceramics Symposium”
(Monica Van den Dool, Richard Shaw, Sandy Simon, Nancy Selvin), Oakland CA
2005 lecture, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA
2002 lecture, “Emerging Artists Panel”, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Kansas City MO
2001 lecture, San Francisco City College, San Francisco CA
2000 lecture/panel discussion, Ohlone College, Fremont CA 2000 lecture/panel discussion,
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
1999 lecture/demonstration, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA
1998 lecture/demonstration, San Jose State University, San Jose CA
1998 lecture, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
1997 lecture, Chico State University, Chico CA
1997 lecture, Eighth Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis CA
1996 “Figurative Handbuilding with Monica Van den Dool and Brad Borst”,
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena MT
1996 “Bray Days,” Art Department, Montana State University, Bozeman MT
1995 “Handbuilding Techniques,” Art Department, Carroll College, Helena MT