Born 1926, Butte, MT
Died 2007, Missoula, MT

1986 Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Inst., College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1952 M.F.A. Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1950 B. Sc. Applied Art, Montana State College, Bozeman, MT
International Academy of Ceramics; elected member; Geneva, Switzerland
1980 National Endowment Grant
1978 American Ceramic Society Art Award
1963 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

Selected Exhibitions: 2002 Rudy Autio: A Retrospective, Missoula Art Museum, WA / 2000 SOFA/NY, Loveed Fine Arts, NY, NY / 1998 Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN / 1995 Tempe Art Center, Tempe, AZ / 1994 Umbra Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland / 1992 Maureen Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C. / 1992 Helen Drutt Gallery/New York, NY, NY / 1990 Crafts Alliance, Rudy Autio Retrospective, St. Louis, MO / 1988 San Antonio Art Institute, TX / 1985 Taideteollisuumuseo Helsinki, Finland / Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA / 1983 Rudy Autio: A Retrospective, traveling exhibition: Montana Historical Society Museum, Helena, MT; University of Montana, Missoula, MT; Bellevue Art Museum, WA; John M. Kohler Art Museum, Sheboygan, WI; American Craft Museum, NY, NY

Selected Collections: Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Art Museum, Seto, Japan / American Craft Museum, NY, NY / Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan / Banff Centre of Art, Alberta, Canada / Boston Museum, MA / Brooklyn Museum, NY / Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA / Kunstindustimuseet, Oslo, Norway / Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY / Lannan Foundation, LA, CA / Metropolitan Museum, NY, NY / Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansa City, MO / Portland Art Museum, OR / National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. / Seattle Art Museum, WA / Shigaraki Museum, Japan / St. Louis Art Museum, MO / Taideteollisuusmuseo, Helsinki, Finland / National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian, Washington, D. C. / US Embassy, Moscow, Russia / The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, U.K. / WOCEK Ichon Museum, Korea

Selected Publications: Lackey, Louana. Rudy Autio, American Ceramic Society, 2002 / Held, Peter. Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence: A Ceramic Continuum, Seattle & London, ed. 2001 / Clark, Garth & Hughto, Margie. A Century of Ceramics in the United States: 1878-1979, NY: E. P. Dutton, p. 272 / Harrington, Lamar. Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest: A History, Seattle Art Museum, 1979