Richmond, Virginia
2024 Intersectionality; Quirk Gallery Annex; Richmond, VA (solo)
2023 Substratum; IA&A at Hillyer Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)2022 A-Piece-A-Part: Regina Jestrow + Allan Rosenbaum; Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2020 Memento; Quirk Gallery; Richmond, VA (solo)
2017 Kaleidoscopic Interchange; FAB Gallery, Richmond VA (solo)2015 Binary; Mill Gallery, Pawtucket, RI (solo)
2014 Shaped Polarities: Allan Rosenbaum and Fiona Ross, Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Gallery, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
2013 Dialogue in Black and White; Mclean Project for the Arts; Mclean, VA (solo)
2004 Eccentric Inventions, Miller Gallery, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA (solo)
2000 Allan Rosenbaum, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA (solo)Poetic License: The Sculpture of Allan Rosenbaum, Visual Art Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA (solo)
1999 Allan Rosenbaum: Ceramics and Drawings, Arkansas Art Center Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR (solo)
1988 Allan Rosenbaum; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (solo)
2024 Order and Chaos; Petersburg Arts League; Petersburg, VA
Ripple Effect; Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2022 Handcrafted; Blackrock Center for the Arts; Germantown, MD
2019 About Face/Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL (traveling to The Art Museum of South Texas and the Figge Art Museum)
2016 Some Abstraction Required, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
Dredged/Drawn, Fed Gallery, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MIInterpretations, Craft Alliance Center of Art and Design, St. Louis, MO
A Journey from Realism to Abstraction and Nob-Obejctive Art; Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Hampton, VA
Good As Gold, Craft Alliance,Center of Art and Design St. Louis, MO
Material World, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Choice Cuts, Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Forms of Suggestion: Susan Heatley, Allan Rosenbaum, Fiona Ross; Chroma Gallery; Charlottesville, VA
Ceramica Multiplex, International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics 2009, City Museum, Varazdan, Croatia
2009 Short Stories: Narratives from the Kiln, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, Corn Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, GA
Crossing Lines, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Newark DE
Ceramica Multiplex, International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics 2009, City Museum, Varazdan, Croatia
Materials Hard and Soft, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
2006 Surface Matters, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
National Teapot Invitational, University of Arkansas-Monticello
Just a Head, Bloch Hall Gallery, University of Alabama- Montavallo
Tea Time: The Art of Teapot, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts Museum, Kalamazoo, MI
Amazing Clay, Staunton Augusta Art Center, Staunton, VA
The First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Steamin’, Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ
Center, Icheon, Korea
Gallery, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
Mastery in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Pushing Clay, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Gorham, ME
American Art, Washington, D.C.
Figurative Ceramics by Wesley Anderegg, Allan Rosenbaum, Tim Taunton, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Teapots, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1999 Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Australia
Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts National Ceramic Competition, Florence, AL
Looking in the Mirror: Aspects of Figurative Ceramics, Riley Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH
Clay Bodies, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1998 Commonwealth Collects 1998, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
Inspired by Funk, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
Spinning Tales: Contemporary Narrative Ceramics, Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
1997 A Centennial Celebration of the American Ceramics Society, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (Traveled nationally through 1999)
2024 Mackey, Maureen; Experience Clay; Third Edition; Davis Publications, pg. 290 (forthcoming) 2022 Hand Crafted; catalog published for the exhibition at Blackrock Center for the Arts; statement by Rula Jones, Curator Regina Jestrow + Allan RosenbaumA-Piece-A-
2022 A-Piece-A-Part: Regina Jestrow+Allan Rosenbaum; Brochure published by Artspace, Raleigh NC
2019 Adamson, Glen, Jankauskas, Jennifer; About Face/Cotemporary Ceramic Sculpture; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (traveling)
2018 Deep Flash: On Art and Transformation; VisArts 30th Anniversary Exhibition; Catalog Statement: The Imbued Object, Nancy Sausser, pgs. 35-40.2012 The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay; Lark Press; pg. 15
2008 Schwartz, Judith S; Confrontational Ceramics; A&C Black and University of Pennsylvania Press; pg 166
2007 Risatti, Howard and Trapp Kenneth R.; A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression; University of North Carolina Press
500 Ceramic Sculptures; Lark Press; Introduction by Glen R. Brown; p. 86
2006 Kangas, Matthew; Craft and Concept: The Rematerialization of the Art
Object; Color Plate 3; Midmarch Arts Press; 20062005 Meilach, Dona; Teapots: Makers and Collectors; Schiffer Publishing;
pg. 29
2004 Nicholas Roukes; Artful Jesters: Innovators of Visual Wit and Humor;
pgs.116-118
Peterson, Susan; The Craft and Art of Clay; fourth edition; pg. 294
The First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale 2004; published by the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum; pg. 89
500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form; Lark Press Introduction by Leslie Ferrin; pgs. 36, 112, 115
2003. Now & Now: World Contemporary Ceramics; catalog published for The 2nd World Ceramic Biennale Korea, 2003
Risatti, Howard; Allan Rosenbaum’s Eccentric Inventions; Ceramic Art
and Perception, issue 51, pp. 57-59.
2002 500 Teapots: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design;
Introduction by Kathy Triplett; pgs. 134,188,360; 2002
2001 Zakin, Richard; Ceramics: Mastering the Craft; pg. 118; 2001
DeBoos, Janet. “Looking in the Mirror Aspects of Figurative Ceramics,” Ceramics Art and Perception, No. 40, 2000, p.52
Kangas, Matthew. "Allan Rosenbaum," American Ceramics, 12/2, p. 53
Smithsonian Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
City Museum, Varazdan, Croatia
Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, TaiwanArkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GAMontgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Madison Art Center, Madison, WIKamm Teapot Foundation
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
City of Richmond, VA Public Art CommissionSelected Grants and Awards
2015, 2013 Fellow, Virginia Center for Creative Art, Amherst, VA
2005 Individual Artist Fellowships: Virginia Commission for the Arts, Sculpture
1996 Individual Artist Fellowships: Virginia Commission for the Arts, Crafts1984 Wisconsin Arts Board Project Grant
1982 Wisconsin Arts Board Project Grant
1978 Wisconsin Arts Board Project Grant
Academic Appointment
Professor Emeritus, Department of Craft and Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
1986-2012 Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VAEducation
1986 MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
1978 BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison.