John Robert Craft

Lives outside of Clarendon, Texas 

Solo and Two Person Shows:

2026 Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX.

2025 Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.

2024 The Center Pivot, Shallow Water, TX. “Jack Craft & Ted Laredo: The Shawollowwater Silo Project”.

2023 Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. “What Once Was the Ocean is Now a Desert”.

2020 CO-OPt Artist Space , Lubbock, TX “Tumbleweed Rodeo, Jack Craft and Sarah Aziz”’

2020 Space P11, Chicago, IL. “Tumbleweed Rodeo, Jack Craft and Sarah Aziz'“.

2019 Exhibit/208, Albuquerque, NM. “Iron Clad II: The Art of Jack Craft and Ted Laredo”.

2019 CASP Artists’ Studios, Lubbock, TX. “Southwest Zen Garden and Tequila Bar, A performance-based installation.”

2018 West Texas A & M, Canyon, TX. “Iron Clad: The Art of Jack Craft and Ted Laredo.”

2016 Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, California, “John Robert Craft: Heat Etchings".

2016 Flatbed Gallery, Austin, Tx "Scorch and Drag",

2013 The Object Gallery. Amarillo, Tx. "Lines of Inquiry".

2013 500 X- Guest Artist, Dallas, TX. “Material + Structure".

2012 The Object Gallery, Amarillo, TX. "John Robert Craft Multiples”.

2010 Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX. "Jack Craft: A Cell of One's Own”.

2010 The Object Gallery, Amarillo, TX. "Solid Proof".

2009 Exhibitions2d Marfa, TX. "Point and Proof".

2007 Studio Duende, McKinney, TX. "John Robert Craft".

1983 first student sculpture to be placed on student sculpture pad at TCU, curated by art faculty and student committee.

Group Shows: Selected

2024 Old JailArt Center, Albany, Texas. “Center of Attention: Selected Acquisitions From the Past Decade”.

2023 Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. “Flatbed Press: A selection of Contemporary Prints.”

2023 Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM. “Art in the Making”.

2023 Curated by Amanda Kadinov, Austin,TX.“Coming Home // Creating Home”,

2020 Flatbed Press and Gallery, Austin, TX. “Flatbed Redux”.

2019 New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM. “Iron Tribe Invatational”,

2019  New West Contemporary Art Museum, Plainview, TX. “Rural Elements”.

2018   Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX. “Burning Ring Of Fire: 20 years of Cast Iron Art from the MCC Iron Pour” Curated by Alex Gregory.

2018 New Leaf Editions, Vancouver, BC, Canada. “BIMPE X Mini Print”.

2018 Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, TX “Flatbed Press: Proofs and Processes”. Curated by Danny Bills.

2017 Baltimore Print Fair, Baltimore, MD.

2017 Harwood Art Center Albuquerque, NM. "Hot Iron"

2016 "Prints and Plates" Houston, Texas.

2015 Amarillo Museum of Art Amarillo, TX. AMoA Biennial-600: SCULPTURE, Best of show. Juror Leigh Arnold curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.

2015 5 & J Gallery Lubbock, TX"Greyscale" Curated by Alberto Careaga and Chad Plunket, .

2015 Art Muesum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX. "Hot Off the Press: Recent Works from Flatbed Press". Curated by Sarah Beth Wilson.

2015 Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM. “Iron Tribe Show,”

2015 Texas Sculpture Symposium, Lubbock, TX“Texas Sculpture Symposium Group Show”.

2014 Flatbed Press Austin, TX "Flatbed Summer Selections".

2014 The Rockefeller Center New York, NY. Curated by The International Print Center New York. "The Big Picture".

2013 Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX. “Texas Sculpture Inside and Out: Invitational Exhibition”.

2012 “IPCNY New Prints 2011/2012 Benefit Exhibition”. New York, NY.

2012 Flatbed Press Austin, TX. “Le Grand Salon Du Flatbed.”

2012 Flatbed Press Austin, TX. “Flatbed Press New Editions”.

2012 IPCNY New York, NY. New Prints at the International Print Center New York Winter 2012.

2012 Kemp Center for the Arts, Wichita Falls, TX "Art on the Green Invitational".

2011 Flatbed Press Austin, TX. “Advancing Tradition: 20 Years of Printmaking” at Flatbed Press.

2010 Generator Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. Scott Krichau and Jack Craft.

2010 Philagrafika at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery Philadelphia, PA. “Autumn 2009 new prints IPCNY” curated by Jose Roca.

2009 International Print Center New York, NY “New Prints Autumn/2009”.

2009 222 Shelby Street Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. “Press Release, A Collection of Artist From Three Print Shops.”

2009 “Iron Tribe Show”, Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM.

2020-2006: Henry Cisneros Memorial Show, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM.

2008 Western Contemporary Cast Iron Conference Show. Denver, CO.

2008 Moss-Thorne Gallery Hayes, KS. “Iron Tribe Traveling Show

2008 Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX. 12x12 Exhibition,

2007 Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX. “Print Making Now, Rockport Center for the Arts”, Curated by Katherine Brimberry.

2007 Flatbed Press, Austin, TX. “Made @ Flatbed: Recent Editions”. Curated by Mark Smith PhD

2007 Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX. 12x12 Exhibition,

2005 Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM. “Recent Sculpture”,

Lectures/Graduate Programs:

2020 Studio review with Jimenez Lai’s class at Texas Tech University School of Architecture.

2019 Review graduate studios at Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, Texas.

2018 West Texas A & M Artist Talk.

2017 Texas Society of Architects annual convention presenter.

2017 Amarillo Museum of Art "Why Marfa!?".

2016 Orange Coast College Costa Mesa, California guest lecturer, visiting artist. 

2016 Flatbed Gallery Austin, Texas artist talk.

2016 Texas Tech School of Architecture Lubbock, Texas guest lecturer graduate studio.

2015 Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.

2013 Collin College Plano, Texas visiting artist.

2012 International Print Center New York, artist talk.

2010 Artist’s Talk,Old Jail Art Center Albany, Texas. 

Awards: 

2015-NEA Grant for Co-organizing Amarillo Art Center Iron Pour with Alex Gregor, in cooperation with The Amarillo Museum of Art.

2015 AMOA 600 Biennial: Sculpture. Best of show selected by Leigh Arnold assistant curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

2015 Honorarium Museum of Southeast Texas.

2013 Honorarium Collin College

2012 Artist Stipend Wichita Falls Arts Council

2012 Honorarium: International Print Center New York

2010 Honorarium: Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas

Education:

2012- Creative Capital Series of six Webinars moderated by Matthew Deleget

1996-1997 Self-directed travel to Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand

1985 BA, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas

1984 studied in London England at Institute of European Studies

Iron Pours:

2017 10th Keen Foundry Invitational Symposium, Houston, Texas.

2016 Tucumcari Test Pour, Mesalands CC, Tucumcari NM. 

2015 Iron pour at Amarillo Art Center- Co-organized with Alex Gregory 

2015 Atomic Iron Commission pour at Texas Tech in conjunction with the Texas Sculpture Symposium

2014 7th Keen Foundry Invitational Symposium, Houston, Texas

2013 Collin College, Plano, Texas

2022-2002 Tucumcari Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, New Mexico

2008 Hosted first iron pour of the Arctic Trail of Pours that ended inside the Arctic Circle in Alaska

2007 Down on the Farm Iron Pour, Decorah, Iowa

2007, and 2012 Iron Tribe Iron Pour, Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico

Printing:

2017-2019 CMY Suite three suites of four CMY combination color, steel plate intaglio prints, co-published by Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas, Annalise Gratovich collaborating printer.

2015 "Fire Etchings" Ten fire etched steel plate intaglio prints comprising a single work. Co-published at Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas. Heather Parrish, printer.

2013 self-published Kind of Grey: a deluxe boxed set of nine drawing based lithographs in an edition of twenty-six.

2012 self published "Pastoral Process" a boxed edition consisting of six sculptures and six letterpress prints with a bound essay and colophon in a wooden box. Published at Amarillo Speed Print, binding by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio.

2012 self-published, "Salt" a hand engraved intaglio edition at Dale Conner Studio in Amarillo, Texas.

2011 Flatbed Press Co-Published two editions with master printer Katherine Brimberry.

2010 Interbang Press-Worked with Master Printer Mitchell Marti to execute a copper-plate etching.

2009 Flatbed Press-Worked with Master Printer Katherine Brimberry to co-publish four limited edition large scale wood cut prints.

2008 Interbang Press-Worked with master printer Mitchell Marti to produce a series of direct trace mono-type prints and reverse trace mono-type prints.

2007 Interbang Press-Worked with Master Printer Mitchell Marti to execute 20 reverse trace mono-type prints.

2006 Flatbed Press-Worked with Master Printer Katherine Brimberry to execute 60 reverse trace mono-type prints including: 3- 50"x50"prints and 1-50"x96" print.

Bibliography:

2023 “What Once Was the Sea is Now the Desert”. Review in Glasstire by Michelle Kraft.

2022 “Art in the Making” Published by Fisher Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, editor Christopher Benson. www.thefisherpress.com

2021 “How Do You Add On to the Perfect Small House? You Don’t.” New York Times Real Estate Section August, 10 2021.. Work featured in photos illustrating the article.

2020 Flatbed Redux number two on Glasstire’s Top 5 February 20, 2020

2019 Rural Elements number one on Glasstire’s Top 5, August, 8th 2019

2019 Southwest Zen Garden and Tequila Bar profiled on Glasstire as a Top 5 show of the week in Texas.

2017 Flatbed at 25, 25- year retrospective published by University of Texas Press, 2016. Finalist for best art book of the year. Forward by Susan Tallman.

2016 “Letters from the Mother Road” AEQAI by Susan Byrnes

2016 "Scorch and Drag" at Flatbed Gallery , Sam Anderson-Ramos, The Austin Chronicle.

2016 "Cooking Experimental Matrices Prints by John Robert Craft" By Peter Briggs PhD. Southern Graphics International 

2015 SNAP Conference, 3rd International Printmaking Symposium "Drag and Grind" presented by Peter Briggs PhD Helen Devitt Jones Curator of Art

2015 Art in Print 

2012 Artist, Rancher, Sculptor, Printer: John Robert Craft

2011 Desert Datascapes RISD News Blog

2011 Where the Art Lives: Exhibitions 2D

2010 Catalog for "Cell of One's Own: John Robert Craft." Written by Patrick Kelly.

2009 Point and Proof installation reviewed on "Minus Space" an online platform for reductive art on an international level.

2009 Point and Proof installation reviewed on "GlassTire" the Texas online arts source.

2009 February Texas Highways Magazine, "Marfalous!"

Video:

2007 Wrote, directed and produced a short movie/artist statement titled "Objects of Martial Passion," publicly shown at 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

Collections:

Public:

Artist Printmakers Research Collection at The Museum of Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas

Hall Arts Hotel, Dallas, Tx

Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX

Private collections in USA, UAE, UK, and Switzerland

Galleries:

Exhibitions 2d, Marfa, Texas

KOURI + CORRAO Santa Fe, New Mexico

Flatbed Press and Gallery Austin, Texas

Bale Creek Allen Gallery,Fort Worth, Texas