if you're into ceramics?" He returned to California to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1966–1987. While teaching at the Institute, he also attended the University of California, Davis, earning his Master of Fine Arts in 1968. Shaw was Professor of Ceramics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1987 to 2021, and he currently lives in Fairfax, CA with his wife Martha. Awards Shaw has received the following awards: 2000: Marin Arts Council Board Award, San Rafael, California 1998: Shigaraki Cultural Ceramic Park, Shigaraki, Japan 1998: Artist in Residence, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts 1996: Annual Life Member Award, Falkirk Arts Center, San Rafael, California 1988: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, San Francisco Art Institute 1987: Visiting Artist Grant, Atelier Experimental de Recherche et de Création, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Paris, France 1974: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1971: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Museum collections Shaw is represented in the following museum collections: Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Selected solo exhibitions Shaw's solo exhibitions around the United States include: 2014: Richard Shaw: Ceramic Sculptures, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, California 2010: Richard Shaw: Four Decades of Ceramics, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California 2007: Richard Shaw: Working Drawings from Studio Sketchbooks, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California 2003: Trompe l'Oeil Ceramics, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1998: Master's Touch, Tempe Art Center, Tempe, Arizona 1990: Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California 1987: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii 1983: Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin 1979: Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California Selected group exhibitions Shaw's work has been included in the following group exhibitions around the United States: 2017: Variations on a Theme: Teapots from RAM's Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 2016: Order & Nature, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California 2013: New Blue and White: Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 2013: Top 10 at 10: Favorites from RAM's Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 2012: Crafting Modernism, Midcentury American Art and Craft, Museum of Art and Design, New