Artist Statement
For millennia, numerous cultures have used the innate act of drawing and the ceramic medium to record their existence. From these artifacts, we can form an understanding and various interpretations of the cultural paradigms, sociopolitical practices, mythologies, and the human experience of the worlds that created them.
It is this anthropological aspect that propels my work in its creative endeavor, using the sculptural forms as vehicles to compose linear and fragmented narratives.
Altered by the imagination, memory, and the like, my work engages the idea of recording selected aspects of contemporary society, creating spaces for mystery, speculation, and wonder, in methods as old and universal as human creativity itself.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2013 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, California State University, Long Beach
Gallery Representation
The Something Machine, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (upcoming)
2022 Laberintos del Delirio, The Something Machine, Bellport, New York
2019 Form and Image, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, California
2017 Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artist, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, California
2010 Fused, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
2009 Clay Street, Armstrong Gallery, Pomona, California
2009 Dreamy Nightmares, Archer Gallery, Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Conversing in Clay: Ceramics from the LACMA Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2020 Democracy 2020: Craft & the Election, virtual exhibition Craft in America Center
2020 Shelter, Place, Social, Distance: Contemporary Dialogues from the Permanent Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
2019 The Body, The Object, The Other, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
2019 Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artist, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
2018 In Between the Lines, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2018 About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
2018 Humanize, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, California
2018 Stories of Boundaries: Professional Artist Fellows Exhibition, Collaborate Gallery, Long Beach, California
2018 Día de Muertos: A Spiritual Legacy, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2017, South Korea
2017 Dark Progressivism: The Built Environment, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California
2017 Borders and Neighbors, Craft Connectivity between the U.S. and Mexico, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Biscailuz Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2017 Far Bazaar at Cerritos College, Cerritos California
2017 We the People: Serving Notice, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
2016 Lineage: Mentorship & Learning. Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
2015 SUR Biennial: Rio Hondo College, Whittier, California
2015 California Handmade: State of the Arts, Maloof Foundation, Alta Loma, California
2015 Control + Release: Contemporary Ceramics in Los Angeles, Biola University, La Mirada, California
2015 Cerritos College Faculty Art Exhibition, Cerritos College, Cerritos, California
2013 Lesson Plan: DA Center for the Arts, Pomona, California
2013 MFA Exhibition #4, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2013 USPS LA, HCC-Central Art Gallery, Earth/Energy: NCECA 2013, Huston, Texas
2012 UCLA Department of Art MFA 2013 Exhibition, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2012 Facial Expressionism : Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, California
2011 Exposed : America Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
2010 Re-objectification: SOFA New York, Ferrin Gallery, New York, New York
2009 The Illusculptors: SOFA Chicago, Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2009 Art Auction XIII: Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
2009 Juried All Media Exhibition: Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, California
2009 June Group Show: The Hive Gallery & Studios, Los Angeles, California
2009 Insights 2009 : University Art Museum, CSULB, Long Beach, California
2008 California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts : Davis, California
2008 Insights 2008 : University Art Museum, CSULB, Long Beach, California
2007 Art Auction XII : Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Publications
2020 Whitney, Kay. “Gerardo Monterrubio Psychological Collage: Ceramics as Autobiography” Ceramics Monthly, Jan 2020
2018 Adams, Thomas, host. “Episode 20 Gerardo Monterrubio” Art Traffic Podcast, 19 Jul. 2018
2018 Galia Armeland, “Six Vases that Tell a Story, Visual Study” Tripod: Material/Text/Image, Bazalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem, Issue #1, March 2018
2018 Annabel Osberg, “The Streetwise Depictions of Gerardo Monterrubio. Blood on Clay” Artillery Magazine, March-April, 2018
2017 PBS Craft in America "Neighbors" episode
2017 Leah Ollman, “Gerardo Monterrubio’s ‘Mano-Made’ works. A swirling vortex of lives, captured on clay” Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2017
2017 Emily Zaiden, “Mano-Made: New Expression in Craft by Latino Artists” Exhibition Catalogue
2017 Sammy Dalai, “Craft that Crosses the Americas,” Modern Magazine, August 22, 2017
2017 Andrew Ronallo, “Emerging Voices 2017,”American Craft Magazine, October/November
2017 Leslie Ferrin, “Honorable Mention” Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale International Competition Catalog 2017
2017 “Exposure” Ceramics Monthly, November issue
2012 James MacDevitt , “Artist Biographies, Gerardo Monterrubio,” Facial Expressionism, Immanence Envisaged Catalog 2012
2009 Cynthia Madrigal, “Clay Street,” Ceramics Monthly, October 2009
2009 Profile, Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, April 2009
2009 In Sculpture, www.creativetempest.com/sculpture, April 13, 2009
Curatorial
2018 Praxis, Long Beach Museum of Art Extension.
Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Fuller Craft Museum
American Museum of Ceramic Art
Craft in America Center, permanent collection
Carol Sauvion, executive director of Craft in America
Todd Wingate, executive director of the Riverside Museum of Art
Ronald Nelson, Executive Director of Long Beach Museum of Art
Residencies
2015 Long Beach Museum of Art, Artist in Residence
2010 Wonderful Ceramics Group, CO. LTD, Marco Polo Tiles, Guangdong Province, China
Awards
2018 Professional Artist Fellowship, Arts Council for Long Beach
2017 American Craft Council, Emerging Voices Award
2012 Armory Teaching Artist Fellowship, Armory Center for the Arts
2011 The Beverly G. Alpay Memorial Award, Palos Verdes Art Center
2009 Dramatic Allied Arts Guild, Long Beach CA
2008 Travel Study Scholarship to Peru, CSULB
2007 Travel Study Scholarship to China and Korea, CSULB
Invited Lectures / Workshops
2022 “Conversing with Collections: New Spins on Ceramics, Gerardo Monterrubio” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2022 University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (upcoming)
2022 San Diego City College
2021 California State University, Long Beach
2021 Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2020 UC Berkley, Department of Art Practice
2020 Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts
2020 University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Art
2018 Craft in California and Mexico: New Roles in Contemporary Culture, LACMA
2018 The Episcopal School of Los Angeles, Visiting Artist and Scholars
2017 "Craft in America: Borders & Neighbors" A Screening and Discussion, LA Made Programs, Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Craft in America Center, Artist Talk, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Imagine That, Work Intensive #4, California State University, Long Beach.
2016 Palomar College, visiting artist, San Marcos, CA
2015 Long Beach Museum of Art, Artist in Residence Lecture
2015 Milliken High School, LBMA Artist in Residence Lecture
2011 American Museum of Ceramic Art, Second Saturday Lecture Series
2011 Cypress College, Ceramic Department Lecture Series