Benjamin Moore
| EDUCATION | |
| 1977 | M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
| 1974 | B.F.A. California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA |
| 1972 | Instituto de Artes Plasticas, Guadalajara, Mexico |
| 1970-72 | Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2005 | Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2004 | Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR |
| 2003 | Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2002 | Hawk Galleries, Columbus, OH |
| 2001 | Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA |
| 2000 | Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1998 | Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1997 | Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1996 | GUMP'S, San Francisco, CA Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
| 1995 | Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL |
| 1994 | Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1993 | Margo Jacobson Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 1991 | Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1990 | Grohe Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1988 | Kurland Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1986 | Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1985 | Marianne Partlow Gallery, Olympia, WA |
| 1982 | Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1981 | J & L Lobmeyr Showrooms, Vienna/Salzburg, Austria |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2005 | Bellevue Art Museum. Pilchuck. Bellevue, Washington Seattle Art Museum, Benaroya Collection. Seattle, Washington Racine Art Museum Magnificent Extravagance: Artists and Opulence. Racine, Wisconsin William Traver Gallery Second Annual World Glass Exhibition. Tacoma, Washington |
| 2004 | Corning Museum of Glass. Italian Influence in Contemporary Glass. Corning, New York Xiang Bai Gallery. Toronto, Ontario |
| 2003 | Chrysler Museum of Glass. Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection Norfolk, Virginia
Note; traveliing exhibition to six museums in the United States Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Texas Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art. Tacoma, Washington Detroit Institue of the Arts Detroit, Michigan Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Nashville, Tennessee Decorative Arts and Design Institute (DADI) |
| 2002 | Huntsville Museum of Art, Permanent Collection Highlights, Huntsville, Alabama |
| 2001 | American Craft Museum, OBJECTS FOR USE: Handmade by Design, New York, NY LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico Fuller Museum of Art, Lino Tagliapietra e Amiici, Brockton, MA Museo Italo Americano, Venini: Glass and Design, San Francisco, California Mingei International Museum, Venini: Glass and Design, San Diego, California |
| 2000 | Holsten Galleries, 2000 Glass Invitational, Stockbridge, MA Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Glass, A Celebration, New York, New York Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Millennium Glass, Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1999 | Habatat Gallery, 17th Annual Glass Invitational, Boca Raton, Florida Qualita Fine Art, Magic of Venice, Las Vegas, Nevada Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, Small Works Show, San Francisco, California Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Progression in Glass, Virginia Beach, Virginia Tri-Art Gallery / Speed Art Museum, Studio Glass, Louisville, Kentucky Grand Central Gallery, Glass Conference 1999, Tampa, Florida Sea-Tac Airport, Influences in Contemporary Glass, Seattle, Washington |
| 1998 | Foster/White Gallery, 1998 Pilchuck Faculty Exhibit, Seattle, Washington Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona Ars Vivendi, Grunwald-Munich, Germany |
| 1997 | Bellevue Art Museum, Heir Apparent: Translating the Secrets of Venetian Glass, Bellevue, Washington William Traver Gallery, Tribute to Lino Tagliapietra, Seattle, Washington Museum of Decorative Arts, Celebrating American Craft, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1996 | Grand Central Gallery, S.O.F.A. Chicago, Illinois Jerald Melberg Gallery, Aspen, Colorado Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, Craft at GUMP'S, The Helen Heniger Years San Francisco, California |
| 1995 | Habatat Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida Museum of Northwest Art, Northwest Glass: Part I, La Conner, Washington Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Taipei International Glass Exhibit, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1994 | Helender Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida Pismo Gallery, Denver, Colorado GUMP'S, San Francisco, California |
| 1993-95 | Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Clearly Art, Bellingham, Washington (traveling exhibition to ten museums in the United States) |
| 1993 | Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida |
| 1992 | Imago, Palm Springs, California |
| 1991 | LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Studio S, Kekisho Tsukuba Building, Tokyo, Japan The Fine Arts Associates at the Artloft Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii |
| 1989-1992 | American Craft Museum, Craft Today USA, New York, New York (traveling exhibition to fourteen museums in Europe): The Louvre, Paris, France Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, Finland Museum fur Kusthand Werk, Frankfurt, Germany Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lusanne, Switzerland Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia Ataturk Cultural Center, Ankara, Turkey National Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia St. Peters Abbey, Ghent, Belgium The Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany Palau Robert, Barcelona, Spain The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway The Zappeion, Athens, Greece The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 1989 | Robey Gallery, Denver, Colorado C. Coracoran Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan |
| 1988 | Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington United States Embassy, Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1987 | Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1986 | The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| 1986-1988 | American Craft Museum, Poetry of the Physical, New York, New York (traveling exhibition to four museums in the United States): The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia |
| 1985 | David Bernstein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Washington State Capitol Museum, Olympia, Washington |
| 1984 | Walter White Gallery, Carmel, California |
| 1983 | Essener Glasgalerie, Essen, West Germany |
| 1982 | Glas Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| 1981 | Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, New York Leigh Yawkley Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin |
| 1980 | The Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/Kyoto, Japan |
| 1979-82 | The Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass: A Worldwide Survey, Corning, New York (traveling exhibition to six museums in the United States and Europe): Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France |
| 1979 | Venini Showrooms, Rome/Venice, Italy |
| 1978 | Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York |
| AWARDS | |
| 1999 | Poster Artist for Seattle Chamber Music Festival |
| 1990 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship |
| 1983 | Fragile Art Competition Award from Glass Art Magazine |
| 1978 | Young American Award from American Craft Council |
| 1975-77 | Rhode Island School of Design Fellowship |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
| 1985-present | Owner, Benjamin Moore, Inc., Seattle, WA |
| 1991-present | Board of Trustees, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA |
| 2005 | Artist-in-Residence, Abata Zanetti, Venice, Italy |
| 2000 | Interim Executive Director, Pilchuck Glass School |
| 1996, 1989 | Faculty, Niijima Glass Art Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1988, 1991, 1997, 2003 | Faculty, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine |
| 1988, 1980 | Faculty, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina |
| 1980 | Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1980-81 | Designer, J & L Lobermeyr, Vienna, Austria |
| 1978, 1979 | Designer, Venini, Murano-Venice, Italy |
| 1977 | Designer, Fostoria Glass Company, Moundsville, West Virginia |
| 1975-1977 | Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1974-1987, 2003 | Educational Coordinator and Faculty, Pilchuck Glass School |
| SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
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National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Museum of Arts And Design, New York, New York Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Museum of Glass: Inernational Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, Washington Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Venini Collection, Murano-Venice, Italy J&L Lobmeyr Museum Collection, Vienna, Austria Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum, Niijima, Japan Frauenau Museum, Frauenau, Bavaria Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida Westinghouse/Shaw Walker Collection, Muskegon, Michigan Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama |
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