Publications

Architectural Digest, March 2024
1stDibs, March 2024
Galerie Magazine, March 2024
Wallpaper Mag, March 2024
LA Times, February 2024
Surface Mag, February 2024
Beaux Arts, January 2024
C Magazine, November 2023
Untapped, October 2023
Marin IJ, July 2023
Wallpaper*, July 2023
Creative Voyage, June 2023
Artnet, November 2022
Cultured Mag, November 2022
TOAST, February 2022
Hole & Corner Issue 22: Family, January 2022
The Lost Chapter by Leslie Williamson, December 2021
The Guardian/The Observer Magazine, October 2021
Studio AHEAD, September 2021
Elle Decor China, September 2021
MarinArts, August 2021
Sabato, March 2021
Milk Decoration 35, 2021
Apollo, October 2020
The Design Edit, October 2020
Design Miami, October 2020
Cultured, October 2020
Financial Times, September 2020
Hole & Corner, August 2020
AnOther, July 2020
Totokaelo, July 2020
Cereal, July 2020
Antiques and The Arts Weekly, July 2020
Departures, June 2020
Wallpaper*, Summer 2020
T Magazine, May 2020
Studio Potter, May 2020
World of Interiors, November 2018
Frieze profile, September 2018
Architectural Digest, July 2018
San Francisco Chronicle, exhibition review, June 2018
C Magazine, May 2018
San Francisco Magazine, April 2018
The New Order, Vol. 18, Spring/Summer 2018
Wallpaper, February 2018
La Garconne, February 2018
Architectural Digest, February 2018
SPACES, Marin Magazine, Winter/Spring 2018
Modern Magazine, Winter 2018
Remodelista, Issue 51, December 2017
her. Magazine, Volume 04, 2017
MacGuffin Magazine, Issue No. 4 – The Sink, 2017
Mohawk Maker Quarterly, Issue 11, 2017
Art Agenda exhibition review, January 2017
Frieze exhibition review, January 2017
New York Times Style Magazine, November 2016
Apartamento, Issue 18, 2016
Maharam Stories, October 2016
The Modern House, April 2016
New York Times, November 2015
Cultured Magazine, Winter 2015
Apartamento, Issue 08, 2013
Man of the World, No. 4, 2013
Casa/Brutus, August 2012
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST Germany, March 2012
Wallpaper, January 2012
Dwell, November 2010
Casa/Brutus, November 2010
C Magazine, May 2009
California Home & Design, July 2008
American Craft, October/November 2007
World of Interiors, June 2000
Woodwork - Magazine for All Woodworkers, October 1999

Catalogues

100 Hooks, Blunk Space, December 2023
JSP JBB: James Sterling Pitt and JB Blunk, Blunk Space, January 2023
Gordon Onslow Ford & JB Blunk, Blunk Space, November 2022
Cups, plates, bowls and sculptures: ceramics 1950 – 1999, Dent De Leone, December 2016
JB Blunk: painting, drawing, sculpture, the Landing, 2015
Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York, 2011
JB Blunk, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California, 2010
JB Blunk: A collection of work from 1952 – 1992, SF 20/Reform Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2008
The Makers Hand: American Studio Furniture, 1940 – 1990’, Edward S. Cook Jr., Gerald W. R. Ward, Kelly H. L'Ecuyer (MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 2003)
JB Blunk: California Spirit, Bolinas Museum, California, 2000
JB Blunk: 100 Plates, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, 1984
JB Blunk: Sculpture, Pickard Galleries, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1984

Books

Objects: USA 2020, Glenn Adamson (R & Company, The Monacelli Press: 2020)
JB Blunk (Blunk Books, Dent de Leone: 2020)
Alma Allen & JB Blunk: In Conversation, ed. Brooke Hodge (August Editions: 2019)
The Once and Future Forest, Save the Redwoods League (Heyday: 2018)
Handcrafted Modern, Leslie Williamson (Rizzoli International Publications: 2010)
Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Gloss, Todd Merrill and Julia V. Levine (Rizzoli International Publications: 2008)
Contemporary Natural, Phyllis Richardson (Thames & Hudson Ltd: 2002)
Craftsman Lifestyle: the Gentle Revolution, Olivia H. Emery (A California Design Publication: 1976)
Handmade Houses: A Guide to Woodbutcher's Art, Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro (Scrimshaw Press: 1973)
Objects: USA, Lee Nordness (Viking Press: 1970)

Exhibitions

2024 Continuum, Martell Foundation, Cognac, France
2024 JB Blunk, BLUM, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Inner Space, Future Perfect, Los Angeles, CA
2023 100 Hooks, Blunk Space, Point Reyes, CA
2023 Rick Yoshimoto & JB Blunk, Best Western, Santa Fe, NM
2023 JSP JBB: James Sterling Pitt and JB Blunk, Blunk Space, Point Reyes, CA
2022 Gordon Onslow Ford and JB Blunk, Blunk Space, Point Reyes, CA
2022 Three Landscapes: JB Blunk, Anna and Lawrence Halprin, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Muse: JB Blunk, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Bright Garden: JB, Bruno & Rufus Blunk, Blunk Space, Point Reyes, CA
2022 Three Landscapes: JB Blunk, Anna and Lawrence Haplrin, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2022 FOG Design + Art Fair, with Leslie Williamson and Blum & Poe, San Francisco, CA
2021 Lives of an Object, ARCH, Athens, Greece
2021 Three Forms: JB Blunk, Blunk Space, Point Reyes, CA
2021 New Iconography: Artists Raising Children, The Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Objects: USA 2020, R & Company, New York, NY
2021 Between Earth and Sky, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Blue Jeans & Brown Clay: Artists and Designers at the JB Blunk House, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
2020 JB Blunk, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Dallas Art Fair, with Reform/the Landing, Dallas, TX
2019 In Conversation: Alma Allen and JB Blunk, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2019 Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2019 FOG Design + Art Fair, with Reform/the Landing, San Francisco, CA
2018 JB Blunk, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
2018 Frieze New York, Blum & Poe, New York, NY
2018 Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2018 JB Blunk: Nature, Art & Everyday Life, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2018 Marin Collects, College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield, CA
2018 Designed in California, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2018 In Conversation: Alma Allen and JB Blunk, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2018 FOG Design + Art Fair, with Reform/The Landing and Blum & Poe, San Francisco, CA
2017 Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2017 Chair Stories, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2016 JB Blunk, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2015 JB Blunk: painting, drawing, sculpture, the Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Art and Other Tactics, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2012 Frieze Art Fair with Blum & Poe, New York, NY
2011 Big A@# Sculpture Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Crafting Modernism, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2010 The Anniversary Show, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2010 Frieze Art Fair, Blum & Poe, New York, NY
2010 Solo show, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2008 SF20 Design Fair with Reform Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Design Miami/Basel with Reform Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Design Miami/Basel with Reform Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 Solo show, Dance Palace Community Center, Point Reyes Station, CA
2000 Solo show, California Spirit, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
1999 Group show with John Anderson, Eubank Studio, Point Reyes Station, CA
1991 Group show, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
1989 Solo show, Sculptures, Ceramics, Stone, Wood, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1986 Solo show, A Sculptor’s Place, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
1984 Solo show, Pickard Galleries, Oklahoma City, OK
1984 Solo show of ceramics, 100 Plates Plus, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
1983 Group show, David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA
1982 Group show, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1982 Solo show of ceramics, J.B. Blunk: 100 Plates, University of North Dakota, ND
1981 Solo show of ceramics, 100 + Plates by J.B. Blunk, Art Space, Santa Monica, CA
1981 Solo show of ceramics, 100 Plates Plus, David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA
1978 Group show, Galerie Schreiner, Basel, Switzerland
1978 Solo show, Sculptures 1952-1977, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Group show, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1976 Sculpture in the Bay Area, James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974 Outdoor Sculpture, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1973 Group show, Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA
1970 With These Hands, ABC Documentary Film
1969 Objects USA, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1965 Group show, Egg and the Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1958 East/West Exhibition, San Francisco Museum, San Francisco, CA
1956 Group show at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1954 Solo show, Chuo-Koron Gallery, Tokyo, Japan