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Brock DeBoer

Hard Candy
Porcelain, Glaze, AAA Freshwater Pearls, Silk
24x7.5x6.5
Summer League
Porcelain, Glaze
38.5x8x8
Pure Mojave
Porcelain, Glaze
64x12x12

About the Artist:

Brock DeBoer’s artistic process as a ceramic sculptor utilizes porcelain, historical motifs, and surface treatments to re-contextualize everyday objects, items from his past, and objects of popular culture.

Many are highly nostalgic to his generation and beyond touching on many facets of everyday life. DeBoer’s highly crafted casts in porcelain become archival, altering their permanence while questioning the value of these everyday objects.

DeBoer draws influence from his midwestern upbringing combined with the ever-changing and vastly diverse landscape of Los Angeles and the rural landscape of Joshua Tree.

Education

2003-2007 Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts-Ceramics

Solo Exhibitions

2023 “The Living Room Project” Arlo Gallery Nomad, New York, New York

2022 “Far from Home” Guy Hepner Editions, New York, New York

2022 “Knee High by the 5th of July” Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri

2021 “nite life” Over the Influence, Los Angeles, California

2021 “Unique Porcelain Sculptures” Guy Hepner Editions x The Tax Collection, Digital Exhibition

2021 “Gossamer” Guy Hepner Editions x The Tax Collection, Digital Exhibition

2018 “sifting through the detritus” Haw Contemporary Crossroads, Kansas City, Missouri

2017 “Archival Nostalgia” Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri

Group Exhibitions

2024 “The Sculpture Edit” Guy Hepner Editions, New York, New York

2024 “AND ONE” The Local Gallery, New York, New York

​2024 “Chairish Art Gallery” at Bergdorf Goodman, New York, New York

2024 “The Chairish Villa” at The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida

2023 “TIP-OFF” The Local Gallery, New York, New York

2023 “MATERIAL INFLUENCE” Maune Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia

2023 “DECADE” Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri

2023 “Lucky 13: An Exploration of Luck and Superstition” Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

​2018-19 Pocket Object Traveling Exhibition, Curated by Noél Morical

2018-19 “The Fool’s Journey” Traveling Exhibition, Curated by BBQLA AFA

​2018 “what we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, Curated by BBQLA

2016 “Weed-Craft”, Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, Curated by Dean Roper

2015 Belger Crane Yard Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

2014 “Merge” Belger Crane Yard Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

2014 “Hot Shop” Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

2013 The Guild, Kansas City, Missouri, Curated by Skyler Bieberly

2013 “OBJET boutique” Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, Curated by Dean Roper

2010 “ART-TEST” Greenlease Art Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, Curated by Sean Kelly

Commissions

2022 Super Bowl LVI, Brock DeBoer for Gatorade Porcelain Wall Installation. The West Hollywood Edition

2021 “NBA 2K” Custom Porcelain Basketballs

2019 “Brock DeBoer for Bleacher Report NBA Awards” Custom Gold Porcelain Sneaker Trophy awarded to PJ Tucker, Los Angeles, CA

2019 “Brock DeBoer for John Geiger” Limited Edition of 24 Porcelain Sneakers, Los Angeles, CA

2018 “Victor Solomon x Brock DeBoer” Moonshot VS.004 Kintsugi Porcelain Basketball Edition of 33, Los Angeles, CA

2018 “Victor Solomon x Brock DeBoer” John Elliott Co. x LeBron James at NikeLab, Shanghai, China

2018 “Victor Solomon x Brock DeBoer” Boston Celtics Permanent Instillation at Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts

2017 “Victor Solomon X Brock DeBoer” The Players Tribune, New York, New York

2017 “Megaphone” Tech Week, Kansas City, Missouri

2017 “Valentino” Mahari Yarid Designs for If You Know Concepts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2014 “Bento Box Dinnerware” Kauffman Performing Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri

Publications

​2024 Forbes “The Colony Hotel And Chairish Collaborate on a Shoppable Villa” by Amanda Lauren

2024 Galerie “Palm Beach’s Colony Hotel Collaborates with Chairish on a Whimsical, One-of-a-Kind Suite” by Jacqueline Terrebonne

2023 Society “Rêves de porcelain” or “Porcelain Dreams” by Julien Langendorff

​2023 My Modern Met “Artist Painstakingly Recreates Ordinary Objects in Beautiful Porcelain” by Regina Sienra

2023 Colossal “In Remarkably Realistic Sculptures, Brock DeBoer Preserves Quotidian Objects in Porcelain” by Kate Mothes

2021 Create! “Grittiness and Gold” by Alicia Puig, Create! Magazine

2021 Fete Chinoise “Brock DeBoer Interview”, Fete Chinoise Magazine

2019 JOIA “For Brock DeBoer, everything can be a ceramic sculpture” by Adriana Conde, JOIA Magazine

2018 Mind “All in the Details | An Interview with Brock DeBoer” by Sarah Elaine Rossi, MiND Magazine

2018 Esquire “You Didn’t Know You Needed Baller Basketball Art-Until Now” by Nate Erickson, Hearst Communications

2018 Art Zealous “11 Ceramic Artist to Follow on Instagram” by Art Zealous

2018 Highsnobiety “This Reconstructed Ceramic Basketball is Luxe AF” by Renz Ofiaza, Titel Media