CARY ESSER [b. 1955]
EDUCATION
1984 MFA, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1978 BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1999 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Once and Future: New Now, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2016 Recent American Ceramics From the Dr. Harold F. Daum Collection, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
2014 The Center is a Moving Target, Kemper at the Crossroads, Kansas City, MO
2010 Creating and Collecting: Kansas City and Contemporary Sculpture, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2010 Six McKnight Artists, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Connecting with Contemporary Sculpture, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2007-2009 Craft in America National Touring Exhibition
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2016 Elisabeth Kirsch, Cary Esser: A Ceramicist for the 21st Century, KC Studio Magazine
2015 Glen R. Brown, Cary Esser: A Vital Geometry, Ceramics Monthly
2014 Alicia Eler, Meditations from the Middle, Hyperallergic
2013 Sevim Cizer, Terra Sigillata, book by Baser Publications, Izmir, Turkey
2013 Tanya Hartman, The Songbird and the Architecture, Ceramics: Art and Perception
2009 Craft in America Episode V: Process, documentary produced by Carol Sauvion, Public Broadcasting Service
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Belger Art Collection, Kansas City, MO
el dorado architects, Kansas City, MO
North Carolina Arts Council Artworks for State Buildings, Raleigh, NC
Glaxo Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
SELECTED HONORS
2013 Distinguished Achievement Award, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2009 McKnight Foundation Ceramic Artist Residency, Minneapolis, MN
2003 Lighton International Artists Exchange Program Grant, Kansas City, MO