Artist: Marc Digeros
Marc Digeros, CALIFORNIA
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ARTIST STATEMENT/ BIO
Marc Digeros uses his strong devotion to craft and hand-made techniques to create one-of-a-kind, hand-built functional pottery influenced by architecture and modern design. He employes self-made geometric drop-molds constructed from MDF and plywood along with paper patterns to create unique forms in clay. He seeks a delicate balance of planning and happenstance in the finished product, often leaving marks from the process as clues to how his pieces are constructed.
Marc has worked a full-time job as the model shop manager for Gehry Partners architecture since 2000 and has taught ceramics at various schools part-time, in the Los Angeles area. Before he moved to LA, he spent 2 years as a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation and received the first ever Taunt Fellowship while in residency. He holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a BFA from the University of Minnesota.
EDUCATION
1998 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington M.F.A.
1995 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota B.F.A.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001 to present Model Shop Manager- Gehry Partners LLP, Los Angeles, California
2000 to present Studio Artist- Los Angeles, CA
1998 to 2000 Artist in Residence- Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana, Received first ever Taunt Fellowship during two year artist residence
1996 Internship with Professor Akio Takamori- University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1995-96 Studio Artist- University Street Studios, St. Paul Minnesota
1993-95 Studio assistant to ceramic artist Curtis Hoard- Minneapolis, MN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 “Studies in Form and Pattern” Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 “Taunt Fellowship Exhibition” Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
1998 “MFA Thesis Exhibition” University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1996 “Artist of the Month” Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
1995 “BFA Exhibition” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Above Board” Above Board Ceramics online only due to COVID 19 during NCECA
2019 “Slow Build”, Red Lodge Claycenter, Red Lodge, Montana
“Pitch, Tone, Modulation” FOCI Minnesota Center for Glass Arts, Minneapolis, MN
“ARTIST COUPLES” Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
2017 “San Diego Pottery Tour”, San Diego, CA
“Old Church Pottery Invitational” The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
2015 “2015 Yunomi Invitational”, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
“Colors Defined” Cohen Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2014 “FORTIFY an exhibition to support CERF+” Schaller Gallery, St. Joseph, MI
“American Teabowl” Studio Kotokoto, San Diego, CA
“Adroit” Schaller Gallery, St. Joseph, MI
“Lee Akins, Marc Digeros, Lilly Zuckerman” Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2013 “Exquisite Pots II: Red-Handed” Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Plane & Solid: The Geometries of Marc Digeros, Mark Pharis, Alison Reintjes, and Hans Peter Sundquist” Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
2010 “Form and Function: Ceramic Artists of California” Westmont College, Santa Barbera, CA
“Off The Wheel”, Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, PA
2009 “Seward Park Holiday Show”, David Smith and Company, Seattle, WA
2008 “Functional Variations”, Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Distinctive Lines”, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, Il
"All Fired Up", Art Gallery at Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, NY
“Form and Function: A Ceramic Invitational”, Westmont College, Santa Barbera, CA
2007 “Intelligent Design”, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
“The First Element”, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, University of Southern California, LA, CA
2006 “Mastery in Clay 2006” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“30x30” Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
“PEP.PER-and-SALT, An Extravagance of Ceramic Pairs” Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2005 “Mastery in Clay 2005” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“New Slang” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“NCECA Clay National” University of Maryland, Purchase Award, Baltimore, MD (Catalog)
2004 “Holiday Exhibition” Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Archie Bray Foundation- Past and Present Residents” Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT
“Clay and California” Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles, California
”About Surface Invitational” Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
“Featured Gallery Artist”, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“NCECA Silent Auction Invitational” Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
2003 “Salt and Soda firing” Fifth Element Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“Tea for Two or Twenty” Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“2003 Cup Auction” Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
“Teapot Invitational” Gallery 999 coincides with NCECA, San Diego, California
2002 “Faculty Biennial” University Art Museum, Long Beach, California
“For the Table" Invitational Exhibition, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Featured Artist", Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2001 “Aftershock” Los Angeles Market Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Strictly Functional Ceramics National” Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
“Exchanging Views” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 “Cup Invitational” Fifth Element Gallery, Portland, Oregon
“Annual Resident Artist Exhibition” Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
“Archie Bray and the Colorado Connection” Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, CO
“Featured Artist” Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1999 “Artists of the Archie Bray Foundation” Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY
“Whitefish Invitational” Whitefish Gallery, Whitefish, Montana
“Ground Zero Ceramic Sculpture” Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, Washington
“Scholarship Benefit Silent Auction” Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
“1999 Annual Resident Artist Exhibition” Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
1998 “Northern Michigan University Ceramics Invitational", University Art Museum, Marquette, MI
“A Selection of Northwest Ceramics” University of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington
“Whitefish Invitational” Whitefish Gallery, Whitefish, Montana
“Group M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition” Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
“Northwest Art International Competition” Allied Arts, Jurors Award, Bellingham, WA
“Miami Valley Crossroads in Clay Exhibit” Middletown Fine Arts Center, Middletown, Ohio
1996 “Strictly Functional Ceramics National” Market House Craft Center, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
PUBLICATIONS
2026 “Persistence, Placed” In/Out/Of, Issue 2, 2026
2020 “Exposure section” Ceramics Monthly, January, 2020
2018 “Contextualizing Ceramic Color” Ceramics Monthly, September 2018 pages 48-51
2012 “The Drift of Thought”, Ceramics Monthly, November 2012, Vol. 60, Number 9, pages 40-44
2010 “Upfront”, Ceramics Monthly, September 2010, Volume 58, Number 7, pg. 22
2005 “2005 NCECA Clay National Exhibition Catalog”, NCECA, March 2005, pg. 24
“California and Clay”, Ceramics Monthly, February 2005, Volume 53, Number 2, pg. 18
2004 “Twenty One Young American Ceramists”, Studio Potter, June 2004, V. 32, Num. 2, pg. 39
2001 “A Visit to the Bray”, Ceramics Monthly, January 2001, Volume 49, Number 1, pg. 69
1995 “Clays and Means”, Minnesota Monthly, March 1995, Volume 29, Number 3, pg. 34