Toots Zynsky
| EDUCATION | |
| 1976 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Special Student in Advanced Glass Program |
| 1973 | Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, Washington B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1971 | Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, Washington |
| 1970 | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2011 | Masters of Studio Glass: Toots Zynsky, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX |
| 2005 | Notojima Glass Art Museum, Notojima-machi, Japan |
| 2004 | Shoha Museum of Sarutahiko Shrine, ISE, Japan Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle (in Partnership w/ Elliott Brown Gallery) |
| 2003 | Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY |
| 2002 | Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA Barry Friedman, Ltd., New York, NY Forma & Colore: Toots Zynsky, Museo Correr, Civici Musei Veneziani DÕArte e di Storia, Venice, Italy |
| 2001 | Forma & Colore: Toots Zynsky, Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark |
| 2000 | Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1999 | Serenita Davanzo, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA Toots Zynsky and Nakao Yuko, Koganezaki Crystal Park, Shizuoka-ken, Japan |
| 1998 | Chaotic Fusion, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY |
| 1997 | Elaborating Chaos, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1996 | Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI |
| 1995 | Recent Chaos, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland DÕArte e Divetro, Bergamo, Italy Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1994 | Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL Galerie Inart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Gallery Osiris, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1993 | Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Galerie Nadir, Annecy, France Salon dÕArt Contemporain De Rouen, France, with Galerie Nadir Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI |
| 1992 | Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL Gallery Nakama, Tokyo, Japan Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Galerie Art du Verre, Luxembourg |
| 1991 | Gallery Nakama, Tokyo, Japan Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1990 | Clara Scremini Galerie, Paris, France |
| 1989 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Galerie Artichoque, Velp, The Netherlands |
| 1988 | Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1987 | Galerie Inart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Clara Scremini Galerie, Paris, France Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL Sarah Squeri Gallery, Cincinnati, OH |
| 1986 | Galerie Artichoque, Velp, The Netherlands Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Clara Scremini Galerie, Paris, France |
| 1985 | Sarah Squeri Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Galerie SM, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1984 | Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1982 | Theo Portnoy Gallery, New York, NY |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2010 | Beyond the Figure: Abstract Sculpture in the Norton Collection, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL A Glass Act: First Rate Glass from RAM's Collection, The Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI The Body in Glass: Gift of the Anna and Joe Mendel Colelction to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Quebec), Canada Eyes for Glass: The Price Colelction, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA |
| 2009 | Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Colelction, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Pioneers of Contemporary Glass: Highlights from the Barbara and Dennis Dubois Colelction, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX Living with Studio Furniture: Collection of Robert and Carolyn Springborn, The PAtty and Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL |
| 2008 | Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, NY Hot Glass, Cool Colelctions, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX Contemporary Glass, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA Studio Glass in Rhode Island: The Chihuly Years, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Inspired! Design Across Time, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia Networks 2008, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI |
| 2007 | All for Art! Great Private Colelctions Among Us, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America, 1950-2006, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA The Art of Glass from Gale to Chihuly: Highlights from the Lowenbach Collection, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Contemporary Glass Art: A New Vision of the Mudac's Collection, The Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland A Gathering of Contemporary Glass, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME |
| 2006 | Twenty Years On, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Steninge World Exhibition of Art Glass, Steninge Slott Cultural Centre, Marsta, Sweden Two Media/Two Expressions: An Exhibition of Contemporary Clay and Glass Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH A Transparent Legacy: Studio Glass Gifted to the Seattle Art Museum from the Colelction of Jon and Mary Shirley, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA From Craft to Art: Contemporary Studio Sculpture, The Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA New England Glass: The Quiet Force, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA |
| 2005 | Transformations: The Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Contemporary Glass - Light Transfigured from Toyoma City Collection, Musee Tomo, Tokyo, Japan Taking Shape: Pilchuck Glass School in the 70's, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection (North American Tour 2003-2006), including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Chazan's Choice: Gifts of Contemporary Art to the RISD Museum, The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement (traveling), The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AZ Exhibition of the Permanent Collection Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art (traveling), Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI |
| 2004 | Studio Glass International: Selections from the Esterling/Wake Collection, The Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia Unviversity, Seward, NB Recent Acquisitions in Glass, The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement (traveling), Muscarelle Museum of Art, Colelge of William and MAry, Williamsburg, VA; Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art (traveling), The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH Technique and Expression II: Fusing and Gluing, Kogenezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2003 | Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art (traveling), The Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection (traveling), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Glass Vessel: An International Invitational, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design (formerly Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation), Louisville, KY World Competition of Arts and Crafts, Kanazawa, Special Invitational Exhibition "Crafts Now - 21 Artists each from America, Europe and Asia", The World Craft Forum Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement (traveling), The William S. Fairfield Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI; Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI; The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA |
| 2002 | Urban Glass @ 25 - An Anniversary Exhibition, The Gallery at Steuben, NY, NY Contemporary Glass from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Block, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Crafting a Legacy, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Transparent Illusions, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI |
| 2001 | Primary Colors, Elliott Brown Gallery Seattle, WA Contemporary Glass Worldwide, China Millenium Monument Museum, Beijing, China Venini: Glass and Design in a World Perspective, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA Late 20th Century Sculpture, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY |
| 2000 | Creativity and Collaboration: Pilchuck Glass SchoolÕs 30 Years, Bumbershoot 2000, Seattle Center Seattle Open Ends, MOMA 2000, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Venetian Glass: 20th Century Italian Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, American Craft Museum, NY From Westmoreland Glass to Contemporary Glass, Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA Vessels: The International Exhibition of Glass, Koganezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan Splendor in the Glass: Contemporary Glass from the Palley Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL |
| 1999 | Handmade: Shifting Paradigms, Singapore Art Museum, Japan Glass! Glorious Glass!, National Museum of American Art, The Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and its Origins, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL |
| 1998 | R.I.S.D. Works: Alumni from the Glass Department at Rhode Island School of Design, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle SOFA Chicago at Navy Pier with Elliott Brown Gallery of Seattle, WA |
| 1997 | Glass Today by American Studio Artists, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH ÁCalido! Contemporary Warm Glass, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ |
| 1996 | Venezia Aperto Vetro, The Museo Correr, Venice, Italy SOFA Chicago and Miami, with Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1995 | Pilchuck Pioneers, William Traver Gallery Seattle, WA The Vessel Aesthetic, Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho A Powerful Presence: Pilchuck Glass SchoolÕs 25 Years, Bumbershoot, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA The White House Collection, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Glass Now Õ95, Tokyo, Japan 25th Anniversary Pilchuck Exhibition, SeaTac Airport, Seattle, WA International Glass Invitational, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. |
| 1994 | Glass Now Õ94, Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL LÕArt Contemporain du Verre et du Vitrail, Villeurbain, France International Craft Exhibition, Lillehammer, Norway |
| 1993 | The White House Craft Collection, The White House Washington, D.C. International Pilchuck Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1992 | Glass Now Õ92, Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan The Second Australian International Crafts Triennale, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Clearly Art: The PilchuckÕs Glass Legacy, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA Exposition Internationale de Verre Contemporaine, Conseil Regional de Haute-Normandie, France |
| 1991 | Glass Now Õ91, Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Configura 1 - Kunst in Europa Erfurt 91, Erfurt, Germany Chefs dÕOeuvres de la Verrerie Francaise du XIXe siecle a nos jours, Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Prague, CZ |
| 1990 | Glass Now Õ90, Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Gaste aus Frankreich, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Masterpieces of Glass from the Corning Collection, The National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| 1989 | Glass NowÕ 89, Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1988 | World Glass Now Õ88, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Vormen in Glas, Traveling Museum Exhibition, The Netherlands |
| 1987 | Glass Now Õ87, Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1986 | Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY New American Glass, Focus 2 West Virginia, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington The Saxe Collection, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA |
| 1985 | Art du Verre Actualite International, Musee des Beaux Arts de Rouen, France World Glass Now Õ85, Hokkaido Museum of Art, Sapporo, Japan |
| 1984 | Pilchuck Glass, Cheney-Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA |
| 1983 | Sculptural Glass, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Sculptural Glass, Owens-Illinois Center, Toledo, OH New Works in Glass, Tempe Fine Art Center, Tempe, AZ RISD - Leadership in Crafts, Craftsmans Gallery, Scarsdale, NY Contemporary American Glass, The American Embassy, Prague |
| 1982 | The Fine Art of Private Commissions, Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC Pending, Theo Portnoy Gallery, New York, NY The Sculptural Bowl, Theo Portnoy Gallery, New York, NY Sculptural Glass, Portnoy-Goodman Jordan-Volpe, Amagansett, NY Sculptural Glass, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Garneville, NY Pilchuck Show, Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA New York Experimental Glass Workshop Exhibition, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ |
| 1981 | Americans in Glass, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI Glass Routes, De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA Viewpoints, Women in Glass, Contemporary Artisans Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1980 | Sculptural Glass, 10 New York City Area Artists, Clayworks-Glassworks Gallery New York |
| 1978 | Glass in Sculpture, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI |
| 1973 | New Glass, Assemblage and Slumped Plate 2, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI (a joint exhibition w/ Mary Schaffer) |
| AWARDS | |
| 2009 | American Craft Council College of Fellows |
| 2006 | Rhode Island Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts |
| 1999 | Innovation in a Glassworking Technique, UrbanGlass Annual Award, NY |
| 1997 | Die Baycrische Staatsregierung, Munich Germany |
| 1988 | Rakow Commission, Corning Museum of Glass, U.S.A. |
| 1986 | National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship |
| 1984 | Stichting Klanschap, Amsterdam Research Grant |
| 1982 | National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, Washington, Artist-in-Residence New York State Council of the Arts, Artist-in-Residence Grant |
| SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
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Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Bank of America, Seattle, WA Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Belgium The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI. Glas Museum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana. Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany Koganezaki Glass Museum, Koganezaki, Japan. Kunstammlungen der Veste-Coburg, Coburg, Berlin, Germany Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Germany Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI MCI Communications Corporation, Washington DC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, Paris, France Muse des Arts Dcoratifs de la Ville de Lausanne, Switzerland Muse du Verre et du Cristal de Meisenthal, France Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcoron, Spain. Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Muskegan Museum, Muskegan, Michigan National Gallery of Victoria, Australia National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Nederlandsche Bank NV (Dutch Central Bank), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Newark City Museum of Art, Newark, NJ Nordenfjeldske Kunst Industrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia Prescott Collection of Pilchuck Glass at U.S. Bank Centre, Seattle, WA Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Japan Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England The White House Collection, Washington, DC Yokohama City Museum of Art, Yokohama City, Japan |
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