EDUCATION
2006 MFA Ceramics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2001 BFA, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Burning From the Inside Out” (Window Series), Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2019 “Closer to the Truth…Shorter the Sentences”, Gallery One Collective Works, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 “Cut Outs”, Owen James Gallery, NY, NY
2016 “Stacks”, Outlet, Brooklyn, NY
2014 “Loves You”, Revision Space, Pittsburgh, PA
2013 “Absorption”, Clay Art Center, Port Chester,NY
2011 “Survey”, Sewickley Public Library, Sewickley, PA
2004 “Unblurred,” Studio 5013, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 “Unblurred,” Studio 5013, Pittsburgh, PA
2001 “BFA Exhibition”, Martha Gault Gallery, Slippery Rock, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Studio Associate Group Show, Store for Rent Gallery, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
16th Annual Ceramics Invitational, River Gallery, Rocky River, OH
2020 “Solitaire”, Artsy Proto Gomez Gallery/Studio Associate online exhibition
2019 107th AAP Annual, Curator Juana Williams, Westmorland Museum, Greensburg, PA
2018 106th AAP Annual, Curator Taras Matla, Pittsburgh, PA
Houston Contemporary Art Fair, Cindy Lisica Gallery, Houston, TX
Super Fine Fair, Cindy Lisica Gallery, Washington D.C.
Making Moves,Curator Cindy Lisica, Goldmine Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 Redux Transformations: 6x6, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Rewind, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Saxe Invitational, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2016 Still Fresh, Outlet, Brooklyn, NY
Present at Creation (October), Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA
A Good Xcuse, Gandee Gallery, Fabius, NY
FTW, Cindy Lisica Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Jay Clay, Norte Maar, Jay, NY
2015 Art Basel, Aqua Art Miami Fair, Representation Revision Space/Cindy Lisica Gallery, Miami, FL
Houston Contemporary Art Fair, Representation Revision Space/ Cindy Lisica Gallery, Houston, TX
Jay Clay Invitational, Jay, NY
Torn + Fired, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
60 seconds, Vanity Projects, NY,NY (FALL)
60 seconds, Vanity Projects, Miami, FL
Making History, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
Vis-à-vis, Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY, NY
2014 Enduring Skull, Revision Space, Pittsburgh, PA
20th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo, TX
Jay Clay Invitational, Jay, NY
2013 Cast of Characters, Clarion Universtiy, Clarion, PA
Cast of Characters, Gallery 709, Pittsburgh, PA
2012 Figure It Out, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Sources and Influences: Clay Artists, Mentors and Students, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Ceramic Artists of the Clay Art Center, Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA
2011 Teapots 5, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Earth, Arts Westchester, White Plains, NY
2010 Red Heat: Contemporary Work in Clay, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Juror: Adrian ArleoSeptember 2010, 3rd place
100th Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Jurors: Donald Miller, Al Miner July 2010
Feats of Clay, Lincoln Art Center, Lincoln, CA(Juror’s Award 3rd place)
Water Filter Receptacle Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Table of Elements, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
Troupe de Cinq, Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA
Solitude, Christine Frechard Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2009 Affinity, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Kyunggi Do, Korea
Scott Cornish and Friends, Zen Clay, West Virginia
Water Filter Exhibition, Unsmoke Artspace, Braddock, PA
Faculty Exhibition, Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 2008 Hoyt Mid Atlantic Juried Art Exhibition, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle PA, *Juror Douglas Fogle
Mattress Factory Annual Auction, Pittsburgh, PA
Slippery Rock Alumni Exhibition, Braddock, PA concurrent NCECA exhibition
Suggestion/Submission, Gallery 707 Pittsburgh, PA concurrent NCECA exhibition
Water Filter Exhibition, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
Concurrent NCECA exhibition
The Raw Show, ICAG, Pittsburgh, PA, concurrent NCECA exhibition
Table of Elements, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
Concurrent NCECA exhibition
2007 Works From the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Clarion University, Clarion, PA
Val Cushing Workshop Exhibition, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
Potters For Peace Water Filter Receptacle Show, Actor’s Theatre, Louisville, KY, NCECA Exhibition
Ceramic Sculptors, Glassworks Art Gallery, Louisville, KY, NCECA Exhibition
2006 Gestures: An Exhibition of Site-specific Work, The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
40 Under 40, The Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
Fusion, Company Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Spring Fundraiser, Company Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Graduate Ceramics Exhibition, Spark Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Potters For Peace Water Filter Receptacle Exhibition
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
Publications and Press
Caste, l’empire qui fait trinquer l’Afrique, Olivier Blamangin, Le Monde Diplomatique, October 2018 Issue, (Cover image)
New American Paintings, (East Region), Curator Laura Phipps (Assistant Curator Whitney Museum of American Art), New American Paintings, 2017
Bomb It, Kay Whitney, Ceramics Monthly, November, 2016
Graffiti 2.0:Jeff Schwarz’s Ceramic Abstraction, Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic, January 23, 2016
Jeff Schwarz at Outlet, Peter Freeby, The Costal Post, January 12, 2016
15 Group Show Not to Miss (art exhibitions from Chelsea to the Lower East Side), Roberta Smith, New York Times, January 29, 2015
Jeff Schwarz: All art is for Queers, Blake Gopnik, Artnet News, September 29, 2014
Jeff Schwarz: Loves You at Revision Space, Alexandra Oliver, Pittsburgh Articulate, September 15, 2014
5oo Figures Vol 2, Lark Books
500 Raku, Lark Books
Art Review: Lincoln’s Gladding Bean Hosts Imaginative Ceramics Show, The Sacramento Bee, May 13th 2010
Purifying Third World starts in Braddock, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette March 2010
Monthly Ceramic Art, Affinity, September 2009
Voice of America, From the Depths of a Library, Water Filters for the Poor, June 2009
Voice Of America, From the Depths of a Library, Water Filters for the Poor, Radio Broadcast, June 2009
Voice Of America, Potter Crafts Water Filter that Saves Lives, June 2009
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Braddock Chili Cook-Off Fosters Art, February 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Braddock Shop Helps Clean Third World Countries Water, February 2009
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Volunteers Serve in King’s Memory in Braddock Communities, January 2009
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 24 Area Artists Make for the Gestures Exhibition, December 2006
The Daily Orange, VPA Students and Faculty Organize Empty Bowls Benefit, April 2005
The Post-Standard, Pottery Fights Poverty, April 2005
The Daily Orange, Fundraiser Provides Charity Donations, Ceramics, April 2005
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016 Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Oswego, Oswego NY
2014- 2015 Retail Design Supervisor (interiors), Forever 21, NY, NY
2012-2014 Visual Production Builder, Forever 21, NY, NY
2011-2012 Resident Artist, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2011-2012 Instructor, Ceramic Sculpture&All Levels of Wheel Throwing, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2008-2011 Instructor, Ceramics 1,2 & 3, Art Appreciation, Drawing I & II Ceramic Sculpture, Adjunct Faculty, Community College of Allegheny County,
South Campus, West Mifflin, PA, Allegheny Campus, Pittsburgh, PA
2008-2011 Studio Coordinator, Ceramics, Braddock Carnegie Arts Program, Braddock Carnegie Library, Braddock, PA
2008-Present Research/Development Water Filter Project, Braddock Carnegie Library, Braddock, PA
2006-2009 Instructor, Continuing Education, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
2007-2008 Assistant Visiting Artists & Exhibitions/Assistant to Onsite Liaison NCECA Pittsburgh Manchester Craftsmen’sGuild, Pittsburgh, PA
2008-2009 Americorps Volunteer, KEYS Service Corps, Pittsburgh, PA http://www.alleghenycounty.us/dhs/KEYS/index.html
2006 Instructor of Record Adjunct wheel throwing summer 2006, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2005 Instructor of Record, Introduction Hand building, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Instructor of Record, Adjunct Wheel Throwing summer 2005, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2004 Adjunct Instructor, Pratt at Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Instructor of Record, Introduction Hand building, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Adjunct Instructor Adjunct wheel throwing summer 2004, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2010 Feats of Clay 3rd Place Juror’s Award
2006 Graduate School Master’s Prize, Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts
2006 Visual and Performing Community Service Award, Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts
2006 Dorthea Shaffer Award, Syracuse University, School of Visual and Performing Arts
2006 Chancellor’s Award For Public Service, Empty Bowls Project, Syracuse University
2005 Research and Creative Learning Grant, Syracuse University
Shaped Clay Scholarship, Syracuse University
2004 Jurors Award, Juried Annual, WAD Clay Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Service Learning Grant, community garden stool project, New Castle,PA
2000 Student Exhibition Award, Slippery Rock University
Martha Gault Scholarship, Slippery Rock University
1999 Student Exhibition Award, Slippery Rock University
Martha Gault Scholarship, Slippery Rock University
Selected Collections and Commissions
Ceramic Sculpture, Raymond Learsy
Ceramic Sculpture, Mary Jane Garth (c/o the Garth Family Art Partnership)
Ceramic Sculpture, William Smith
Ceramic Sculpture, Graham Shearing
Ceramic Sculpture, Edward Eberle
Water Filter Receptacle, Heinz History Center
Ceramic Sculpture, Jonathan and Heather Jassy
Ceramic Sculpture, James Martin