Works

Curriculum Vitae

Ingūna Skuja

Education

2011 Latvian Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia 

1995 Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA

1992 Latvian Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia

1987 Applied Art College, Riga, Latvia

Melissa Braden

Education

1999 Latvian Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia

1997 Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, ASV

1992 Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, ASV

1992 Sierra College, Rocklin, CA, ASV

Solo Exhibitions

2016 Twisted Growth. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia

2016 Twisted Growth. Biržai Region Museum Sėla, Biržai, Lithuania

2016 Twisted Growth. G. Ģederts Eliass History and Art Museum of Jelgava, Jelgava, Latvia

2016 Skuja Braden. 1616 Artspace Gallery, Sacramento, California, USA

2015 Lost and Found. ART MUSEUM RIGA BOURSE, Riga, Latvia

2015 My Anniversary. Aizkraukle history and art museum KALNA ZIEDI, Aizkraukle, Latvia

2015 Tete a tete. Liepaja Design and Art School, Liepaja, Latvia

2014 Fishing for Meaning. Roja Marine Fishery Museum, Roja, Latvia

2014 A Dog's Life: Unchained. Riga Porcelain Museum, Rīga, Latvia

2013 Skuja Braden. Laiks Pasaciņai. Laipa Gallery, Valmiera, Latvia

2013 Mana Aizkraukle. Skuja Braden. Aizkraukle history and art museum KALNA ZIEDI, Aizkraukle,Latvia

2013 Skuja Braden Stāsta. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia

2012 Laced Porcelain. Lace Museum – Kiskunhalas, Kossuth, Hungary

2011 Sweet Kiss. Mans's Gallery, Jekabpils, Latvia

2011 Beyond Black and White. Gallery Putti, Riga, Latvia

2010 Karma Koma. Makslas XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia

2010 Karma Koma. Aizkraukle history and art museum KALNA ZIEDI, Latvia

2009 Puzzling Skuja Braden. Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR

2008 Dowry: The Business of Marriage.  Pence Gallery, Davis, California

2008 Supercrock. Memorial Union Hall. OSU, Corvallis, Oregon

2008 Bloodlines.  Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Otis, Oregon

2006 Born at Summerhouse. Aizkraukle history and art museum, Aizkraukle, Latvia

2005 Skuja Braden Babies.  John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA, USA

2003 The Inevitability of Change. Sol Ceramica Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA

2001 Evening Treasures. Putti Gallery, Riga, Latvia

2001 Kaila Patiesiba. Makslas XO Galerija, Riga, Latvia

1999 HeadLamps. Salon Maksla, Riga, Latvia

1999 Here Kitty, Kitty!  Ciris Gallery, Riga, Latvia

1998 The Best of Skuja.  Gallery Salons Maksla, Riga, Latvia

1998 Ten Women. Ciris Gallery, Riga, Latvia

1997 Skuja For Sale $9.50.  M6 Gallery, Riga, Latvia

1997 Hares and Eggs. Unibanka, Riga, Latvia

1996 Love Triangle.  Latvian Art Union Gallery, Riga, Latvia

1995 Easter Day.  Riga Gallery, Riga, Latvia

1993 Inguna Skuja Porcelain. Jana Seta Gallery, Riga, Latvia

1993 Woman's Knee.  Jana Seta Gallery, Riga, Latvia

Group Exhibitions

2016 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR WARSAW 2016. Gallery Bastejs, Warsaw, Poland

2016 International Latvian Ceramic Biennale, Martinsons Award. Daugavpils, Latvia

2016 White,Latvian Contemporary Design. Pegaz Gallery, Rīga, Latvia

2016 Contemporary Latvian Ceramics. , Latvian Art Union, Riga, Latvia

2015 Gada Makslinieki. Gallery Bastejs, Rīga, Latvia

2015 GOBIS/OUTDOOR Expo. Vilnius, Lithuania

2015 Art Market Budapest. Gallery Bastejs, Budapest, Hungary

2015 Art Copenhagen, Gallery Bastejs, Copenhagen, Denmark

2015 IMAGO MUNDI-LUCIANO BENETTON COLLECTION, CINI Foundation, Venice, Italy

2015 Sexy Art. 19 Karen Gallery, Queensland, Australia

2015 Contemporary Latvian Ceramics. Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

2015 Unpacked. ArtSpace 1616 Gallery, Sacramento, California, ASV

2015 Erotic Clay. The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ASV

2014 European Ceramic Context 2014. Bornholm Museum, Bornholm, Denmark

2014 3rd Changchun International Ceramic Symposium. Changchun Sculpture Museum, Changchun, China 

2014 Roja-L Kino & Makslas festivāls. Roja, Latvia

2014 Clay Provocateurs. Pence Gallery, Davis, California

2013 Peter Martinson and Contemporary Ceramics. Latvia

2013 Museum of Art and History, Vitebsk, Belarus

2013 8th International Small Forms Triennale. Rīga Porcelain Museum, Riga, Latvia

2013 Underwater War. Talsi Museum, Talsi, Latvia

2013 Skuja Braden. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia.

2013 Daugava. Aizkraukles’ museum of History and Art KALNA ZIEDI, Aizkraukle, Latvia

2013 BERLINER LISTE. Gallery Bastejs, Berlin, Germany.

2013 LANDescape. Afterward. Daugavpils Clay Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia 

2013 LANDescape. Afterward. Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia 

2013 FEMAIL PROJECT. ARTicle Gallery, Birmingham, England

2013 Downlands College 3rd Annual Invitational, Toowoomba, Australia

2013 Garden of Destiny Charity Auction.  Large Guild House, Riga Latvia 

2013 Plates and Totems. Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA. USA

2013 Latvian National Art Museums’ Recent Acquisitions Exhibition. Riga, Latvia

2013 Aizkraukle city 45 Anniversary. Aizkraukle history and art museum. Aizkraukle, Latvia

2012 Rudens. 2012/2013. Latvian Artist Union, Riga, Latvia

2012 Ceramic Annual of America. Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, USA*

2012 Truth, Myth, and Bullshit. Danish Cultural Institute, Riga, Latvia

2012 Zvaigznes. Rīga Porcelain Museum, Riga, Latvia

2011 Rudens. Rīga Art Space,  Riga,  Latvia

2011 ReNovacija. Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia

2011 Roya-L Art and Film Festival. Roja's Culture Center, Roja, Latvia

2011 Sieviete Telpa. Riga, Latvia

2010 My Erotic Valentine. Beet Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA

2010 Small Scale Porcelain Triennale. Rīga's Porcelain Museum, Rīga, Latvia

2010 Sitka Center Annual Art Invitational. World Forestry Center, Portland, Oregon, USA

2010 Mākslas Optimizācija. Museum of Applied and Decorative Art, Riga, Latvia

2009 IV Int'l Ceramic Tile Triennial. Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2009 Sitka Center Annual Art Invitational. World Forestry Center, Portland, Oregon, USA

2009 Little Crimes. Latvian Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia

2009 Art On the Vine. OCAC Art Auction, Convention Center, Portland. OR, USA

2009 Intime,” Museum of Applied and Decorative Art, Riga, Latvia

2008 Sitka Center Annual Art Invitational. World Forestry Center, Portland, OR, USA

2008 Human Impulse. Sandy & Diane Bessor Collection, ASU Museum Tempe, AZ, USA

2008 17th Annual National. San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX, USA

2007 World Women on the Horizon. Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2007 Handmade for the Holidays. Contemporary Craft Museum. Portland, OR, USA

2007 5th Cheongju INTL Craft Biennale. Cheongjudo City, S. Korea

2006 By the Hand. National Juried Exhibition Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, USA

2006 Feats of Clay. Gladding McBean Factory, Lincoln, CA (Tile Heritage Foundation Award)

2006 16th National Ceramic Competition. San Angelo Museum, San Angelo, TX, USA

2006 Thirty Sculptors. John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, USA

2006 Ink and Clay '32. Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA, USA

2005 SOFA Chicago. John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA

2005 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongjucity, Republic of Korea 

2005 30 Sculptors.  CCACA John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA

2005 Ink and Clay '31. Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA, USA

2004 SOFA Chicago. John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA*USA

2004 Thirty Sculptors. John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA USA

2004 Excellence In Ceramics.  Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA

2004 Gigantic Figurines. Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA, USA

2003 Cuillere Ceramique. Prix De La Ville De Carouge Museum, Geneva, Switzerland

2003 East Meets West. Historic Fong Mansion, Sacramento, CA, USA

2003 Compton of the Fork. Fork It Magazine, Uptown Studios. Sacto, CA, USA

2003 Cheongju Intrnl Craft Biennale. Cheongjudo, Korea 

2003 Erotic or Not.  Uptown Studios Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA

2003 Contemporary Latvian Ceramics.  Kuressaare Castle Museum, Saaremaa, Estonia 

2003 Tits and Ass. Uptown Studios Gallery, Sacramento, CA, US

2002 Vessel's. Mirror Pond Gallery, Bend, Oregon. USA

2002 Flowing Vessels. Gardos’ Gallery, Bridgeport, Penn. USA

2002 Fragile Handle With Care.  Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacto, CA, USA

2002 Birds of Clay. Frog Hollow, Middlebury, Vermont, USA

2002 Ink and Clay '29. Kellogg's Art Gallery, Pomona, CA, USA,

2001 Antins. Exhibition hall Arsenals,Riga, Latvia

2001 Art In The Air. AIRBaltic Corporate Collection, Applied Art Museum, Riga, Latvia

2001 The 1rst World Ceramic Biennale 2001. Ichon, Korea 

2001 Nordic Baltic Fabula Exhibition. The Art Center, Silkeborg, Denmark

2001 Bryggens Museum, Bergen, Norway. Applied Arts Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

1999 1rst International Erotica Exhibition. Kipsala Hall, Riga, Latvia

1999 1rst International Floristica Exhibition. Dailes Theatre, Riga, Latvia

1999 15 Artists from Latvia. Gallery J&B. Copenhagen, Denmark 

1999 Latvian Academy of Art Exhibitions Gallery, Riga, Latvia

1998 Art Of Contemporary Latvia. Maison du Danemark, Champs Elysees, Paris

1998 The 2nd World Latvian Artists Exhibition. Riga, Latvia

1998 Ritums Ivanovs and Inguna Skuja. Cesis Museum, Cesis, Latvia

1997 Maksla Mode Muzika.  Latvian Art Union Gallery, Riga, Latvia

1997 The World's 5TH Triennale in Plastics. Zagreb, Croatia 

1997 Art of Contemporary Latvia. Grande Salle de l'Aubette, Strasbourg, France

1997 Amazing 8 Artists. Center Gallery, Riga, Latvia

1996 European Women. Gallery Shambala, Copenhagen, Denmark

1996 ArtGenda. European Cultural City, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995 Baltic States Ceramic Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania

1995 Herbstmesse.  Messe of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

1995 Artist In Residence.  Kecskemet, Hungary

1994 100th Anniversary of Art from the Baltic. Malmo, Sweden

1994 International Exhibition of Practical Art.  Blue Hall, Tallinn, Estonia

Collections

AirBaltic Collection , Riga, Latvia

Aizkraukle history and art museum, Aizkraukle, Latvia

Alpha Ceramics Collection, Sacramento, CA, USA

Sandy and Diane Bessor Collection , ASU Museum, Tempe, AZ, USA

Bornholm International Ceramic Center, Bornholm, Denmark

Frank and Jane Boyden Collection, Otis, OR

Daugavpils Clay Art Center

Kecskemet International Ceramic Center, Kecskemet, Hungary

Latvian Art Union Collection, Riga, Latvia

Latvian National Art Museum

Museum of Applied and Decorative Arts, Riga, Latvia

Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Patrick and Jane Hooper Collection , Portland, OR

White Memorial Medical Center, East Los Angeles, CA

World Ceramic Center , Icheon, Korea