Linda Sormin | Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics
2003 — New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Ceramics Diploma, School of Crafts and Design
2001 — Sheridan College, Oakville, ON

Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, summa cum laude
1993 — Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2009

• “Drawn” in A.I.R. Vallauris exhibition, Vallauris, France
• “Rift” in Possibilities and Losses: Transitions in Clay, 4 person exhibition, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK (publication)
• “Playing the Field”, group exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2008

• “Salvage”, solo exhibition/collaborative installation, Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA
• “Sounding Retreat”, solo exhibition/collaborative installation, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
• “Full and Spare: Ceramics in the 21st Century”, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (catalog)

2007

• Arthaus Miami, Parting Favors, White Box NY group show, Miami Beach, FL
• “Mobile Structures”, Roaming Tales in TechLab, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
• “Mobile Structures”, Roaming Tales at Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK (catalog)

2006

• “Cheh-ae Siah”, solo exhibition, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB
• “Contemporary Canadian Ceramics”, Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB (catalog)
• “White Gold”, Flow Gallery, London, UK
• “From the North: Canadian Ceramics Today”, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2005

• “Taipei NCECA Exhibition”, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
• “The Conative Object”, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
• “NCECA Clay National”, Baltimore, MD
• “School’s Out!”, NCECA Conference, Baltimore, MD
• “30,000 +”, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, BC

2004

• “Languor”, Lohin-Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
• “Hot Clay”, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC (publication)

2003

• “Selections I”, Lohin-Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
• MFA Graduate Exhibition, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
• “NCECA Clay National”, San Diego, CA

RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2010

• Visiting Artist, Concordia University, Montreal, QC

2009

• Visiting Artist, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• Collaborator with poet Rita Wong, “forage/salvage”, conversation piece for
  the panel “Ec(h)opoetics of the Disfigured Landscape”, Belladonna: Feminist Poetics and Activism Gathering”, CUNY, New York, NY
• Panel Co-chair with Dr. Mary Drach McInnes, “Boundary-work: Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Approaches”, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), Phoenix, AZ
• Presenter, “Emerging Artists”, NCECA Conference, Phoenix, AZ

2008

• Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI
• Juror, “In Your Face”, Brown University/RISD Art Exhibition, Hillel Gallery,
  Providence, RI
• Juror, ArtAxis (online artist network), http://www.artaxis.org/artist.htm
• Artist in Residence, Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA
• Visiting Artist, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

2007

• Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
• Interview (video), Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
• Visiting Artist, Camosun College, Victoria, BC
• Panelist, “Five Emerging Ceramic Artists Survey the Discipline”, CAA, NYC
• Panelist, Mobile Structures Symposium, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK

2006

• Artist in Residence, Medalta Int’l AIR Program, Medicine Hat, AB
• Visiting Artist, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB
• Panelist, White Gold Porcelain Symposium, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2005

• Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• Visiting Artist, Royal College of Art, London, UK
• Visiting Artist, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
• Visiting Artist, Camosun College, Victoria, BC
• Visiting Artist, California State University, Long Beach, CA
• Visiting Artist, Fraser Valley Potters’ Guild, Surrey, BC

2004

• Guest Artist, 1000 Miles Apart, University of Regina, SK
• Panelist, “Leaving it be: Apathy, Activism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Practice”, Powell Street Festival, Vancouver, BC
• Intranation Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB

RECENT EMPLOYMENT

2006-present

• Associate Professor of Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2005-2006

• Head of Visual Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC

2003-2006

• Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC

ARTICLES/REVIEWS

2010

• Glenn Adamson, essay in Possibilities and Losses: Transitions in Clay, (images), British Crafts Council in partnership with MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), UK

2009

• Sikora, Linda, “Metaphysical Materiality”, (images) Ceramic Review, September/ October, Issue 239, 46-49
• Itinerary review of “Possibilities and Losses,” (image), Sculpture, July/August, Vol. 28 No. 5, 21

2007

• Hanaor, Ziggy, Breaking the Mould: New Approaches to Ceramics, Black Dog Publishing, 37, 128-129
• Sormin, Linda, “IntraNation”, West Coast Line 49, vol. 4, no. 1, 60-64
• Long, Timothy, “Unearthing”, Mobile Structures: Dialogues Between Ceramics and Architecture in Canadian Art catalogue, 8-19
• Gogarty, Amy, “A Bell Rings Out” — Recollection, Architecture, and Ceramics at The End of Modernity”, Mobile Structures catalogue, 38-47
• Burisch, Nicole and Diana Sherlock, “Linda Sormin: Two Views”, Ceramics Art & Perception; Issue 67, 27-31

2006

• Hanessian, Holly, “Encountering Abundance: Multiplicity in Clay”, Ceramics Art and Perception; Issue 63, 9-12
• Neeley, James, “Diverse Ceramics”, Medicine Hat News, June 2, 2006, A4
• Sikora, Linda, “Metaphysical Materiality”, Stride Gallery solo exhibition essay
• Sherlock, Diana, “Ceramics reshape familiar forms”, Calgary Herald, April 8,
• Nicole Burisch, “Collected visions: Linda Sormin’s chaotic ceramic landscape, FFWD (Vol. 11 #17, April 6, 2006)

2005

• Levin, Victor, “Linda Sormin”, Fusion Magazine (l. 29 No.2 Spring, 2005)
• Mathur, Ashok, “Leaving It Be,” Fuse Magazine (Vol. 28, No. 2)
• Ghaznavi, Corinna, “Conative Object,” York Quay Gallery, Jan. 2005

COLLECTIONS

• RISD President’s House, Providence, Rhode Island (on loan)
• Carol Mayer, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Marlin and Ginger Miller, Reading, Pennsylvania
• Joel and Ann Moskowitz, Corona del Mar, California
• Schein-Joseph Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, New York
• World Ceramic Exposition Permanent Collection, Gyeonggi Province, Korea