Harris Deller was born in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA from California State University, Northridge and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1973. He has lived in Southern Illinois for the past 47 years. Deller's work has been featured in more than 100 group exhibitions and over 15 solo exhibits in museums and galleries throughout the United States as well as in Asia and Europe. His work is represented in over 25 major collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, NYC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Illinois State Museum, Chicago and Springfield, IL; Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City; Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Japan; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; and deYoung Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco. Deller has been awarded the Artist Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council on six different occasions; received Gold Medals at the 47th Concorso Internationale della Ceramica d’Arte, Fienza, and the 2nd International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan; and was awarded a regional National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship to teach ceramics in Seoul, Korea. His works have been reviewed, pictured or cited in over 40 publications and he was recently elected to the International Academy of
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