BORN:

1949Brooklyn, NY

RESIDES:

Providence, RI

EDUCATION:

1980		MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1978		BSA, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1968-69		Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
1967-68		Missouri Valley College, Marshall, MO

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS:

1998		Providence Preservation Society Award for Urban Glass
1997		Urban Glass, Innovative Use of Glass in Sculpture Award
1997		First Annual Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts
1993		Boston Society of Architects, Art & Architecture Collaboration Award
1990		National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1990		Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
1987		Rakow Commission, The Corning Museum of Glass
1984		National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1984		Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
1982		Change, Inc. Grant
1980		National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1979		Rhode Island State Counceil on the Arts Fellowship

SITED PUBLIC PROJECTS:

Artery Plaza, Bethesda, MD
BankBoston Plaze, Providence, RI
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, NY
CNL/Orlando City Hall Park, NY
Crescent Court, Dallas, TX
East Boston Point Park, Boston, MA
Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, RI
Hearst Towers Plaza, Charlotte, NC
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
IBM Corporation, Gaithersburg, ND
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse, Las Vegas, NV
Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA
Post Office Square Park, Boston, MA
Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Siebel Center for Computer Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Siebel Systems, Bridgepointe Campus, San Francisco, CA
Target Plaze, Minneapolis, MN
The Foss Waterway Public Esplanade, Tacoma, WA
The Toledo Museum of Art, OH
Warrington Town Center, England

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2001-02		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
2001		Sculpting Space in the Public Realm, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1999-02		Interior / Exterior, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, Traveling to: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY*
1998		Carytids and New Works on Paper, Hunter Museum of America Art, Chattanooga, TN
1996		Indoor / Outdoor: New Sculpture, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1995-96		Recent SculptureCleveland Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Traveled to Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA; Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
1994		Sculptures de Verre, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France*
1994		Basins and Fountains, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI*
1994		Recent Sculpture, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1993		New Work, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; Traveled to Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
1993		Wrapped and Paired FormsCharles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1992		New WorkNew Work, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992		Crossing the Boundaries, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
1991		Vessels of Light, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY*
1989-91		Contemporary Sculpture, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Traveled to: Carnegie-Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; Laumeier Sculpture Park & Museum, St. Louis, MO; DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA*
1989		New WorkDorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1988		Figures, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1987		Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1986		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1986		Recent Sculptures, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1985		Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI*
1985		Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, Houston, TX
1984		Recent Sculpture and Works on Paper, Habatat Galleries, Miami, FL
1983		Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983		SculptureHabatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI*
1983		Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, Houston, TX
1982		ColumnsHadler/Rodriguez Galleries, New York, NY
1981		Sculpture, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1981		Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI
1981		Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, Houston, TX
1980		Recent Sculpture, Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, New York, NY
1979		Solo, University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center Galleries, Kingston, RI
		* Catalogue

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
2000		Living in the Moment: Contemporary Artists Celebrate Jewish Time, Jewish Institute fo Religion, New York, NY
2000		Between Grains of Sand and Microchips, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
1999		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1999		Contemporary Classicism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; traveled to Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
1999		Global Art Glass 1999 Live, Global Art Glass Triennial, Borgholm Castel, Sweden*
1999		Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
1999		The Art of Craft: Works from the Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA*
1999		Form & Function: Objects and Drawings, Booth Contemporary Art, Wakefield, RI
1998		A Passion for Glass: The Aviva and Jack A. Robinson Glass Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
1998		R.I.S.D. Works, Elliot Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998		Glass, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1998		The Winter Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1998		World Artist Tour, Gallery Shiraishi, Tokyo, Japan (Traveled)
1998		VisAlchemical, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
1997		5th International Contemporary Art Festival '97, Tokyo, Japan
1997		Glass Today, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH*
1997		Master of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN*
1997		Glass Today by American Studio Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA*
1997		Trial by Fire: Glass as a Sculptural Medium, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA*
1996		New Talent - New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1996		Minimalism, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1995		Concept in Form: Artists' Sketchbooks and Maquettes, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1995		Toledo Treasures, Toledo Museum of Art, OH
1993		Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, OH
1993		Art and Application, Turbulence, New York, NY*
1993		The Art of Contemporary Glass, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
1993		Tiffany to Ben Tré: A Century of Glass, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI*
1992		Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, Whatcom Museum of Histroy and Art, Bellingham, WA (Traveled) *
1992		Cristalomancia, Centro de Arte Vitro, Monterrey, Mexico; Museode Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Rufino Tamayo (Fundacion Cultural Televisa), Mexico City, Mexico
1992		Design Visions, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia*
1992		Glass: From Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ (Traveled) *
1992		Works on Paper: The Craft Artist as Draftsman, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1991		Exposition Internationale de Verre Contemporain, Espace Duchamp-Villon, Centre Saint-Sever, Rouen, France
1991		Studio Glass: Selections from the David Jacob Chodorkoff Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1991		World Glass Now '91, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan (Traveled throughout Japan) *
1990		Glass Today: Memphis Collects Exhibition, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
1989		Recent Acquisitions: 1986-1988, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1988		The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; other sites*
1988		Columnar, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY*
1988		Civilized Life, Art Awareness Gallery, Lexington, NY
1988		Seeing Glass, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, State Island, NY
1987		3 + 3 x 7: Sculpture in Glass and Works on Paper, University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ*
1987		Director's Choice, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
1987		New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Brown University, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT*
1987		Faux Arts, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA*
1987		The Heroic Sublime, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1987		Thirty Years of New Glass: 1957-1987, Corning Museum of Glass, COrning, NY
1986		Thirty-Third Arts Festival of Atlanta, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA*
1986		Art of the '80's, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1986		Cast Glass Sculpture, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, CA*
1986		Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA*
1986		Sculptural Objects and Installations, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA*
1986		Transparent Motives: Glass on a Large Scale, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, OH; Traveled to Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Owens-Illinois Art Center, Toledo, OH; Traveled to Fort Watne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Owens-Illinois Art Center, Toledo, OH; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA*
1986		Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, America Craft Museum, New York, NY; Traveled to Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA*
1985		World Glass Now '85, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan*
1985		Detroit Collects, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1985		44 Alumni, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1985		Glass: State of the Art, Elia Sharp Museum*
1984		Americans in Glass, Leigh Yawkley Woodson Art Museum, Wausua, WI (Traveled throughout Europe)
1984		Hot Stuff, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1983		Ben Tré - Chihuly: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
1983		Contemporary American Glass Sculpture, Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Embassy, Prague, Czechoslovakia*
1983		Selected Works in Glass, Fine Arts Center of Tempe, Tempe, AZ
1983		The Fine Art of Contemporary American Glass, The Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH*
1982		Columns, Ornament, and Structure, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY
1982		Contemporary Art in Detroit Collections, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
1982		World Glass Now '82, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan*
1982		Glass Sculpture: 4 Artists - 4 Views, Jesse Basser Museum, Alpena, MI*
1982		International Directions in Glass Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
1981		Glaskunst '81, Bundesgartenschau and Orangerie, Kassel, Germany
1981		Contemporary Glass - Australia, Canada, U.S.A., & Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan*
1981		Glass Routes, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA*
1981		New American Glass: Focus West Virginia, Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV*
1981		Contemporary Glass from the Sosin Collection, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI*
1980		Ten American Artists, Galerie Skandinaviske Mobler, Frankfurt, Germany
1980		A Case for Boxes, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1979		Glass: A Worldwide Study, Corning Museum of Glass, COrning, NY; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Toldeo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Museé des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France; Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan*
1979		The Pilchuck Show, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1978		Americans in Glass, Leigh Yawkley Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI (Traveled as 50 Americans)
		* Catalogue

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Brown University, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Koganezaki Park Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museé des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Phillips Collections, Washington, DC
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Rutgers University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Art Commission, CA
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, OH
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI