EDUCATION

1977- 1981                USN 

December 1986: Bachelor of Visual Arts Sculpture, Winthrop College

June 1984: Associate Degree in Fine Arts, Central Piedmont Community College

SELECTED SHOW

       Oct 011-Feb 12         Matters of Size: Ceramic Figurines, Fuller Museum, MA

       June- Sept 10             SC6 Six South Carolina  Innovated Ceramic Artist, Columbia Museum of         Art, SC  

       April- May 10           “Bright and White” Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Pete Fla

       March-April 10         “DIS/ Arming Domesticity” The Duke Gallery CAC, Wallingford, PA

       Oct- Nov 09              “Southeastern Ceramics” Mcmaster’s Gallery, USC, Columbia, SC 

       April-May 09            “Spoon It, Fork It, Cut It Up” Baltimore Clay Works , Curator Gail Brown

       Feb - March 09          Solo exhibition, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC

       Oct 08- Feb 09          “Permanently Mad” Selections from the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and                                              Design, NYC 

       Oct - Nov 08             “Confrontational Clay” Westchester Arts Exchange, Curator Judith Schwartz 

       March-April08          “Voices” Society Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh

       Jan-April 08              “A Human Impulse: Figuration From the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection” ASU

       Jan- Feb 08                “Seven Deadly Sins” Santa Fe Clay

       Jan -March                “Red State Blues” College of Charleston       

       May- August 07        “Domestic Deities: The Figurine in Art” Garth Clark Gallery, NYC

       May - June                “Man & Beast” DEAN PROJECT, Garth Clark Gallery Long Island

       May-June 07             “Gatorland” solo exhibition, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC

       Nov-Dec 06              “Tell Me a Story”, Santa Fe Clay

       Jan- April 06             “Why? 25 Case Studies” recent acquisitions, Museum of Art and Design, NYC

       July- Nov. 06             “Life Insight, The Human Experience” Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft

       April-Dec. 06             “Recent Acquisitions” Mint Museum Craft and Desgin 

       Jan.- April 06            “The Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft, Fuller Craft Museum

       Jan- April 06             “I Love the ‘Burbs,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

       Fall 2005                    Korea is Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2005, International Invitational                                                            Exhibition- 120 Definitions of Temptation, International Invitational Hall, Cheongju Arts                                           Center, Cheongju City, Republic of Korea

       July- Aug.                 “Portraiture,” Ferrin Gallery

       Sept- Oct       “Polemical Clay”,   Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI 

       July- August 05          “A Tale to Tell,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

       Feb -June 05              “Nouvelle Nuptials, New Vision in Wedding Traditions”, San Francisco Museum of                                                     Craft and Design

       Jan -March 05             South X east: Contemporary Southeastern Art, Florida Atlantic University 

       Jan- Feb 05                 Stories and Visions of Nature in Clay, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta

       Jan.- Feb. 05               35th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Faunatical: Ceramic Artist and the Forms of Nature,                                             Crossman Gallery, Whitewater , WI

        Feb 05                        XXX, Santa Fe Clay

       April 05                     “Riverrun”, Greenville County Museum of Art

       March 05                   “Terra Sutra II”, NCECA, Baltimore

       Nov. 04-Feb. 05       “ SC Triennial,” SC State Museum

        Oct. - Nov.               “Election 2004: The State of the Union,” Santa Fe Clay

        Sept. - Nov.              “Op, Ed, Art,” Ferrin Gallery, and SOFA Chicago 

        Aug.- Sept                “ Hunters and Gatherers,” Ferrin Gallery

        May - Oct. 2004       Grimms Fairy Tales Exhibition, The Society of Arts And Crafts, Boston, MA, Fuller                                                   Museum of Art, Brockton MA

        2003-2004                “Corporal Identity, Body Language:9th Triennial for Form and Content” Museum of Art                                            and Design, NYC and Klingspor Museum,  Frankfurt, Germany

AWARDS

       2000:                           South Carolina Arts Commission’s Visual Art Fellowship

1994: “The Red Clay Survey”, Huntsville Museum of Art:  Juror’s Choice Award

MISCELLANEOUS

Feb 10                   ASU Gala, Silent Auction 

Oct 09                   Museum of Arts& Design, Visionaries Gala, Silent auction 

06, 08:                    Mint Museum Craft & Design Gala, Live Auction

March 08               Artist Workshop, Society of Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh

Feb 08:                  ASU Gala, Live Auction

Jan 06                     Guest artist workshop, Georgia State University

April 03:                 Artist Lecture Series, Mint Museum of Art

Sept. 99,00:           “Third Annual Celebrity Birdhouse Show & Sale”, Pickens County Museum

Sept. 97,98:           “Lotsa Clay VII: on the Fringe”, The Clay Studio, Phila. PA

May 91-04:            Metrolina AIDS Project, Art Auction

Dec. 94-96:           “Art Angels Against AIDS”, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

May 95: “April 2nd 1995, Asheville”, benefit for Artist that lost studios in fire.

Oct. 94: “Making Really Big Ceramic Stuff”, Technical Workshop for Tri-State  Sculptor’s Conference

Sept. 94: “Sculpture South 94: Seminar”, SC State Museum

June 94:  Designated alternate for the “National Showcase Exhibition”, Alternative Museum, NY NY

Feb. 94:  Guest DJ for “World Café”, NPR: Discussed artwork and announced art related songs

Sept. 93:  Winthrop College, Three day workshop on ceramic sculpture

Sept. 87: “New Directions in Southeastern Sculpture”, Slide viewing session for 1987

  Southeastern College Art Conference 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 Masters: Earthenware, pgs 82 - 89 Lark Books, Curated by Matthias Ostermann  January 2010 

500 Ceramic Sculptures, pgs 202, 274 Lark Books, 2009

Mad Book Museum of Art and Design, Collections Handbook pgs 34-35 2008

Judith S. Schwartz, Ph.D., Confrontational Clay 2008

Judith S. Schwartz, Ph. D., The Ceramicist as a Social Critic, pgs 66-69 Clay in Art International, publisher-              Kostas Tarkasis

A Human Impulse, Arizona State University Art Museum, pgs 42 - 43    

Gary Ferraro, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective Wadesworth Publishing Company April 05

Suzanne J. E. Tourtillot, The Figure in Clay, Lark Books 

Matthias Ostermann, The Ceramic Narriative, University of Pennsylvania Press due to be published 2005

500 Figures in Clay:Artist Celebrate the Human Form , Lark Books 

Paul Mathieu, Sex Pots Eroticism in Ceramics Pg. 92

Hollis Walker American Craft  Contemporary Figurative Sculpture pg. 98-99 (review)

Judith S. Schwartz, Ph. D.,  Kerameeiki Techni, International Ceramic Art Review The Next Generation of        Ceramic Artist in America Pg.31-36, Aug. 02

National Examiner JonBenet Lives On – In Ceramic  Pg. 12 Dec. 25, 2001

The National Enquirer How Tacky Can You Get? Pg. 36 Nov. 13,01

The Studio Potter  Politics and Clay pg. 89, June 2001

Mark Burleson, The Ceramic Glaze Handbook, Lark Books, pgs. 92,93,98

Ellyn Bache, Biles enjoys rattling senses with his ceramic creations, Greenville News, Aug. 9,00

Leon Nigrosh, Erotica in Ceramic Art : Sexual, Sensual & Suggestive, Ceramics Art and Perception #38 (review)

Gallery,  American Craft,  June, July 99

Kevin T. Hogan, Ten-Cent Art (and Other Oddities), Mountain Xpress  Oct. 7-13,98

Up Front, Ceramics Monthly, June 94, May 97, Dec. 06

Jeffrey Day, Emotions Take Form in Clay, The State, July 95

David Windhorst, Artist Deserving Wider Recognition, Ceramist Rusty Biles, Edge Magazine,  Oct. 93                                                                

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Art and Design, NY,NY

Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Caldwell Arts Council, Caldwell County, NC

Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

Winthrop University, Rockhill, SC