Stanley Rosen earned a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA at Alfred University. He was a teacher and studio manager at Greenwich House Pottery in New York during the 1950s and joined the art faculty at Bennington College in Vermont in 1960. At Bennington, Rosen led the ceramics department for many years and inspired a generation of ceramic artists. He currently lives and works in North Bennington, Vermont, where he maintains an ongoing studio practice.
All of the pieces are fired clay. They have no titles.
Photo by Eileen Ryan
EDUCATION
1954 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA, Providence, RI
1956 Alfred University, MFA, Alfred, NY
TEACHING
1960-1991 Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1974 Queens College, Queens, NY
1956-1960 Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Shaping Space,” Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY
2018 “Stanley Rosen: a gaggle of drawings,” Ceramic Sculpture and Drawings, NAPA Miami, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects
2017 “Beginnings,” Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY
2017 “Holding the Line: Ceramic Sculpture by Stanley Rosen,” Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY
2017 “Holding the Line: Ceramic Sculpture by Stanley Rosen,” Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
2016 “New Acquisitions,” Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
1970 Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Shapes From Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert Ellison Jr. Collection,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2020 “Bennington Modernism,” Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
2019 “Out On A Limb,” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2018 “Vessels: Containment and Displacement, Useful to Grand,” Bennington College, Bennington, VT
2018 “Excavation,” Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “Clay in a Certain Kind of Way: A Tribute to Stanley Rosen,” Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill, NY
2015 “Bennington Modernism,” Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
1995 “25, 25th Anniversary Exhibition,” Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
1993 “5X7, Seven Ceramic Artists,” Alfred University, Alfred, NY
REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS
2021 “Shapes From Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection,” August Editions, New York, NY
2021 Youens, Rachel, “Stanley Rosen: Slabs & Coils, Scallops & Disks,” Two Coats of Paint, Feb. 6, 2021, NYC blogazine
2021 Shea, Andrew, “The Critic’s Notebook,” The New Criterion, Vol. 39, No. 8 / April 2021, online
2020 “Stanley Rosen: Shaping Space,” Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, SHFAP 35, New York, NY
2018 Gover, Karen, “Stanley Rosen: Inside Out,” Sculpture Magazine, March 2018, Vol 37, No 2
2018 “New Acquisitions,” Ceramophile, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Vol XXIX, No 1, Spring 2018
2018 Gover, Karen, “Stanley Rosen: Touching Form,” Ceramics Monthly, December 2017, Vol 65, No 10
2017 Barringer, Mary, “Intimate Immensity: Reflections on the Work of Stanley Rosen,” Perkins Lecture, Alfred University, NY
2017 Yau, John, “The Undiscovered Art of Stanley Rosen,” Hyperallergic, November 25, 2017
2017 Yau, John, “12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017,” Hyperallergic, December 31, 2017
2017 Halkias, Telly, “Reintroducing an Arts Icon,” Bennington Banner, February 1, 2017, Bennington, VT
2017 “Holding the Line: Ceramic Sculpture by Stanley Rosen,” Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
1993 “5X7: Seven Ceramic Artists Each Acknowledge Five Sources of Inspiration,” Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1976 “Artists at Bennington: Visual Arts Faculty 1932-1976,” Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1961 Slivka, Rose, “The New Ceramic Presence,” Craft Horizons, July/August 1961, 33
1959 Rhodes, Daniel, “Stoneware and Porcelain,” 1st edition, Chilton Company, Book Division, Philadelphia, New York