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Selected group exhibitions:

1969 Pennsylvania Craftsmen, Penn State University, State College, PA
1970 Attitudes, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
1971 Makins/Temple, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC
Salt Glazed Ceramics, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC
1972 Personages, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1973 MFA Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1974 Makins/Warner, James Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Ceramic Invitational, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NYC
1975 Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NYC
Jack Lenor Larsen Showroom, NYC
1976 Soup Tureens, Campbell Museum, Camden, NJ
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1977 Saks Fifth Avenue Gallery, NYC
Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY
1978 Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, NYC
Greenwich House Pottery Gallery, NYC
1979 Language of Clay, Charles Burchfield Center, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
1980 Bowls, Florence Duhl Gallery, NYC
Invitational, Perdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Makins/Moonelis/Lucero, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
For the Table Top, American Crafts Museum, NYC
American Porcelain: New Expressions in an Ancient Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Vessel, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
1981 Parsons School of Design, NYC
Greenwich House Pottery Gallery, NYC
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Centering of Contemporary Clay, University of Iowa Museum, Iowa City, IA
1982 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Cranbrook Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Prime Evidence, Exhibit A, Chicago, IL
American Clay Artists: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
3D Plus: Small Sculpture, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
1984 Platters and Related Forms, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
Parsons School of Design, NYC
1985 Pottery Questions II, Bacardi Art Gallery, Miami, FL
Surface/Shape/Function, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
Anne Davis Collection, Corpus Christi Museum, Corpus Christi, TX
Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, NYC
1986 Clay: Every Day Plus Sunday, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Contemporary Arts: an Expanding View, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Contemporary Arts: an Expanding View, Squib Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Designed and Made for Use, Museum of American Crafts, NYC
Porcelain for Use: Makins/Bush/Martin, Gallery Maya Behn, Zurich, Switzerland
Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, Museum of American Craft, NYC
1987 Functional Glamour, Museum het Kruithuis, s'Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
Teapots, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
New Acquisitions, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1988 The Form of Function, Creative Arts Workshop Gallery, New Haven, CT
Commisionable Art, Rosard's Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
American Porcelain for Use, Gallery Midi, Lauzanne, Switzerlan.
1989 Craft Today USA, Musee des Artes Decoratifs, Paris, France
Craft Today USA, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Craft Today USA, Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Franfort, Germany
Craft Today USA, Zacheta Galery, Warsaw, Poland
Craft Today USA, Museum of Applied and Folk Arts, Moscow, USSR
Craft Today USA, State Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey
Craft Today USA, Eommex Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
American Clay Artists, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Art on the Table, The Society for Art in Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
Clay Function/Expression, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Makins/Knoble/Piker, Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC
1990 Objects on the Edge: Contemporary Still Life, Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC
Art That Works: Decorative Art of the Eighties, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Tokoname Ceramics Festival, Tokoname, Aichi, Japan
1991 Functional Ceramics, Joanne Rappe Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
International Ceramics, NCUT Gallery, North China University of Technology, Beijing, China
Teapots, Museum of American Crafts, NYC
Pitchers, The Joan Farrel Collection, Washington, DC
The Collectors' Eye, The Museum of American Crafts, NYC
Works in Clay VII, Wichita Falls Museum, Wichita Falls, TX
1992 Clay at PCA, Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN
Contrast and Continuum: Makins, Burns, Frimkis, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
More Than One, Museum of American Crafts, NYC
1993 Selections, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Choza Competition Exhibition, Tokoname, Aichi, Japan
1994 The Collection of 1993: Recent Aquisitions, The Ceramic Cultural Park Museum, Shigaraki, Japan
IWCAT Tenth Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, Tokoname, Aichi, Japan
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1995 49th Concorso Internazionale delle Ceramiche d'Arte, Faenza, Italy
Gallery Kyouei-Gama, Tokoname, Aichi, Japan, August and October
Byron Temple & Friends, Part I, Columbia Arts Center, Columbia, MD.
Byron Temple & Friends, Part II, Swanson Cralle Gallery, Bardstown, KY.
90th Anniversary Exhibition, Greenwich House Pottery, New York.
Choza Competition Exhibition, Tokoname, Aichi, Japan
New York, New York: Clay, Rogaland Kunstnersenter, Stavanger, Norway
New York, New York: Clay, Hordaland Kunstnersenter, Bergen, Norway
1996 New York, New York: Clay, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway
New York, New York: Clay, Østfold Kunstnersenter, Fredrikstad, Norway
International Ceramic Academy Invitational, Gallery Kyouei-Gama, Tokoname, Japan
Yunomi and Guinomi, Dai Ichi Arts Ltd, NYC
1997 Sydney Meyer Fund International Exhibition, Sheppherton Art Gallery, Shepperton, Australia
Contemporary Masters, Pewabic Pottery Gallery, Detroit, MI
American Perspectives, Gumps Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
JICA 1997, Hangnam Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
New Acquisitions, Museum of American Crafts, NYC
Singular Views [The Ceramic Still Life, Dowse Art Museum, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Curated By Byron Temple, W.D.O. Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1999 Designed for Living, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Whiteware, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
2000 My Cup, Gallery Kyouei-Gama,Tokoname, Aichi, Japan
Pottery for Pleasure and Use, The Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA
The 51st Concorso Internazionale delle Ceramiche d'Arte, Faenza, Italy
2001 Poetics of Clay, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Objects for use / Handmade by Design, American Craft Museum, NYC
New York/University Faculty, Rosenwald-Wolfe Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Cross Currents, Freehand, Los Angeles, CA
Color and Fire, Los Angeles County Art Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Defining Crafts, American Craft Museum, NY
Contemporary American Ceramics, The Gardner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2002 USA CLAY, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Yakimono Omnibus, Design Gallery, The International Design Center, Nagoya, Japan
USA Clay, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Instution, Washington DC
Centering, Freehand Gallery, Los Angles, CA
Unexpected Too, Sotheby’s, NYC
2003 The Artful Teapot, The Kamm Collection, The Gardner Museum, Ontario, Canada
Clay Works, American Ceramics from the Everson Museum, UBS Paine Webber Gallery, NYC
Byron Temple memorial retrospective Exhibition: Byron Temple and Former Apprentices, The Museum of Arts and Design, Louisville, KY
Defining the 21st Century, Twentieth First Century Museum Of Art Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
Fourth Izushi Triennial Porcelain Competition Exhibition, Izushi City Museum, Izushi, Japan
Fourth Izushi Triennial Porcelain Competition Exhibition, Oriental Ceramics Museum Osaka, Japan
2004 Contemporary Ceramics invitational: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Cups, Gallery Kyouei-Gama, Tokoname, Aichi, Japan
Faculty expressions, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Alternative Porcelain, Chaney gallery, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD
Fill it to the Rim, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Shegoygan, WI
Diverse Domain: Contemporary North American ceramic Art, Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Yingge, Taipei, Taiwan
Platters and Plates, A Blue Plate Special, Chester Springs Studio Gallery, Chester Springs, PA
Freehand 25: Clay, Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Japan/USA, A Cultural Exchange, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Drinking Vessels, Gallery Revolution, Detroit, MI
A Celebration:50 years of ceramics at the 92 Street Y, Gallery, 92nd Street YM & YWHA, NYC
Benefit Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
“Cheers”: Goblets, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
2007 Craft in America; Expanding Traditions, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Venues, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Japanese Threads, Morgan Gallery of Contemporary Glass, Pittsburgh, PA
Ceramic Invitational, Gallery Kyouei-Gama, Tokoname, Aichi, Japan
2008 Craft in America; Expanding Traditions, Mingei Museum, San Deigo, CA
Venues, Houston Centrt for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Hanabi”, Gallery Kyouei-Gama, Tokoname, Aichi, Japan
Points Of Entry, Urban Insitute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
National Cowboy Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Inagural Exhibition: Opening of the new Museum, Museum of Art and Design, NYC
2009 Hats off to Helen, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Selections From The Studio Potter Collection, John Molloy Gallery, NYC
2010 Still Life, Margarete Roeder Gallery, NYC