1987 - SC Arts Commision Fellowship in Craft

2000 - 100 Years/100 Artists: Views of the 20th Century in SC Art , SC State Museum, Columbia, SC(selected as one of 100 most important artists in SC in the last 100 years)

2006 - University of SC Alumni Exhibition, McMaster College, University of SC, Columbia, SC (selected as one of  the top 15 art department graduates since its inception in 1974)

2003 - Solo Exhibition - Clay Burnette: Pine Needle Baskets - Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC

1996 - Solo Exhibition - From the Longleaf Pine: The Baskets of Clay Burnette - Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI