Toots Zynsky


Born
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., March 25,1951
B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., U.S.A.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.
Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, U.S.A.

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.

de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Hokkaido Museum of Modem Art, Sapporo, Japan
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, W.VA, U.S.A.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, U.S.A.
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany

Koganezaki Glass Museum, Koganezaki, Japan
Kunstammlungen der Veste-Coburg, Coburg, Germany

Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Germany
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, WI, U.S.A.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, U.S.A.
MCI Communications Corporation, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Musee des Arts Decoratifs do Louvre, Paris. France
Musee des Arts Decoratifs de la Viile de Lausanne, Switzerland
Musee du Verre et du Cristal de Meisenthal, France

Musei Civici Veneziani, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
Museo Municipal de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcon, Alcorcon, Spain

Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico

Museum Bellerive, ZUrich, Switzerland

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, U.S.A.

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Museum of Modem Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Muskegan Museum of Art, Muskegan, Michigan, U.S.A.
National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Australia

National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian), Washington DC, U.S.A.
Nederlandsche Bank NV (The Dutch Central Bank), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.
Nordenfjeldske Kunst lndustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, florida, U.S.A.

Notojima Glass Art Museum, Nanao City, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, U.S.A.
Prescott Collection of Pilchuck Glass of Pacific First Center, Seattle, W A, U.S.A.

Powerhouse Museum, Museum of Applid Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia

Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Japan

Shoha Museum of Sarutahiko Shrine, Ise, Japan
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington DC, U.S.A.

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, U.S.A.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

The Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The White House Collection, Washington DC, U.S.A.

Wurth Museum, Kunzelsau, Germany
Yokohama City Museum of Art, Yokohama City, Japan

EDUCATION
1979 - Rhode Island School of Design, Special Student Advanced Glass Program (Fall Semester) Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, Washington, Advanced Glass Workshop (June thru August)

1973 - B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, Washington, Glassblowing Workshop (June thru August)

1971 - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deere Isle, Maine,

1970 - Glassblowing Workshop (August)

AWARDS

1999 - "Innovation in a Glassworking Technique", Urban Glass Annual Award, U.S.A.

1997 - Die Bayerische Staatsregierung, Munich, Germany
1988 - Rakow Commission, Coming Museum of Glass, U.S.A.
1986 - National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.A.
1984 - Research Grant, Stichting Klankschap (Foundation), Amsterdam, the Netherlands (see Related Professional Experience, 1984-1985)

1982 - National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, Washington, Artist-in-Residence (August)

1981-1982
New York State Council on the Arts, Artist-in-Residence Grant in conjunction with the New York Experimental Glass Workshop

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004

Board of Governors Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI USA

PASA (Providence After School Alliance) , Providence, RI, USA

2002

Advisory Board, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark

Board of Trustees, Festival Ballet, Providence, RI, USA

Advisory Board, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2001-2002

Designs and produces ten torches for the relay at the Paralympics  opening ceremonies in Salt Lake City, Utah

1991 – 1992
Executes series of limited edition pieces for E.O.S. Murano, Italy

1984 - 1985
Ghana, 6 months special research project, to record and research the living music of Ghana in collaboration with the Ghanaian Ministry of Culture, the Institute of African Studies, Legon, Ghana and the Klankschap Foundation, Holland

1984

U.C.L.A., Artist-in-Residence, Visiting Critic, Los Angeles, CA, Pilchuck Glass Center, Instructor, Special Workshop in Fusing, Slumping, Pate-de-verre

1981 - 1983

During this time the artist executed a variety of special projects in glass, including work for advertising firms, production companies, designs for production, and was invited by VENINI, Spa of Venice, Italy to design a special series of "unique" pieces to add to their line.

1981 - 1982
New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Department Head, Hot Glass Program

Parsons School of Design of the New School Faculty, Crafts Program

1982

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deere Isle, Maine, Instructor Hot Glass Workshop (July)

1980 - 1981
New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Assistant Director

1980

Pilchuck Glass Center, assisted Dan Dailey, Hot Glass Workshop

1971 - 1973
Assisted Dale Chihuly in the establishment of the Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, Washington, U.S.A.

GUEST LECTURER I VISITING ARTIST
2005

Toots Zynsky  Lecturer  and Workshop,  Notojima Glass Art Musem, Notojima-machi , Japan

Guest Lecturer, Detroit Institute  of Arts, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Guest Lecturer, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

2004

Guest Lecturer,  Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, N.Y, U.S.A

Guest Lecturer , Corning Museum Of Glass, Corning, N.Y, U.S.A

Guest Lecturer  and demonstration, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn,N.Y , U.S.A

2003

Toots Zynsky Seminar, special glass making techniques workshop and lecture,  Kanaz Forest of   Creation,Fukui, Japan

Guest Lecturer, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach,  FL, USA

2002

Guest Lecturer, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2000

Guest Lecturer, American Craft Museum, New York, NY, USA

1999

Guest Lecturer, Koganezaki Glass Museum, Kamogun, Japan

Guest Lecturer, Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico

1998

Guest Lecturer, Delaware Museum of Art, USA

1997

Guest Lecturer, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, U.S.A.

Guest Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, U.S.A

1995

Guest Lecturer, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, Washington DC, U.S.A

1994

Lecturer, Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, Washington, U.S.A.

1992

Lecturer, Glass Art Society 22nd Annual Conference, Mexico City, Mexico

Lecture read by Jean Luc Olivie of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

1990

Guest Lecturer, ZUrich, Switzerland

1988

Lecturer, 28th Seminar on Glass, the Corning Museum of Glass, Coming, NY

1987

External Examiner, West Surrey College of Art, Farnum, England Guest Lecturer Glass Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1986

External Examiner, West Surrey College of Art, Farnum, England

1985

Cincinnati Art Center, Cincinnati, OH B.A.G. Conference, West Surrey College of Art, Famum, England

1984

Guest Lecturer, G.A.S. Conference, Coming, NY UCLA, Artist-in-Residence, Los Angeles, CA

1983

Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Guest Panelist, "The Fine Art of Private Commissions", Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC

1982

Lecture, "Contemporary Glass", Art History Program, New York University, New York, NY

Continuing Education Program Lecture, "Contemporary Glass", Scarsdale, NY

Guest Lecturer Glass Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1981

Guest Panelist, " Alternative Education Programs in Glass Arts", Glass Art Society Conference, Seattle, WA

Video Performance, Collaboration with Buster Simpson, Pratt Fine Art Center, Seattle, WA

Visiting Artist, Pilchuck Glass Center, Stanwood, WA

1979

Glassblowing Workshop, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005

Steninge Slott Cultural Centre, Marsta, Sweden, Steninge World Exhibition of Art Glass 2005

Musee Tomo, Tokyo, Japan, Contemporary Glass-Light Transfigured, from Toyoma City Collection

Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA, Taking Shape: Pilchuck Glass School in the '70s

*Notojima Glass Art Museum, Notojima-machi, Japan Toots Zynsky

Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, North American Tour, 2003-2006, Including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit,MI

The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI, Chazan's Choice: Gifts of Contemporary Art to the RISD Museum

The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AZ, American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement (traveling exhibition)

Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark, Exhibition of the Permanent Collection

Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI

Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI, Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of Americn Art From the Huntington Museum of Art (traveling exhibition)

2004

*Shoha Museum of Sarutahiko Shrine, Ise , Japan  Toots Zynsky

The Marxhausen Gallery  of Art, Concordia University, Seward Nebraska, USA Studio Glass International: Selections from the Esterling/Wake Collection

The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI,  Recent Acquisitions in Glass

Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, International Museum of Art and Science, NcAllen, TX, American Studio Glass: A Survey  of the Movement(traveling exhibition)

The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; The Taft Museum, Cincinnat, Ohio, Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art (traveling exhibition)

Kogenezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan, Technique and ExpressionII: Fusing and Gluing

2003

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida,USA , Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass

The Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia, USA, Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art (traveling exhibition)

Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design (formerly Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation), Louisville, Kentucky, USA , Glass Vessel: An International Invitational

The World Craft Forum Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan,  World Competition  of Arts and Crafts,Kanazawa,Special Invitatiional Exhibition  “Crafts Now - -21 Artists each from America, Europe, and Asia”

The William S. Fairfield Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, American Studio Glass: A Survey  of the Movement (traveling exhibition)

2002

The Gallery at Steuben,N.Y,N.Y. USA UrbanGlass @ 25- An Anniversary Exhibition          

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Contemporary Directions:  Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection, traveling to  Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH USA, Fall 2003

*Museo Correr (Civici Musei Veneziani D’Arte e di Storia), Venice, Italy, Toots Zynsky, (traveling exhibition)

Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, USA, Transparent Illusions

2001

*Glasmuseet  Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark, Toots Zynsky (traveling exhibition)

Shanghai Fine Arts Museum, Shanghai, China, and China Millenium Monument Museum, Beijing, China, Contemporary Glass Worldwide

Nordjllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark and Tonder Museum, Tonder, Denmark, Flet, Braid

Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA, Venini- Glass and Design in a World Perspective

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., Late 20th Century Sculpture

The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Fire and Light, 3000  Years of Glass Artistry

The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Contemporary Glass from the Permanent Collectio

2000

Museum of Modern Art, Open Ends, MoMa2000,  New York, NY, USA

American Craft Museum, Venetian Glass: 20th Century Italian Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection concurrent with Memories of Murano: American Glass Artists in Venice, New York, NY, USA

Museum of American Art, From Westmoreland Glass to Contemporary Glass, Greensburg, PA, USA

Koganezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan “Vessels”The International  Exhibition  of Glass,The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, USA, Splendor in the Glass:Contemporary Glass from the Palley Collection

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition (SITES), Civic Fine Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD, 2000; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia, 2000; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA ,1999; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, 1999.

1999

Singapore Art Museum, Handmade: Shifting Paradigms, Singapore

Global Art Glass, Borgholm Castle, Borgholm, Sweden

Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico

*Koganezaki Glass Museum, Toots Zynsky and Nakao Yuko,Shizuoka, Japan

1998

Venezia Aperto Vetro, Italy

1997

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Masters of Contemporary Glass, Selections from the Glick Collection, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Tuscon Museum of Art, ¡Cálido!, Contemprorary Warm Glass, Tuscon, AZ, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Glass Today by American Studio Artists, Boston, MA, USA

Cleveland Museum of Art, Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections, Cleveland, OH, USA

Museo del Vidrio, Inaugural Exhibition,  Monterrey, Mexico

Musée des Arts Décoratifs de la Ville de Lausanne, Artistes Verriers Contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland

1996
VeneziaAperto Vetro,Italy
Ga1erie L, Hamburg, Germany
Musee d' Art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France
Musee National de Ceramique,Couleurs et transparence, chefs-d'(Euvre du verre contemporain, Sevres, France
Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI, U.S.A.
Cafe Aorian, Venezia, ltalia (Galery D' Arte & Divetro)
Sanske Galerie, ZUrich, Switzerland

1995
Yamaha Corporation, “Glass Now '95", Tokyo, Japan
Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
D' Arte e Divetro, Bergamo, Italy
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
International Glass Invitational, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

1994
Yamaha Corporation, "Glass Now '94", Tokyo, Japan
Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, W A, USA
Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Galerie Inart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gallery Osiris, Brussels, Belgium
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
L ' Art Contemporain du Verre et du Vitrail, Villeurbain, France, with Galerie Nadir

International Craft Exhibition, Lillehammer, Norway

1993
White House, White House Craft Collection, Washington DC, USA
Seattle Art Fair, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Seattle, W A, USA
GalerieL, Hamburg, Germany
Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Nadir, Annecy, France
Salon d ' Art Contemporain De Rouen, France, with Galerie Nadir
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, "New Art Forms", Chicago, IL, USA
Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI, USA

1992
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Gallery Nakama, Tokyo, Japan
Yamaha Corporation, "Glass Now '92", Tokyo, Japan
Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Snydennan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Galerie Art du Verre, Luxembourg

1991
NakamaGatlery, Tokyo, Japan
Special Exhibition, Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
YamahaCorporation, "Glass Now '91", Tokyo, Japan
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Sanske Galerie, ZUrich, Switzerland

1990
YamahaCorporation, "Glass Now '90", Tokyo, Japan
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, "Gaste aus Frankreich ", Hamburg, Germany

Oara Scremini Ga1erie, Paris, France
The National Gallery of Art, " Masterpieces ofGlass from the Corning Collection ",

Washington, OC, USA

1989
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
YamahaCorporation, "Glass Now' 89", Tokyo, Japan
Chicago International Art Expo, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery , USA
Stockholm International Art Fair, Galerie Clara Scremini
Sanske Galerie, ZUrich, Switzerland
GalerieArtichoque, Velp, The Netherlands

1988
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, "World Glass Now", Sapporo, Japan

Travelling Museum Exhibition, "Vormen in Glas", The Netherlands
Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI, USA
Sanske Galerie, ZUrich, Switzerland
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1987
Galerie Inart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Clara Scremini Galerie, Paris, France
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery , Chicago, IL, USA
Sarah Squeri Gallery, Cincinatti, OH, USA
YamahaCorporation, 'Glass Now '87", Tokyo, Japan

1986
Galerie Artichoque, Vel p, The Netherlands
American Craft Museum, " Poetry of the Physical ", New York, NY, USA

Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Huntington Museum of Art, "New American Gla.'ls, Focus 2 West Virginia",

Huntington, W. VA, USA
Clara Scremini Galerie, Paris, France
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland Museum of Art, "The Saxe Collection ", Oakland, CA, USA

1985
Sarah Squeri Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Galerie SM, Frankfurt, Germany
Musee des Beaux Arts de Rouen, " Art du Verre Actualite International ", France

1984
Hokkaido Museum of Art, Sapporo, Japan
Cheney-Cowles Museum, "Pilchuck Glass ", Spokane, W A, USA
Habatat Galleries, Detroit, MI, USA
Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany

1983
Tucson Museum of Art, "Sculptural Glass" Tucson, AZ, USA Owens-lllinois Center, "Sculptural Glass", Toledo, OH, USA

Tempe Fine Art Center, Tempe, AZ, USA
Craftsmans Gallery, "RISD -Leadership in Crafts ", Scarsdale, NY, USA

The American Embassy, " Special Exhibition of Contemporary American Glass ", Prague, Czechoslovakia

Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, 'The Fine Art of Private

Commissions ", Washington, DC, USA

1982
Theo Portnoy Gallery, "Pending", New York, NY, USA
Theo Portnoy Gallery, "The Sculptural Bowl", New York, NY, USA
Portnoy-Goodman Jordan-Volpe, "Sculptural Glass", Amagansett, NY, USA

Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, " Sculptural Glass ", Garneville, NY, USA

Traver-Sutton Gallery, " Pilchuck Show ", Seattle, W A, USA
Montclair Art Museum, " New York Experimental Glass Workshop Exhibition ", Montclair, NJ, USA

1981
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, " Americans in Glass ", Wausau, IL, USA

Exhibition traveled to: The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
The Krammert Museum of Art, Illinois
The Western Association of Art Museums
De Cordova and Dana Museum, "Glass Routes ", Lincoln, MA, USA
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, W A, USA
Bellevue Museum, Bellevue, W A, USA
Contemporary Artisans Gallery, "Viewpoints, Women in Glass ", San Francisco, CA, USA

1980
Clayworks-Glassworks Gallery, "Sculptural Glass: 10 New York City Area Artists ", New York, NY, USA

1973
Woods-Gerry Gallery, "New Glass, Assemblage and Slumped Plate 2", joint exhibition with M. Schaffer, Providence, RJ, USA