Resume and Bio > Frank Boyden
FRANK BOYDEN
American, Born 1942
Academic and Professional Training
Yale University, School of Art: Major in Painting; M.F.A. and B.F.A., 1968.
Colorado College: Major in Art; B.A., 1965.
Selected Awards, Grants and Commissions
2017 National Council for Education in Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Outstanding Achievement Award to Jane and Frank Boyden in recognition of their work with the Sitka Center and transformative efforts on behalf of the arts and education
2016 Stafford Grove, Lake Oswego, Oregon
2013 Received the Janet Mansfield Fellowship award
2009 Received the Ray Trayle Print Prize
2008 Commission for sculptures in five stations on the WES line, TriMet, Portland, Oregon.
2006 Drinking fountain, OHSU, Portland, Oregon.
2005 Stafford Stones, sculpture to commemorate poet William Stafford, Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Commission for two water feature sculptures, OHSU, Portland,
Oregon.
2004 Commission for the new Washington State Police Forensics Crime Lab building, Cheney, Washington. Sculpture.
Kincade Curlicue Corridor Stones, Lake Oswego, Oregon.
2003 Prints selected for Oregon Governor's Arts Awards.
2002 Commission for city of Bend, Oregon. Kinetic sculpture.
2001 Patron print for Gilkey Center, Portland Art Museum.
2000 Commission for TriMet, Portland Oregon. Three wind pieces to
announce the start of the light rail to Portland International Airport.
1998 Commission for Washington Park Zoo, Portland, Oregon.
1997 Commission for Justice Center Complex Sculpture Park, Hillsboro, OR
1996 Commission for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital entry and lobby,
Portland, Oregon.
1995 Received Governor’s Arts Award, Oregon
1995 Three bronze sculptures for courtyard of new science building commissioned by Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus.
1995 Commissioned by Oregon State Board of Education to design and
build the kiln and foundry facility at Western Oregon State College.
1992 Bronze Sculpture for Vietnam Memorial Park, Newport, OR
1991 Individual Artist Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, for travel to Russia
1981 Crafts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1978 Award for Excellence, Oregon Crafts
1977 Individual Artist Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, for study of ceramics in
Peru and Ecuador
Selected Exhibitions
AMOCA, 10th anniversary exhibition, Pomona, CA 2015
Frank Boyden, Oregon Icon, Fairbanks Gallery, OSU, Corvallis, OR 2015 Ink This! Contemporary Print Arts in the Northwest, Tacoma Art
Museum, Tacoma, Washington 2014
Frank Boyden as Printmaker, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI 2014
Coleman and Boyden, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana 2014
Feast and Famine: The Pleasures and Politics of Food, Portland Art
Museum, Oregon 2014
Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman: Collaboration: Works in Clay,
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington 2012
Friends and Firemates, Denmarks Keramikmuseum Grimmerhus,
Denmark 2012
Mythologia, Gods, Heros and Monsters, Portland Art Museum, Oregon 2012
Animal Magnetism, Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin 2012
Portfolios and Artist Books, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington 2012
Frank Boyden and Brad Rude, Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d’Alene, ID 2011
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011
Clay Throwdown, Bellevue Art Museum Biennial, Bellevue, WA 2010
11th Annual Clay Invitational, Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d’Alene, ID 2010
On the River Through the Valley of Fire: The Collaborative Ceramics of Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman; American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA 2008
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011
Conversations Across Time: Rembrandt, Ensor, Boyden,
C.G. Boerner Gallery, New York. 2007
Foundry Gallery, Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, Washington. 2007
“Jean Vollum & Frank Boyden,” Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of
Art & Craft, Portland, OR 2006
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Retrospective Print Exhibition,
Willamette University, Salem, OR 2006
Porcelain in the Anagama, Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2005
"Sculpture form the Walla Walla Foundry," The Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 2004
"The Enchantment of the Artist's Book," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2004
“Soul of a Bowl,” Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR 2004
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA 2004
“21st Century Ceramics,”Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH 2003
“Clay Today,” Borby Castle Gallery, Skaelskor, Denmark 2000
“Northwest Sculptors,” Maryhill Museum, Maryhill, WA 2000
“Millennium Exhibition,” Gallerie Besson, London, England 1999
“International Woodfired Ceramics Conference,” University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1999
“Global Ceramics,” Babel, Amsterdam, Landsmeer, The Netherlands 1998
“Drawing on Clay,” Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 1998
“Woodfired Invitational: Ten American Potters,” Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Il 1998
“Outdoor Sculpture’98,” Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA 1998
“Cast Contemporary Sculpture,” Walla Walla Foundry at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 1997
“International Print Exhibition,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1997
“25 Years of Clay,” Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR 1996
Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR 1981, 1984, 1996
"Frank Boyden, Torbjorn Kvasbo, and Poul Jensen," Gallerie Norbey,
Copenhagen, Denmark 1993
"American Crafts: The Nation's Collection," Renwick Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 1992
"Clay Today," Posio, Finland 1992
"American Woodfire," University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA 1991
"Frank Boyden and Paul Jensen", Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum,
Trondheim, Norway 1991
"Anagama," Kunst und Keramiek, Deventer, The Netherlands 1990
Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1990
Dawson Gallery, Rochester, NY 1985, 1986, 1989
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA 1987
Grove Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA 1987
"Recent Acquisitions," Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC 1988
"Burren Impact," Dublin, Ireland 1986
Craftsmen's Conference, Ballyvaughan, Ireland 1985
"Architectural Ceramics," Elements Gallery, New York, NY 1983
Elements Gallery, New York, NY 1982, 1984
Northwest Crafts Center, Seattle, WA 1978, 1980
"Selected Oregon Craftsmen," Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC 1980
Portland Crafts Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan 1979
"19 American Craftsmen," Osaka, Japan 1978
Four Elements Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978
Portland Art Museum, One-person exhibition of paintings, Portland, OR 1968
Selected Museum and Corporate Collections
Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
Arizona State University Museum of Art, Ceramics Research Center
Art Institute of Chicago
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Clay Museum, Middlefart, Denmark
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Delta Airlines, Portland, OR
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Gordon Gilkey Print Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (archive of Boyden prints)
Grimmerhus, Ceramic Museum, Fyn, Denmark
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR
Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Lincoln City, Oregon, commission
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Museum of Decorative Arts, Riga, Latvia
Museo de Arte Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Newport Oregon Public Library
Newport Oregon, Vietnam Memorial commission
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Logan, UT
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondhiem, Norway
Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, OR
Oregon Historical Society
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland General Electric, Portland, OR
Pushkin Museum, Moskva, Russia
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Smith College Rare Books Library, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian Institution, American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Stanford University Rare Books Library, Palo Alto, CA
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Tongass Historical Museum, Ketchikan, AK
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
University of Oregon, School of Allied Arts and Architecture
U.S. National Bank, Portland, Oregon
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, UK
Washington State Art in Public Places
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Yamaha Corporation, Japan
Handmade Books
All handmade books in collaboration with Ian Boyden at Crab Quill Press.
The Irreverences, Provocations & Connivances of Uncle Skulky. Edition of 5. 22 original etchings and 2 drawings by Frank Boyden. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla WA, 2004.
Field of Aki. Edition of 6. 14 original prints by Frank Boyden based on poem written in 693 AD by Hitomaro and translated by Ed Morris. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA, 2004.
Evidence of Night. Edition of 15. 11 original prints by Frank Boyden and 14 poems by Jennifer Boyden. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA, 2003.
Parts and Pieces. Eight original prints by Frank Boyden and eight original prints by Rick Bartow. Each book also contains sixteen pages of original drawings by the artists. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA, 2002.
20 Views of Cascade Head. Edition of 10. Five original prints by Frank Boyden, five original prints by Charles Chu, five poems by Jennifer Oakes, and five poems by Ian Boyden. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA 2001.
Bird Spirits. Edition of 20. Nine original prints by Frank Boyden and nine scores by William Bolcom. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA, 2000.
A Carousel at Birth. Edition of 20. Twelve original prints by Frank Boyden and poetry by Ian Boyden, Salient Seedling Press, Portland, Oregon, 1997.
Published books
The Interactivators, Sculpture for TriMet WES Commuter Rail by Mary Priester; 48 page book published by TriMet, Portland, Oregon 2009
On the River through the Valley of Fire: The Collaborative Ceramics of Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman by Daniel Lamberton. 141 page book published by the American Museum of Ceramic Art, 2008.
Coexistence with Fire: Wood-fired Ceramics by Frank Boyden, 1985-2007, a 245 page book published by the American Museum of Ceramic Art, 2008.
Conversations across Time: Rembrandt, Ensor, Boyden. 120 page catalogue published by C.G. Boerner Gallery, NY, in conjunction with exhibition, 2007.
Frank Boyden|The Empathies, with companion prose by David James Duncan and Kim Stafford, 80-page book published by Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 2006.
Frank Boyden Prints and Books, by Prudence F. Roberts and Ian H. Boyden, 152-page book published by Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, in conjunction with retrospective print exhibition, 2006.
The Irreverences, Provocations & Connivances of Uncle Skulky. 64 page catalogue. Portland Art Museum, 2004.
Soul of a Bowl. 80 page catalogue. Contemporary Crafts Association, Portland, Oregon 2003.
Frank Boyden & Brad Rude. Catalogue of Collaborative Commission for the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, 1995-1998.
Selected publications
American Craft, June-July 1996.
Davies, Terry, “Drawing on Totemic Powers”, Craft Arts International, Dec. 1988
Lane, Peter, Ceramic Form, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, NY 1988
“The Province of Frank Boyden,” American Craft, Vol. 42, No. 2 1982, pp. 10-13, 84
Harrington, Lamar. Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest: A History, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA 1979
American, Born 1942
Academic and Professional Training
Yale University, School of Art: Major in Painting; M.F.A. and B.F.A., 1968.
Colorado College: Major in Art; B.A., 1965.
Selected Awards, Grants and Commissions
2017 National Council for Education in Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Outstanding Achievement Award to Jane and Frank Boyden in recognition of their work with the Sitka Center and transformative efforts on behalf of the arts and education
2016 Stafford Grove, Lake Oswego, Oregon
2013 Received the Janet Mansfield Fellowship award
2009 Received the Ray Trayle Print Prize
2008 Commission for sculptures in five stations on the WES line, TriMet, Portland, Oregon.
2006 Drinking fountain, OHSU, Portland, Oregon.
2005 Stafford Stones, sculpture to commemorate poet William Stafford, Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Commission for two water feature sculptures, OHSU, Portland,
Oregon.
2004 Commission for the new Washington State Police Forensics Crime Lab building, Cheney, Washington. Sculpture.
Kincade Curlicue Corridor Stones, Lake Oswego, Oregon.
2003 Prints selected for Oregon Governor's Arts Awards.
2002 Commission for city of Bend, Oregon. Kinetic sculpture.
2001 Patron print for Gilkey Center, Portland Art Museum.
2000 Commission for TriMet, Portland Oregon. Three wind pieces to
announce the start of the light rail to Portland International Airport.
1998 Commission for Washington Park Zoo, Portland, Oregon.
1997 Commission for Justice Center Complex Sculpture Park, Hillsboro, OR
1996 Commission for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital entry and lobby,
Portland, Oregon.
1995 Received Governor’s Arts Award, Oregon
1995 Three bronze sculptures for courtyard of new science building commissioned by Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus.
1995 Commissioned by Oregon State Board of Education to design and
build the kiln and foundry facility at Western Oregon State College.
1992 Bronze Sculpture for Vietnam Memorial Park, Newport, OR
1991 Individual Artist Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, for travel to Russia
1981 Crafts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1978 Award for Excellence, Oregon Crafts
1977 Individual Artist Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, for study of ceramics in
Peru and Ecuador
Selected Exhibitions
AMOCA, 10th anniversary exhibition, Pomona, CA 2015
Frank Boyden, Oregon Icon, Fairbanks Gallery, OSU, Corvallis, OR 2015 Ink This! Contemporary Print Arts in the Northwest, Tacoma Art
Museum, Tacoma, Washington 2014
Frank Boyden as Printmaker, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI 2014
Coleman and Boyden, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana 2014
Feast and Famine: The Pleasures and Politics of Food, Portland Art
Museum, Oregon 2014
Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman: Collaboration: Works in Clay,
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington 2012
Friends and Firemates, Denmarks Keramikmuseum Grimmerhus,
Denmark 2012
Mythologia, Gods, Heros and Monsters, Portland Art Museum, Oregon 2012
Animal Magnetism, Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin 2012
Portfolios and Artist Books, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington 2012
Frank Boyden and Brad Rude, Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d’Alene, ID 2011
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011
Clay Throwdown, Bellevue Art Museum Biennial, Bellevue, WA 2010
11th Annual Clay Invitational, Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d’Alene, ID 2010
On the River Through the Valley of Fire: The Collaborative Ceramics of Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman; American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA 2008
The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011
Conversations Across Time: Rembrandt, Ensor, Boyden,
C.G. Boerner Gallery, New York. 2007
Foundry Gallery, Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, Washington. 2007
“Jean Vollum & Frank Boyden,” Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of
Art & Craft, Portland, OR 2006
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Retrospective Print Exhibition,
Willamette University, Salem, OR 2006
Porcelain in the Anagama, Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2005
"Sculpture form the Walla Walla Foundry," The Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 2004
"The Enchantment of the Artist's Book," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 2004
“Soul of a Bowl,” Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR 2004
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA 2004
“21st Century Ceramics,”Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH 2003
“Clay Today,” Borby Castle Gallery, Skaelskor, Denmark 2000
“Northwest Sculptors,” Maryhill Museum, Maryhill, WA 2000
“Millennium Exhibition,” Gallerie Besson, London, England 1999
“International Woodfired Ceramics Conference,” University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1999
“Global Ceramics,” Babel, Amsterdam, Landsmeer, The Netherlands 1998
“Drawing on Clay,” Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 1998
“Woodfired Invitational: Ten American Potters,” Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Il 1998
“Outdoor Sculpture’98,” Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA 1998
“Cast Contemporary Sculpture,” Walla Walla Foundry at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 1997
“International Print Exhibition,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1997
“25 Years of Clay,” Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR 1996
Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR 1981, 1984, 1996
"Frank Boyden, Torbjorn Kvasbo, and Poul Jensen," Gallerie Norbey,
Copenhagen, Denmark 1993
"American Crafts: The Nation's Collection," Renwick Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 1992
"Clay Today," Posio, Finland 1992
"American Woodfire," University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA 1991
"Frank Boyden and Paul Jensen", Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum,
Trondheim, Norway 1991
"Anagama," Kunst und Keramiek, Deventer, The Netherlands 1990
Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1990
Dawson Gallery, Rochester, NY 1985, 1986, 1989
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA 1987
Grove Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA 1987
"Recent Acquisitions," Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC 1988
"Burren Impact," Dublin, Ireland 1986
Craftsmen's Conference, Ballyvaughan, Ireland 1985
"Architectural Ceramics," Elements Gallery, New York, NY 1983
Elements Gallery, New York, NY 1982, 1984
Northwest Crafts Center, Seattle, WA 1978, 1980
"Selected Oregon Craftsmen," Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC 1980
Portland Crafts Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan 1979
"19 American Craftsmen," Osaka, Japan 1978
Four Elements Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978
Portland Art Museum, One-person exhibition of paintings, Portland, OR 1968
Selected Museum and Corporate Collections
Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
Arizona State University Museum of Art, Ceramics Research Center
Art Institute of Chicago
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Clay Museum, Middlefart, Denmark
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Delta Airlines, Portland, OR
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Gordon Gilkey Print Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (archive of Boyden prints)
Grimmerhus, Ceramic Museum, Fyn, Denmark
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR
Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Lincoln City, Oregon, commission
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Museum of Decorative Arts, Riga, Latvia
Museo de Arte Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Newport Oregon Public Library
Newport Oregon, Vietnam Memorial commission
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Logan, UT
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondhiem, Norway
Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, OR
Oregon Historical Society
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland General Electric, Portland, OR
Pushkin Museum, Moskva, Russia
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Smith College Rare Books Library, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian Institution, American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Stanford University Rare Books Library, Palo Alto, CA
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Tongass Historical Museum, Ketchikan, AK
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
University of Oregon, School of Allied Arts and Architecture
U.S. National Bank, Portland, Oregon
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, UK
Washington State Art in Public Places
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Yamaha Corporation, Japan
Handmade Books
All handmade books in collaboration with Ian Boyden at Crab Quill Press.
The Irreverences, Provocations & Connivances of Uncle Skulky. Edition of 5. 22 original etchings and 2 drawings by Frank Boyden. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla WA, 2004.
Field of Aki. Edition of 6. 14 original prints by Frank Boyden based on poem written in 693 AD by Hitomaro and translated by Ed Morris. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA, 2004.
Evidence of Night. Edition of 15. 11 original prints by Frank Boyden and 14 poems by Jennifer Boyden. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA, 2003.
Parts and Pieces. Eight original prints by Frank Boyden and eight original prints by Rick Bartow. Each book also contains sixteen pages of original drawings by the artists. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA, 2002.
20 Views of Cascade Head. Edition of 10. Five original prints by Frank Boyden, five original prints by Charles Chu, five poems by Jennifer Oakes, and five poems by Ian Boyden. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA 2001.
Bird Spirits. Edition of 20. Nine original prints by Frank Boyden and nine scores by William Bolcom. Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA, 2000.
A Carousel at Birth. Edition of 20. Twelve original prints by Frank Boyden and poetry by Ian Boyden, Salient Seedling Press, Portland, Oregon, 1997.
Published books
The Interactivators, Sculpture for TriMet WES Commuter Rail by Mary Priester; 48 page book published by TriMet, Portland, Oregon 2009
On the River through the Valley of Fire: The Collaborative Ceramics of Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman by Daniel Lamberton. 141 page book published by the American Museum of Ceramic Art, 2008.
Coexistence with Fire: Wood-fired Ceramics by Frank Boyden, 1985-2007, a 245 page book published by the American Museum of Ceramic Art, 2008.
Conversations across Time: Rembrandt, Ensor, Boyden. 120 page catalogue published by C.G. Boerner Gallery, NY, in conjunction with exhibition, 2007.
Frank Boyden|The Empathies, with companion prose by David James Duncan and Kim Stafford, 80-page book published by Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 2006.
Frank Boyden Prints and Books, by Prudence F. Roberts and Ian H. Boyden, 152-page book published by Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, in conjunction with retrospective print exhibition, 2006.
The Irreverences, Provocations & Connivances of Uncle Skulky. 64 page catalogue. Portland Art Museum, 2004.
Soul of a Bowl. 80 page catalogue. Contemporary Crafts Association, Portland, Oregon 2003.
Frank Boyden & Brad Rude. Catalogue of Collaborative Commission for the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, 1995-1998.
Selected publications
American Craft, June-July 1996.
Davies, Terry, “Drawing on Totemic Powers”, Craft Arts International, Dec. 1988
Lane, Peter, Ceramic Form, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, NY 1988
“The Province of Frank Boyden,” American Craft, Vol. 42, No. 2 1982, pp. 10-13, 84
Harrington, Lamar. Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest: A History, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA 1979
