ANAT SHIFTAN CURRICULUM VITAE
Art Department
Professor
State University of New York at New Paltz
EDUCATION
Degree Date received Institution & Location Major Field
MFA 1986 Cranbrook Academy of Art and Design, Bloomfield Hills, MI Ceramics
MA 1984 Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI Ceramics
BA 1980 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel English Literature/ Philosophy
MFA Thesis: Explored the relation between a 3-D object and its 2-D representation and between object, image, and viewer.
My thesis project was exhibited in The Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI in May 1986.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Academic Positions
Year Rank Institution Full or Part time
2010 - Associate Professor Art Department SUNY/NP 1.0
2003 - 2009 Assistant Professor Art Department SUNY/NP 1.0
2002 - 2003 Visiting Professor College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI 1.0
2002 - 2003 Adjunct Professor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 0.3
1999 - 2002 Professor Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel 1.0
1994 - 1999 Director of Education Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI 1.0
Professional Employment:
1990 - 1993 Head of Design and Product Development Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI 1.0
1988 - 1989 Clay and Glaze Development Researcher Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI 1.0
1986 - 1987 Instructor, Education Program Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI 1.0
Gallery Representation: Hostler Burrows Gallery NY, NY, and LA, CA
Fellowships, Awards, Grants
2019-2020 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2018-2019 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2017-2018 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2016-2017 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2015-2016 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2014-2015 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2013-2014 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2012-2013 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2011-2012 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2010-2011 UUP Professional Development Award, SUNY New Paltz
2010-2011 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2009-2010 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2008-2009 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2007-2008 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2006-2007 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2006 UUP/SUNY, Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Award
2006 UUP Professional Development Award, SUNY New Paltz
2005-2006 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2004-2005 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz
2004-2005 UUP Professional Development Award, SUNY New Paltz
1990 Michigan Council for The Arts, Grant for Individual Artist
1988 Michigan Council for The Arts, Grant for Individual Artist
1987 Arts Foundation of Michigan Award
1986 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Tuition Grant
+I Received Professional Development Award from the Art Department and Dean of F&PA yearly: 2004-2019 and a full year of Sabbatical leave in 2011 and 2019.
CREATIVE WORK
Solo Exhibitions: The “TBA” exhibitions have been postponed from 2020 to a future date due to COVID-19.
2024 Beit Binyamini, a one-person show: Image Object/ Object Image
TBA Hamivshala Gallery, Kiryat Tivon Community Centers, Israel.
2022 Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine, Bangor, ME
2022 The Garden, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
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 Art, 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 of Digital Drawings, Union Media Gallery,
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1992 Shiftan New Work: Habitat/Shaw Gallery, Southfield, 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
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
Our Flag, Design Stands Together, R & Company Gallery, NY, 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
Faculty Exhibition, 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 at 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 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
2009 Tile, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
Jingdezhen Contemporary International Ceramics Exhibition, Jingdezhen, China
Sanbao International Printmaking Exhibition, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China
Made In Clay, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Fifth Israeli Ceramics Biennale, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tercet, Annelle Gendelman Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
All Fired Up, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
Made in Clay, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Mastery in Clay, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Visual Israeliness, The 23rd Annual Conference of The Association of Israel Studies,
The Dorothy Rothschild Open University Campus, Raanana, Israel
History in the Making, The Gallery at Genesee Pottery, Rochester, NY
Small Favors The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Art and Soul, Discovering the Artist Within, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Made in Clay, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Ceramic Abstraction, Exploration and Evidence in Contemporary Ceramics, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Cups Coming Together, The Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2006 Craft Art Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
The Fourth Biennale for Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel,
Mastery in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Ceramic Regional: Down to Earth, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Two Dimensions/Three Dimensions, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
10 x 10 x 10, Ellenville, NY
Jersey Shore Clay National, M.T. Burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Second Nature, Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2005 Artist in Residence Exhibition: The XII International Raku Symposium, Plemenitas,
Zagreb, Croatia
Five Israeli and Five American Ceramic Artists, Toby Rosenberg Gallery, Portland, MN
The Third Biennale for Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tile Matter and Motif, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD
2004 SUNY Faculty Exhibition, Duchess Community College Art Gallery
2003 Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2002 Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
1999 Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
The University of Michigan, Residential College, Ann Arbor, MI
1991 Kresge Art Museum Biennial Exhibition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
1990 Sculpture on The Floor, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Great Lakes Gallery, Chicago, IL
Clay Ten + Ten, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, the University of Michigan School of Art,
Ann Arbor, MI
1989 Great Lakes Gallery, Chicago, IL
Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
1988 Chicago Il, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1987 Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
Eye Media, Ann Arbor, MI
Detroit Focus, Detroit, MI
All but Oil, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Outside, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
1986 Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI
Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
Radford University, Radford, VA
Exhibitions Co-Curated
2018 Garden (Feast) of Paradise, NCECA Conference Concurrent Exhibitions.
2015. M3: Making Material Matter, vessels by ceramic and metals artists, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard at 224, Allston MA
2010 On Appropriation and Authenticity, NCECA Conference Concurrent Exhibitions.
Conferences Organized
2006 Contemporary Issues in Clay: A British Perspective SUNY NP.
2008 Beyond Hand Made, SUNY NP
2008 Why Clay? In collaboration with Clay Art Center Portchester NY.
Guest Lectures/Visiting Artist
2021 Online Workshop Series: Taoxichuan Education Workshop, Jingdezhen, China: Tile Making with Anat Shiftan
2020 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel, Electronic Newsletter: Anat Shiftan a Studio Visit
2020 Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2019 Penland Summer Workshop: Tile Making with Anat Shiftan
2019 Schmucksymposium, Erfurt, Germany
2018 Beit Binyamini, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2011 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2010 SOFA2010 Re-Objectification in Postmodern Ceramics
2008 NCECA 2008 On Appropriation and Postproduction
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2007 NCECA Conference Mid-Career Artist Lecture
2006 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2005 Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
XII International Raku Workshop, at OLR-Plemenitas, Zagreb, Croatia
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, MN
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2003 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Mott Community College, Flint, MI
Residencies: TBA is related to postponement due to COVID-19
2025 Taoxichuan Education Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
2024 Beit Binyamini, Tel Aviv Israel.
2019 The Erfurter Schmucksymposium, Erfurt, Germany
2019 Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
2005 XII International Raku Workshop, at OLR-Plemenitas, Zagreb, Croatia
2005 Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts, “Artists Invite Artists”, Newcastle, MN
Publications:
2014 Studio Potter, Thoughts on Authenticity & Interpretation Volume 42 #2
2010 A post-production Moment- On appropriation and Authenticity, NCECA 99 Journal 2010.
Work Cited:
2019 17. Erfurter Schmucksymposium 2019
2013 Art Shanghai 2013
2012 Tending Towards the Untamed, Artists Respond to the wild Garden, Wave hill, Glyndor Gallery.
2011 The 1st. Kaolin Cup, China International Ceramic Art Contest and Exhibition.
2011 Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue # 83: On Earth, pp70-73.
2011 Mercurial Objects, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College pp21, 23, and 28.
2010 International Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Jingdezhen China International Fair
2009 Printers and Potters: Creative Exchange, West Meets East @ Sanbao, 2009
International Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Jingdezhen China, International Fair.
2008 The Fifth Ceramics Biennale, Eretz Israel, Museum, Tel Aviv: Design, Art, Design PP. Hagai Segev.
2008 Angelica Pozo, 500 Tiles, An Inspiring Collection of International Works, Lark Books, NY, NY.
2007 Elik Mishori, Visual Israeliness, catalog, Exhibition in the Framework of the 23rd. Annual Conference of The Association for Israel Studies, The Dorothy Rothschild Open University Campus, Raanana June-July 2007. The Open University of Israel, Dept. of Literature, Language and Arts.
2006 Knafo, David, Catalogue, Territory and Identity- Between Ceramics and Architecture, The Fourth Biennial for Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel, Museum, Tel Aviv: Design, Art, Design PP. 214-215.
2006 Pozo, Angelica. Hand Made Tiles, A Lark Ceramics Book, A Division of Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. NY, NY Pp., 36.
20045 Cecula, Marek, The Third Biennial for Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel,
Museum Tel Aviv: Design, Art, Design Pp. 93.
2004 Walt, Irene, Sera, Grace, Monogram, Art in the Stations, The Detroit People Mover Detroit: Art in the stations. Art in The Stations. Pp. 14,15,72.
2004 Clay Times, Volume 10 #5
Reviews /Works Cited
2021 Spring Issue of LUX Magazine, upcoming.
2020 WAG (https://www.wagmag.com/a-bouquet-of-nature-inspired-art/)
2019 1280, (Published by Ceramic Artist Association of Israel), My Botanical Forms Are Invented. Issue #39.
2019 Husk Design Blog, Design Miami/Basel: Find out the 14 best galleries we spotted.
2016 Review: http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/we-want-from-design-miami/3569
2016 Whitehot Magazine, 18 Things We Want from Design Miami.
2011 Ceramics Art and Perception: On Earth, Issue #83
2010 Art and Perception: On Earth, Issue #83
2008 Ceramics Technical, Porcelain Still Lifes #27 pp 95-98
2008 Ceramics Monthly, Volume 56 #7: Enjoying the Still Life
2007 American Craft Feb/March
2004 Clay Times, Volume 10 #5
2004 Flint Journal, One-Person Art exhibition
1991 Detroit Free Press, 2. 22. 1991
1987 Detroit Free Press, 1.27.1987 and 7.28.1987
1987 Birmingham Eccentric, 7.23.1987
1987 Detroit Metropolitan, 7. 1987
1986 Detroit Free Press, 1.5. 1986
1986 Detroit Free Press 2. 22. 1991/ 1.27.1987/ 7.28.1987/ 1.5. 1986