2008    Honorable Mention, 8^th International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan

2008    Concepts and Processes, Silvermine Art Gallery, New Canaan, CT

Sculpting the Self: Myths & Archetypes, Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, New Castle, PA

Illusions, Gallery 621, Tallahassee, FL

Myth, Memory & Imagination, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, E. Stroudsburg U.,PA

2007    Transformations, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS

2006    Reclaiming Lost Rituals, Casa Nova Gallery, Santa Fe, NM   

2008    5^th International Ceramic Biennial, Kapfenberg Cultural Center, Austria

Ceramics at Work, Gloria Kennedy Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Made In Clay, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY

Palm Beach³ International Fine Art Exposition, Palm Beach, FL

SOFA New York, New York, NY

2007    

2-3-d-6 Competition, Energy Gallery, Toronto, Canada

SOFA New York, New York, NY

National Invitational Cup Show, Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, PA

10^th Annual National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

Biennial Exhibition, Guildford Art Center, Guildford, CT

Competition 2007, Plaza Art Gallery, Garden City, NY (Award of Excellence)

38^th National Juried Exhibition, Palm Springs Art Museum, CA (First Place)

2006    Annual Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Ceramics Biennial, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH

Patterns in Clay, Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY (First Place)

SOFA New York, New York, NY

57^th Annual Art of the Northeast USA, Silvermine Art Gallery, New Canaan, CT

International Cup Competition, Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT

16^th National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, TX

7^th National Prize Show, Ceres Gallery, Chelsea, NY

Feats of Clay Merit Award, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, CA

2005     9^th Annual National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

CraftForms 2005, Wayne Arts Center, Wayne, PA  

International Cup Competition, Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT

Ceramics Park, Mino, Japan

Kapfenberg Cultural Center, Austria

Edward Orton Jr. Ceramic Foundation

Kansas City Art Institute’s Ken Ferguson Teaching Gallery, MO

Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY

Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

Branch Gallery, Washington, DC

Jack Lenor Larsen, New York, NY

Natalie Fitz-Gerald, Santa Fe, NM

Ronald Kuchta, New York, NY

Thomas Piché Jr., Sedalia, MO

Hilda Longinotti, New York, NY

Luanne Wells, Beverly Hills, CA

Lewis Wexler, Philadelphia, PA

Larry and Rita Sibrack, Naples, FL

Elie and Grace Goldberg, Rye, NY

Loveed Fine Arts, New York, NY

Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS

Signorello, Westport, CT

Robert C. Morgan, “Charles Birnbaum: The Precision of Art”

Suzanne Ramljak, “An Orgy of Form: Charles Birnbaum’s Ceramic Sculpture”

BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Graduate work, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA