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born in Barcelona 1937
   
Ceramics studies  
1953 - 1960 Escola Massana of Barcelona.
1962 Hammersmith College of Art and Building, London.
1966 - 1967 Sunderland Polytechnic of Art and Design. Sunderland (England).
1970 Kyoto City University of Arts (Japan).
   
Activities  
1965-2002 Professor of ceramics at the Escola Massana, Barcelona.
1976 – 1977 Invited professor of ceramics at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Veracruzana de Xalapa, Veracruz (Mexico).
1979 Invited professor of ceramics at the spring course of the Hartwick College in Oneonta, (New York).
1980 Invited to the International Symposium of Ceramics, Bechyñe (Czechoslovakia).
Professor of Plastic Research at the Escola Massana.
1981 Member of the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva.
1989 “Maître invité” to the Deuxième Triennale de la Porcelaine, Nyon (Switzerland).
1991 Invited at "Encuentros de Ceramistas Españoles". Summer  courses  Universidad Complutense. El Escorial, Madrid.
1992 Invited professor to the course in the Summer Workshop in the Department of Art, Haifa University, (Israel).
1994 Invited to the European Ceramics Work Centre, Hertogenbosch (Holland).
1997 Invited to the Atelier de Cerámique Artistique Mediterranéenne at Hammamet, (Tunisia).
Invited to the "Seminario de Estudios de Sargaledos", Lugo, (Spain).
1998 - 2003 Invited to the international Ceramics Symposium, Siklos, (Hungary).
   
Individual exhibitions  
1968 As Gallery, Barcelona.
1970 Ushio Gallery, Kyoto.
1971 As Gallery, Barcelona.
1972 Gallery Domingo´s, Lleida.
1973 Ars Gallery, Valls.
1974 Múltiple 4/17 Gallery, Madrid.
1976 Trivet Gallery, Alicante
1977 Galeria de la Plástica Mexicana, Mexico City.
Orfeó Catalá, Mexico city
Sala  de Cultura de la Caja de Ahorros de Pamplona, Spain.
1978 Banca Catalana, Madrid.
1980 Ceramics Museum, Barcelona.
1981 Espai Roca, Sabadell.
1982 Art 3 Gallery, Figueres.
1984 Siena Gallery, Valladolid.
1986 Cooperativa Coure, Olot.
Galerie Intérieurs, Paris.
1987 Ambigú Gallery, Zaragoza.
Negre Gallery, Sabadell.
1989 Artur Ramon Gallery, Barcelona.
1990 Akasaka Green Gallery, Tokyo.
1991 Galerie Argile, Brussels.
1992 Centre Culturel St. Exupéry: Maria Bofill - Robert Deblander, Reims
Cerç Art, Maria Bofill - Madola, Reus.
1993 Sargadelos Gallery, Madrid.
Galerie Epona, Paris.
1994 Galerie Marianne Brand, Carouge, Geneva.
1996 Sargadelos Gallery - Jordi Aguadé Maria Bofill. Madrid.
1998 Museo Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon. Portugal
2003 Museu del Cantir, Argentona, Barcelona.
   
Collective exhibitions  
1962 Girona.
1964 International Competition of Ceramics, Faenza.
1966 Gaspar Gallery, Barcelona;
Cerámica Española, Casón del Buen Retiro, Madrid.
1969 Contemporary Catalan Ceramics, La Bisbal and Galeria les Voltes Tarragona.
1971 Panorámica de la Plástica Catalana. Adrià Gallery. Barcelona
1972 Escola Massana. Barcelona. Perpignan, Stockholm.
1976 Potters of the Escola Massana. Barcelona.
1978 Homage to Llorens Artigas, Barcelona;
Catalan Ceramics, Matisse Gallery, Barcelona.
1979 44th Annual Art Exhibition, Cooperstown (New York);
Contemporary Ceramics of the Catalan Countries, AA/FAD, Barcelona.
1980 La Librería, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas;
Cerámica Actual Española,  Chile Pavillon, Sevilla;
International Symposium of Ceramics, Faenza;
International Symposium of Ceramics, Bechyñe Museum, Czechoslovakia.
1981 Homage to the Nicaraguan people, Barcelona.
Catalonia Today, UNESCO Hall, Paris;
Catalan weeks, Galerie Handwerkisammer, Coblence, Germany;
Contemporany Ceramics, Patio de las Francesas, Valladolid;.
Contemporary Ceramics, Casa de Cultura, Zamora;
Textiles and Ceramics, AA/ FAD, Barcelona
Congrés de Cultura Catalana, Barcelona.
1982 Catalunya Viva, Las Palmas Town Hall, Canary Islands;
Oficio y Arte, Expocultural, Madrid;
Expocultura 82, Congress Hall, Barcelona;
North American Catalan Society, itinerant, USA;
Miniature Ceramics, International Academy of Ceramics, Budapest;
25 potters of FAD, Ceramics Museum, Barcelona.
Amorós, Bofill, Madola, Martí-Coll Galerie Nomen. Barcelona.
1983 Regard sur la Céramique Catalane du XIIIe au XXe siècle, Fondation Firmin Bauby Sant Vicenç, Perpignan;
Preliminary, 1st Biennal of Plastic Arts, itinerant Zarragoza, Sevilla, La Coruña, Barcelona Spain;.
Arco 83 (Múltiple 4/17 Gallery), Madrid;
La Ceràmica Moderna a Catalunya, Dau al Set Gallery, Barcelona.         
 Amorós, Bofill, Madola, Martí-Coll, Can Xammar, Mataró. Barcelona.
1984 Amorós, Bofill, Madola, Martí-Coll Galerie Nomen. Barcelona.
1985 Arco 85 (Múltiple 4/17 Gallery), Madrid;
Art 85, (Múltiple 4/17 Gallery) Basel;
Contemporary Catalan Art 1970-1985, Fons d'Art de Xarxa Cultural, Centre Cultura de la Caixa. Terrassa.
Amorós, Bofill, Madola, Martí-Coll Ceramic Museum. Barcelona
1986 Cerámica Española Contemporánea, Casa de Colón, Las Palmas, Canary Islands;               
Contemporary Ceramics, Zaragoza;
38 potters of the Catalan Countries, MuseuComarcal, Olot;
Catalunya Centre d'Art, International Congress of the Catalan language, Girona;
Panorama de la cerámica española contemporánea, Spanish Museum of                              Contemporary Art, Madrid;
38 potters of the Catalan Countries, Sala Adama, Madrid;
86 Mino International, Ceramics Design Invitational Exhibition, Tajimi (Japan);
"Els Plats" Albardané, Bofill, Madola, Galerie Populart, Barcelona.
1988 East-West, Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, The Korean Culture and Arts, Foundation Seoül (Korea).
Ceramica en los museos International Ceranic Congress, Talavera de la Reina, Toledo Spain
1989 L'Europe des Ceramistes, Actualité de la Céramique Européenne , itinerant:
Auxerre  (Francce) Madrid (Spain), Linz (Austria), Budapest (Hungary),
Château de Joinville and Hagenau (France).  Galerie Ewers and Gross St. Martin, Cologne.
1990 Galerie Ewers and Gross St. Martin, Colònia.
1989 – 1990 Presente de la Cerámica Española, itinerant: Keramion Museum,  Frechen, Cologne.
Academia Española, Rome; Fundación Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico City; Demarco
Gallery, Edinburgh; Casa de España, Paris.
1991 Hans Thiemann Collection, Schloss Reinbeck, Hamburg;
Jornadas de Cerámica en Almería, Museo Arqueológico de Almería;
Fina Gómez Collection, 30 ans de Céramique Contemporaine, Musée des ArtsDécoratives de Paris.
1992 Dioce, Cerimoniale Galleria Alisso Design, Turín.
Acquisition Ceramics for the Communauté Française of Belgium
1979 –1991, Maison de la Culture, Tournai, (Belgium)
Collection d'Art Avui, Centre d’Estudis Contemporanis. Barcelona
AIC Members, Yildiz Palace, Istanbul;
Ode à la coupe, Musée des Arts Décoratives de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Centre d'Art Contemporani, St. Pere de Vilamajor (Barcelona);
International Ceramics, National Museum of History, Taipei (Taiwan).
1993 Keramiek uit Catalonië, Desko Gallery, Kortemark, Belgium;
Invited to the IV Triennial of Small Ceramics, Zagreb (Croatia).
1994 International Exhibition of Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts de Taipei (Taiwan).
Art Català d'Avui, Palazzo delle Terme di Levico, Levico Terme (Italia).
Abitare il tempo, "Sacra Fabrica", Passage de Retz, París.
AIC Members, Museo de las Artes Decorativas, Praga.
Albardané, Bofill, Madola: Arts i Lletres , Premià de Dalt, Barcelona.
Colección de Arte de l’Avui. Centro de Estudios contemporáneos de Barcelona.
1995 Contemporary Porcelain Keramik Galerie Böwig, Hannover (Germany);
Contemporary Porcelain, Maggie Barnes Ceramics, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire;
Porcelaine Contemporaine, Galerie Cristine Debras Yves Bical, Brussels;
8ème Biennale de Châteauroux, Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux (France);
La Ligne dans la Porcelaine Contemporaine, Galerie Desko, Kortemark(Belgium).
1996 10 years Galerie Amphora, Oosterbeek, Holland;
Galerie Carla Koch, Amsterdam.
"AIC Members ", Saga Prefectual Art Museum. Japan.
"Mostra della Ceramica 1996 " Castellamonte. Italy.
"Ceramica Espanhola Dos Arabes a Miró":  Museu Nacional do Azulejo. Lisbon,Portugal.
1997 "Porzellan aus dem Salzbrand", Rosenthal Studio Hausgalerie, Hamburg;
3 Certamen "San Agustín" de Cerámica, Avilés.
1998 Ceramiques contemporaines, Espace Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier,France.
"Porcelaine" itinerant, France.
Porcelaines Galerie Ortilles-Fourcat, Paris.
"Frauen in Europa" Galerie Marianne Heller ,Heidelberg, Germany.
"Aigua i pols de Tàrraco" Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona.
AIC, 98 Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Canada.
1999 "Frauen in Europa" Galerie für angerwandte Kunst. München, Germany.
"Keramuze 99" De Bilt/Bilthoven, Holland
Amorós,Bofill, Madola, Galerie Keramik, Viena.
1999 – 2000 3 i 3  Barcelona-Japan, Amorós, Bofill, Madola /Matsuda,Sato, Yoshikawa, itinerant Striped House Museum. Tokyo, The Museum of Craft Itami,Hyogo,       Sapporo Art Park, Sapporo, Hokaido; Ceramic Museum, Barcelona.
AIC Exhibition, Keramion, Museum Frechen, Germany.
“World Cup”, Gallery Suku, Seul, Corea.
“Bienal Internacional de Cerámica Artística Fuji 2000" Nakatomi Museum of Contemporany Fine Craft. Japan.
2001 “Fuji 2001", Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo.
“Fuji 2001", Palacio Mondragon, Ronda, Spain.
“Keramiekroute”, Keramisch Atelier, Utrecht, Holand.
“European Ceramic”, Galerie Yufuku, Tokyo, Japan.
“World Ceramic Exposition 2001. Wocek, Choson”,Royal Kiln Museum, Kwangju Korea.
Maria Bofill, Madola, Yukiko Murata: Le Vieux-Bourg, Gallery, Lonay-près-Morges, Switzerland.
2002 “AIC 50th. Anniversary members show”: Scool of Fine Arts, Athens.
“CERCO 2002” Ortillés-Fourcat Gallery, Zaragoza, Spain.
2003 “ Spaniske Keramik” : Handwerk Gallery, München
Maria Bofill – Madola: Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Saragossa, Spain
Maria Bofill – Madola: Sala de exposiciones del Ayuntamiento de Logroño.
2004 Cuenco, ceramics and sculpture in Cuenca, Fundación Antonio Saura, Cuenca Spain
Nakatomi Contemporany Fine Art Museum, Yamanashi, Japan.
Shibukawa Museum, Gunma, Japan
Maria Bofill, Carme Collell, Nuria Pie, Fundació Caixa de Vinaros, Castelló.
AIC Members Exhibition, Icheon  World Ceramic Center, Korea
 “Wite & Blaum”, Maria Bofill – Zahary Kamenov, Keramisch Galerie Utrecht, Nl.
Spanish Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, itinerant, Taipei Exhibition Center,
Caotun, Ku-Shan Museum, Kaoshiung, Taiwan.
2006 IAC Members Exhibituon, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia.
Buztin Erti 2006, Ceramistes Catalans a Euskadi, Kultur Etxea, Erakusketa Aretoa, Oñati, Gipuzkoa.
La Cerámica Española y su Integración en el Arte. Museo Nacional de Cerámica “Gonzalez Martí”, Valencia, Spain.
2007 “Aproximaciones al Paisaje” painting and ceramic, Galeria Cuatro diecisiete, Madrid.
3.Internationale Keramikausstelung, Kunstforum Piaristen, Viena.
2007 – 2008 “Escultura Cerámica Ibérica Contemporánea”, itinerant: Pazo de Cultura,
Pontevedra, Spain; Museu de Cerâmica da Caldas da Rainha, Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal.
Prizes  
   
1966 Travel grant from the Diputació de Barcelona.
1967 Ramón Sunyer medal, Cercle Artístic de St. Lluc, Barcelona.
1969 Grant from the Dotació d'Art Castellblanc to study at Kyoto City University of  Arts, Japan.
1981 Grant (purchase of pieces), Ministry of Culture, Madrid.
1982 Research Grant, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona.
1987 Research Grant, Generalitat de Catalunya, The porcelain in Japan.
   
Museum and Collections Ceramics Museum, Barcelona;
Ceramics Museum, Bechyñe, Czechoslovakia;
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Nicaragua;
Caja de la Inmaculad, Zaragoza;
Fondacione Museo Artístico Industriale Manuel Cargaleiro, Viteri sul Mare, Salermo, Italy
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid;
Thiemmann Collection,  Hamburg;
Musée Ariana, Geneva;
Keramion Museum, Frechen, Cologne;
Mimar Museum, Sinan University, Istanbul;
The Hispanic Society of America. New York;
Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres;
Fons d'Art de Premsa Catalana Avui, Barcelona;
Fons d'Art de Xarxa Cultural, Barcelona;
Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan;
EKWC Collection at Het Kruithuis Museum, Hertogenbosch, Holland;
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague;
Prefectural Art Museum. Saga. Japan;
Museu Nacional do Azulejo. Lisbon, Portugal;
Janus Pannonius Museum. Pecs, Hungary;
Museo de Ceramica, Aviles, Spain;
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Canada;
Wocek, Korea;
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan;
Benaki Museum, Athens Greece;
Nakatomi Fine Art Museum, Yamanashi, Japan;
World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Icheon Park, Korea;
Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia.
Fondacione Museo Artístico Industriale Manuel Cargaleiro, Vietri sul Mare, Salermo, Italia.