Crystal Kamoroff
Education
2011 MFA, Ceramics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
2008 BFA, Spatial Art, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2000 AA, Liberal Arts, Cabrillo Community College, Aptos, CA
2000 AA, Studio Arts, Cabrillo Community College, Aptos, CA
1999 Studio art studies at Instituto Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
1998-99 Undergraduate Studies at California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
Professional Experience
2022-Present Adjunct Instructor, De Anza Community College, Cupertino, Ca
2019-Present Adjunct Instructor, Merritt College, Oakland, CA
2022 Adjunct Instructor, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2018-Present Ceramic Instructor, The Randall Museum, San Francisco, CA
Ceramic Technician, San Francisco Parks and Recreation, San Francisco, CA
2018-2019 Founder & Instructor, Hudson Ceramic Studio, San Francisco, CA
2017-2020 Art Handling & Installation for Arc Gallery and Arc Fine Art Consulting, San Francisco, CA
2015-present Freelance Sculptor & Studio Artist
Freelance Fabrication, Installation and Art handling
2013-2022 Curator, Gallery G, San Francisco, CA
2013-2015 Sculptor/Fabricator at Scientific Art Studio, Richmond, CA
2010-11 Art preparator and installation at The Willard Wankelman Gallery
& The Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, OH
2010-11 Instructor of Record teaching Ceramics, Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, OH
2009-10 Laboratory Technician for Sculpture, Ceramics and Glass Facilities,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
2008 – 09 Artist Apprenticeship to artist David Middlebrook, Los Gatos, CA
2007 – 09 Assistant Laboratory Technician in Ceramics at San Jose State
University, San Jose, CA
2003-05 Construction of the Laurel Street Ceramics Studio, Santa Cruz, CA
Exhibition Record
2023 Black & White, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Juror: James Bacchi
Impressed: Fine Art Printmaking, Mendocino County Museum
Visions In Clay 2023: LH Horton Jr. Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, CA Juror: Joan Takaymaya-Ogawa
2023 Truth: Artist Books & Broadsides, Gallery Route 1, Pt. Reyes, Ca Juror Sas Colby
2022 Voices of The Earth, Willits Art Center, Willits, CA, Invitational, Curator D’Terra
2021 Crocker Kingsley Exhibition, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA (catalogue)
Across the Divide, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA, Juror: Donna Seager
2020 Four Squared, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Invitational (catalogue)
The Essentials: Group Show, Voss Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Invitational
2019 StartUp Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, Invitational, Curator: Allison Snopek
48 Pilars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Invitational, Curator: Michael Yokum (catalogue)
Subversions, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Invitational, Curator: Joshua Coffey
2018 Selections 2018, Heron Arts Gallery, San Francisco, Juried by ArtSpan
Panel; Patricia Maloney; Renny Pritikin; Philip Bewley; Michael Cuffe;
2018 Metamorphosis, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA Invitational, Curator Priscilla Otani (catalogue)
2017 Ceramics In Focus 2017, Davis Arts Center, Tsao Gallery, Davis, CA,
Juror: Nathan Lynch
ACGA: Ceramics In Focus, The Annex Show, Davis, CA
2017 California Clay Competition, The Artery Gallery, Davis, CA
2016 Rare Earth, National Ceramics Exhibition, Cabrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, Juror: Kirk Delman
Group Show, San Francisco Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA, Invitational, Curator: Danielle Satinover
Women Of The Bayview, Third Street Gallery San Francisco, CA, Invitational, Curator: Sophie Anne Shultze
Everything is Connected, The Menagerie Gallery, Redwood City, CA, Curator: Heiko Greb
Re: Purpose, Third Street Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Curator:
Danielle Satinover
May, AHF Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Thomasina DeMaio
Group Show, SomArts Center, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Danilo Santos
MAAP, Mission Art & Performance series, Precita Eyes, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Susan Cervantes
Inked, Paolo Mejia Galley, Oakland, CA Curator: Paulo Mejia
Different Light, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Juror Robert Melton
Anniversary Show, The Fleetwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Message The Maker, Gallery G, San Francisco, CA, Co-Curated by
Crystal Kamoroff & Lauren Gugic
Dissilience II, Studio Fab, Oakland, CA, Invitational, Curator: Su Pang
OddVille, American Steel Studios, Oakland, CA
2014 Art House; Studio G Presents H, Gallery G, San Francisco, CA Curated by Crystal Kamoroff
2013 Alter Eco, Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Cruz, CA Juror: Ann Hazels
2012 Dissilience, Workspace Limited, San Francisco, CA Juror: Su Pang
Figuratively, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME Juror: Misty Gamble
2011 Little Epic Encounters: Failed Experiments in Alchemy & Restraint, MFA
Thesis Exhibition, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, OH
MoneyBags, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO Co-Curated by Stan Chrisholm
2011 Simpson Park Sculpture Exhibit, Bowling Green, OH Juror: Chris Gajewitz
2010 A Midwinter Night’s Dream, Autobody Fine Art Gallery, Alameda, CA, Invitational, Curator: Jaqueline Cooper
2009 BGSU Faculty and Graduate Ceramics, Ann Miller Gallery, Wittenberg
University, OH Invitational, Curator: Scott Dooley
Contemporary Sculpture 2009, The Art Center, Grand Junction, CO, Juror: Michael Meyers
Cognitive Dissonance, The John Pickelle Gallery, San Jose, CA
SJSU Student Invitational in Conjunction with CCAC Conference, Jurors: Monica Van Den Dool, Stan Welsh, Davis, CA
Great Things: Kamoroff & The Domingo Brothers, The Marsh, San Francisco, CA
2008 Big Things in Small Places, Juror: Jacqueline Cooper, The Autobody
Fine Art Gallery, Alemeda, CA
2007 SJSU Student Invitational in Conjunction with CCACA Conference,
Jurors: Monica Van Den Dool, Stan Welsh, Davis CA
2006 The Preview Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
SJSU Student Invitational in Conjunction with CCACA Conference,
Co-Curated by Monica Van Den Dool & Stan Welsh, Davis, CA
Multimedia Art, Juror: Cultural Council of Santa Cruz, County Government Building, Santa Cruz, CA
2005 SJSU Student Invitational at CCACA Conference, Davis, CA
Black & White, Jurors: Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center Selection
Committee, Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center, Ben Lomond, C
Open Studios Art Tour, Jurors: Cultural Council of Santa Cruz, SC, CA
The Preview Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
Elkhorn Garden Art Gallery, Prunedale, CA
2004 Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center Members Show, Santa Cruz Mountain
Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA
Valley Fever, Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA
Form & Function: Clay Glass & Fiber, Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center, Ben Lomond, CA
2003 Walnut Avenue Art and Poetry Show, Walnut Avenue Women's Center,
Santa Cruz, CA
The Preview Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
Open Studios Art Tour, Jurors: Santa Cruz Cultural Council, Santa Cruz,
2002 Ars Longa Vita Brevis, Jurors: Rose Sellery, Tobin Keller, Cabrillo College Gallery Aptos, CA
2001 Art at the California Chancellors Office, Sacramento, CA,
Noggins III, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA, Juror: Tobin Keller
Two Person Exhibitions
2017 Mud Pie & The Obsessive Curiosity, Crystal Kamoroff & Evan Hobart, The Willits Art Center, Willits, CA, Curator: Gary Martin
2016 Everything is Connected, Crystal Kamoroff & Heiko Greb, The Menagerie Gallery, Redwood City, CA
2009 The Shape of Desire, The Art Ark, San Jose, CA with Jacqueline Cooper, Curator: Valerie Rapps
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Spotlight Exhibition: Crystal Kamoroff, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Telos, BFA Show, Herbert Sanders Gallery, San Jose State
2007 Deviations, Yoga Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2006 Santa V, The Black Gallery, SJSU Student Gallery, San Jose, CA
Chorros Blancos, Herbert Sanders Gallery, San Jose State University Student
Gallery, San Jose, CA
Public Art & Onsite Work
2018 Art Handling & Installation of Exhibitions From/To: The Frontier of
Chinese Art Education and Poverty of Sensibility: Art Education in the 21s
Century III at the Diego Rivera Gallery, Walter & Mcbean Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Construction and Installation of ceramic facilities at The Hudson Street
Ceramic Studio, San Francisco, CA
Mobile Phlebotomy Unit, For St. James Infirmary, San Francisco, CA
2016 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, Robin William’s VW Bus, Mural,
Fabrication & Installation, San Francisco, CA
2015 San Jose Rotary Playground, Guadalupe River Park Conservancy, San Jose, CA
Kidspace Children’s Museum, Pasadena, CA
2014 - 15 Tilden Regional Park, Topographical Map Restoration, East Bay Regional Park District, Orinda, CA
San Francisco Zoo, Sculpture Learning Plaza, San Francisco, CA
2013 - 15 San Francisco Zoo, Elinore Friend Playground, San Francisco, CA
2013 - 14 Architectural façade, 1645 Pacific Ave, San Francisco, CA
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, San Francisco, CA
2013 Children’s Museum of Sonoma, Santa Rosa, CA
2003 – 05 Construction of Laurel Street Ceramics Studio, Santa Cruz, CA
Private Collections
Ray Ashley, CA
Jacqueline Cooper, CA
Destiny Lewis, CA
Randy Rosenberg, CA
Ashley Voss, CA
Michael Yokum
Cynthia Farner
Awards
2023 Juror’s Choice Award, Black & White Exhibition, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Artspan Artist Spotlight, SF, CA, Feature Artist Editorial, OS Guide magazine
2017 The Alpha Award for Best of Show, California Clay Competition, The
Artery, Davis, CA
2011 Artist in Residence, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
Sean Manning Research Scholarship, Bowling Green State
2009-11 Graduate Assistantship Bowling Green State University
2008- 09 Artist in Residence, San Jose State University
A. B. Guslander Scholarship
2008 Violet Speddy Scholarship
2007-08 Deans Scholar, San Jose State University
2007 Helen Dooley Scholarship, San Jose State University
2007 Kiwanis Club Scholarship, Willits
2006 Wiggsey Silvertsen Scholarship, San Jose State University
Dooly Spatial Arts Scholarship, San Jose State University
Presidents Award for Academic Excellency, San Jose State
2004 SCMAC People's Choice Award, Valley Fever Exhibit, SCMAC
2002 Don Moss Memorial Endowed Ceramic Scholarship, Cabrillo
Visual Arts Scholarship, Cabrillo Community College
1998 Visual Arts Scholarship, California College of Arts
Interviews
2018 Interview with Jeremy Joven for Artpan Organization Promotion
2017 Willits Art Center Artist Interviews, by Gary Martin
2013 KZSC 88.1 Artists on Art hosted by Nada Miljkovic
KUSP 88.9 The Muse with Wallace Baine & Kirby Scudder
Periodical Art Column, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Christa Martin
KSCO 1080 It’s The Way of Love hosted by Rock Elle
Publications
2024 Randall Museum Studio Lab Manual, self-published as a supporting document for San Francisco Recreation & Parks
and for the Friends of the Randall Museum
2021 Crocker Kingsley Exhibition Catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition at Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2019 Book Cover Art, Essays on Exclusion: Our Critical, Collective Journey Toward Equity in Education, Philip Andrew Boda (Editor), DIO Press Inc. New York 2018 Editorial, Art Span’s Open Studios Guide Magazine, San Francisco, CA
Metamorphosis Exhibition Catalogue, published to accompany exhibition at Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013-16 Illustrations, Small Time Operator, B. Bernard Kamoroff, Bellsprings Publishing, 14th, 13th edition
2008 Photo Editorial, Sculpture Magazine, David Middlebrook, April/May 2008
Lectures
2023 “Black & White” National Juried Exhibition Artist Talk November 2023
2011 Artist Lecture, Tea Time Lecture Series, Bowling Green State, University, Bowling Green, OH
2009 Visiting Artist Lecture, Wittenberg University, Springfield OH
Skills
Ceramic fabrication processes
Gas and electric kiln operation & repair
Glaze chemistry and formulation
Clay reclaim and formulation
Ceramic material and equipment safety
Installation
Fabrication
Restoration
Experience with large-scale work
Forklift operation
Welding MIG
General carpentry
Mold making Metal casting
Metal fabrication
Chasing and finishing
Computer skills
Photography
Fluent in Spanish
Excellent interpersonal communication