Education
1968
MFA, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
1965
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Select Solo Exhibitions
2015
Richard Shaw, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
2014
Richard Shaw: Ceramic Sculptures, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA
Collection In Focus: Richard Shaw, di Rosa, Napa, CA
Breaking the Mold. Richard Shaw, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA
2013
New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2012
Regis Master: Richard Shaw, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Select Group Exhibitions
2018
Tricks of the Trade: Illusions in Craft-Based Media, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2017
Bay Area Clay: A Legacy of Social Consciousness, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
DOUBUTSU (Animal) SHOW”, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA
Sabbath, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2016
Order and Nature, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2015
Material Matters, Seager/Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2014
Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Richard Shaw, Ralph Bacerra, Richard DeVore, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Left Coast/Third Coast: Bay Area and Chicago Artists and Their Affinities, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2013
In Our Hands, Mešrović Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
New Blue and White: Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
Contemporary Spins on Blue and White Ceramics, La Coste Gallery, Concord, MA
Blue and White, Richard Shaw and Dorothy Feibleman, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Three Decades of West Coast Ceramics, 1956-1986, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Dwelling on the Gulf, Galveston Historical Foundation, Galveston, TX
Frank’s International House of Ceramics part three, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Small is Beautiful, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Doki Doki, The Fascination of Ceramics, The Excitement of Art, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Sasayama, Hyogo
Richard Shaw and Ken Graves, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Breaking Ground: Gifts from Katie and Drew Gibson, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Faux Real, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
The Teapot Redefined, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Materials Matter, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Select Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Champagne, IL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lowe Art Museum, University of Florida, Coral Gables, FL
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Nora Eccles Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
The Oakland Museum of California, CA
Palm Beach Museum, Palm Beach, FL
Petits Lu Collection, Paris, France
Renwick Gallery of National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
University of Miami, Miami, FL
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque / Los Cruces, NM
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT