Michael James Peterson, born 1952,
Wichita Falls, Texas

Education
Associate of Arts and Science, Edmonds Community
College, Edmonds, Washington, 1979

Professional Associations and Teaching
Experience
Washington State 2014 Artist Trust Fellowship Award
American Association of Woodturners, Founding
Member, 1985–1996
Woodturning Instructor, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 1991–1993, ?96,'98
Visiting Artist, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1997
Visiting Artist, Pacific NW College of Art, Portland, OR 2007

Solo Exhibitions
2009 through 2011
Michael Peterson: Evolution/Revolution, Bellevue Arts Museum,
Bellevue, Washington, traveling exhibition to seven venues;
Michael Monroe and Stefano Catalani, curators
2005
Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2004
del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland - Sarah Myerscough Gallery
PAD London, England - Sarah Myerscough Gallery
The Salon Art + Design, NY, NY - Sarah Myerscough Gallery
“Why Wood?  Contemporary Practice in a Timeless Material” CWA exhibition,
  Chicago SOFA, Jennifer-Navva Milliken, curator.
2015
COLLECT - The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects,
  London, England - Sarah Myerscough Gallery.
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland - Sarah Myerscough Gallery
Tattered, Torn & Sepia, San Juan Islands Museum of Art, Friday Harbor, Washington
Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Art Basel/Miami, Miami, Florida - Sarah Myerscough Gallery.
Audacious:  The Fine Art of Wood from the Montalto Bohlen Collection,
  Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2014
Shades of White - Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial 2014:  Knock on Wood
COLLECT - The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects,
 London, England - Sarah Myerscough Gallery.
2013
Sculpture Objects and Functional Art, (SOFA), Chicago
  (1995 through 2013) and New York (1995 through 2009)
COLLECT - The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects,
 London, England - Sarah Myerscough Gallery.
Crafting a Continuum:  Rethinking Contemporary Craft,
  Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona,
  Heather Sealy Lineberry/Peter Held/Elizabeth Kozlowski, curators.
Scratching the Surface:  Contemporary Wood Sculpture, Craft
 and Folk Art Museum, Ray Leier, curator
2012
What Is Beautiful? Changing Perspectives in Contemporary
  Wood Art, SOFA Chicago, Charlotte Wainwright, curator
Craft Spoken Here, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Elisabeth Agro, curator
2011
Conversations with Wood: Selections from the
  Waterbury Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
  Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jennifer Komar Olivarez, curator
2010
Revolution in Wood: The Bresler collection,
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art
  Museum, Washington D.C., Nicolas R. Bell, curator
2009
Living With Studio Furniture - Collection of Robert &
  Carolyn Springborn, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida
2008
A Perfect Marriage: Wood and Color, SOFA Chicago;
  Paul Richelson, curator
2006
Wood Now, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri; Mark Richard
  Leach; curator; also at Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
Turning 20: Still Evolving, Kentucky Museum of Art
  and Craft, Louisville; Mary Lacer, curator
2005
Sitka Art Invitationals, Sitka Center for Art and
  Ecology, Otis, Oregon; Randall Koch, curator
2004
Rooted in Innovation: Contemporary Wood Sculpture,
  Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; Ellen Plummer, curator
2003
Into the Woods, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long
  Beach, California; Kevin Wallace, curator
2002
Wood Turning in North America from 1930 to the Present,
  Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
  Washington DC (traveled to Yale University Art Gallery;
  Minneapolis Institute of Arts); Glenn Adamson, Edward S. Cooke, Jr.,
  Charles Hummel, Patricia Kane & Albert LeCoff, curators
2001
Diversity and Exploration: New Forms in Wood, Duane Reed
  Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2000
The Fine Art of Wood at the Millennium: The Bohlen Collection,
  Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan;
  Bonita Fike & Mike Mendelson, curators
Turning Wood Into Art: The Jane and Arthur Mason
  Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design,
  Charlotte, North Carolina; Mark Richard Leach, curator
1999
The Art of Craft: Works from the Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young
  Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Timothy Anglin Burgard,
  curator
1998
Evolution in Form: Furniture, Turnings and Sculpture, Arrowmont
  School of Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN; Martha Connell, curator
1997
Moving Beyond Tradition: A Turned Wood
  Invitational, The Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative
  Arts Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas; Alan DuBois, curator
1996
Expressions in Wood: Masterworks from the
  Wornick Collection, Oakland Museum of California,
  (traveled to McAllen International Museum of Art,
  McAllen, Texas); Tran Turner, curator
1995
Redefining the Lathe Turned Object II, Arizona State
  University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Heather Lineberry, curator
1993
Hand of a Craftsman, Eye of an Artist, Hunter Museum of Art,
  Chattanooga, Tennessee; Martha Connell, curator
Redefining the Lathe-Turned Object I, Arizona State
  University Art Museum, Tempe; Heather Lineberry, curator
1992
Out of the Woods: Turned Wood by American Craftsmen,
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama (traveled);
  Martha Connell, curator
1991
International Lathe-Turned Objects: Challenge IV, Port of History
  Museum, Philadelphia; Rudolph Staffel, Edward S. Cooke, Jr.,
   and Stephen Hogbin, jurors
From the Woods, Whatcom Museum of History & Art, Bellingham, WA,
  and Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; Lloyd Herman, curator
1990
Crafted Statements, Craft Alliance, St. Louis; Albert
LeCoff and Craig Nutt, curators
Woodturning: Vision and Concept II, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg;
  Sandra Blain & Steve Loar, jurors
1989
Turner's Challenge III, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1988
International Turned Objects Show (ITOS). Port of History Museum,
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Albert B. LeCoff, curator
1987
Turned Wood: The New Artistry, Arkansas Arts
  Center, Little Rock, AR; Alan DuBois, curator
1986
Artwork / Working Art, Bellevue Art Museum,
  Bellevue, Washington; LaMar Harrington, curator

Public Collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg,Tennessee
Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, North Carolina
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Columbus Museum, Georgia
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MIchigan
Edmonds Arts Festival Museum, Edmonds, Washington
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
Greg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, North Carolina
GTE Telephone Operations, Irvine, Texas
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC
The Woodturning Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

PUBLICATIONS
2013
American Craft Magazine April/May 2013, Vol 73, The Nature Issue, “Of The Land” story by Jake Seniuk
2011
Conversations With Wood, The Collection of Ruth and David Waterbury, published by Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
2010
A Revolution in Wood, The Bresler Collection, published by the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2009
Michael Peterson - Evolution/Revolution, published by Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington
2007
Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis - The Art of Conceptual Craft - Selections from the Wornick Collection, MFA Publications
2004
Celebrating Nature - Craft Traditions/Contemporary Expressions, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 2004
Beneath the Bark:  Twenty-five Years of Woodturning, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2004
500 Wood Bowls, Lark Books, 2004
Wallace, Keven.  “A Sculptor’s Natural Dialogue,” Craft Arts International, Australia, Issue #60, 2004
2003
Sacred Vessels, CLAL - National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, 2003
Scratching the Surface:  Art and Content in Contemporary Wood, Guild, 2003
Wood Turning in North America Since 1930, By Wood Turning Center and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2000
Living With Form:  The Horn Collection of Contemporary Crafts, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR. 2000
Turning Wood Into Art:  The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2000
The Fine Art of Wood:  The Bohlen Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Abbeville Publishing Group, 2000
1999
The Art of Craft - Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown & Company
Contemporary Turned Wood/Perspectives in a Rich Tradition, Hand Books Press, 1999
1996
Expressions in Wood - Masterworks from the Wornick Collection, University of Washington Press, 1996
1991
International Lathe Turned Objects - Challenge IV, 1999
1990
Fine Woodworking Design Book Five, 1990
Southwest Art Magazine, June Issue, 1990
1989
Lathe Turned Objects, 1989
1987
Fine Woodworking Magazine, July/August Issue, 1987
Raffan, Richard.  Turned Bowl design, Taunton Press, 1987