Marc Lancet
Marc Lancet is the coauthor of Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics, which has been translated into German and Chinese. His art is in numerous collections, including The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Center, Japan; The International Ceramic Center, Skaelskor, Denmark, the United States Embassy in Estonia, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Fluxus+ Museum in Potsdam, Germany and the Ceramic Art Museum of Berlin.
Lancet’s work appears in Clay and Glazes for the Ceramic Artist by Rhodes and Hopper, Hands in Clay by Speight and Toki, Functional Pottery by Hopper, Ceramic Extruder for the Studio Potter by Conrad, and Raku, A Practical Approach by Brafman. His writing and art is published in Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Keramik, Ceramics Technical, Clay Times, The Log Book and Turning Wheel.
Lancet’s sculpture was featured in the 2018 traveling survey exhibition “Bay Area Clay: A Legacy in Social Consciousness”. Lancet was the featured artist in the exhibition Mesocosmos: Ceramics and Ikebana at the Ceramic Art Museum of Berlin in 2015, where he also presented the performance art piece “Ichi nichi kore koujitsu” (Day by day it’s a good day.) and the conceptual art project “Fairtrade 6 Berlin”. He presented the opening lecture for the International Ikebana Conference in Potsdam, Germany. In Denmark he was featured in the five-artist international exhibition “Ceramic Paradise.
The Museum Fluxus+ in Potsdam, Germany featured Lancet’s two-person exhibition with the German artist Sabine Turpeinen in Summer 2012. Lancet collaborated with Ikebana master Nicolaus Peters in a Fluxus art performance titled Ichigo Ichiei Lancet led two master classes for the Keramikshule in Landshut, Germany.
In Shanghai and Jingdezhen, China in 2011. Lancet presented exhibitions, workshops, lectures and book signings in celebration of the publication of the Chinese language edition of Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics. In Estonia for July 2011 Lancet was the U.S. representative to the Kohila International Wood-fire Symposium.
2001 found Lancet an invited artist in England and Denmark. At the Gillingham School in Gillingham, England he codirected a public art project “Gillingham Totems” with Alyson Diggle involving art students and local artists which was honored with the national award at the Tate Modern for best artist-in-residency in England for 2001. At the International Ceramic Center in Skaelskor, Denmark, Lancet exhibited his participatory installation “100 Views of Home.”
Lancet was an inaugural invited artist at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shigaraki, Japan in July, 1992.
Lancet is professor of three-dimensional art at Solano Community College. He has been a visiting professor of sculpture at Portland State University and at the University of California, Santa Barbara..
Lancet holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture and a Master of Arts degree in Education from UCSB. In addition, he was a post baccalaureate at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France and apprenticed in fine art casting at a foundry also in Paris.
He lives in Davis, California, with his wife Annette and his daughter Evan.
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