Education:
Master of Fine Arts, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University,
Bachelors of Art, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.
John Rohlfing received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1982.
He has been awarded Honorable Mentions twice at the Ceramic Biennial International Competition, World Ceramic Exposition in Korea and an Honorable Mention at the International Ceramics Competition in Mino, Japan and received the Emerging Talent Award from the National Conference on the Education of the Ceramic Arts.
Selected solo exhibitions include the Garth Clark Gallery in New York and Los Angles, the Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York and The Works Gallery in Philadelphia PA. Selected group exhibitions include the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo TX the Racine Art Museum, Racine WI the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC, The Navy Pier Show, Chicago, IL, The Helen Drutt gallery, Philadelphia, PA and the Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Rohlfing’s work is represented in collections including the Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art in Alfred, NY, the Renwick Gallery, at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, the Ichon World Ceramic Center, Korea the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Taiwan the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, the Museum of Fine Arts, Long Beach, CA, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, the Mint Museum of Art and Design, Charlotte, NC and The Racine Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI.
He has twice received Artist fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts in 2000 and 2012 and has been selected by the City of New Haven Connecticut’s One Percent for Art Program in 2002 with the installation of a public piece of sculpture at the Isador Wexler School, New Haven, CT.
He most recently exhibited in 2011 in a One Person exhibition at the Barnes-Franklin at Tunxis Community College in Farmington, CT. and in 2010 his work was shown at the Works Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, in conjunction with the National Conference for the Education of the Ceramic Arts, In 2009 his work was included in a group exhibition at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA, and a One Person exhibition at the Arts Space Gallery in Hartford, CT.
John Rohlfing is a Professor of Art at Post University in Waterbury, CT.