Tony Marsh earned his BFA in Ceramic Art at California State University Long Beach in 1978. After graduating he spent 3 years in Mashiko, Japan at the workshop of Master Mingei potter Tatsuzo Shimaoka. Marsh completed his MFA at Alfred University in 1988. He teaches in the Ceramic Arts Program at California State University Long Beach where was the Program Chair for 25 years. Tony was the first Director of the Center for Contemporary Ceramics at CSULB. Marsh has taught, lectured and exhibited extensively throughout the US, Asia and Europe. Tony was recognized as a 2018 United States Artist Fellow.
You will find his ceramic art in many private and permanent Institutional collections around the world, included among them the: SFMOMA, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Museum of Art & Design, NY, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Everson Museum, Syracuse, the Oakland Museum of Art, Gardiner Museum of Art, Toronto, Museum of Fine Arts Houston among them.
TONY MARSH
b. 1954, United States
EDUCATION
1988
Master of Fine Art, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
1981–78
Apprenticeship with Tatsuzō Shimaoka, Shimaoka Pottery, Mashiko, Japan
1978
Bachelor of Fine Arts, California State University, Long Beach, CA
SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
Brilliant Earth – The Ceramic Sculpture of Tony Marsh 50 Year Survey, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2021
New Work / Tony Marsh Project Room, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Thomas Fougeirol and Tony Marsh (two-person exhibition), albertz benda, New York, NY
2020
Sarah Amos | Tony Marsh (two-person exhibition), Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
Like Water Uphill, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
True North, Koenig & Clinton, Brooklyn, NY
Cauldrons & Crucibles: In search of the sublime, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2018
Peter’s Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2015
Pierre Marie Giraud Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
2004
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS, PANELS & RESIDENCIES
2018
United States Artists Fellow
2015
Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-si, South Korea
2013
Archie Bray Foundation, Invited Voulkos Fellow Resident
A.I.D.A Isreal, Invited Artist Lecture demonstration Annual Conference
2012
Invited International Juror, Korean International Ceramic Biennale, Incheon, South Korea
2010
Invited faculty University of Georgia, UGA Cortona Study Abroad, Cortona, Itlay
2008
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2005
Artist in Residence, Northern Clay Center Minn, MN
Invited Curator: Scripps 61st National Ceramics Exhibition, Claremont, CA
Invited Speaker, 3rd World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, South Korea
2004
Panel participant, Southern California Ceramics, Oakland Museum, CA
2000
Panel Moderator, How Value Is Created, NCECA Conference, Denver, CO
1998
Individual Artist Fellowship, Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach, CA
Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1997
Guest Faculty, Cortona, Italy - via University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1996
Drockman Distinguished Alumni Award, Alfred University, New York, NY
4th Annual Jinro Ceramics International Artist Workshop, Seoul, South Korea
Artist and Creativity, Panel Discussion, Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Contemporary American Ceramics, Panel Discussion, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
1991
Ceramics Now, Invited Juror, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
SFMOMA
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Art & Design, New York
de Young Museum, San Francisco, Dorthy & George Saxe Collection
Musee d’Arte Moderne, Paris
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Minneapolis Institute for the Arts
San Jose Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary International Ceramic Art, Inchon, S. Korea
The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Boise Art Museum, Idaho
Oakland Museum of Art
The Archie Bray Collection, Helena, Mo
Laguna Beach Art Museum
Taipei Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Maher Collection, Scripps College, Claremont
ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Foshan Museum of Contemporary Art, Foshan, China
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Daum Museum, Missouri
Cranbrook Museum of Art
Resnik Collection of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
General Mills Corporation
Monterey Museum of Art
JINRO Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Hong-Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
Palo Alto Cultural Center
AT&T Headquarters Cerritos, CA
SELECTED PRESS
2019
Ollman, Leah. “Review: After a 10-year absence, Tony Marsh is back with a show of riveting, volcanic beauty.” Los Angeles Times. 19 November
Alkofer, Bill. “LBMA Downtown: Yes, it’s open.” Long Beach Post. 8 September
Berkoff, Nancy. “Long Beach Museum Of Art Opens Downtown Branch.” The Grunion. 31 August
“Cool Clay at the Crocker.” Village Life, 30 July 2019. [online] Schwendener,
Martha and Will Heinrich. “At Frieze New York, Islands of Daring.” New York Times, May
2018
Morris, Asia. “CSULB Professor and Ceramicist Tony Marsh Awarded United
States Artists Fellowship.” Long Beach Post, January 2018. [online]
2009
“Oral history interview with Tony Marsh, 2009 September 10-11.” Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [online]
2003
Butler, Thomas. “Tony Marsh: Forms and Function.” Ceramics Monthly, June/July/August 2003.
2002
Lauria, Jo. “Dialogues in Clay: A Conversation Between Tony Marsh and Kurt Weiser.” Ceramics: Art and Perception, no. 50 (December 2002): 8–13.
