Born 1959, Paris, France
EDUCATION
The University of Venice, Venice, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001 Art2 Gallery, Singapore
Novena Square Installation, Singapore
1998 Sky and Water: Sculptures, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1997 Arrivals, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 Spazio Canoniche Nuove, Treviso, Italy
Palazzo Guarnieri, Fondaco delle biade, Feltre, Italy (catalog)
Sky Works, Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice, Italy
1995 Machina Animae, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
1994 Société Martell, Cognac, France
Palazzo Casati, Piacenza, Italy
1993 Galleria Blanchaert, Milano, Italy
1992 Un Caso di Trasparenza, Circolo degli Artisti, Faenza, Italy (catalog)
1986 Galerie Clara Scremini, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2009 La Biennale di Venezia, 53 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Padiglione Venezia
Sanse Galerie, Zurich, CH
2008-9 Licht und Gold, Galerie Proarta , Zurich, CH
2008 Sanske Galerie, Luzern & Zurich, CH
2007 Vetri d’Artista, Fondazione Pernici,, Centro Studi Val Rendana, a cura di Rosa Barovier
2006 Ein Welt aus Glas, Kunst und Design in Herzen Europas, Barockshloss Riegensburg, Austria
2005 Vetro e Scultura, 20 Artisti interpretano Venini Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy
2004-5 Vetri nel Mondo Oggi, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venezia, Italy [catalog]
2003 Venice a Touch of Glass, Italian Cultural Institute, London, UK
2002-4 Le Opere e I Giorni, Certosa di Padula, SA, Italy, a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva
2002 Glass Way, Museo Archeologico, Aosta, Italy [catalog]
2001 Paul Hughes Fine Arts, London, UK
Spazio Lucioli, Milano, Italy: Nuovi Lavori
Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA, Venini, Glass & Design
traveling to The Mingei Internaional Museum, San Diego, CA
2000-1 The Corning Museum of Glass: Late 20th Century Sculpture
2000 Glass & Ceramics, Galleria Blanchaert, Milan, Italy
2000 Handmade: Shifting Paradigms, The Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore [catalog]
Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1999 Three Glass Masters, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1999 Duane Reed Gallery, Introduction to Contemporary Glass, Chicago, IL, St. Louis, MS
Gelleria Blanchaert, Milano, Italy
1998 VisAlchemical: New Directions in Contemporary Glass Sculpture, University Gallery,
University of California, San Diego, with Kiki Smith, Dale Chihuly, Howard Ben Tré, Italo
Scanga
1997-99 The Glass Skin, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; traveling to Shimonoseki
City Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Japan; Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan; The Corning
Museum of Glass; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf; Kunstsammlunden der Veste Coburg,
Germany (catalog)
1997 24th Habatat International Invitational, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI Artfair Seattle, Elliott Brown
Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 Venezia Aperto Vetro, The Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (catalog)
VetroPhanie, Reggia di Colorno, Parma, Italy; with Mario Merz, Emilio Isgro, G. Penone,
Jannis Kounellis, Gilberto Zorio (catalog)
Contemporary Art Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Gli Artisti Venini 1921-1985, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (catalog)
24th Habatat International Invitational, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI Artfair Seattle and SOFA
Chicago, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalogs)
Bologna Artfair, Galleria Borgonuovo 12 La Scultura, Milan, Italy
1995 Opening exhibition, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
New Glass, Studio d’Arte Barnabò, Venice, Italy
SOFA Miami Exposition, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 “Preferirei di no”: Cinque stanze tra arte e depressione, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy,
curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (catalog)
Cardini, Villa Glisenti, Brescia, Italy
1993 Cardini, Magazzini del Sale, Cervia, Italy
1985 Art du Verre, Musee des Beaux Arts, Rouen, France
Glasspanels, Galerie Gerard Laubie, Paris, France
Galerie Clara Scremini, Paris, France
1984 Venini: The Spirit of the Moment, Heller Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
1983 Giovani Designers Europei, ICSID, Milan, Italy
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Ellis and Lillian Berkowitz, Beverly Hills, California
Chap and Eve Alvord, Seattle, WA
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Anne Gould Hauberg, Seattle, Washington
Musee des Beaux Arts, Rouen, France
Bormioli Rocco, Parma, Italy
George and Dorothy Saxe, San Francisco, California
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
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1997-98 Visiting Faculty, University of California, San Diego
1987-92 Contributes various designs to the collection of Eos, Murano.
1987-88 Designs for Rosenthal Limited Edition Glass Collection.
1983-85 Takes charge of Research and New Product Development at Venini.
During this period designs the lamps Pin and Ustorio, the vases Scozzesi and the murrine Coccio.
1981-83 Acts as Venini's curator of historical research for the Smithsonian Institution
Traveling Exhibition Series [Sites] entitled Venini Glass [catalog]
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1981 Joins the family firm Venini, in Murano. Venini was established by grandfather, Paolo
Venini, in 1921, and managed by father Ludovico Diaz de Santillana from 1959 to1985.
RECENT COMMISSIONED ARTWORKS
2002-2009: Australia; London UK; Paris, France; Miami, USA; Venice, Italy; New York, USA; Singapore; Milano, Italy; Rancho Santa Fe, CA.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Glass Skin; edited by Susanne Frantz, Yoriko Mizuta & Helmut Ricke; pp. 38-41, 129.
Dorigato, Attilia and Klein, Dan; International New Glass: Venezia Aperto Vetro, published by Arsenale Editrice, Venice, Italy, 1996, pp. 108, 207.
Klotz, Uta; “Venezia Aperto Vetro,” Neues Glass magazine, 3/96, illus. p. 12.
Frantz, Susanne K; “The Best in Recent Glass,” Neues Glass magazine, 2/96, illus. p. 103.
Frantz, Susanne K.; The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1995, illus. p. 16.
Kangas, Matthew; Glass magazine, Number 60, Fall 1995, review, pp. 50-51.
Bonito Oliva, Achille, “Preferirei di no”: Cinque stanze tra arte e depressione,
Museo Correr, Venice, Italy, 1994, published by Electa, Milan, illus. p. 51.
