Curriculum Vitae

education

exhibitions

solo

group

collections

  • Taoxichuan Ceramic Culture Industrial Park - Jingdezhen, China
  • International African American Museum - Charleston, SC
  • Cranbrook Art Museum - Bloomfield Hills, MI

press

awards

  • Museum Committee Acquisition Prize - Cranbrook Academy of Art - Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • Larson Award - Cranbrook Academy of Art - Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • Cranbrook Art Selection - Mercedes-Benz Financial Services - Farmington Hills, MI
  • Leslie Rose Merit Scholarship - Cranbrook Academy of Art - Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • Honorable Mention - Gyeonggi International CeraMix Biennale, Korea Ceramic Foundation - Icheon, Republic of Korea
  • Harry R. Ballinger Memorial Award - Members Exhibition, Salmagundi Club - New York, NY

grants

  • Catalyst Innovation Program Award
  • Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant

residencies

lectures

  • Soil & Scaraments: Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Ox-Bow School of Art - Saugatuck, MI
  • Soil & Scaraments: Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Colorado Boulder - Boulder, CO
  • Catalytic Earth: Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Ceramic Renaissance, Spring 2025 Visiting Artist Series, San Diego State University | Ceramics - San Diego, CA
  • In Time: Ebitenyefa Baralaye - New Mexico State University - Las Cruces, NM
  • Catalytic Earth: Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Stamps School of Art & Design / University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
  • Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina – Exhibition Tour with Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan - University of Michigan Art Museum - Ann Arbor, MI
  • The Vessel As A Metaphor: An Artist Talk by Ebitenyefa Baralaye - UMMA/Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor District Library - Ann Arbor, MI
  • Artist Lecture - Oakland Community College - Royal Oak, MI
  • A Life in Making: Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center - Birmingham, MI
  • UIC Design Seminar - invited by Shiraz Gallab, University of Illinois at Chicago - Chicago, IL
  • Origin Stories: Artist Talk with Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Ilana Crispi - Moderated by Zoe Taleporos, Berkeley Art Center
  • Shape Shifters: A Conversation with Curator, Laura Mott - Cranbrook Ceramics, Cranbrook Art Museum - Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Cranbrook Academy of Art, Ceramics - Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • Material Lives - Department of Art + Art History, San Jose State University - San Jose, CA
  • NCA Forum Lecture - National Conference of Artists, Michigan - Detroit, MI
  • Invitational Lecture - Department of Art, Lewis & Clark College - Portland, OR
  • SKIN - Wigley-Fleming Gallery, Luther College VPA - Decorah, IA
  • Inspired: Baralaye, Crowell, Edgar, McDonald - College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
  • Craft Symposium - Cranbrook Academy of Art - Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • Material Lives - Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Department of Art, University of Oregon - Eugene, OR
  • Invitational Lecture - Department of Ceramics, College of Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
  • Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Department of Ceramics, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University - Philadelphia, PA
  • Invitational Lecture - Department of Ceramics, School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL
  • Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Department of Ceramics, California College of the Arts - San Francisco, CA
  • Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, CA
  • SAIC/CAA Ceramics Exchange Forum - Department of Ceramics, School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL
  • 7th GVSU Ceramics Forum - Grand Valley State University - Allendale, MI
  • Designing Your Future - Multicultural Community Panel, Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, RI
  • Exit Strategies - Visual and Critical Studies, School of Visual Art - New York, NY

teaching

  • Assistant Professor - Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
  • Instructor - Center Program, Anderson Ranch Arts Center - Snowmass, CO
  • Assistant Professor & Section Head - Department of Ceramics, College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
  • Adjunct Faculty - Sculpture & Contemporary Practice, San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, CA
  • Instructor - Beginning Pottery Class, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco - San Francisco, CA
  • AICAD Fellowship - Sculpture & Contemporary Practice, San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, CA

workshops

  • Hand-building Workshop - Ceramic Renaissance, Spring 2025 Visiting Artist Series, San Diego State University | Ceramics - San Diego, CA
  • Sculptural Wheel Throwing Demonstration - New Mexico State University | Ceramics Dept - Las Cruces, NM
  • “Mold as the Matrix” Sculpture Workshop - Anderson Ranch Art Center - Snowmass Village, CO
  • Pottery as Poetry - UMMA/Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor District Library - Ann Arbor, MI
  • “Mold as the Matrix” Sculpture Workshop - Anderson Ranch Art Center - Snowmass Village, CO
  • “Expanded Mold-Making” Summer Workshop - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts - Deer Isle, ME
  • “Press Molding” Virtual Spring Workshop - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts - Online
  • The Layered Vessel - Peters Valley School of Craft - Layton, NJ
  • High School Wheel-Throwing Presentation - University Liggett School - Grosse Pointe Woods, MI
  • Press-Molding Demonstration - Visiting Artist, Department of Art + Art History, San Jose State University - San Jose, CA
  • Press-Molding Presentation - Presenter, MCAA, Michigan Mud 2019, Oakland Community College - Auburn Hills, MI
  • Tile/Text Demonstration - Visiting Artist, Department of Ceramics, College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
  • Hand-Building Workshop - Visiting Artist, Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School - San Francisco, CA

assistantships

  • Excalibur Sculpture Foundry - Brooklyn, NY
  • Tom Otterness Studio - Brooklyn, NY
  • Constructive Display - Bronx, NY
  • Klein Reid - Long Island City, NY
  • Peters Valley - Layton, NJ

curation

  • In Series: Hermann, Harrow & Baralaye - David Klein Gallery - Ferndale, MI
  • Family Ties - David Klein Gallery - Detroit, MI
  • Languages of (A)scape - Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco, CA
  • SAIC/CAA CeraMix Exchange - Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art - Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • Benefit Art Action - Spark & Echo Arts - New York, NY
  • "Live" - Journey for Justin, Salt Space NYC - New York, NY

representation