Artist Biography — 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 contemporary ceramic 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 “Nichinichi 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 the following week he was featured in the five person 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 (This moment, like no other) in addition to presenting workshops and lectures. Lancet led two master classes for the Keramikshule in Landshut, Germany.
Lancet traveled to Shanghai and Jingdezhen, China in 2011 to present 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 Ceramic Symposium. Lancet joined 12 artists from around the world for the symposium, an international gathering of artists to create work, wood-fire and exhibit together for the month of July, 2010.
In 2001, Lancet was 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 has been honored with the national award 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” in the center’s Apfel Haus Gallery. During his five-week residency Lancet created sculptures and ceramic vessels, fired their unique wood kiln and presented workshops.
Lancet was an inaugural invited artist at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in July, 1992. For six months of 1991 Lancet pioneered an artist-in-residence at Gladding, McBean & Co., one of America’s few remaining large-scale architectural terra cotta manufacturers. He created monumental sculptures surrounded by kilns larger than football fields and industrial processes capable of producing building facades 35 stories tall.
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. He exhibits and teaches internationally.
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. His art ranges from large-scale ceramic sculpture and mixed media sculpture to ceramics for the Japanese Tea Ceremony (Chanoyu) and flower arranging (Ikebana). He lives in Davis, California, with his wife Annette and his daughter Evan.Lancet’s sculpture was featured in the 2018 traveling survey exhibition “Bay Area Clay: A Legacy in Social Consciousness”. Lancet was the featured contemporary ceramic 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 “Nichinichi 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 the following week he was featured in the five person 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 (This moment, like no other) in addition to presenting workshops and lectures. Lancet led two master classes for the Keramikshule in Landshut, Germany.
Lancet traveled to Shanghai and Jingdezhen, China in 2011 to present 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 Ceramic Symposium. Lancet joined 12 artists from around the world for the symposium, an international gathering of artists to create work, wood-fire and exhibit together for the month of July, 2010.
In 2001, Lancet was 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 has been honored with the national award 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” in the center’s Apfel Haus Gallery. During his five-week residency Lancet created sculptures and ceramic vessels, fired their unique wood kiln and presented workshops.
Lancet was an inaugural invited artist at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in July, 1992. For six months of 1991 Lancet pioneered an artist-in-residence at Gladding, McBean & Co., one of America’s few remaining large-scale architectural terra cotta manufacturers. He created monumental sculptures surrounded by kilns larger than football fields and industrial processes capable of producing building facades 35 stories tall.
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. He exhibits and teaches internationally.
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. His art ranges from large-scale ceramic sculpture and mixed media sculpture to ceramics for the Japanese Tea Ceremony (Chanoyu) and flower arranging (Ikebana). He lives in Davis, California, with his wife Annette and his daughter Evan.
