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MICHELE OKA DONER

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000

Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference, Bard Graduate Center, New York City (cat.; traveling exhibition)

 

Firing Cycle:50 years of Clay at the Potters Guild, Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Double Debut, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York, NY

 

Anableps, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy

1999

Heroines and Heroes, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY

 

New Editions Outdoors, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

 

Dysfunctional Sculpture, Center For Creative Studies, Detroit, MI

1998

Collaboration: Celebrating 25 Years of Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, FL (brochure)

 

Acts of Faith, Abraham Lubelski Gallery, New York, NY

 

Born of Clay, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Illuminations, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

 

Figure and Fragility, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, Inc., New York, NY

 

Form/Function or Metaphor, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI

1996

Bare Witness: Clothing and Nudity, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1995

Body Language, National Design Museum, New York, NY

 

Art and Architecture = Miami, Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

 

Back From Vacation, Art et Industrie, New York, NY

1994

Debut, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO

 

Mirrors, The second Parrish Art Museum Biennial, Southampton, NY

 

Art + Architecture: Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1993

Palle, Galleria Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy

 

Linen, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

 

Industrial Elegance, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

 

Grounds For Sculpture, Atlantic Foundation, Hamilton, NJ

 

Sixties Ceramics From the Permanent Collection, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

 

Transcending Boundaries: An Aesthetic Exploration of Materials, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY

 

Two Decades of Public Art 1973-1993, Miami Dade Public Library, Main Branch, Miami, FL

 

Essentials, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Formed by Fire, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Art/Functional Art, Turbulence Gallery, New York, NY

 

Dolls in Art: A Metaphor for Personal Identity, Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

1992

Architecture and Art, International Contemporary Art Fair,Yokohama, Japan

 

Reperti, National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Design Resource, National Design Museum, New York, NY

1991

New Acquisitions, 20th C. American, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

Weathervanes, The First Parrish Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA

 

Recent Acquisitions, National Design Museum, New York, NY

 

Magnets, Loren & Pere, New York, NY

1990

Project Rembrandt, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

 

The Human Icon, Baylor Museum, Charlottesville, VA

1989

Ceramic Traditions: The Figure, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

 

A Different War, Whatcom Museum of Natural History and Art, Belingham, WA

1988

Counterparts: Tables and Still Lifes, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Interaction: Science and Art, The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ

 

Art in Architecture, AIA National Convention, IDCNY, Long Island City, NY

 

In Bloom, BMW Gallery, New York, NY

1987

The Eloquent Object, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

 

Small Scale Sculpture, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

 

Inaugural Exhibition, Art en Industrie, New York, NY

1986

Proposals for Ocean Park, Sculpture Fainalists, Santa Monica, CA

 

Art Aid, Sotheby’s Exhibit and Auction, New York, NY

 

Artists Interpret Utility, Detroit Artists’ Market, Detroit, MI

1985

Artist’s Furniture, Lyric Theatre, Baltimore, MD

 

Artist’s Toys, Vanderwoude-Tananbaum, New York, NY

 

Sculpture in Architecture, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY

 

Soul Catchers, Stellweg/Seguy Gallery, New York, NY

1984

Artist’s Toys, Vanderwoude-Tananbaum, New York, NY

 

The Red Studio, New York, NY

 

Disarming Images, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

 

Forms That Function, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY

 

Affirmation Of Life, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY

1983

Artist’s Call, Judson Church, New York, NY

 

Patrick Lannon Collection, Lake Worth Museum, Lake Worth, FL

 

Ritual, Myth, Symbol, Detroit Artists’ Market, Detroit, MI

 

Sculpturesites, Amagansett, NY

1982

Detroit Collects Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1981

The Mask as Metaphor, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

 

Instruction Drawings, The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

1980

Image and Object in Contemporary Sculpture, P.S.1: Institue of Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY

1979

The Unpainted Portrait, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

1977

Michigan Collects Art, Pontiac Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI

1976

Objects: USA, The Johnson Collection, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY

1975

Dolls and Other Effigies, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

1974

Michigan Focus, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

 

Fantastic Reality, Richard Nash Gallery, Seattle, WA

1973

The Plastic Earth, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, MI

1972

Form, Space, Energy, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

1971

All Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

1970

58th Exhibition for Michigan Artists, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1968

Objects: USA, National collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC (cat.; traveling exhibition)

 

Selected Images, Detroit Artists’ Market, Detroit, MI