BEAN FINNERAN

Education
Goucher College
University of Michigan
Museum School, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
Massachusetts College of Art

Solo Exhibitions

2009
"Incidence and Pattern," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2008
XXe Biennale Internationale de Ceramique Contemporaine de Vallauris, France

2007
"REALMS," The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
"New Work," Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
"CYCLE," Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
"Meander," University of Oklahoma, Stillwater, OK

2006
"Shift," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Installations," Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
"Topologies," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (installation)

2005
Up/Down/Around, Gallery 555 with the Oakland Museum of California at City Center, Oakland, CA
"Slow Time / Play Time," The Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
"Structures," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2003
"Arcs in Time," Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, CA
"Curves," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
"Random Encounters," 20,000 piece installation, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"Yellow," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002
"Bean Finneran: Recurrence," Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

2000
Eyre/Moore Gallery
"New Work," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999
The 2nd Annual International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA

1998
Installation, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA

1997
"Introductions," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2009
"Prospection & Perspective," P1, Galerie Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris, France
"Three Decades of Sculpture, Performance & Photography," two person show with Alan Finneran, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008
"Holiday Special: Gallery Group Show," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

2007
"Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006
Mendhall Sobieski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture,” Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas, El Paso, TX (traveling)
“Arts Botanica,” Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

2005
“Tales from the Kiln,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“NEXT,” PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
“Jerry Bennett and Bean Finneran: Pushing the Limits,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
3rd World Ceramics Bienniale, World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Icheon City, Korea
“From Tiles to Totems: A Century of Northern California Ceramics,” Art Foundry, Sacramento, CA
"Today’s Voice: Exploring Alternative Applications," Neuhoff Gallery, New York, NY
"Ceramics," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

2004
“Subtraction & Addition: Ceramic Sculpture and Installations,” Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
“Critical Mass,” Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
“Black & White,” Linda Ross Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Pucini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
Susan Street Fine Arts Gallery, Solano Beach, CA
“Chaos/Control,” Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
"Summer Group Show," PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
“A Rare Glimpse: Modern American Art from Private Napa Valley Collections,” Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA

2003
“Branch Out,” Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
“Small Works,” Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
"The Character of Clay, 2 person show with Jun Kaneko," Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2002
“Conceptual Color,” Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, CA
Scripps 58th Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
"New Space, New Work," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001
"Conceptual Color," San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco, CA
PDX Gallery, Portland, OR

1998
Landscape as Memory, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997
SOFA, Chicago, IL
Ceramics Annual, John Natsoulis Gallery, Davis, CA
ARTSHOW 1, Microsoft Art Collection, Seattle, WA

Public Collections

Microsoft Inc.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Bibliography
2010
Speer, Richard. "Bean Finneran." Willamette Week, February 2010.
Speer, Richard. "Jan 2010 Artist Profile: Bean Finneran." art ltd., January 2010.

2006
Libby, Brian. “Fueled by Organic Inspirations.” A&E, The Oregonian, March 17, 2006.
“Shift, Bean Finneran,” Port, March 1, 2006

2005
Ming, Bai. World Famous Ceramic Artist’s Studios 1: Volume of America (1). Hebei, Chine: Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2005.
Cohn, Terry. “Bean Finneran at Mills College Art Museum.” Artweek April, 2005: 17.
Schumachet, Mary Louise. “Cast in Clay: Artists Use Traditional Medium to Craft Engaging Tales.” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2005.

2004
Porges, Maria, Bean Finneran’s Performative Art, Ceramics: Art and Perception International, September 2004
Berry, Colin. “‘Subtraction and Addition’ at the Museum of Craft & Folk Art.” Artweek July/August 2004: 17.
Rossbund, Krissa. “Bayside Beauty: A Showhouse Living Room Celebrates its “Golden” Neighbor.” Traditional Home May, 2004: 56-59.

2003
Major, Mandy. “Finneran’s Colorful Collection on Display.” Saratoga Style September 17, 2003: 25-27.

2002
Cash, Stephanie. “Report From San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving.” Art in America November, 2002: 59-75.
Fleming, Bronwen. “Scripps 58th Ceramic Annual Puts the Artist Back in Art.” Claremont Collage February 5, 2002.
Anderson, Isabel, Ceramic Annual 2002 at Scripps College, Artweek, May 2002
Porges, Maria F., “Bean Finneran; Between Art and Nature,” January 2002
Levin, Elaine, Scripps College 58th Ceramic Annual, Ceramics Monthly, April 2002
Allen, Stuart, Exhibition Built Just for Davis Art Center, The Enterprise, March 2002
Selvin, Nancy, Fundamentally Clay: Ceramic Abstraction 2002,Ceramics: Art and Perception No. 47, 2002
Mendenhall, Lauri, Seductive Discovery, Coast, March 2002
Kanff, Devorah L., Inland Ceramic Show Melds Whimsy, Skill, The Enterprise, February 2002
Fleming, Bronwen, Scripps 58th Ceramic Annual Puts the Artist Back in Art, Claremont Collage, February 2002
Thorson, Alice, Clay with Something to Say, The Kansas City Star, January, 2002

2001
Schwartz, Judith S., Bean Finneran, American Ceramic, April 2001
Julian, Kimi, “Ceremicists of the World, Unite,” CCACA
Del Vecchio, Mark, "Postmodern Ceramics," London: Thames and Hudson, 2001