Born 1955, Venice, Italy
EDUCATION
School of the Visual Arts, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Laura de Santillana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles
Sanske Galerie, Luzern & Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Khadi, Galleria Marina Barovier, Venice, Italy
2006 Bodhis, Galerie Arc en Seine, Paris, France
Bodhis, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York
2005 Laura de Santillana, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 Laura de Santillana: Pritions, Galerie Arc en Seine, Paris, France
New Work, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2003 Mi-Art, Milano; Galleria Tognon, Bergamo, Italy
Altissima, Torino; Galleria Tognon, Bergamo, Italy
Venice: A Touch of Glass. Italian Cultural Institute, London
2002 Titans, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York
Laura de Santillana, Galerie l'Arc en Seine, Paris, France
2001 Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
Laura de Santillana, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York
Laura de Santillana, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
Metals, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1999 Laura de Santillana, Galerie l'Arc en Seine, Paris, France---
Laura de Santillana, New Work, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle
Terre, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1998 Sei Sensi Laura de Santillana, Gallery TRTangle, Tokyo, Japan
The Cigar Smoker's Dream, Daphne Johns Contemporary Art,
London, United Kingdom
1997 Mountains, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Laura de Santillana, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1996 Laura de Santillana, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1995 Murrine, I Vetri di Laura de Santillana, Blanchaert & Arosio, Milano, Italy
1994 Laura de Santillana, Osiris Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1989 Laura de Santillana: Glas, Glas Galerie, Salzburg, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Venice: 3 Artists | 3 Visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura
de Santillana, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (catalogue)
2010 Venice: 3 Artists | 3 Visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura
de Santillana, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri;
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida (catalogue)
2009 Venice: 3 Artists | 3 Visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de
Santillana, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York (catalogue)
"... Fa come natura face in foco - Dante" 53rd Venice Biennale,
Venice Pavilion, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
2007 Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America, Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania--
2006 Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, California
Contrasts: A Glass Primer, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
Islands of Glass, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Vetro & Scultura, Pietrasanta, Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Rome, Italy
Lo Spirito della Pietra, Accademia di San Luca, Rome, Italy
Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, Mint Museum of
Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina and The Frist Center
for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee (catalogue)
2004 Vetri. Nel Mondo. Oggi, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, Texas, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington,
and Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan (catalogue)
2003 Murano: Glass From the Olnick Spanu Collection, The Chrysler
Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia (catalogue)
Mi-Art, Galleria Tognon, Milan, Italy
Artissima, Galleria Tognon, Torino, Italy
Venice, A Touch of Glass, Italian Cultural Institute, London,
United Kingdom
2002 Contemporary Currents: Glass from William and Maxine Block,
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Glassway Le Stanze del Vetro, Museo Archeologico, Aosta, Italy
Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass, The Norton Museum
of Art, Palm Beach, Florida
2001 Laura de Santillana: Fashion Meets Art, Giorgio Armani, New York
Translucency, Paul Hughes Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom
L de Santillana, Spazio Lucioli, Milan, Italy
Venini, Glass and Design, Mingei International Museum, San Diego,
California
Murano: Vetri dalla Collezione Olnick Spanu, Spazio Oberdan, Milan,
Italy (catalogue)
2000 Form and Content, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Venetian Glass: The Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Collection,
American Craft Museum, New York, New York
1999 Glass: Daniel Clayman, Flo Perkins, Laura de Santillana, Ledbetter
Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1998 Venezia Aperto Ventro, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy
New Traditions in Glass from Venice, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York,
New York
Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1996 Murrine Storia, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington
New Design in Glass, KunstMuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Vetri Venini 1921-1985 Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy
Laura de Santillana e Susan Kleinberg, Studio d'Arte Barnabÿ,
Venice, Italy
Venezia Aperto Vetro, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
1995 New Glass, Studio d'Arte Barnabo, Venice, Italy
1994 Italia, Masterworks of Italian Design 1960-1994, Denver Art Museum,
Denver, Colorado
1990 International Exhibition of Glass, Giappone, Kanazawa, Japan
1986 Laura et Allesandro de Santillana, Galerie Clara Scremini, Paris,
France
1985 Zweiter Coburger Glaspreis Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg,
Corburg, Germany
Galerie Clara Scremini, Paris, France
Glass Panels, Galerie Gerard Laubie, Paris, France
Art du Verre, Musee de Rouen, Rouen, France
1984 Glass in Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
1983 Venini: The Spirit of the Moment, Heller Gallery, New York, New York
1982 Vetro a Venezia, Palazzo Ducale e Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
1981 Vetro Murano Oggi, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Venini Glass, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1979/82 New Glass: A Worldwide Survey, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning,
New York Exhibition traveling to: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo,
Ohio, Renwick Gallery, A Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York,
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California,
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, Musee des
Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, New York
Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany
Ernsting Stiftung Alterhof Herding Museum, Coeffeld-Lette, Germany
Kunstmuseum im Ehrenhof, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego, California
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Musee de Design et d'Arts Appliques Contemporains, Lausanne, France
Museo Vetrario di Murano, Venice, Italy
Museu de Arte de- Sïo Paulo, Sïo Paulo, Brazil
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
