List of glass artists
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Australia
- Sergio RedegalliSergio RedegalliSergio Redegalli is an Australian glass artist specialising in the architectural glass and glass sculptures. He is a director of the Cydonia Glass Studio located in Newtown, New South Wales. Redegalli graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Arts Glass in 1984 and a Graduate...
(b. 1962 in Italy) - Zoja TrofimiukZoja TrofimiukZoja Trofimiuk is an Australian sculptor and printmaker, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She specializes in cast glass; her studio is in Melbourne. Zbych Trofimiuk, an Australian actor, is her son.-Education:...
(b. 1952 in Prague, Czech Republic)
Czech Republic
- Jaroslava Brychtová and Stanislav Libenský
France
- Émile GalléÉmile GalléÉmile Gallé was a French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement.- Biography :...
(1846–1904) - René LaliqueRené LaliqueRené Jules Lalique was a French glass designer known for his creations of perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. He was born in the French village of Ay on 6 April 1860 and died 5 May 1945...
(1860–1945) - Louis MajorelleLouis MajorelleLouis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle, usually known simply as Louis Majorelle, was a French decorator and furniture designer who manufactured his own designs, in the French tradition of the ébéniste...
- Maurice MarinotMaurice MarinotMaurice Marinot was a French artist. He was a painter considered a member of Les Fauves, and then a major artist in glass....
(1882–1960)
Germany
- Leopold and Rudolf BlaschkaLeopold and Rudolf BlaschkaLeopold Blaschka and his son Rudolf Blaschka were German glass artists, known for the production of biological models such as the Glass Flowers.-Early life of Leopold:...
- Erwin EischErwin EischErwin Eisch is a German artist who works with glass. He is also a painter, draughtsman and printmaker. With that of his friend and colleague in glass, Harvey Littleton, Eisch's work in glass embodies the ideas of the international Studio Glass movement...
(b. 1927) - Hans Godo FrabelHans Godo FrabelHans Godo Frabel is an East German-born lampwork glass blower, now living and working in the USA.-Biography:...
- Thomas SchütteThomas SchütteThomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. From 1973 to 1981 he studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alongside Katharina Fritsch under Gerhard Richter and Fritz Schwegler. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.-Work:In the early 1980s Schütte began a series of small sculptural works...
Italy
- Alfredo BarbiniAlfredo BarbiniAlfredo Barbini, a glass artist born in 1912 on the islands of Murano in the lagoon of Venice, Italy, was one of Murano's leading figures of the twentieth century...
(1912-) - Lino TagliapietraLino TagliapietraLino Tagliapietra is an Italian glass artist.-Training:Tagliapietra was born on the island of Murano in 1934. Murano, an island whose history of glass dates back to 1291, provided Tagliapietra an ideal educational environment to develop his techniques and glass artistry. At the age of 12 he was...
(b. 1934) - Paolo VeniniPaolo VeniniPaolo Venini emerged as one of the leading figures in the production of Murano glass and an important contributor to twentieth-century design.-Training:...
(1895–1959) - Silvio VigliaturoSilvio VigliaturoSilvio Vigliaturo was born in Acri , in 1949. When still a child he moved to Chieri , where presently he lives and works. He is a glassfusion maestro and his technique is appreciated internationally and considered unique in his genre by the most important Italian and foreign critics.- Artistic...
United Kingdom
- Charles BrayCharles Bray (glass artist)Charles Bray is a British painter and glass sculptor. He was born in Salford, Lancashire, England.-Early years:He was brought up, an only child, in a two-up-two-down terraced house, in Salford, where his father worked as a lorry driver. A strong artistic influence came through his mother, who was...
(b. 1922) - Dominic FondeDominic FondeDominic John Fonde is a British glass artist, working with blown and engraved glass. A typical example of his work is a blown glass plate engraved with an original short story. According to information on his website Fonde uses the drill engraving technique and on rare occasions the sandblasting...
- Sam HermanSam HermanSam Herman is a contemporary glass artist. An early student of Harvey Littleton, Herman is credited as one of the founders of the Studio Glass movement in Great Britain...
(b. 1936, Mexico City) - Jeremy LangfordJeremy LangfordJeremy Langford , British/Israeli glass designer and sculptor known for his monumental stacked glass sculptures. His family's original name was Lelyveld, natives of the Netherlands, and Langford is related to Joseph Lelyveld, an editor of The New York Times, and to civil rights activist Rabbi...
- Keiko MukaideKeiko MukaideKeiko Mukaide is a Japanese artist who lives and works in the UK. She studied glass at the Royal College of Art in London and was awarded a research fellowship from the Edinburgh College of Art...
- Peter Newsome
- David ReekieDavid ReekieDavid Reekie is an eminent English Glass Sculptor who uses drawing and glass casting to express his unique vision of the human condition. His art can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, as well as in several other public collections in...
(b. 1947) - Salvador YsartSalvador YsartSalvador Ysart was a glassblower who came to work at the Moncrieff glassworks in Perth, Scotland, in 1922 where he designed and produced a range of art glasswares called Monart .-Life and career:...
(1878–1955)
United States
- Gary BeechamGary Beecham-Education, work:Beecham’s art education was taken at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Art in 1979. He worked for a year in 1978 at the J. & L. Lobmeyr glassworks in Vienna, Austria before returning to the United States to settle in Spruce...
(b. 1955) - Howard Ben TréHoward Ben TréHoward Ben Tré is an American glass artist. He works with poured glass, creating small sculptures and large scale public artworks. Glass magazine has called Ben Tré a pioneer in the technique of using hot glass casting in fine art....
(b. 1949) - Martin BlankMartin BlankMartin Blank is an American glass artist who was born August 29, 1962. He received a BFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1984 with a major in glass. He studied with Dale Chihuly and by the 1990s was working independently. Blank has taught at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood,...
- Jonathan BorofskyJonathan BorofskyJonathan Borofsky is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Maine.Borofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 1964, after which he continued his studies at France's Ecole de Fontainebleau and received his...
- Frederick CarderFrederick CarderFrederick Carder was an American artist and glassmaker. He was born in Staffordshire, England and attended Stourbridge School of Art and the Dudley Mechanic Institute, he later worked in Wordsley. In 1960, Alfred University honored Carder with an honorary doctorate degree.Frederick Carder married...
(1863–1963, born in Staffordshire, England) - Ed CarpenterEd Carpenter (artist)Ed Carpenter is an artist specializing in large-scale public installations ranging from architectural sculpture to infrastructure design. Since 1973 he has completed scores of projects for public, corporate, and ecclesiastical clients...
(b. 1946) - Dale ChihulyDale ChihulyDale Chihuly is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.-Biography:Chihuly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington. He enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959...
(b. 1941) - Dan Dailey (b. 1947)
- Fritz DreisbachFritz DreisbachFritz Dreisbach is an American studio glass artist and teacher who is recognized as one of the pioneers of the American Studio Glass Movement.-Early life and education:...
(b. 1941) - Robert C. FritzRobert C. FritzRobert C. Fritz was an American ceramics and glass artist and professor at San Jose State University in California. As a major player in America’s mid 20th century studio glass movement, Dr...
(1920–1986) - Michael GlancyMichael GlancyMichael M. Glancy was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1950, and began working with glass in 1970. He received a BFA from the University of Denver in 1973 and a second BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1977...
(b. 1950) - Jay GubitzJay GubitzJay Gubitz is an American artist who has pioneered the art of Stained Glass Sculpture. While the art of Stained Glass has been around for a while, Jay has taken the traditionally two-dimensional art form to three dimensions. He was awarded First Place in the Gallery of Excellence at the Glass Craft...
- Paul HousbergPaul HousbergPaul Housberg is an American glass artist recognized for his use of fused and kilnformed glass as an architectural medium...
- Harvey LittletonHarvey LittletonHarvey Littleton is an American educator and glass artist. Born in Corning, New York, he grew up in the shadow of Corning Glassworks, where his father headed Research and Development during the 1930s...
(b. 1922) - John Littleton (b. 1957)
- Marvin LipofskyMarvin LipofskyMarvin Lipofsky is an American glass artist. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed under an independent study program for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 and spring 1963...
- Linda MacNeilLinda MacNeilLinda MacNeil is an American artist specializing in contemporary jewelry that combines metalwork with glass and sometimes precious stones to create miniature sculptures.-Education, influences and characteristics of the work:...
- Dante MarioniDante MarioniDante Marioni is an American glass artist-Biography:Dante Marioni grew up among many artistic influences. His father, Paul Marioni, was involved in the American studio glass movement and, as a result, Dante was constantly exposed to the glassblowing artists of the San Francisco Bay Area...
- Richard MarquisRichard MarquisRichard Marquis is an American studio glass artist who was born September 17, 1945 in Bumblebee, Arizona. He studied both ceramics and glass at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a BA in 1969 and an MA in 1972...
- Josiah McElhenyJosiah McElhenyJosiah McElheny is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects . He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant"...
- Rick MillsRick MillsRick Mills is an American glass artist who was born and raised in Marion, Ohio. He received his bachelor of fine art degree in sculpture from Ohio State University, where the art department reopened its glass program in 1980, during Mills last semester...
- William MorrisWilliam Morris (glass artist)William Morris is an American glass artist. He was born in Carmel, California, USA. He was educated at California State University, Chico, California and Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington...
(b. 1957) - Jay MuslerJay MuslerJay Musler is an American glass artist who was born in Sacramento, California in 1949. From 1968 to 1971, he attended the California College of the Arts . He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council...
- David PatchenDavid PatchenDavid Patchen is American glass artist who uses the Italian techniques of cane and murrine in an American style. Patchen's work is known primarily for a combination of complexity and scale in patterned work...
- Stephen Rolfe PowellStephen Rolfe PowellStephen Rolfe Powell was born in 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Ceramics at Centre College, Powell went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics at Louisiana State University. It was while at LSU, between 1980 and 1983, that Powell had his first...
- Richard RitterRichard Ritter-Early life:Ritter was born in Detroit but grew up in the then rural Michigan town of Novi. He was inspired to pursue a career in art by his high school art teacher and in 1959 on to study at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit, Michigan...
- Christopher RiesChristopher Ries-Biography:Ries was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up on a farm. He attended The Ohio State University, where he earned a BFA in glass and ceramics...
- Ginny RuffnerGinny RuffnerGinny Ruffner is a glass artist in Seattle, Washington. She primarily uses the technique of lampworking. Her art has been featured in many museums and galleries. She was profiled on the NPR show Weekend America on 18 March 2006.-External links:* *...
(b. 1952) - Italo ScangaItalo ScangaItalo Scanga Italian-born American artist.-Biography:Born in Lago, Calabria to Giuseppe and Serafina Ziccarelli, youngest of four children: Carolina, Mafalda and Nicolino.-About his work:...
(1932–2001) - Paul Joseph StankardPaul Joseph StankardPaul Joseph Stankard, considered the father of modern glass paperweights, was born April 7, 1943 as the second of nine children in an Irish Catholic family. He lived in North Attleboro, Massachusetts in his early years. He graduated from Salem Vocational Technical Institute in Salem, New Jersey...
(b.1943) - Therman StatomTherman StatomTherman Statom is an American Studio Glass artist whose primary medium is sheet glass. He cuts, paints, and assembles the glass - adding found glass objects along the way – to create three-dimensional sculptures. Many of these works are large in scale. Statom is known for his site-specific...
- Michael TaylorMichael Taylor (glass artist)Michael Taylor is an American studio glass artist, teacher and lecturer. His best known body of work is his geometric glass sculptures. He works the glass cold, shaping, polishing and laminating translucent colored and clear blocks of glass together using epoxy resin.-Early life and...
(b. 1943) - Cappy ThompsonCappy ThompsonCappy Thompson is an American artist who works in the medium of glass. The basis of her reverse glass painting technique is Grisaille, which has been used on stained glass since the Middle Ages. She lives and works in Seattle, Washington and also has a residence in Olympia. She has been an artist...
- Louis Comfort TiffanyLouis Comfort TiffanyLouis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements...
(1848–1933) - Tadashi Torii (born in Osaka, Japan)
- Kate Vogel (b. 1956)