EXHIBITIONS
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1997
Rudolf Staffel: Searching for Light; A Retrospective View, 1936-1996, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
1996
Rudolf Staffel: Searching for Light; A Retrospective View, 1936-1996, Taideteollisuumuseo/Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki
1995
Rudolf Staffel, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
1991
Rudolf Staffel, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
1990
Transparency in Clay: The Work of Rudolf Staffel, Museum voor Het Kruithuis/Museum for Contemporary Art, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
1989
Rudolf Staffel: Selected Works, 1935-1989, Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia
1988
Helen Drutt Gallery: Fifteen Years 1974-1979, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
1985
The Presence of Clay, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto
Rudolf Staffel, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
1981
Rudolf Staffel, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
1976
Rudolf Staffel: Light Gatherers, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
1967
Porcelain by Rudolf Staffel, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
1965
Rudolf Staffel, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2017
The Dramatic Vessel, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki Cultural Park, Japan
2016
At the Center: Masters of American Craft, Rudolf Staffel and David Ellsworth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
2014
White Magic: Robert Ryman and Rudolf Staffel, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2012
Ceramic Modernism: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Legacy, The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto.
2009
Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2003
Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
1998
Clay Into Art: Selections from the Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1994
The Ritual Vessel, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1993
Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
1990
Rudolf Staffel and Itsue Ito, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
1988
Power Over the Clay: American Studio Potters, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
1987
The Eloquent Object: The Evolution of American Art in Craft Media Since 1945, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
Investigations of the Mind, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
American Ceramics Now, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
1986
Contemporary Crafts: A Concept in Flux, The Society for Art in Crafts, Pittsburgh
Architecture of the Vessel, Bevier Gallery of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochestester
Crafts Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York
Contemporary Arts: An Expanding View, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey; Traveled to: Davis Museum of Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley
1984
Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A Passionate Vision: Contemporary Ceramics from the Daniel Jacobs Collection, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1981
Centering on Contemporary Clay: American Ceramics from the Joan Mannheimer Collection, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
American Potters: The Work of 20 Modern Masters, Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York
1980
The Contemporary American Potter, University of Iowa, Cedar Falls
American Porcelain: New Expressions in American Art, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1979
A Century of Ceramics in the United States, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Traveled to: Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1976
Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Contemporary Clay: Ten Approaches, Hopkins Center, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover
1974
Inaugural Exhibition, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
1972
Thirty Ceramics, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1969
Objects U.S.A., Smithsonian Institute, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
1966
Craftsmen USA 66, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
Ceramics Arts U.S.A. 1966, Smithsonian Institute, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
1964
Curator’s Choice, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
1962
Twenty-First Ceramic National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York