Bushnell, IL, 1927 – Seattle, WA, 1998

1955 M.F.A. University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1954 Archie Bray Foundation, Artist in Residence, Helena, MT
1953 B.F.A. School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1991 Personal papers collected by the Archives of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1983 Honors Program Award, King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
1966 Japan Society Grant

Selected Exhibitions: 2000 SOFA/NY Loveed Fine Arts, NY. NY / 1999 The Estate of Robert Sperry, Ceramics & Prints, Howard House, Seattle, WA / 1998 Robert Sperry 1927-1998: New Prints, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA / Ceramics & Prints, Howard House, Seattle, WA / 1994 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ / 1993 Robert Sperry-Ceramics, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. / Joane Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ / 1992 Schnieder Blume Loeb Gallery, Chicago, IL / 1991 Helen Drutt Gallery/New York, NY, NY / Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA / 1987 Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, Il / 1985 Robert Sperry: A Retrospective, Bellevue Art Museum, WA; Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA

Selected Collections: American Craft Museum, NY, NY / Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY / Los Angeles County Museum, CA / Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC / National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. / Seattle Art Museum, WA / Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea / Chubb International Insurance Group, Wallen County, NJ / Hewlett Packard / Hughes Aircraft Coo / IBM, Atlanta, GA / Microsoft, Redmond, WA / S.C. Johnson Collection, Racine, WI / SAFECO Insurance Co., Seattle, WA / Vulcan enterprises, Seattle, WA

Selected Publications: Beger, Paul. Robert Sperry 1927-1998; New Prints, Bellevue Art Museum, 1998 / Perry, Barbara. American Ceramics: The Collection of the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1989 / Kangas, Matthew. Robert Sperry: A Retrospective, Bellevue Art Museum, WA, 1985 / Kangas, Matthew. Robert Sperry/Recent Work, Erica William-Ann Johnson Gallery, 1981 / Harrington, LaMar, Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest: A History, University of Washington Press, 1979