Past Exhibitions

The exhibition Don Reitz: Life is not a Dress Rehearsal features the work of Don Reitz, an artist broadly recognized as one of the most influential American ceramic artists of the last century.

Amy Santoferraro: Two on a Lot, Three on the Tree On View:June 4–August 22, 2021Reception:Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 4 PM Two on a Lot, Three on a the Tree is Amy Santoferraro’s site-specific installation in the Vault Gallery at AMOCA. The installation will include a number of live documentary explorations of Santoferraro’s installation process,

Pictured: Ashwini Bhat, Imprinted [series], Laurel Oak Hollow [sculpture], 2021. Glazed ceramic sculpture. 10 x 5 x 1.5 inches. On View:January 8–May 1, 2022Artist Reception:January 8, 2022 • 3-5 PM (Pacific)Virtual Artist Talk:January 22, 2022 • Noon (Pacific) Ashwini Bhat: IMPRINTED, Assembling California – Exhibition Overview Since 2016, the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)

An annual juried show featuring 74 finalists from 27 Southern California High Schools, striving to inspire and recognize young artists achieving excellence in their own creative endeavors. Due to the temporary closure related to COVID-19, this exhibition has been moved online. Virtual Awards Ceremony Broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook on May 2, 2020. Visitor’s

Los Angeles-based ceramic artist Nicole Seisler creates sculpture, installation, and public art that investigate time, materiality, process.

Making In Between: Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics highlights the work of six, first- and second-generation Chinese-American ceramic artists.

Hayakawa’s exhibition, A Wing and a Prayer II, premieres the newest work in her A Wing and a Prayer series.  

New Acquisitions from Julianne and David Armstrong, celebrating a donation of extraordinary works to the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) from the Armstrongs, includes rarely-seen works by some of North America’s leading ceramic artists.