Chris Gustin

Chris is a studio artist and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1975, and his MFA from Alfred University in 1977. Chris lives and works in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

Gustin’s work is published extensively and is represented in numerous public and private collections in this country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Currier Museum of Art, the Crocker Museum of Art, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.

Internationally, Gustin’s work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the World Ceramic Exposition Foundation in Icheon, Korea, the Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taipai, the Museo de Azulejo in Lisbon, and the Shiwan Treasure Pottery Museum in PR, China.

With over fifty solo exhibitions, he has exhibited, lectured, and taught workshops in the United States, Caribbean, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowships, and four Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowships. He is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and was elected to the American Craft Council College of Fellows in 2016. He was awarded the Masters of the Medium award from the Renwick Alliance in 2017.

Chris is cofounder of the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine, and currently serves as Honorary Trustee on its board.