Education

2009

 MPSArts and Cultural Management  Pratt Manhattan  New York  New York

1999

 MFA Ceramics  Southern Illinois University Carbondale  Illinois USA
1992
 European Ceramic Work Center  's Hertogenbosch The Netherlands   

1988


BFA/MFA Sculpture and Drawing  Gerrit Rietveld Academie  Amsterdam The Netherlands

              Exhibitions (selection)

2009
5th World Ceramic Biennale 2009 Korea
Icheon World Ceramic Center Icheon Korea

2008
NEL BANNIER (one person show under patronage of Netherlands Embassy Tokyo)
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art Shigaraki Japan

2006
BODIES OF CLAY: AM I WEIRD? (curators Nel Bannier and Atsumi Fujita)
Multnomah Arts Center  Portland  Oregon (NCECA Clark bus tour)

2005
NEL BANNIER (solo)
Indiana Arts Center  Indianapolis Indiana

2004


NEL BANNIER (solo)
Beaver Street Gallery  Flagstaff Arizona

A DIALOGUE WITH CLAY (nceca invitational shuttle route)
Harrison Center for the Arts  Indianapolis Indiana

DIVIDED TOGETHER (nceca invitational shuttle route)
LAMP Fine Arts Gallery  Indianapolis Indiana

ON AND OFF THE WALL
Community College  Madisonville Kentucky

2003


1e annual ART ON A STICK outdoor sculpture exhibition (invitational)
Orange County Fair  Costa Mesa California

SIGNIFIERS (invitational)
OCCCA (orange county center for contemporary art)  Santa Ana California

WOMAN PLAYING WITH FIRE (invitational)
Texas Woman's University  Denton Texas

CONTEMPORARY FORUM (invitational)
Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix Arizona

100 LBS OF CLAY (four person)
Arts Council St Peters  St Peters Missouri
Krannert Gallery  Evansville Indiana

A DIALOGUE WITH CLAY (four person)
Arts Council  Cape Girardeau Missouri

2002

IK BEN NIET VAN STEEN
Museum of Literature  The Hague The Netherlands

NEL BANNIER (solo)
Beaver Street Gallery  Flagstaff Arizona
2001


BEYOND THE MILLENIUM (invitational)
Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science  Evansville Indiana

BEELDEN (five person)
Kunstenaarscentrum  Bergen NH The Netherlands

PORTRAITS (three person)
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art  New Harmony Indiana

ONE PART PAINT, THREE PARTS CLAY (three person)
OCCCA (orange county center for contemporary art)  Santa Ana California

50th MID-STATE ART EXHIBITION (juried)
Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science  Evansville Indiana

A QUIET DANCE: the figure in clay (invitational)
Texas Woman's University  Denton Texas
              Reviews
2008

 

NEL BANNIER (one-person exhibition)
Mainichi Shimbun  Tokyo  Japan  September 9, 2008 (newspaper)

 
2006

 

THE ART OF BETTY WOODMAN review by Nel Bannier
http://www.moca-ny.org/learnwoodman.html

 
2005

 

SO MANY QUESTIONS by Julianna Thibodeaux
Nuvo December 7, 2005 (cultural calendar) Indianapolis Indiana

 
2003
 FOR THOUSENDS, FAIR GETS OF ON THE RIGHT FOOT by Lori Basheda
The Orange County Registar  July 12, 2003 (newspaper)

WINDOWS OF ART WORKS by Kathleen Baxter
American Artist  April 2003 (newspaper)

FOUR WOMEN, ONE LOVE by Sam Blackwell
Southeast Missourian  January 10, 2003 (newspaper)

2002

IK BEN NIET VAN STEEN, BEELDEN VAN SCHRIJVERS
Algemeen Dagblad  Maart 2002 (newspaper)

LEO VROMAN by Nel Bannier
De Weduwe Ida  Letterkundig Museum 1, 2002 (quarterly)
2001


PORTRAYED IN CLAY by Laura Weaver
Ceramics Monthly  Up Front  November 2001 (magazine)

FEET OF CLAY by Roger McBain
Evansville Courier &Press  July11, 2001 (newspaper)

FEET OF CLAY by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Art Review OC Weekly  April 20-26 Vol. 6 No. 33, 2001 (weekly)

THE CLAY IS THE THING FOR TRIO by Vivian Lectran
LA Times  Orange County Calender April 4, 2001 (newspaper)
              Collections


Icheon World Ceramic Center  Icheon  Korea

The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art  Shigaraki  Japan

The Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science  Evansville  Indiana

Jan Ewout v/d Putten and Maarten Mathon  The Hague The Netherlands 

Museum of Litterature  The Hague The Netherlands 

Poetry International  Rotterdam The Netherlands