Artist Profile

• Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
• University of California, Los Angeles, CA
• University of California, Berkeley, CA
  

• 2005    Teapots, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 2001    Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
             L'Attitude Gallery, Boston, MA
• 1998    Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 1997    Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 1996    Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1995    Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• 1994    Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1992    Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1991    Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
• 1990    Garth Clark Gallery, Kansas City, MO
            Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1989    Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
• 1988    Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1987    Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1986    Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1985    Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1982    Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA

• 2006    Table Manners: International Contemporary Tableware, Crafts Council Gallery, London UK
• 2005    Art to Use: Functional Clay, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• 2004    The First Taiwan Ceramic Biennale 2004, Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
• 2002    Small is Beautiful, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
             International Infusion IV, The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
• 2001    Southern California Ceramics: A Regional Survey, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
             Private Passions: Outstanding Collections in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• 2000    Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
             Conjunction: The Langman Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
             Gallery Artists, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 1999    Vessels: Form and Function, Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
• 1998    A Survey of Southern California Ceramics, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
• 1997    Gallery Artists, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
             Tantalizing Teapots: The Felicitous Union of Form and Content, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• 1996    Vessels, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
• 1996    Java Jive, 400 S. Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             Feast on Art, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
• 1995    Exploring a Movement: Feminist Visions in Clay, José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             Women's Contributions to Clay: Sixty Years of Enrichment, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
• 1994    The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             Dialogues, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
• 1993    Rituals of Tea, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 1992    Off The Wall, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
             Totally Teapots, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
• 1991    Rituals of Tea, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
             Visions Transformed, Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
             Rituals of Tea, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             4th National Canton Art Invitational, Canton OH
• 1990    Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
             The Tea Party, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
             The Gold Show, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             Rituals of Tea, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1989    Clay From Plaster, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
• 1988    Natural Elements: Silver & Wood, Garth Clark Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• 1986    American Potters Today, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
             Painted Volumes, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
             Painted Vessel, Anna Silver/Betty Woodman, Claremont, CA
             Rituals of Tea, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
             International Ceramics, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Republic of China
• 1985    Scripps College Invitational, Claremont, CA
• 1984    American Crafts, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
             Group Exhibition, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
             The Painted Vessel, Joanne Lyon Gallery, Aspen, CO
• 1983    Teapots; The Poetry of Mass and Line, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
             Group Exhibition, The Functional Art Store, Santa Monica, CA
• 1982    Ceramic Sculpture, Marcia Rodell Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1981    Juried Exhibition, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
• 1980    Wall Hung Media, Westwood Clay, Los Angeles, CA
• 1978    Clay, Form, Function, and Fantasy, Long Beach Gallery, Long Beach, CA
             Hard and Soft Crafts, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
• 1977    Ink and Clay V, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
• 1976    Ink and Clay IV, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
• Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Republic of China
• Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
• Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
• Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MO
• Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
• Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
• San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
• The National Museum of History, Taipei
• Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
  

• Levin, Elaine. “The Sensuous Vessel,” Ceramic Review, no. 212, London UK, March/April 2005.
• “Gallery News,” The Detroit News, January 28, 2002.
• Smith, Lucinda. "Anna Silver's Expressive Vessels," Ceramics: Art and Expression, no. 40, June 2000
• Lauria, Jo. Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950 – 2000. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Rizzoli International Publications, 2000).
• Chambers, Karen S. “Anna Silver”, Craft International, April/May/June 1995.
• Caruso, Laura. "Painting in the Round: The Artful Pots of Anna Silver," American Craft, Oct/Nov 1992.
• Lauria, Jo. “Anna Silver,” American Ceramics, Vol. 10 No. 1, Spring 1992.
• Clark, Garth. The Book of Cups (Abbeville Press, New York 1990).
• Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and Their Work, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1990).
• Clark, Garth. "A Visual Guide to the World's Great Ceramic Traditions." Ceramic Sourcebook (Quatro Publishing, London 1990).
• Hammel, Lisa. “Handiwork that is Also Handy,” The New York Times, March 9, 1989.
• Geer, Suvan. “Calendar,” The Los Angeles Times, November 18, 1988.
• Hoffman, Magdalena. “Uncommon Clay,” Southern California Home & Garden, July 1988.
• Clark, Garth. “Anna Silver,” Ceramics Monthly, March 1988.
• “Anna Silver,” American Craft, 1988.
• Clark, Garth. American Ceramics 1876 to the Present (Abbeville Press, New York 1987)
• Clark, Garth and Watson, Oliver. American Potters Today. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986.
•  “Anna Silver,” Craft International, 1985.