Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Summa cum Laude, University of Minnesota Master of Fine Arts – University of Washington
Selected Exhibitions:
The Urasenke Foundation - Seattle, The Parsons School of Design - New York, The Otis Art Institute - Los Angeles, The William Traver Gallery, Seattle, The International Tableware Festival - Tokyo, The Ichikawa Prefectural Art Museum - Kanazawa, The Kintetsu/Matsushita Gallery - Yamaguchi Prefecture, “The Shape of Tea” - The Art Complex Museum Boston, “Works by American Potters” – Omotesenke Chakai at Daitokuji Kyoto, “Totally Teabowls 2” – The Oakwood Gallery England, “International Chawan Expo” – Antwerp Belgium, “Ikebana X” – Pottery NW Seattle, “Tea Beyond Japan Conference” sponsored by the San Francisco Zen Center, “Mizusashi” The Art Complex Museum Boston, “Biennial 2010” The Bellevue Art Museum, The Second Annual North American Clay Invitational – Seattle, The Nevica Project – Chicago, Cavin Morris Gallery - New York, Traditional Teabowl Exhibition – Mungyeon, Korea, “International Chawan Exposition” – Boston, “Teaware From the Edge” – NCECA – Tacoma Community College, Tacoma WA, “Robert Fornell Recent Works” solo exhibition – NCECA – Seattle Design Center, Seattle WA, “Tea Ceramics” The Art League Gallery, Washington DC, “A Kindred Spirit” Lacoste Gallery, Concord MA
Selected Collections:
The Mungyeon Ceramics Museum, Mungyeon, Korea Oregon State University, Corvallis OR The Art Complex Museum, Boston MA The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA The Urasenke Foundation, Seattle WA Dr. Joseph Monsen Collection, Seattle WA Higashida Shigemasa, Tokyo Japan Robert Yellin, Kyoto, Japan Sonny Kamm Teapot Collection, USA Gary Cadwallader, Urasenke Foundation, Kyoto, Japan
S e l e c t e d G a l l e ry R e p r e s e n t a t i o n : Sanwado – Tokyo, Japan The Oakwood Gallery – Nottinghamshire, England Cavin-Morris Gallery – New York Stewart-Kummer Gallery – California Utsuwakan Gallery – Kyoto Japan
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