2014

Green Chalk Gallery, Monterey

2013

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

2005

Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston

2003

Dai Ichi Gallery, New York

2002

Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston

2001

Anton Gallery, Washington

1999

Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston
Hashimoto Bijutsu, Nagoya
Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen

1998

Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville

1997

Anton Gallery, Washington
Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston

1996

Anton Gallery, Washington
Japan American Society, Washington

1995

Hashimoto Fine Art, Nagoya
“Beyond East and West: A Rob Barnard Retrospective 1974-1994”, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Washington
Anton Gallery, Washington

1993

Anton Gallery, Washington
The Japan Information and Cultural Center, Washington
Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York

1992

Yamaki Gallery, Tokyo
Meitetsu Department Store, Nagoya
Yamaki Gallery, Osaka
Anton Gallery, Washington

1991

Yamaki Gallery, Osaka
Hashimoto Fine Art, Nagoya
Anton Gallery, Washington

1990

Anton Gallery, Washington

1989

Meitetsu Department Store, Nagoya
Pro-Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Anton Gallery, Washington
Amaury St. Gilles Fine Art, Tokyo

1988

Kuroda Toen, Tokyo
Anton Gallery, Washington
Rasdall Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington

1987

Anton Gallery, Washington

1986

Anton Gallery, Washington

1984

Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
Meitetsu Department Store, Nagoya
Anton Gallery, Washington
Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg
Anton Gallery, Washington

1978

Meitetsu Department Store, Nagoya

1977

Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
Toen, Shigaraki

1976

Marroniere Gallery, Kyoto

2022

“Other Lives: New Ceramics by Rob Barnard and Julian Stair”, Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford

2021

Corvi-Mora, London

2017

“Termini”, Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington

2014

“Ambiguity and Interface”, Taubman Museum, Virginia
“The Great Road: Contemporary Woodfire Ceramics From North Carolina and Virginia”, Taubman Museum, Virginia
“An Intervention of the Senses”, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit

2013

“Transcendental Vision”, Sand City, CA
“Joseph Campbell: Nature, Myth & Art”, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel

2006

“West Meets East”, Montgomery College, Rockville
“Three Potters”, Galerie Besson, London

2005

“From East to West and In Between”, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

2001

“Icons and Archetypes”, Montgomery College, Rockville

1999

“Inheritors of a Legacy”, Japan Information & Cultural Center, Washington
“Major Mud II”, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida

1997

“Ceramics Invitational”, John Elder Gallery, New York
“Assimilations”, The Nippon Gallery, New York
“English Urban, American Rural”, Shillam + Smith, London
“Two Traditional Potters”, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond

1996

“Barnard, Temple”, Judith Dowling Asian Art, Boston,
“Wood-Fired Pottery”, Amalgam Gallery, London
“Virginia Clay”, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville

1995

“East Meets West”, Embassy of Japan, Washington
“Fuller, Barnard, Temple”, Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne

1993

“Modern American Potters”, Tenri Gallery, New York

1992

“Ceramic Dialogues; Shiro Otani & Rob Barnard”, Japan Information and Cultural Center, Japan Embassy, Washington
“Revolving Techniques”, James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown

1991

“Spirit Materials”, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia

1990

"Other Drummers/Other Visions", Fonda Del Sol, Washington

1989

“Fragile Blossoms, Enduring Earth”, Everson Museum, Syracuse

1986

“The Way of Tea: Inspirations”, Craft Alliance, St. Louis

1985

“Barnard/Chester/Naess”, Departure Gallery, New York
“Contemporary American Ceramics”, Azuma Gallery, New York

1984

“Wood firing in America”, Craftsman's Gallery, Scarsdale, New York

1983

“Wood/Fire”, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago

1982

“Continuity and Change”, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto

1981

“Ceramics for Collectors”, Westlake Gallery, White Plains, New York

1978

“New Faces/Japan”, British Embassy, Tokyo, Japan

1990

Crafts Fellowship, National Endowments for the Arts

1978

Crafts Fellowship, National Endowments for the Arts

American Craft Museum, New York
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Museum of America Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Everson Museum, Syracuse
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento
Mint Museum, Charlotte
Dickinson College, Carlisle
Millersville University, Millersville
Japan Embassy, Washington
International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville
Racine Art Museum, Racine
Milwaukee Museum, Milwaukee
The Mint Museum Craft + Design, Charlotte
Neuman Museum of Contemporary art, Overland Park, Kansas

2023

Tim Harris, “A Fine Carelessness: On Rob Barnard & Pottery”, Snow Lit Rev, no.12

2013

Richard Whittaker, “Transcendental Vision”, Works & Conversations, no. 24

2009

Emmanuel Cooper, “Contemporary Ceramics”, Thames & Hudson, London p.49

2007

“The Idea of the New, Breaking the Mould”, Black Dog Publishing, London p. 138-139

2005

Julian Stair, “The Mundane and the Extraordinary”, Ceramic Review (Issue 216)
Cara B. Eisenpress, “Professional Potter Shows and Throws”, The Harvard Crimson, March 10

2004

“The Ceramic Surface: Matthais Osterman”, A&C Black, London
“Responding to Art: Robert Bersson”, McGraw/Hill, p. 235

2003

“Asiatica”, Freer & Saclker Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution

2002

Jessica Dawson, “Barnard and Douglas at Anton”, The Washington Post, June 13

2001

Lee Lawrence, “East Meets West”, American Style, Spring 2001, p. 73
Michael O’Sullivan, “The Clay’s the Thing”, The Washington Post, March 16
Mark Burleson, “The Ceramic Glaze Handbook”, Lark Books, p. 9

2000

Michael O’Sullivan, “Freer to the Fourth Power”, The Washington Post, May 12
Claire Wilcox, “English Urban/American Rural”, Ceramics Monthly, Summer
“Endnotes”, CUA (Catholic University of America) Magazine, Fall 1999

1999

Mary Swift, “Rob Barnard, a Classic Potter in Virginia”, Washington Review, April/May
Edmund de Waal, “Design Sourcebook: Ceramics”, New Holland
Clary Illian, “A Potters Workbook”, University of Iowa Press

1998

Gerry Williams, “The Japanese Pottery Tradition and Its Influence on American Ceramics”, American Craft, April/May

1997

Beck Crothers, “Assimilations: Japanese Spirit, American Reality”, Washington Review Vol. XXII, No. 1
Janet Koplos, “Japanese Spirit, American Beauty”, Catalogue from “Assimilations,” Nippon Gallery, New York

1996

Janet Koplos, “Knowing Objects—An Unfinished Rumination”, New Art Examiner, April

1995

Jack Troy, “Wood-Fired Stoneware and Porcelain”, Chilton Books, p. xi, 7,8,110
“Rob Barnard, John Perreault”, American Ceramics, 12(1), 54
Nicols Fox, “Beauty Born of Fire”, Southern Accents, 18(5), Sept/Oct, 84-90
Julian Stair, “Geoffrey Fuller, Rob Barnard, Byron Temple: Invented Tradition”, Studio Pottery, #18, Dec/Jan
Jane Addams Allen, “Beyond East and West”, Catalogue from Beyond East and West: A Rob Barnard Retrospective 1974-1994, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Washington, DC.

1993

“The Dynamics of Useful Objects”, Ceramics Monthly, 1
“Utilitarian Clay: Celebrate the Object”, Jack Troy, American Ceramics, 10/3
“Rob Barnard, Mary McCoy”, Washington Post, 9-25

1992

“Function at the Junction”, Rex Weil, Washington City Paper
“Revolving Techniques”, Ceramics Monthly, 12
Linda Thern-Smith, “Rob Barnard”, New Art Examiner, September
Janet Koplos, “Rob Barnard”, Ichi No Ichi-Mainichi, Daily News, #6

1991

Alice Thorson, “Rob Barnard”, City Paper, 4-26
Leigh Ann Bowles, “Say It in Clay”, Curio, Summer
“NEA Fellowships 1990”, American Craft, 1

1990

“Richard Zakin”, Ceramics, Chilton Books, p.65
Matthew Kangas, “Critics Talk Back”, The Crafts Report, 1
Matthew Kangas, “Summing Up the Eighties”, American Ceramics, 8/3

1989

“The Fire Marked Pots of Rob Barnard”, The Daily Yomuri, 3-16
Alice Thorson, “Form Enhances Function”, Washington Times, 5-25
Florence Gilbard, “Rob Barnard/Tazuko Ichikawa”, Museum & Arts, 3

1988

Roger Gilroy, “Go East Young Man”, Washington Post Magazine, 3-20
Alice Thorson, “Teapots, Vases and Bowls”, Washington Times, 3-4
Benjamin Forgey, “Rob Barnard”, Washington Post, 3-19

1987

Roger Gilroy, “Molding the Past”, Veteran, 9
Warren Fredrick, “The Politics of Pottery”, Ceramics Monthly, 1
Mary McCoy, “Rob Barnard”, New Art Examiner, 6
Michael Welzenbach, “Rob Barnard: Potter”, American Ceramics, 5/4
Jane Addams Allen, “Master Potter”, Washington Times, 3-24
Jack Troy, “The Art of the Japanese Potter”, American Ceramics, 5/4

1985

“Woodfiring in America”, Ceramics Monthly, 9

1984

Michael Welzenbach, “Eye of the Potter”, Washington Post, 11-14
Timothy Harris, “Crafts and Craftsmen”, Asahi Evening News, 4-2
Amaury St. Gilles, “Rob Barnard”, Mainichi Daily News, 2-23-84
Louise Cort, Malcolm Wright, “The Peters Valley Woodfire Conference”, The Studio Potter, 12/2

1983

Louise Cort, “A Rob Barnard Teapot”, Ceramics Monthly, 12
Benjamin Forgey, “Barnard/Peterson”, Washington Post, 6-23

1977

Timothy Harris, “Rob Barnard”, Asahi Evening News, 4-2
“In Pursuit of Simplicity”, Asahi Shinbun, 5-27

2014

“The Illusion of Achievement”, The Log Book, Issue 57

2011

“The Willingness to Fail, Studio Potter”, Summer/ Fall, v.39, no. 2

2010

“Memories / Kondo Yutaka-sensei”, Kondo Yutaka, Joan Mirviss Ltd.

2007

“The GI Bill”, American Craft, Aug/Sept
“Japanese Ceramics for the New Century”, American Craft, April/May

2006

“New Trends in Clay”, Ceramic Review, Nov/Dec 2006

2005

“Mystery and the Art Experience”, Ceramics: Art & Perception (Issue 62)
“The Idea of the New, Breaking the Mould”, Black Dog Publishing, London

2004

“Paradise Lost? American Crafts’ Pursuit of the Avant-Garde, Objects and Meaning”, M. Anna Fariello and Paula Owen, Scarecrow Press, Maryland

2002

“Byron Temple, A Romantic Pragmatist”, The Studio Potter, August

2001

The Foreword to, “The Art of Contemporary American Pottery,” Kevin Hluch, Krause Publications
“Auf eigener Fahrte”, Keramik Magazin, Aug/Sept

2000

“A New Use for Function”, The Body Politic, The British Crafts Council

1999

“Julian Stair & Edmund de Waal”, Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 38

1998

“Bernard Leach by Edmund de Waal”, The Studio Potter, December

1997

“Obscure Objects of Desire”, Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 29

1996

“Ambiguity of Modern Craft”, Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 26, 102-103
“Woodfiring—Challenge or Refuge”, Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 23, 8-12

1995

“A Basketmaker in Rural Japan”, American Craft, 55(5), Oct/No 1995, 45-46
“Between Points in Clay”, Ceramics Monthly, 43(6), June/July/August 1995, 39-41

1994

Juror’s Statement, in the catalog of The Ninth Annual San Angelo National Ceramic Competition
“What Is Crafts For?”, The Studio Potter, 23(1), December, 6-7

1993

“The Ambiguity of Modern Craft”, New Observations, Issue 98, Nov/Dec, 10-11
“Tradition and the Future”, Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 14, 37-40

1992

“Delivering the Promise”, The Studio Potter, 21(1), December
“Beyond Entertaining”, Ceramics, Art & Perception, No. 9, 77-79
“Craft World”, American Craft, December/January

1991

“Use and the Art Experience”, Ceramics: Art & Perception, No. 5, 3-8
“Shiro Otani”, Ceramics Monthly, Summer
“The Shakers Versus the Rockets”, Ceramics Monthly, 4
“Byron Temple”, American Craft, August/September

1990

“The NEA and Pottery”, Ceramics Monthly, 12
“Tradition and the Modern Crafts Establishment”, The Studio Potter 18/2

1989

“In Praise of Feet”, The Studio Potter 18/2
“Rudolf Staffel”, American Craft, December/January
“An Interview with Janet Kardon”, New Art Examiner, 10
“Michael Cardew”, New Art Examiner, 4

1988

“The Influences and Use of Japanese Tradition”, American Craft, Jug/Sept
“Kitsch as Avant-Garde”, New Art Examiner, 9
“The Denial of Experience”, New Art Examiner, 2

1987

“Art and Design at Alfred, Turners and Burners”, The New Ceramics," American Craft, Oct/Nov
“Notes on New Talent”, New Art Examiner, 10
“A Search for Relevance”, NCECA Journal, 8(2), Winter 1987/1988, 18.
“Crafts in a Muddle”, New Art Examiner, 2
“British Teapots”, New Art Examiner, 1

1986

“Beyond the Process”, Ceramics Monthly, 10
“A Search for Relevance”, The Studio Potter, 13/1.
“Ceramics Battles Anti-Intellectualism”, New Art Examiner, 6

1985

“Lost Innocence”, American Craft, October/November
“Otto Natzler”, New Art Examiner, 9
“An Interview with Garth Clark”, New. Art Examiner, 9
“Ceramic Traditions of Kyoto”, New Art Examiner, 4

1983

“Japanese Ceramics Today”, New Art Examiner, 6
“Originality at All Costs”, The Studio Potter, 12/1

1982

“Transcending Woodfiring”, The Studio Potter, 11/1