DOROTHY \TEISS GALLERY

SERGEI ISUPOV

BORN 1963 Stavrapole,

EDUCATION 1990 Art Institute of Tallinn, . B.A./M.F.A. Ceramics L98? Ukrainian State Art School, Kiev

AWARDS L996 Smithsonian Craft Show Top Award for Excellence, Washington, D.C. Juror's Merit Award, Bags and Baggage: New Form/New Function, Arrowmont School for the Arts, Juror Ruth Cloudman Niche Magazine Award, Best Decoratlve Ceramic Art, Rosen Group 1995 Juror's Merit Award for Excellence in Ceramics, Transitions '95, Arts Council Marketing Program L995 "Best of Show," The Fine Art of Fine l(ine, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY First Place Award, Louisville Craftsmen's Guild Annual Juried Exhibition, Louisville, KY uBest L99+ of Show,' Louisville Craftsmen's Guild Annual Juried Exhibition, Louisville, KY L993 Director's Scholarship, six-week residency, International Ceramics Center, Kecskemet, Hungary Awarded Estonian citizenship for National Contribution ro the Arts L99L Titled "Best Young Estonian Artist" (under 30 age group) by the Union of Artists of Estonia Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Estonia 1990 ON Group Awarded Tallinn Arts Fund Invitation Scholarship to 1990 Oslo International Ceramics Symposium

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Tallin Museum of Applied Arts, Estonia Museum of Applied Art, Tuman, Russia Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Summe, Ukraine Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway Norwegian Museum of Art, Tronopjew, Norway Museum of International Ceramics, Kecskemet, Hungary

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EXHIBITIONS 2000 "New Sculpture", Dorothy Veiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998 "Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art", Group Show, J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY "5th Scripps Ceramic Annual", Scripps College, Claremont, CA "Fletcher Challence Ceramics Aware", Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand "The Nude in Clay II", Perimeter Gallery, , IL "To Have and To Hold", Sprull Center Gallery, , GA "Dress Up", I7ustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, !(/l 1997 SOFA Exposition, Represented by Dorothy Weiss Gallery, Chicago, IL Two-person exhibition, Dorothy l(/eiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Al1 Figurall Many Media", Contemporary Art from the Kamm Collection, California State University, Northridge, CA "Go Figure: A National Ceramic Invitational", Montgomery College 1996 SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art), through Ferrin Gallery of Northhampton, MA. Exhiblt held at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL "Altered States: Contemporary American Ceramics," Denver Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, CO, Invitational Smithsonian Craft Show, National Building Museum, Juried, I(ashington, D.C. Fourth Annual Teapot Exhibition, St. Louis Craft Alliance, Juror David Charak II, St. Louis, MO. Bags and Baggage: New Form/New Function, Arrowmont School for the Arts, Juror Ruth Cloudman, Gatlinburg, TN L995 One-man exhibition, Marta Hewett Gallery, , OH One-man exhibition, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY One-man exhibition, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA Fantasy, The !(/orks Gallery, Invitational, Philadelphia, PA Daydreams, The Houchens Gallery, Invitational, Bowling Green, KY Water Tower Annual, Louisville Visual Art Association, Juror Bonnie Speed Invitational Craft Show, Art Resources Gattery, Invitational, Minneapolis, MN Ceramics Kentucky, Murray State University, Invitational, traveling Kentucky Transitions '95, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Juror Alan DuBois, traveling In Clay: Forms & Variations, Morlan Gallery, Invitational, Lexington, KY Dinnerworks '95, Louisville Visual Art Association, Juror Gayle Cerlan, KY The Fine Art of Fine l7ine, Lexington Art League, Juried, KY Louisville Craftsmen's Guild Annual Juried Exhibition, Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY Russia Russia, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, Invitational, St. Petersburg, FL 199+ One-man exhibition, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY One-man exhibition, Louisville Visual Arts Association, UPS Air Group Headquarters Gallery, Louisville, KY

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L99+ Three-man exhibition, Sergei with his two apprenrices, The Apprentices' Sorcery Spectacular, Louisville Visual Art Association, KY Works on exhibition, Connell Galtery, Atlanta, GA \l7orks on exhibition, Marra Hewett Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 1993 One-man exhibition, Mosabaka Gallery, , One-man exhibition, Vasa Gallery, Falun, International Art Expo, Exhibition Center, Seoul, Korea International Symposium, St. Petersburg, Russia International Symposium, Kecskemet, Hungary ON Group Exhibition, Luum Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia Baltic Symposium, Dzintari and Riga, Latvia From Dreams to Reality, Northern European Art, traveling The Baltics, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark Teapots of Estonia, Artists Union of Estonia Hall, Tallinn Northern European Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden 199?. One-man exhibition (Spring), Vaal, Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia One-man exhibition, Luum, Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia One-man exhibition, Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland Sole ceramist, Textile Arts Show, Stockholm, Sweden One-man exhibition (I[inter), Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

Eastern European Ceramics, The Clay Studio, Philadetphia, traveling the Estonian Culture Exhibitions, Karlsruhe, Germany Art in Architecture Estonia, Luum Gallery, Tallinn Baltic Symposium, Caunas, Lithuania International Symposium, Dzintari, Latvia ON Group exhibition, traveling the Baltic States 199L One-man exhibition, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia One-man exhibition, Design Forum of Finland, Helsinki Exhibition in Baltic Triennial of Applied Art, traveling the Baltic States i990 One-man exhibition, Diploma \(ork, Tallinn, Esronia, Note: first student to show publicly while seeking degree

Oslo International Ceramics Symposium (by invitation) Norway. Two group shows, two exhibitions by artist ON Group exhibition, Artists Union of Estonia Hall, Tallinn New Soviet Art, Fourth Dimension Gallery, San Francisco, USA USSR Ceramicists, Charity Exposition, Hammer Center, Moscow 1989 One-man exhibition, Kiev Museum of Applied Art, Ukraine Isupov Family Exhibition, Artists Union Hall, Kiev, Ukraine USSR Artists, Liberty Gallery, London, England

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EX HI B I T I O N S (continued) lggg one-man exhibition, Museum of the city of Tallinn, Estonia Applied Art Exhibition, Artists' Union Halt, Tallinn, Estonia Applied Art, Central Hall of Union of Artists, Kiev, Ukraine lg87 Young Artists' Show, Union of Artists Hall, Tallinn, Estonia Young Artists' Show, Central Exhibition Hatl, Kiev, Ukraine USSR Young Artists, Central Hall of Union of Artists, Moscow State Exhibition of Applied Art, central Union Hall, Tallinn Design Exhibition "Action 198?," Central Union Halt, Tallinn

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS &Le{,ld,t4 br{lf A. Bellos, May 8 1996 -Ld St. Louis Riverfront Times, Feats of Clay, review, *Jfj-/jft&b,Ef' washington Post, A Global Vitlage of craft, Jane Friedman, April ?,5, L996 ' (u*r4 elu-a-u-Jte"a Louisville Magazine, article Tempests in Teapots, Eva McGee, May 1996 P' {o&'4t December 1995 Attanta Journal and Constitution, review, !(eekend Preview, CityBeat, Cincinnati, OH, review, Paul Leighton Goodin, August 1995 Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, review, Diane Heilenman, February 26, L995 courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, review, Diane Heilenman, February L9,1995 Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, Diane Heilenman, January 1995 Courier-Journal, Louisvitle, KY, review, Diane Heilenman' August, 1995 "Art in Estonia" Magazine, Estonia, Anu Luevak, March 1992 "Ceramics Monthly" Magazine, U.S.A., Jimmy Clark, October 1992 International Graphic Design Quarterly, Russia, Sergei Serov, January 1992 "Gloria" Magazine, Finland, Juliana Batint, March 1991 vikerKaar Art Review Quarterly, Estonia, Ants Juske, February, 1991 "Baltic Revue' Magazine, Estonia, Boris Bernstein, Issue 617,199L ,,Form Function Finland" Quarterty, review, Arja Horhammer, April 1991

OTHER MEDIA FEATURES CNN International, interview at the Smithsonian Craft Show 4l?,5196. Broadcast repeatedly 5196 to present CNN program "On the Menu" interview in Atlanta, GA t?,1L9196. Broadcast repeatedly 4196 ro present ,,Voice of America" radio broadcasting. Interview +1L7196. Broadcast in Europe and Eastern Europe 5t?.5t96 "lVorldnet International Television" interview +137t96, Broadcast in Europe summer 1996

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS guest demonstration' 1995 Kentucky State Fair, "The Common Ground, Celebrating Our Cultural Diversity,"

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