Ron Fondaw

Ron Fondaw received a B.F.A. in ceramics from the Memphis College of Art and obtained his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He has taught at four major institutions including the Washington University, in St, Louis where he taught for 25 years. Prior to that he was on the faculty at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Fondaw works with a variety of methods and media from temporary site-specific sculpture to one of a kind cast metal drawings, paintings, and ceramics. His current interest is in expression of the unseen forces that shape our culture and exploring how new discoveries in physics are changing our perception of reality.

Fondaw has worked in Japan, Denmark, China, and Italy as well as numerous other locations around the United States. He has received numerous distinctions including the Guggenheim Award for sculpture, the Nation Endowment for the Arts, and the Pollack-Krasner Award

His works can be seen in several major collections including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION:

MFA, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
BFA, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee

2022 “The 2 “ a two person exhibition at the griffin gallery, Jonesborough, TN
2022 “Drawing in-Between” Solo exhibition of sculpture and two dimensional work at Pyramid Hill, Hamilton, OH
2021 “New River Bienne” Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA ( Merit Award)
2018 “ Ron Fondaw” Solo exhibition at the Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.
2018 “Ron Fondaw & Benjie Hue” New works at the South Texas College, McAllen, TX
2017 “Weather Biennially” group exhibition at The Nation Weather Center, Norman, OK
2017 “Drawing on the Infinite” Solo exhibition at the Brownsville Museum of Art, Brownsville, TX
2016 “The Many Faces of Abstraction” The Shapolski Foundation, Throp ,PA
2015 “Unseen Forces” Solo exhibition at the Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2015 “River to River” at the Finder Art Gallery, the 1865 Creative Park, Nanjing, China, June
2015 Ron Fondaw, solo exhibition, Southeast Mo. State College, River Campus Gallery, Cape Girardeau, Mo
2015 “Symbiosis” A one-person exhibition at the Kansas City Artist Coalition, KC
2015 “Drawing Discourse” The Annual Juried Drawing ...