Anthony Sonnenberg (b. Graham, Texas) earned a BA with an emphasis in Italian and Art History in 2009 and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2012. His work which ranges from porcelain to performance has been shown across the United States and Internationally.
Notable recent exhibitions include; State of the Art II, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2020); I’m Going to Dance the Way I Feel - Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami FL (2021) Ceramics Now - Galerie Italienne - Paris, France (2021) Cannons Buried in Flowers, Gavlak Gallery. Los Angeles Ca (2023).
Notable Residences include; Windgate Museum Of Art Inaugural Artist-In- Residence (2021); CSULB-CCC Summer Resident Artist, California State University, Long Beach, CA (2018); Yaddo Artist Residency - Saratoga Springs, NY (2017); Resident at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX (2016) Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA (2012).
Sonnenberg lives and works in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Artist Statement
My art is a physical by-product of the act of creating objects of beauty as an antidote to my abiding fear of the certainty of my death and the knowledge that eventually even the memory of me will fade away. It exists at the intersections of desire and beauty, death and time - involving personal and other histories, found objects, flowers, and my body.
