Xavier Toubes Born in a Coruña, Spain

Biography Xavier Toubes Born in A Coruña, Spain. He worked in an international Bank in Spain and London until 1974. He attended University of London Goldsmiths’ College (1974- 77). After graduating with the Master of Fine Arts from Alfred University, New York, he taught in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until 1993. In 1989 he became involved in the creation of the European Ceramics Work Centre (EKWC) in ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, and was the Artistic Director from its opening in 1991 until the autumn of 1999 when he started teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited frequently in both USA and Europe and also in Asia, and lectured in numerous Universities and international forums. He is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (Genéve, Switzerland) since 1986. His awards include a grant from the Ministry of Culture, Spain in 1983, a National Endowment for the Arts in 1986 and North Carolina Arts Council 1986 Artist Fellowship. In 1988 he received a Southern Center for Contemporary Art Individual Artist Fellowship. His work is in private and public collections in USA, Europe and Asia.

Solo Exhibitions 1979 Galeria Sargadelos, Madrid. 1979 Galeria Sargadelos, Santiago de Compostela. Spain. 1980,1982, Galeria Sargadelos, Madrid . 1985 Palacio de Exposiciones Kiosko Alfonso, A Coruña. Spain. catalog 1988 South-Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem. USA 1989 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New York. 1990 Galerie van Mourik, Rotterdam. 1991 Helen Drutt Gallery, New York. 1993 Galerie van Mourik, Rotterdam. 1993 VB Galerie/Kunstuitkijk, Deventer. The Netherlands. 1995 Casa de Cultura y Juventud, Manises, Valencia. Spain. catalog 1996 Galeria Abel Lepina, Vigo. Spain. 1996 R.A.I. Galerie De Witte Voet. Amsterdam. 1996 Galeria Pardo Bazan , A Coruña. Spain. 1997 Casa da Parra. Santiago de Compostela. Spain. catalog P.Rieger, X.Toubes. Galeria Sargadelos. Madrid. 1998 P.Rieger,X.Toubes. Galeria Sargadelos.Santiago de Compostela. catalog 1999 Galeria Marisa Marimón, Ourense. Spain catalog Galerie De Witte Voet. Amsterdam. 2001 Materia, Scottsdale, Az. USA. 2004 Perimeter Gallery. Chicago IUN Gallery for Contemporary Art, Gary, Indiana. USA 2005 Fundacion Luis Seoane. A Coruña. Spain catalog 2006 Kunstforum, Solothurn, Switzerland 2007 Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.Santiago de Compostela. catalog 2008 Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst. leaflet 2008 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago. 2009 Instituto Cervantes. Chicago. 2010 Sala Luzán. Zaragoza . Spain. catalog 2011 Factoria Compostela. Santiago de Compostela. Spain catalog 2012 Kunstforum, Solothurn, Switzerland

1 Perimeter Gallery. Chicago. 2014 Galerie De Witte Voet. Amsterdam. Sky & Earth Ceramics. “Figures with Shadows. Patricia Rieger, Xavier Toubes”. Macau. China. catalog & leaflet 2015 Suburban. Oak Park, Chicago.

Recent Group Exhibitions 2006 Musée Ariana. Genéve. catalog Crossing Over: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture and Techno-Science. The Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas. Art Chicago. Perimeter Gallery. Chicago. Santa Fe Clay. Santa Fe. New Mexico La Ceramica Española y su integracion en el arte catalog Museo Nacional de Ceramica. Valencia Betty Rymer Gallery. The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Art Salamanca. Salamanca. Galeria Marisa Marimon. catalog Forosur. Caceres. Galeria Marisa Marimon. catalog 2007 Kunstforum, Solothurn, Switzerland Escultura Cerámica Ibérica. Pazo da Cultura. Pontevedra. Spain. catalog Travel : Centro das Artes. Caldas da Rainha. Portugal Museo do Azulejo, Lisboa, Portugal Shy Boy She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft. Selections from the Wornick Collection. Museum of Fine Arts. BostoN. catalog 2008 Art 5 WORK, Gallery 2. Chicago. Outra xeografia. Arte desde Galicia. Habana. Cuba. catalog Smaak en Kraak, Pottenbakkersmuseum/Centrum voor hedendaagse keramiek, Tegelen, The Netherlands. SOFA Chicago. Perimeter Gallery. Station8 “erde - gebrannt: buthod-garçon - toubes – wüthrich” Zuzwill, Switzerland. De Nova Materia: Escultura Contemporanea na coleccion Caixanova” catalog Centro Cultural Caixa Nova , Vigo, Mayo 2008 2009 Realidades, Exprexións, Tramas. Arte en Galicia desde 1975. Fundación Caixa Galicia. Ferrol. Spain catalog Our Objects : Contemporary Ceramics in Context. The Glasgow School of Art, 2009. Traveling Exhibition: Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, and the British Ceramic Biennial, Wedgwood Institute, Stoke–on-Trent, England Kunstforum, Solothurn, Switzerland. Tussen de Oren, Stedelijk Museum Kampen, Kampen, The Netherlands. Gresol. Madremanya. Girona. España. Collection Selections. Elmhurst Art Museum. Elmhurst. Chicago Reflection , Kunstforum , Solothurn, Switzerland Artistas e Intenciones. Galeria Pardo Bazan. A Coruna. Spain. 2010 Galerie de Witte Voet. Favorites/Favorieten Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Espectral. Obras das Coleccións do Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea. Santiago de Compostela. Spain. Cao-Tun, Craft Museum. Taiwan. Cerámica Española para el Siglo XXI. catalog Chinese and Spanish. Traveling: Kaohsiung Museum (2010), Yingge, Ceramics Museum (2011). Taiwan. Sèvres Museum. Paris. Académie Internationale de Céramique. catalog. Kunstforum , Reflection 2, Solothurn, Switzerland. Traveling : Gallery Artworks, Belgium; Bianca Landgraaf Galerie, Laarn, The Netherlands. Second European Triennial of Ceramic and Glass, Mons. Belgium. catalog. 2011 Reflectie. Galerie Bianca Landgraaf. Laren . The Netherlands Curated by Melissa Muys. Espacio Atlántico. Vigo. Factoria Compostela. Art Chicago. Perimeter Gallery. Praesent . Galerie Christoph Abbühl. Solothurn. Switzerland. 2012 Reflection IV. Station 8 . Zuzwill. Switzerland.

2 Evanston Biennale. Chicago. Projects for Peace in Quinua. Salon Luna Pizarro --Congreso de la Republica del Perú Lima . Perú No Rules: Contemporary Clay. Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Chicago Earth&Alchemy, Bakalar + Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston catalog Sofa Chicago. Perimeter Gallery. catalog Red Dot. Perimeter Gallery. Miami 2013 ArtWorks. Sullivan Galleries at SAIC, Chicago Escultura extensa. Un percorrido complexo e vital. Centro Social Novacaixagalicia, Ourense 2013. Elena Colmeiro, Maestros de la Cerámica. Taller Escuela Cerámica Muel,Zaragoza catalog Faculty Projects. Sullivan Galleries at SAIC, Chicago Galeria Pardo Bazán. 25 Navidades. A Coruña. Spain. 2014 Kunstforum. Xavier Toubes. Second Space. Solothurn. Switzerland. Auga Doce. Installation Augas 1997. Museo Centro Gaiás. Cidade da Cultura de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela. Spain. catalog Trėsor. Kunstforum. Solothurn. Switzerland. 2015 40 Jaar, 40 Years. Galerie De Witte Voet. Amsterdam. Still taking form. James Harris Gallery, Seattle. Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair, Rotterdam.

Work in public collections Woodman Study Collection, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado at Boulder Ateliers d’Art de France Museum of Art & Design. New York (promised gift from Gail Brown collection, Philadelphia) CAI Sala Luzán, Zaragoza. Spain Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Chicago. Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina. Museu do Azulejo, Lisboa, Portugal Museé Ariana, Genéve . Switzerland The Wornick Collection. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, Jay Collection. Gyeonggi-do, Korea Gresol. Girona. Spain. Centro Galego da Arte Contemporánea , Santiago de Compostela Fundación Caixa Galicia . Spain. Fundación Coca Cola España, First National Bank, Columbia, Missouri, The Gallery of Art and Design. North Carolina State University , Raleigh , Etela- Karjalan Taidemuseo , Lappeeranta , Finland. Fundación Argentaria , Madrid. Fundación Caixa-Vigo . Spain. Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute , Jingdezhen , China Museu de Cerámica de Manises , Valencia. Art Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan. Ackland Art Museum. Chapel Hill , North Carolina. Banco de España, Madrid. Arizona State University Museum, Tempe. University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, North Carolina. European Ceramics Work Centre at the Kruithuis Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch. The Netherlands Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela . Spain Harbourfront Studios , Toronto. Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson , North Carolina Museo Carlos Maside , Sada , A Coruña New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University , Alfred , New York Seminario de Estudios Cerámicos , Sargadelos , Lugo .Spain Pinacoteca Municipal do Concello da Coruña , A Coruña. Spain Ayuntamiento de Alcorcón, Alcorcón , Madrid .

Recent Bibliography Hoge inzet, neuw draagvlak; Hot Matter, New Constituency, Xavier Toubes Former Artistic Director European Ceramics Work Centre. Article by Vincent McGourty. EKWC Bulletin, September 2000 Xavier Toubes. New Worlds – New Vessels. Essay by Vincent McGourty. Art and Perception No. 44 . Sydney, Australia. 2001 The Human Form in Clay. Book. Jane Waller. The Crowood Press 2001. Wiltshire. UK Xavier Toubes. Article by Polly Ullrich. American Craft. June 2001 Xavier Toubes, Exquisite Nomad. Thesis by Rébeca Pérez Sanchez-Montañes. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2001 Two Ways of Looking at Ceramics. (Abstract Ceramics by Xavier Toubes) Part of the Opening Lecture - Presentation by James Elkins, Author and Professor at SAIC, at the National Conference on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Kansas City, 2002 Xavier Toubes. The Museum of Pure Form. Digitalization of the sculpture Aguas in the Collection of Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. 2002 Vinte Anos , Vinte Escultores. Catalog. Garrido Moreno, Antonio and others Centro Torrente Ballester. Ferrol. Spain. 2002 Working with Clay. Book. Susan Peterson Lawrence King Publishing. UK. 2002 The Craft and Art of Clay. Book. Susan Peterson. Thames and Hudson. pg 344. London.UK 2003 Xavier Toubes. Artistas Gallegos Escultores. Book. Garrido, Antonio. Nova Galicia Edicions, Vigo. Spain. 2003 Xavier Toubes. KeramikMagazin. Article by Polly Ullrich. Berlin. Germany, 2003 Visual Studies. A skeptical introduction. James Elkins. Routledge. USA 2003, pp.54 NOW & NOW World Contemporary Ceramics” The 2nd World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Icheon . Korea . Catalog. Korean and English. 2003 Thinking Matters. For a new Language in Ceramics by Xavier Toubes in Creativity. Inspirations in Clay. Aspirations in Contemporary Ceramics. Icheon World Ceramic Center. Korea. 2003 Hands in clay. An Introduction to Ceramics. Book. Charlotte Speight and John Toki. Mayfield Publishing. USA. Pg 401, 2003 Xavier Toubes. Escultura Contemporánea en Galicia. Fuentes orales y nuevas Tecnologías . DVD & Video. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Spain 2004 Xavier Toubes. Chicago Sun Times. Review by Margaret Hawkins. 2 April 2004. International Academy of Ceramics, Catalog. Icheon World Ceramic Center, Korea. 2004 Augenblicken .Catalogue . Essay by Roswitha Schil. Kunstforum Kirchber, Solothurn, Switzerland. 2003 Xavier Toubes. Guias Culturais, Xunta de Galicia, Page 382, Santiago de Compostela. Spain. 2003. Face to face – article by Roswitcha Schild . Ceramic Review, London. May/June 2004 Augenblicken. Article . Ceramics Art and Perception. No. 56 . Australia. 2004 Xavier Toubes at Perimeter Gallery, Chicago. American Ceramics 14/4. Fred Camper 2004 Perforation. Catalog. Text by Rick Newby. Northern Clay Center. Minneapolis. MN. 2005 Entre el Arte y el diseño, la creatividad artesana. Iberiona 2005. Poble Espanyol. Barcelona. Article, Oficio y Arte pg 21. Spain. Xavier Toubes: The Infinite in Finitude. Article by Glen Brown, Sculpture News, Hong Kong, Volume II, Number 4 Autumn 2005 Xavier Toubes. Descriptions without a place. Book . Text by Rebeca Sanchez Perez-Montanes. Gallego, Spanish, English. Fundación Luis Seoane. A Coruña. Spain. 2005 Xavier Toubes. Global- Espazos Non-Disponibles. Leaflet. Gallego, Español, English Fundación Luis Seoane. A Coruña. Spain. 2005 Xavier Toubes: Temps, dualité, chromatisme, from Quatre Ceramistes Espagnols. Catalog and DVD. Texts by Jose Corredor-Matheos and Roland Blaettler, French, Spanish. Musée Ariana, Genéve, Switzerland 2005. The Ceramic Process. Book. Anton Reijnders & The European Ceramic Work Centre. The Netherlands. A&C Black, London and University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2005.

4 Clay Art international. Xavier Toubes. Book and CD. Athens. Greece. 2005 Xavier Toubes, Diccionario Biográfico de Autores de la Real Academia de la Historia, Essay by Antonio Garrido. Madrid . Spain. 2006. Xavier Toubes, Creer y Crear en el Futuro, Article by Carmen Gonzalez Borrás, Revista Cerámica, No. 99, Madrid. Spain. 2006 Xavier Toubes. Global. Artnotes No.7 Santiago de Compostela. Spain. 2006 Crossing over. Contemporary ceramic sculpture and techno-science. Guest curator and article by Glen Brown. Salina Art Center. Salina. Kansas. 2006 Xavier Toubes. Global . Fundación Luis Seoane. Press review (articles, reviews, radio, television) A Coruna. Spain. 2006 Engaging Science. Article by Glen Brown. “Ceramics: Art and Perception”. Sydney. Australia. 2006 Cuatro Ceramistas Españoles en Ginebra- Museo Ariana. Ginebra Article by Carmen Gonzalez. Revista Cerámica. Madrid. Spain. 2006 Quatre céramistes espagnols. ( 55 reviews/ articles/ notes -Revue de Presse) Musée Ariana. Genève. Switzerland. 2006 Art Salamanca. Salamanca. Galeria Marisa Marimon. Spain. Catalog. 2006 Forosur. Caceres. Galeria Marisa Marimon. Spain. Catalog. 2006 Ceramics multiplicity and the limitations of criticism. Article by Glen R. Brown Temperature , Switzerland. 2006 She Boy, She Devil and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft. Selections from the Wornick Collection. Catalog Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 2006 Xavier Toubes. Tras dos Agros. Catalog. Curator Vincent McGourty. Book. Texts by Vincent McGourty, Manuel Olveira, Xose Manuel Lens. Centro Galego De Arte Contemporánea.Santiago de Compostela. Gallego, Spanish, English. 2007. El impulso creativo de Toubes. Review by Mercedes Rosas. La Voz de Galicia. Spain, 16 Jun. 2007 Tras dos Agros, Xavier Toubes. Article by Arantxa Estevez Lavandeira and Interview by Xose Manuel Lens. El Correo Gallego. Gallego, Spain. 14 Jun.2007. Xavier Toubes. El nuevo lenguaje de la cerámica. Review by Jose Luis Estévez. El Pais. Spain. 14 Jun 2007. Xavier Toubes. Mirages. Cultural progam, Televisión Gallega. Spaion June.2007 Xavier Toubes. CGAC. Review by JM Lens. Arte y Parte. Madrid No 70, pg115, Xavier Toubes at CGAC. Review. ArtNotes, Madrid, Spain. June 2007 Xavier Toubes. Tras dos Agros. Review. La Voz de Galicia, Spain.15 Jun 07 Toubes mais alo do xogo. Review by Mare. Santiago de Compostela Spain Jun 2007 Xavier Toubes. CGAC. Review Anxa Correa. Santiago de Compostela Spain June 07 Xavier Toubes no CGAC.@ Concellaria de Cultura, Spain, Jun 20 07 Xavier Toubes Tras dos Agros. A Peneira. Santiago de Compostela, Spain Jun 2007 Xavier Toubes, Tras dos Agros, Review, Kalaikia, Spain. Jul 07 Multiplicity, Debasement & Redemption, Article by Glenn R Brown, Xavier Toubes pag 35-36 Ceramics: Art and perception, No7, Sydney. Australia. 2007 Infinite Horizon. Xavier Toubes Sculpture. Article by Vincent McGourty. Ceramic Review. London , UK, 2008 The Poetry of Sculpture, article, Wu Weishan, pg 30; World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2008 Xavier Toubes, Nubes: landscape with clouds. Brochure. Texts by Manuel Olveira, Neil Bremer, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Chicago, 2008. Contemporary Ceramics. Book. Emmanuel Cooper, Thames & Hudson, London 2009. International Association of Galician Studies. Presentation on Xavier Toubes’ work by Antonio Garrido. Professor (Art History) at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Spain. 2008 Craft and Art of Clay. (5 edition). Book. Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall & Overlook Press and Laurence King,London, UK 2009. De Nova Materia: Escultura Contemporánea na colección Caixanova. Catalog. Text by Alberto Gonzalez Alegre. Centro Cultural Caixa Nova , Vigo, Spain 2008 Realidades, expresiones, tramas. Arte en Galicia desde 1975, Fundación Caixa Galicia. Ferrol, Spain 2009 Xavier Toubes. The Infinite in Finitude. Essay by Glen R. Brown. New Ceramics, May / June, Berlin, Germany 2009 Our Objects: Contemporary Ceramics in Context. Curator’s essay by Katy West. The Glasgow School of Art, 2009.

5 Traveling Exhibition: Scotland, N. Ireland, 2009-2010 Xavier Toubes (pages 58-6, Text by Jose Miranda Ogando) Cerámica Española para el Siglo XXI. Catalog. Chinese and Spanish. Cao-Tun, Craft Museum. Taiwan. Traveling: Kaohsiung Museum (2010), Yingge Ceramics Museum (2011). Xavier Toubes Catalog. Text by Vincent McGourty. Cerco Cerámica Contemporánea, 10 edición, Primavera 2010, Zaragoza. Spain 2010 Xavier Toubes. Brochure. Tunneling into Clouds by Vincent McGourty. Spanish and English. Lustre Solo exhibition. Sala Luzán. Zaragoza. Spain 2010 Xavier Toubes. Artist Profile. Dao Clayform August, No.01.2010 Inaugural issue, 3 articles: “Tunneling into clouds” by Vincent McGourty, “Thoughts about intuition and practice” by Xavier Toubes, “The clamorous passion of the silent clay” by A. Vivas. English and Chinese. Pgs 47-58 , 43 illustrations. Beijing, China, 2010. Reflection.Two-Part exhibition at Kunstforum Solothurn, Switzerland. Essay by Hanspeter Dähler . “ Xavier Toubes “ text and illustration page10. New Ceramics. Berlin. Germany .May/Jun 2010. Sèvres Museum. Paris. Académie Internationale de Céramique / Catalog. Various authors. Paris France. 2010. Triéennale Européenne Ceramique et Verre European Triennial for Ceramics and Glass . Catalog. French, English, Spanish. Belgium. 2010 Espectral . Obras das coleccións do CGAC. (Helena Almeida, Berta Cáccamo, Jimmie Durham, Jannis Kounellis, Mark Manders, Matt Mulican, Juan Muñoz, Arnulf Rainer, Antony Tápies, Xavier Toubes and others) Catalog. Miguel von Hafe Pérez curator and text and Xose Lois Gutierrez Faílde. Gallego, Spanihs. English. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. Santiago de Compostela. Spain. 2010. Xavier Toubes. Lustre . Terrart, No 37, 2010. Article. Text : Lucía Pérez. (pg 94-95) color illustrations of pieces and installation. Barcelona. Spain 2010 Xavier Toubes . Particulas. Catalog. Factoria Compostela. Santiago de Compostela. Text : Xavier Toubes, Color illustrations of pieces and installation. Ceramics and The Human Figure, Edith Garcia, (Xavier Toubes pgs. 149-51 text + interview, 5 color images) A&C Black Publishing, London Sofa Chicago. Catalog (color photograph), 2012 Xavier Toubes at Perimeter Gallery, review by Chris Miller , Newcity art. November 2012, Chicago. 500 figures in clay. Book Volume 2 – Xavier Toubes. Installations; 7 Cabezas 2009. Color illustration full page, 409. Lark Crafts. 2013 Patricia Rieger, Xavier Toubes Macao Daily News, (photograph, review of workshop and lectures) Macau, China, 25 March 2013 Infoceramica. Spain. July 2013. Blog. Tests: Wladimir Rivas and Xavier Toubes. 15 images. Xavier Toubes: Luz, Espacio, Memoria. Text by Antón Castro. Maestros de la Cerámica Elena Colmeiro. Taller Escuela Cerámica Muel, Zaragoza. Xavier Toubes. Visiting Artist, November 2013, DVD. University of Colorado at Boulder Auga Doce. Catalog. Text by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and others. Gallego, English. Cidade da Cultura de Galicia. Museo Centro Gaiás. (21.3- 14.09.2014) Santiago de Compostela. (Xavier Toubes, color illustration, installation Augas 1994, pg 121) Xavier Toubes. Tras Dos Agros, Video. Direction: Daniel Eisenberg, 2007 (edited 2014) Xavier Toubes. Los sueños de un exquisito nómada. Text : Antonio Vivas. Cover and Various illustrations pg 63-66. Cerámica Magazine, June 2014, Madrid. Figures with Shadows. Patricia Rieger, Xavier Toubes. Curator: Simon Ho. Texts: Lisa Wainwright and Patricia Rieger, Xavier Toubes, published by Macau Sky & Earth Ceramic Association. Catalog and flier. Illustrations of exhibition and historical selection for both artists. Sponsor: Macao Foundation and Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R Government. December 2014. Macau, China.

Recent Conferences, Panel, visiting appointments 2003 GroBer Sitzungssaal der Handwerks Kammer fur Munchen und Oberbayern. Munich. Germany “NOW & NOW World Contemporary Ceramics”. The 2nd World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea .The 2nd International Ceramic Symposium “Creativity” 2004 Kunsthogskolen i Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Conference. Ceramic-Culture-Innovation. Europäisches IndustrieMuseum fűur

6 Porzellan. Selb-Plőβberg. Germany. Conference. Ceramics Symposium Gmunden. Austria. Visiting Artist. Conference. IUN Gallery for Contemporary Art. Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana. Talk Espacios de Creacion Contemporanea. Santiago de Compostela. Conference 2005 Northern Clay. Minneapolis. Conference & Juror. Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Deer isle, Maine, USA. Conference Iberiona. Museu del Poble Espanyol. Barcelona. Spain. Conference. Escuela de Arte Picasso. A Coruña. Spain. Conference. 2006 Royal College of Art. London (February & May) External Examiner. 2007 Royal College of Art. London (February & May) External Examiner. 2008 Elmhurst Art Museum. Elmhurst. Chicago. The Hallmark Symposium Lecture Series. University of Kansas. Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. Stockholm, Sweden. 2009 Instituto Cervantes. Lustre: Xavier Toubes. Chicago. 2010 Xavier Toubes: thoughts about intuition and practice.. National Conference on Education for the Ceramic Arts. 2010, Philadelphia. 2011 Concordia University, Montreal. Canada. Conference and workshop. Department of Studio Arts 2012 100 Projects for Peace. Quinua, Ayacucho, Peru. Lecture Artist Now series, UWM PECK School of Arts University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Lecture Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. Lecture Perimeter Gallery. Artist Talk 2013 Macau Science Center, organized by the Macau Sky & Earth Ceramic art Association, Macau, China. Lecture Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado at Boulder. Lecture 2014 Royal College of Art. London. Visiting studios. Lecture Gerrit Rijtveld Academie, Amsterdam. Lecture

1983-1993 Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. 1991- 1999, Artistic Director of the European Ceramics Work Centre, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Present Emeritus Professor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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