Resume

Education
1979
Bachelor of Architecture
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
1975
California State University, San Jose, CA
1974
West Valley Jr. College, Saratoga, CA

Awards/Honors
2005
Best Solo Ceramic Exhibition, Best of Denver
Denver Westword
2003
President’s Purchase Award, Ink & Clay 29
Dee Roy & Mary M. Jones Collection
2002
First Place/High Fire, California Clay 2002
American Ceramics Society
1999
Certificate of Merit, President’s Show
American Ceramics Society

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005
D. Michael Coffee, Contemporary Ceramics & Monoprints
SHY RABBIT Contemporary Arts, Pagosa Springs, CO
2004
Place of Mind; Works by D. Michael Coffee
City of Lakewood Cultural Center, North Gallery
2002
One Maker: Merging Boundaries in Clay
Beverly Hills Library, Fine Arts Dept., Beverly Hills, CA
Curator: Kevin Wallace

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
ENIGMA; Puzzling, Ambiguous & Inexplicable
SHY RABBIT Contemporary Arts, Pagosa Springs, CO
Hot Pursuits: 8 Southwest Colorado Artists
Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
Curated by: Gerry Riggs; UCCS, Ass’t Professor (ret.)
2007 Earthbound; Ceramics Invitational
Business of Art Center, Hagnauer Gallery, Manitou Springs, CO
2006
Dirt Works
Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO
2005
Shino Invitational
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Malcolm Davis
2004
Art Harvest
Republic Plaza, Denver, CO
Curator: Andra Archer
2003
L.A. Artists / L.A. Collectors: Ceramics
Los Angeles Airport (LAX) – Terminal 1
Curator: Kevin Wallace
From Inside the Clay Studio
City of Lakewood Cultural Center, North Gallery
Curator: Bob Nelson, CO Studio Potter

Selected Juried Exhibitions
2006
From the Ground Up XXIII
Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM
Juror: Miranda Howe; NM State University
2003
Cup: The Intimate Object II
Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Wayne, IN
Juror: Julia Galloway
Ink & Clay 29
W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
Juror: Toby Kamp; Head Curator
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2002
Chado / Ikebana: A Contemporary Survey
Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Jurors: Rob Fornell, Bonnie Mitchell & Pat Pope, Nobuko Relnick
Bowl O Rama, A National Juried Bowl Show
Leyshon Gallery @ Laguna Clay Company, Byesville, OH
Juror: Kirk Mangus
Fourteenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
Juror: Jimmy Clark; Director Emeritus
The Clay Studio; Philadelphia, PA
2001
Contemporary Crafts
City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
Ink & Clay 27
W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
1999
Art You Can Live With, 6th Annual
Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Tides: The Influence of the Pacific Rim on
Contemporary American Ceramics
Lancaster, PA
Juror: Caroline Henderson
1998
Westmoreland Art Nationals 1998
Latrobe, PA
Jurors: Lowell Tolstedt & William Woodward
1997
BRAND XVII
Brand Library and Arts Center, Glendale, CA
Juror: Philip Cornelius

Selected Public Collections
Vance Kirkland Museum, Denver, CO
Dee Roy & Mary M. Jones Collection, Pomona, CA

Selected Corporate Collections
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Santa Monica, CA
McTeigue & Associates, New York, NY
Macy’s, Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Solo Cup Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Hyatt Embarcadero/Grand Suite, San Francisco, CA
Omni Berkshire Hotel, New York, NY
Ernst & Young Accountants, Inc., New York, NY
Park Lane Hotel/Premier Lounge, Hong Kong, China
Payden & Rygel Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Deloitte & Touche, New York, NY
Delta Caravelle Hotel/Conference Room, Saigon, Vietnam
Universal Studios/Corp. Offices, Burbank, CA
Barclays Global Investors, San Francisco, CA
Nordstrom/Corp. Offices, Seattle, WA
Kaiser/Corp. Offices, San Francisco, CA
Sheraton Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
Trans America Life, Los Angeles, CA
Four Seasons/Paradise Suites, Los Angeles, CA
Gifu Corp., Souel, Korea
Hewlett-Packard, San Diego, CA
Aurthur Anderson, Los Angeles, CA
Lehman Bros., Menlo Park, CA
Ascentor, Orange County, CA
Edison, Los Angeles, CA
Hyundai America, Milpitas, CA
Mirimar Publishing Corp., Malibu, CA

Bibliography
Quirk, Erin, Artist D. Michael Coffee
Pagosa Springs Sun, March, 2005

Paglia, Michael, Michael Coffee: Place of Mind
Denver Westword, Best Ceramics Show – Solo (2005)

Coffee, Denise, UpFront, Michael Coffee: Place of Mind
Ceramics Monthly, August, 2004

Paglia, Michael, ArtBeat
Denver Westword, September 16, 2004

Britt, John, The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes:
Glazing & Firing at Cone 10, Lark Books, 2004

Goebel, Leanne, Intuition Markers:
The Heartbeat of Artist D. Michael Coffee, Arts Perspective,
Vol. 2, Winter, 2004, p. 12-13

Professional Experience
2004 – Present
SHY RABBIT Contemporary Arts; Creative Director
2003 – Present
D. Michael Coffee; Architectural/Planning Consultant
CA Licensed Architect
1987 – Present
Principal, DMC Arts, LLC
1987 – Present
Studio Artist; Ceramics, Printmaking
1977 – 2003
Principal, Prats/Coffee Architects, Inc.
CA Licensed Architect
1977 – 2003
Principal, Prats/Coffee, Inc.
CA Licensed Architect

Professional Affiliations
2001 – Present
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art (NCECA)
2001 – Present
The Potters Council of the American Ceramics Society

Gallery Representation
SHY RABBIT Contemporary Arts, Pagosa Springs, CO


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