Therman Statom – CV

EDUCATION

1978 – Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1974 – B.F.A. Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1971 – Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 – “Six Voyages”, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark

2011 – Duane Reed Galllery, St. Louis, MO

2011 – “Juguetes Náuticos”, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

2010 – “Plantando Arboles/Citrus” Lake Wales Art Center, Lake Wales, FL

2010 – “New Work”, RNG Gallery, Omaha, NE

2010 – “Outside the Box”, Racine Art Museum, Racine WI

2009 – “Therman Statom: Stories of the New World”, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

2008 – Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2008 – “Nascita” Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

2007 – Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007 -Habatat Gallery, Royal Oaks, MI

2006 – “Through the Looking Glass”, California Center for the Arts Escondido, Escondido, CA

2006 – “A Divergent Experience”, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE

2005 – Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Telfair Art Museum, Savannah, GA

2004 – “Nocturnal”, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID

2003 – Galleria Diverto, Bergamo, ITALY

2003 – “Byzantine Istoria”, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI

2003 – “Reflexions en el Agua”, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

2003 – “Stories from the Wesser”, Glashutte Gernheim, GERMANY

2002 – “River Myths,” Tampa Museum Of Art, Tampa, FL

2002 – Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL

2002 – Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington DC

2002 – Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2002 – East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, HI

2001 – “Installations”, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

2000 – “Mitos del Oceano (Ocean Myths) Lowe Museum, University of Miami, FL

2000 – “Lunar Tides”, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000 – Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2000 – Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI

2000 – Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL

1999 – Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999 – Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1999 – Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

1998 – Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998 – Orange County Museum of Art, South Coast Plaza Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

1998 – Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris FRANCE

1997 – Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL

1997 – Riley-Hawk Galleries, Columbus, OH

1997 – Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

1997 – Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 – “Images,” Walter E. Terhune Gallery, Perrysburg, OH

2012 – “Symbiosis,” Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE

2012 – “The Studio Glass Movement: Selections from the Esterling-Wake Collection,” Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

2012 – “GLASS ACT: The Contemporary Studio Art Glass Movement Turns 50,” Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

2012 – “Playing with Fire,” Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA

2012 – “Fire & Sand,” Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ

2012 – “Blown, Assembled, Cast: A Celebration of Contemporary Glass,” Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center, Savannah, GA

2012 – “Contemporary Glass Sculpture: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Studio Glass,” Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

2012 – “40th Annual International Glass Invitational,” Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan

2011 – “Another Nebraska: Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellows,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

2011 – “Annual International Glass Invitational,” Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan

2011 – SOFA Expo, Chicago, IL

2010 – “A Greater Spectrum,” Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE

2010 – “Annual International Glass Invitational,” Habatat Galleries, West Palm Beach, Florida

2010 – SOFA Expo, Chicago, IL

2010 – Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL

2010 – “Artemis Collection”, Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa FL

2009 – SOFA Expo, Chicago, IL

2009 – “Los Tres Amigos”, Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2009 – “Annual International Glass Invitational”, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan

2009 – “Three Rivers Arts Festival”, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA

2009 – SOFA West Expo, Santa Fe, NM

2009 – Therman Statom & Toots Zynsky: Friends that Helped Shape a Movement”, Habatat Galleries, West Palm Beach, FL

2007/2009 – “Expanding Traditions”, Craft in America Traveling Exhibition, multiple locations

2008 – “A Touch of Glass: Selections from the Racine Art Museum’s Collection”, Racine, WI

2008 – SOFA Expo, Chicago, IL

2008 – “Cranbrook Academy of Art Annual Chair Show”, Anton Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI

2007 – “Glassified”, James Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2007 – “Ongoing Invention”, The Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum San Bernardino, CA

2007 – “Contemporary American Crafts”, American Embassy, Seoul, KOREA

2007 – “Painting with Light” Palos Verde Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

2007 – “non-conformists”, Morgan Contemporary Glasss, Pittsburgh, PA

2007 – “Harvey K. Littleton and Friends”, Fine Art Museum, Western Carolina University, SC

2007 – “Nebraska’s Glass Artists”, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE

2007 – “A Gathering of Contemporary Glass: Artists from Haystack to Pilchuck,” Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

2006 – “Timeless Glass”, Mingei International Museum San Diego, CA

2005 – “New Works 2005: Celebrating Recent Gifts to RAM.” Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

2005 – “Global Art Glass Triennial,” Borghom Castle, Borgholm, SWEDEN

2005 – “Voices in Glass” Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX

2004 – “The Perfect Collection: A Shared Vision of Contemporary Craft”, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

2004 – “Musings of the Big Red”, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, GA

2004 – “The Nature of Craft and The Penland Experience” Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

2003 – “Some Assembly Required”, Museum of Glass International Center For Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA

2002 – “Steninge World Exhibition of Art Glass,” Steninge Palace Cultural Center, Marsta, SWEDEN and Hadeland Glassverk, NORWAY

2002 – “I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Contemporary Art”, San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego, CA

2002 – “25th Anniversary Exhibition,” William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

2002 – “30th Annual International Invitational Exhibit,” Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI

2002 – “Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA

2002 – “Chip off the Old Block,” Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2001 – SOFA Expo, Chicago, IL

2001 – “Glass Weekend,” Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ

2001 – “2001: A Glass Odyssey,” Focus Gallery, Salem Art Association, Salem, OR

2001 – “29th Annual International Glass Invitational,” Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI

2001 – “Stop Asking/We Exist: 25 African American Craft Artists,” Florida Craftsmen Inc., St.

2001 – Petersburg, FL, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, Virginia & Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

2001 – “18th Annual International Glass Invitational,” Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL

2001 – “Material Witness”. Cracker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

2000 – “Millennium Glass”, Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

2000 – “The Healing Spirit” United States Embassy, Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA

2000 – “Flora – A common Thread VI”, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID

1999 – “Contemporary American Ceramics and Glass”, Seto Ceramics and Glass Art

Center, Seto City, JAPAN

“Art of Glass”, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

”Glass! Glorious Glass!” Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum,

Washington DC

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND LECTURES

2012 National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Ebeltoft, Denmark

Project Venture, Niobrara, NE

Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, Lincoln, NE

Native American Indian Education, Omaha, NE

2011 Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

“Seeing With New Eyes: Modern Traditions”, KANEKO, Omaha, NE

2010 Lake Wales Art Center, Lake Wales, FL

Omaha Public Schools, Native American Indian Education

2009 North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, SCOTLAND

Racine Art Museum in conjunction with Public Schools, Racine, WI

University of Miami, Miami, FL

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, SCOTLAND

2008 University of Louisville, Teaching residency, Louisville, KY

UrbanGlass, Lecture, Boys and Girls Club Workshop, Brooklyn, NY

Penland School of Crafts, summer teaching, Penland, NC

“The Glass Skin: Ditching Glass Dogma”, California State University, Summer Arts Program, Fresno CA.

2007 “Pittsburgh Celebrates Glass:Collective Fusion” with City High Charter High School, The

Neighborhood Academy, The Caring Place and Youth Places, 5th Avenue Place, Pittsburgh, PA

“Transformational Matter”, Glass Art Society’s 37th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

“Adventures of the Mind”, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA

“Myths Across The Atlantic” Contemporary Glass Society, Cornwall ENGLAND

Workshop, Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, DENMARK.

2005 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

“The Art of Fine Craft”, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE

2003 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

American Embassy Program, Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE.

Gallery workshops “Byzantine Istoria, BBAC, Boca Raton, FL

2002 The Glass Furnace, Istanbul TURKEY

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

2001 Bild-Werk Frauenau, GERMANY

Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ

Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

2000 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL

California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Nijima Glass Arts Festival, Nimiji, JAPAN

1999 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Chrysler Museum, ”Emerald City” project

Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.

Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA

Hampton University, Norfolk, VA

1998 San Jose State School of Design, San Jose, CA

Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.

Barnstall Art Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Camilla Strong Miller Master Class

Public Glass Workshop, San Francisco, CA

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

1997 Kent State University, Kent, OH

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1996 Hilltop Junior High School, Tacoma, WA

1995 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deere Island, ME

Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

1983-2000 Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood, WA

1993 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

1983 Pitzer College, Calremont, CA

1983-85 University of California, Los Angeles, CA

1983 Colorado Mountain College, CO

1980 Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA

1976 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

AWARDS

2012 National Liberty Museum Artist Honoree

2010 Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Merit Award

2009 Alain Locke Award, Detroit Institute of Art

2008 UrbanGlass Award – Outstanding Achievement

2006 James Renwick Alliance – Distinguished Artist Award, Washington DC

2000 San Diego Commission on the Arts Art in Public Places

1999 Cultural Enrichment Proclamation, City of Beverly Hills, CA

American Craft Council Award, Fellow

Cultural Affairs Individual Artists Grant City of Los Angeles, CA

Art In Embassies Program

1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1985 Brody Arts Foundation Fellowship

1982 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1978 Pratt Institute Fellowship

1997 Ford Foundation Artists Grant

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS & INSTALLATIONS

2011 University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH

University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, MO

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Metro Community College, Omaha, NE

2010/2012 Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, NE

2009 KANEKO-UNO Library, Omaha, NE

2008 Highmark Inc. “Three Rivers” and “Collective Fusion”, Pittsburgh, PA

Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

2005 Wynn Hotel & Resort, Las Vegas, NV

2003 Washington D.C. Convention Center, Washington D.C.

2003 City of San Diego/Valencia, CA

2002 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

2001 New York State Arts Commission, Concourse Village East, Bronx, NY

ADC Telecommunications, Inc, Eden Prairie, MN

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

2000 Ice Center, San Jose, CA

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL

US Department of State, Art in Embassies, Moscow Collection

1999 Corning Inc., Corning, NY

Venice Family Clinic, Los Angeles, CA

City of Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA

1998 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

1997 Harrah’s Casino, Las Vegas, NV

1995 Harrah’s Hotel, Hampton Inn, Las Vegas, NV

1989-93 Los Angeles Central Public Library, Los Angeles, CA

1989-94 Metro-Rail, Rapid Transit Development, Los Angeles, CA

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Neehah, Wisconsin

Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, California

California African-American Museum, Los Angeles, California

Cincinnati Art Museum

City of Seattle, Seattle, Washington

Corning Inc., Corning, New York

Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

George and Dorothy Saxe, San Francisco, California

University of Washington, The Henry Art Gallery, Washington

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University

Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Lowe Art Museum: Palley Pavillion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Art, University of Miami, Florida

M H deYoung Museum, San Francisco, California

Maxine and William Block Collection

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina

Musèe des Arts Dècoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France

Musèe de design et d’Arts appliquès contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida

National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Columbus, Ohio

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida

Phillip Morris Company, New York, New York

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Scottsdale Fine Arts Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona

Simon and Jerome Chazen Collection

Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California

The David Jacob Chadorkoff Collection

Toledo Museum of Art, School of Art and Design, Toledo, Ohio

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska

US Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Moscow RUSSIA, Maputo Mozambique

US Department of State, Friends of Art & Preservation in Embassies, Sydney, Australia

Washington D.C. Convention Center Authority Art Collection

SELECTED REVIEWS

Brown, Betty Ann. “Engaging Materials Inside/Out.” Visions 1993:40

Busman, Laura A. “New Your Experimental Glass Workshop.” GLASS 1993:55

Chambers, Karen S. “Therman Statom: On the Brink.” Neus Glas April 1994: 9-1

Chambers, Karen S. & Ferdinand Hampson. Glass From Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art: 1962-1992 and Beyond. Morristown,

New Jersey: The Morris Museum, 1992:69.

Creswell, Julie. “ The New Old Thing”. Fortune March 2000:124-126

Drury, John. “Stolen Moments” Urban Glass Spring 2008/Issue 110

Friedman, Jane. “Washington Interiors. ”American Style Magazine” Fall 1999:51-54.

“Gallery”. American Craft June/July 2002: 78

Goldberger, Paul. “Florida Free Form” Architectural Digest May 1998:207

Gustafson, Elaine D. ed. River Myths: An Installation by Therman Statom. Tampa, Florida: Tampa Museum of Art, 2002.

Horan, Judy. “Center Stage.” Midwest Express Magazine Jul/August 1997:26.

Glass Focus Magazine “Interview: Therman Statom, Thoughts Ideas & Musings”. Oct/Nov 1998:1, 15-18.

Kangas, Matthew.”Therman Statom: Installing Space.” GLASS Winter 1996: 28-35.

Litt, Steven. “Quirky Visual Statements Fun.” Arts and Living Jan 1997:E1

Marks, Ben. Review: “Therman Statom at Dorothy Weiss”. Art in America June `1995: 111.

Memell, Dean. “Myths, Science, and Nature”/ ¨GLASS ¨Summer `997: 51/

Muchnic, Suzanne. “This Project Isn’t By The Book”. The Los Angeles Time/ Calendar. 25 July 1993:5,88.

Nzegwe, Nikiru. “Living In A Glass House, Passing Through Glass”. International Review of African-American Art, Volume II No.2: 44-50.

Palombo Weiis, Ruth. “American Crafts Abroad.” American Style Fall 2000:52-61.

Pincus, Robert. “Escondido-Based Mall Statom’s Art is a Glass Act Atop Painted Plywood.” San Diego Union – Tribune 2 Oct. 1998: E-7.

Porges, Maria.”Therman Statom: Northern Tide.” American Craft, June/July 1995.

Slipe, Jeffrey. “Artistry in Motion.” American Style Magazine, Winter, 1998: 48-55.

“Stop asking/We Exist.” Society for Contemporary Crafts, The Crafts Report, January, 1999:34.

Vallongo, Sally. “Exploring the Awesome Art of Creativity,” Arts in Entertainment, March 17, 1996, 1-2.

DC One “Therman Statom” 2002: 59.

Revised: OCTOBER 2012