ANAT SHIFTAN
Born (1955), Shiftan studied English Literature and Philosophy (BA 1980) at the Hebrew University, Ceramics at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, (1980 -1982), Eastern Michigan University (MA 1984) and at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Design, (MFA 1986). Shiftan worked at Pewabic Pottery, Detroit Michigan (1986 to 1999) as Instructor, Production Manager - Senior Designer and Director of Education. She taught at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (1999-2002) and is teaching ceramics at SUNY New Paltz, NY since 2003 where she is currently head of the Ceramics Program. Shiftan received twice the Michigan Grant for Individual Artists and exhibited her work extensively. Shiftan has collaboratively organized: Contemporary Issues in Clay: A British Perspective, (2006), Why Clay (2008) and organized Beyond Hand Made (2008), all symposiums that examine theoretical, social and economical trends that are the context in which creative practice in visual arts occurs today. Recent exhibition include solo shows at Pewabic Pottery, Greenwich House Pottery NY, The Clay Studio Philadelphia PA, Vessels Gallery Boston MA, and in group shows at Wave Hill NY, The Clay Studio, Great China Museum, China Jingdezhen, Jingdezhen Contemporary International Ceramics Exhibition, The Dorsky Museum, and Art Shanghai.
Learn more:
Anat Shiftan at The Marks Project
Anat Shiftan at The Clay Studio
https://webapps.newpaltz.edu/directory/profile/anatshiftan
https://www.hostlerburrows.com/artists-designers/anat-shiftan
Solo Exhibitions:
TBA Beit Binyamini: Title TBD
2021 Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine, Bangor, ME (upcoming- was postponed due to COVID 19)
2020 The Garden, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY (upcoming- was postponed due to COVID19))
2015 Nature Reconsidered Thomas Hunter Projects: New York, NY
2014 Le Jardin: The Ceramics of Anat Shiftan, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Anat Shiftan: New Work, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 Stilled Life, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Anat Shiftan New Work, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Anat Shiftan, Recent Works of Still Life, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
Anat Shiftan Digital Prints, WAW Peekskill Extension Center Gallery, Peekskill, NY
2006 Looking at Nature, Lydia Zavadsky Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Jerusalem, Israel
Anat Shiftan New Work, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2004 Anat Shiftan, Ceramics and Digital Drawings, Fine Arts Gallery, Mott Community College, Flint, MI
2003 Color Perception in Time: A video Installation of digital drawings, Union Media Gallery,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1988 Anat Shiftan, On the Floor and on the Wall, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1987 Anat Shiftan, New Work, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Group Exhibitions
2020 Forest Primeval, Hostler Burrows LA
2019 Design Miami/Basel, Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Garden (Feast) of Paradise, NCECA Pittsburgh, to The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
TEFAF New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2017. The Salon Art and Design, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Intimately Unfamiliar, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
· Our Flag: Design Stands Together, R & Company, Gallery, New York, NY
Small Favors: Think Inside the Box, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Winter Antiques Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
· Fog Design + Art, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2016 Design Miami/, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL
SOFA CHICAGO, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
The Salon Art + Design, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Fog Design + Art, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Hot Pots, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2014 Garden Party: Works of Nancy Lorenz and Anat Shiftan, Old Westbury Gardens,
Old Westbury, NY
Garden Party, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Tracery, Anat Shiftan, Jenny Kemp, Noah Post, Suzy Sureck, Gallery PS 209
Stone Ridge, NY
2013 Naturally, Saratoga Clay Art Center, Schacht Gallery, Saratoga, NY
Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY
Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Roos Arts (Women’s Studio Workshop) Rosendale, NY
2012 Blue and White, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty of Wayne State Ceramics Program: 1990-2012, Detroit, MI
The Wild Garden, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Watershed Kiln God, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2011 Ceramic Material and Material Culture, Queens College/CUNY
with Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
EartH, Arts Westchester, White Plains, NY
Jingdezhen Contemporary International Exhibition, Jingdezhen, China
The 1st Kaolin Cup China International Ceramic Art Exhibition, Jingdezhen,
China
Mercurial Objects: Luxuriant Obsession, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
The Gift of Art, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA
Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill, NY
2010 Visual Translations, Philadelphia, PA
Small Favors, The Clay Studio. Philadelphia, PA
Re-objectification, SOFA NY and Leslie Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, NY
The Things Themselves, Pelham Art Center, NY.
Earth, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Jingdezhen Contemporary International Ceramics Exhibition,
Great China Museum, Jingdezhen, China