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Henry Halem

Web site: www.glassnotes.com


 

  • EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND


 

1956-60 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA

1964-68 George Washington University, MFA

1968-69 Postgraduate Studies, University, of Wisconsin, Glass


 

  • TEACHING AND WORK EXPERIENCE


 

1963–64 First Resident Craftsman, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.

1965–68 Ceramics Instructor, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia

1968 TA for Prof. Harvey Littleton, U. of Wisconsin

1969–98 Prof. of Art, Head of Glass Studies, Kent State University, Kent, OH

1982-83-86-87-88-89-90-96-01 Faculty, Pilchuck School, Stanwood, Washington

1996 Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia

1999-05 Faculty, Penland School, Penland, NC

2001 Corning Museum of Glass, The Studio, Corning N.Y.


 

  • HONORS


 

2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, the Glass Art Society (June 08)

1998 President’s Medal for Outstanding Achievement, Kent State University

1994 Fellow of The American Crafts Council

Governor’s Award for the Arts, State of Ohio

1993 Honorary Life Membership, The Glass Art Society

1972 First President of The Glass Art Society

 

  • GLASS, SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


 

2007 SOFA, Chicago, Habatat Gallery

2004 The Ohio Years, Eells Gallery, Blossom Music Center

2003 “Looking Back & Reaching Forward,” The Hodge Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (two person)

2000 “Lost and Found” Exhibition, Morgan Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (group)

1999 “Affordable Housing”, Morgan Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (group)

1998 Riley Hawk Gallery, Cleveland, OH (solo)

1997 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

1997 “Recent Glass Sculpture”, A Union of Ideas”, Milwaukee Art Museum. (group)

1997 “Glass Today”, Cleveland Museum of Art, American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

1994 Exhibition, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI (solo)

“World Glass Now, 94”, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan (invited)

Glass International, Habatat Gallery, Detroit, MI (invited)

Alfred University, Fosdick/Nelson Gallery (solo)

1993 Gallery Nakama, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

1992 New Work, Habatat Gallery, Florida

Contemporary Cast Glass, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR (group)

Glass, From Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art: 1962-1992, The Morris Museum

1991 Kurland/Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

1990 Halem/Libensky/Brychtova/Zamecnikova/Karel, Sanske Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland (group)

Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

1989 “Craft Today, USA” Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (group)

“Halem/Chardiet” Sanske Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland (two person)

1988 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

World Glass Now '88” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan (invited)

1987 “Glass 87 in Japan” Tokyo, Japan (featured invited artist)

Drawn to the Surface” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (group)

“Thirty Years of New Glass” Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (group)

Saxe Collection” Contemporary American and European Glass, ACC Museum, NYC (group)

1986 “Craft Today, Poetry of the Physical” American Crafts Museum, NYC (group)

New American Glass, Focus 2,” Huntington Museum Of Art, Huntington, WV(group)

“Halem/Marquis/Statom” Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (three person)

“American Glass” Kulturhuset Gallery, Sweden (Invited)

“Halem/Libensky/Brychtova” Habatat Gallery, Lathrup Village, Michigan (two person)

“New American Glass” Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, W.Va (Invited)

1983 “5 Perspectives” “Halem, Kelly, Mayer, Pearson, Salomon”, Akron Art Museum

“The Fine Art of Contemporary American Glass, CCAC, Columbus, OH (group)

“Akron Collaboration, Artist & Architects, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (group)

1982 “International Directions in Glass” Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (group)

“World Glass Now, 82” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan (invited)

“American Glass Art” Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ. (group)

“Detroit Collects” Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI (group)

Habatat Gallery, Lathrup Village, MI (solo)

1981 “Glass, Artist and Influence” Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena, MI (group)

“Americans in Glass” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin (group)

“25th Anniversary Exhibition, American Crafts Museum, NYC (group)

Habatat Gallery. Lathrup Village, MI (solo)

Emergence” National Invitational, Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH (group)

1980 “Tradition & Change” Contemporary Art Glass Group, NYC (group)

1979 “Ten Concepts in Glass” Habatat Gallery, Lathrup Village, MI (group)

“NEW GLASS” Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (group)

“Wall Panels” The Elements Gallery, NYC (solo)


 

  • COMMISSIONS


 

Private Residence Commission, Bronze and Glass Wall installation, Ohio (1999)

Ohio University, 1% for the Arts, Window and Door installation, Student Center, Ironton, OH

Rapid Transit Authority, Cleveland OH, (Collaboration with Brinsley Tyrrell) 22 ft. x 8 ft. illuminated glass wall for train station. (1997)

Ferro Corporation Commission: Designed, and produced four architecturally integrated glass panels for lobby of International Corporate HQ’s, Cleveland OH, (1991)

Commission: J. Kanfer Private Residence, Bath, OH, Designed produced and installed an architectural glass wall, 12 ft. by 16 ft. (1990)

Commission: For private collection, designed and produced wall installation, 5 ft. x 4 ft., Benjamin Heineman, Chicago, IL (1993)

Scandinavian Health Spas: Designed, produced and installed architectural wall panel for lobby of Corporate HQ’s, Montrose, OH (1988)

Industry Week Magazine, Penton/IPC Publishers: Designed and produced four limited edition glass sculptures presented to four top industrial managers who had won “Manager of the Year awards.” (1977-78)


 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


 

Abraham & Strauss

American Crafts Museum, NY

Australian Council for Art

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Corning Museum of Glass, NY

UMPRUM Museum, The Czech Republic

Ferro Corporation, Corporate Hdq’s, Cleveland, OH

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Hokkaido Museum of Art, Sapporo, Japan

Niijima Glass Museum, Niijima, Japan

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Assoc., Architects, Detroit, MI

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH


 

  • PUBLISHED ARTICLES, PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

     

2006 Panel Presentation on Glass Education, Glass Art Society Conference, St. Louis, MO

2003 Contemporary Glass, Paper presented at the International Flame Working Conference, Salem Community College, Salem NJ

1994, 96, 06 Author : Glass Notes: a reference for the glass artist, Publisher, Franklin Mills Press

Glass Education? Paper presented at the Glass Art Society meeting, Toledo, Ohio

  1. Glass Magazine, NYEGW Publisher, Issue 39, Editorial “Perspective, Beyond Technique”

  • PUBLICATIONS


 

2003 Dialog Magazine, 25 Influential Artists, May Issue

2001 Contemporary Glass, Color Light &Form, Leir, Peters, Wallace GUILD pub.

Object, Lessons, Guild Pub.

2000 Glass Art, from Urban Glass, Richard W. Yelle, editor, Shiffer Pub. Co. Ltd.

2000 Painting on Glass, by Paige Gilchrist, Pub. Lark Books

1998 Glass: An Artists Medium, by Lucartha Kohler, Pub. Kraus Publications

1992 20th Century Stained Glass: A New Definition by Robert Kehlman, Pub. Kyoto Shoin, Kyoto, Japan

1992 All About Glass: The Shinshusha Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

1992 American Crafts Magazine: Pub. American Crafts Council, Feb./Mar.

1990 Prism of Fantasy: The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, The Glass Collection of the Hokkaido Museum of Art

Masterpieces of American Glass: Crown Pub. Inc., Spillman and Frantz, Authors

Glasswork Quarterly: Japanese Publication, Feature Interview, Dec.

1989 Decorative Arts: Soviet Arts Journal, Two page color spread on work, Nov. 89 Issue

Glass: A Contemporary Art: Rizzoli International Pub. Dan Klein, Author

Contemporary Glass: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, Susan K. Frantz, Author

1987 Akron Works: Pub. Akron Regional Development Board

1985 New American Glass: Pub. Huntington Museum of Art

1984 Glass State of the Art 1984: Pub. Habatat Galleries

1982 American Craft Magazine: Pub. American Crafts Council, Feb.

LIFE Magazine: Pub. Time Inc., Feb.

Neus Glas: Veragasanstalt Handwerk, Pub. April 82 “The Plane is the Message”, Author: Paul Hollister

1981 The Encyclopedia of Glass: Crown Publishing, Inc.

1980 A Short History of Glass: Pub. Corning Museum of Glass

Collector Editions Quarterly: Pub. Acquire Pub. Co., Summer

Glass Studio Magazine: Pub. Development, Inc. March/April

American Craft Magazine: Pub. American Crafts Council, June


 

  • MAJOR CATALOG REPRESENTATION


 

1997 “Glass Today”, The Cleveland Museum of Art

1994 “World Glass Now ‘94”, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

1993 “Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, The Toledo Museum

1992 “Glass, From Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art”, The Morris Museum

1992 “Clearly Art, Pilchucks Glass Legacy”, Whatcom Museum of History and Art

1992 “Contemporary Kiln formed Glass”, Bullseye Glass Co., Portland, OR

1989 “Craft Today USA ”American Crafts Council, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

1988 “World Glass Now “88” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art

1987 “Glass '87 in Japan” Japan Glass Artcrafts Association

1986 “Craft Today, Poetry of the Physical” American Craft Museum

1982 “International Directions in Glass Art” Australian Crafts Board

“World Glass Now “82” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art

1979 “New Glass, A Worldwide Survey” The Corning Museum of Glass

 

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