xtoubes@saic.edu
Collections, Awards, Lectures, Workshops
Colecciones, Premios, Conferencias, Talleres
Public Collections Colecciones Publicas
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Musée Ariana, Genéve,
Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Kunstmuseum, Den Haag
Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany
Colección Banco de España, Madrid
Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
Lappeenranta Museum of Art, Lappeenranta, Finland
Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China
Museu do Azulejo, Lisboa, Portugal
Museu de Cerámica de Manises, Valencia
Fundación Argentaria, Madrid
Ateliers d’Art de France
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. Republic of China
European Ceramics Work Centre. Sundaymorning@ekwc. Oisterwijk,
Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Colección ABANCA. Vigo
Fundación Caixa. Vigo
Fundación Coca Cola España
Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, North Carolina.
San Angelo Museum of Finer Arts, San Angelo, Texas
CAI Sala Luzán, Zaragoza
Ackland Art Museum. Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Chicago
The Wornik Collection. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, USA
Jay Collection. Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Gresol. Madremanya, Girona.
First National Bank, Columbia, Missouri, USA
The Gallery of Art and Design. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Art Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
European Ceramics Work Centre at the Kruithuis Museum,' s-Hertogenbosch.
Netherlands
Museum of Art & Design. New York (promised gift. Gail Brown collection. Philadelphia)
Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, USA
University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, Research Triangle
Park, Raleigh, USA.
Woodman Study Collection, Department of Art and Art History, University of
Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela
Harbourfront Studios, Toronto
Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, North Carolina, USA
Museo Carlos Maside, Sada, A Coruña
New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York
Seminario de Estudios Cerámicos, Sargadelos, Lugo
Pinacoteca Municipal do Concello da Coruña, A Coruña
Ayuntamiento de Alcorcón, Alcorcón, Madrid
Awards Premios
1975 Greater London Council,
1982 II Certamen Nacional de Cerámica, First prize. Alcorcón. Madrid
1983 Ministerio de Cultura. National Grant Award. Madrid
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington
The First International Ceramics, Mino, Japan -2 mentions
North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship, USA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation Fund,
1988 University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, commission
1989 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Fellowship, Winston- Salem
1991 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Prize Award
Arizona State University Museum. Tempe.
1994 Bienal Europea de Cerámica. Premio Gallego Vilar
Museo de Cerámica de Manises. Valencia
1995 Premio da Critica Galicia 1995- Artes Plásticas. Vigo.
1988 The 5th International Ceramics'98 Mino, Japan – mentions
Lectures, Panel, etc. Conferencias , etc.
1970 Co-founder Grupo de Traballo Galego en Londres
1971 Co-auhor de Plan Pedagoxico Galego. Edt. Xerais. Vigo.
1975 Glass workshop. Grant from Greater London Council.
1975 Assistant to Marylyn Dintenfass. Commission for sculpture
Benton and Bowles, Inc., New York.
Televisión Española, Madrid, ceramic-presentation
"Cerámica Contemporánea Americana". Taller de Cerámica
Madrid Lecture
The Ackland Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, Lecture.
Elected member of Academie Internationale de la
Céramique, Genéve, Switzerland.
1984 "Second North Carolina Pottery Conference"
Camp Caraway, North Carolina USA Lecture
"Undergraduate Art Show" North Carolina Central
University Art Museum, Durham. Curator.
Visual Arts Screening Panel (artist in residence)
North Carolina Arts Council.1987, 1988, 1989 Juror
"North Carolina Fellowship and Writers'Panel" Mint
Museum, Charlotte. Simposium
"New York, New Venue and North Carolina Artists"
Queens College, Charlotte. Simposium.
1985 The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.Winston-Salem Lecture
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem. Lecture
1992 The National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts,
Cincinnati. Lecture
International Academy of Ceramics . Edinburgh. Lecture
1992 The National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts,
Philadelphia. Lecture
"Encuentros de Ceramica" Taller de Aia, S. Pedro de
Andatza, Gipuzkoa . Lecture
1993 Southern-Arts. Winchester. Lecture
Museo de Cerámica de Manises. Valencia. Lecture
1993 "International Association of Residential Arts
Centres and Networks". Barcelona. Simposium
1994 Fundación Cultural "Knecht-Drenth". Callosa d'en
Sarria. Alicant. (representing the Ministery of
Culture- The Netherlands in the creation of cultural project )
1995 "Jingdezhen Kaolin International Ceramic Art
Conference" Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China (United
Nations Development Programme in China). Simposium.
"Matrix 3D : Sculpture: Method: Research" The London
Institute. Central Saint Martins College,
School of Art, London. Simposium- Lecture
Bienal Europea de Cerámica. Escuela de Cerámica de
Manises . Valencia. Lecture
Escuela de Artes Aplicadas, Valencia. Lecture.
1996 Etela- Karjalan Taidemuseo, Lappeeranta. Finland. Lecture
"Networks in Ceramics". University of Art and
Design. Helsinki.Finland . Lecture.
"Science and Art in Ceramics- University of
Manchester and UMIST" The Royal Institution of
Great Britain, London. Simposium- Lecture
The Artic Foundation. De Fabriek, Eindhoven, Lecture
1997 "En Torno al barro- Ceramica y Lugar" Palacio Vallesantoro, Casa de Cultura,
Sanguesa. Navarra. Lecture
1998 Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Galicia.
Pontevedra. Lecture
Facultad de Bellas Artes. Pontevedra . Lecture.
Fundación Luis Seoane. A Coruña. Lecture
Diputación Provincial de Lugo (Centro de Artesania e
Deseño de Galicia) Lugo. Lecture
1999. Cardiff Institute. Cardiff. Lecture
National Council on Education on Education for the
Ceramic Arts. Denver. Colorado. USA. Panel
Seminario de Estudios Ceramicos. O Castro. A Coruňa. E
2000 Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfields, Michigan. USA . Panel
2001 Encontros Estivais de Sargadelos. Museo Carlos Maside. O Castro.
A Coruña. Lecture
New York State College of Ceramics. Alfred University. New York.
Seminario de Estudios Ceramicos de Sargadelos. Cervo. Lugo. E. Lecture
Lill St. Art Center. Chicago. USA. Conference.
2002 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland. USA. Panel.
2003 GroBer Sitzungssaal der Handwerks Kammer fur Munchen und Oberbayern.
Munich. Germany. Conference
“NOW & NOW World Contemporary Ceramics”. The 2nd World Ceramic
Biennale 2003 Korea. The 2nd International Ceramic Symposium
“Creativity”. Lecture, Panel
2004 Kunsthogskolen i Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Lecture
Ceramic-Culture-Innovation. Europäisches IndustrieMuseum fűur
Porzellan. Selb-Plőβberg. Germany. Lecture
Ceramics Symposium Gmunden. Austria. Visiting Artist. Lecture.
IUN Gallery for Contemporary Art. Indiana University Northwest,
Gary, Indiana. Talk
Espacios de Creación Contemporánea. Santiago de Compostela. Lecture
2005 Northern Clay. Minneapolis. Conference & Juror.
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Deer isle, Maine, USA. Lecture
Iberiona. Museu del Poble Espanyol. Barcelona. Spain. Lecture
Escuela de Arte Picasso. A Coruña. Spain. Conference.
2006 Royal College of Art. London. (February & May) External Examiner.
2007 Royal College of Art. London. (February & May) External Examiner.
2008 Elmhurst Art Museum. Elmhurst. Chicago. Talk
The Hallmark Symposium Lecture Series. University of Kansas. Lecture
Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.
Stockholm, Sweden. Talk
2009 Instituto Cervantes. Lustre: Xavier Toubes. Chicago. Talk
2010 Xavier Toubes: thoughts about intuition and practice. Lecture.
National Conference on Education for the Ceramic
Arts. 2010, Philadelphia.
2011 Concordia University, Montreal. Canada.
Lecture and workshop. Department of Studio Arts
2012 100 Projects for Peace. Quinua, Ayacucho, Peru. Lecture
Artist Now series, UWM PECK School of Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Lecture
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. Lecture
Perimeter Gallery. Artist Talk
2013 Macau Science Center, organized by the Macau Sky & Earth Ceramic art
Association, Macau, China. Lecture
Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado at Boulder. Lecture
2014 Royal College of Art. London. Visiting studios. Lecture
Gerrit Rijtveld Academie, Amsterdam. Lecture
Visiting appointments , Workshops Artista invitado, talleres
1977 One year apprenticeship with Raymond Finch. Winchcombe
Pottery, Gloucestershire (England)
1978 Paul Sena Pottery, Worthington, Massachusetts. USA
1979 Seminario de Estudios Cerámicos de Sargadelos, Lugo, Spain.
1986 Seminario de Estudios Cerámicos de Sargadelos, Lugo,
1989 Keramisch Werkcentrum, Heusden, The Netherlands, summer.
Workshop-Visiting Artist, The Banff Center School of
Fine Arts. Banff, Canadá.
Workshop-Visiting Artist, New York State College of
Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred , New York
1990 Workshop-Visiting Artist. "International Creators”
Harbourfront Studios, Toronto, Canada.
Visiting Artist.Southeastern Massachusetts
University, New Bedford, Massachusetts
1995 Visiting Artist. Cranbrok Academy of Art. Bloomfields, Michigan
1996 Director of course-Centro de Investigación y Servicios, Ferrol
1997 Visiting Artist. Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bloomfields, Michigan
1998 Director of course: Dialogos sobre Cerámica. Convento del Carmen.
Casa de Cultura. Sangüesa. Navarra
1998 Visiting Artist. Lousiana State University. Baton Rouge.
1999 Visiting Artist. California State University at Long Beach.
2001 Visiting Artist. Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bloomfields. Michigan
Alfred Summer School. Artist in Residence. New York State College of
Ceramics. Alfred University. New York.
Teaching. International Ceramics.Castillo de Soutomaior. Pontevedra.
Workshop-Visiting Artist.
Visiting Artist. California College of Art and Crafts, Oakland, CA
2002 Summer, work period. European Ceramics Work Centre
‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2003 University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth at New Haven, Massachusetts
2005/6/7 Royal College of Art, London, UK, External examiner
2005 Teaching – Workshop, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe. New Mexico
Visiting Artist Ox-Bow. Michigan
Visiting Artist. Northern Clay. Minneapolis
2010 Named member of the council of the International Academy of
Ceramics. Genéve, Switzerland. Resigned in 2011.
2011 Concordia University, Montreal. Canada
Visiting Artist, Department of Studio Arts
2012 100 Projects for Peace Project, Ruraspanshis Yachanchis (We Learn by Doing)
Quinua. Ayacucho, Peru. A week Workshop
2012 Artist Now series, UWM PECK School of Arts, Visiting Artist.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2013 Macau Science Center, organized by the Macau Sky & Earth Ceramic art
Association, Macau, China
Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Visiting Artist and artist in residence.
2017 Fredericksburg, Virginia. Claremont Farm. Dan Finnegan Pottery: Assist and
participated in high-firing wood-salt firing; 3 day process.