1970 Born in Venezuela
EDUCATION
2008 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle USA.
2007 Special Research Associate, Nagoya University of Arts, one year Residency, Nagoya, Japan.
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Boyd Sugiki, Maine, USA.
2006 Student Exchange, Nagoya Art University.
2005 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle USA.
2004 - 2007 Masters, Tama Art University, (‘Tamabijitsu Daigaku’) Tokyo.
2002 - 2003 Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours), Canberra School of Art, Australian National University
2000 - 2001 Bachelor of Visual Art, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University.
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2008 Creative Glass Centre of America, WheatonArts Fellowship, USA.
UrbanGlass, Emerging Artist Fellowship, Brooklyn USA.
Pilchuck Glass School Scholarship, Seattle, USA.
2006 Australia Council for the Arts, emerging artist grant recipient.
2005 Pilchuck Glass School Scholarship, Seattle, USA.
2004 Monbukagakusho Scholarship, Japanese Government.
Aesthetica Gallery Exhibition Award.
2001 Golden Key Scholar, Sydney University.
Jerome De Costa Memorial award Scholarship, Sydney University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 ‘Group Show’ Creative glass Centre of America, New Jersey.
‘Glass Study Day’, installation, Museum of Art and Design, New York
‘Fusion Glass’ Solo show, Chappell Gallery, New York.
2008 Collaboration - ‘Winter Solstice Concert’ Kaoru Watanabe Taiko Center Fund Raising Event, Dec 21st, Renate Albertsen-Marton Gallery Brooklyn.
‘Andino Modern Art’, Promo-Arte Gallery, Tokyo.
'Shaping Perspectives', group show, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney.
'Space in between', Creative Glass Centre of America Wheaton fellows exhibition, Robert Lehman Gallery, New York.
'HumaniteLab', Group show, Galerie Tokyo Humanite, Tokyo.
2007 ‘Edison Osorio Zapata solo exhibition’, Galerie Tokyo Humanite, Tokyo.
'The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa', Notojima glass Museum.
'Infinite Lines', Promo-Arte Gallery, Tokyo
2006 ‘Yamazakura’ Melbourne Artfair, Rosslynd Piggott.
‘Transcription of Legends’, Japonder 3, Setagaya Art Foundation, Tokyo.
‘Hot Winds from Latin America’, Kanagawa State Gallery, Yokohama.
‘Shinwa no Tensha’, Solo show, Promo-Arte Gallery, Tokyo.
‘Yamazakura’, Rosslynd Piggott, and Roberto Giostra collaboration,Tokyo.
2005 Ranamok Glass prize, Australia / New Zealand.
‘Broken Conversations’, Tama Art University, Tokyo.
2004 Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia / New Zealand.
'Geisai', Tama Art University, Tokyo.
2003 ‘Twilight @ the God’s’, emerging artists Canberra.
National Water Week, Foyer Gallery, Wagga Regional Gallery Wagga Wagga NSW, selected works 15 artists.
National Conference of Sustainable Campuses (conference) Foyer, Ian Ross
Australian National University, selected works 18 artists.
‘5 Fluid Bonds’ Foyer, Old Canberra House, Australian National University, selected works 18 artists.
‘Ceremonial Drinking Vessels for the drinking of Water’, Canberra School of Art Foyer Gallery.
Water Governance and the Political Economy (Symposium), Canberra School of Art Gallery.
2002 ‘Kamberra’ Prize Exhibition, Canberra.
‘Ausglass Student Show’, Perth.
‘Reflect’, group show, design of exhibition flyer, Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW.
‘Conspiracy’, 2nd Annual Directors choice exhibition, Sydney, Fringe Festival.
2001 ‘The Fear’, Museum of Contemporary Art Staff Exhibition, 1st Draft, Sydney.
COLLECTIONS
2008 Permanent collection of the Museum of American Glass.
2004 KPMG Collection Acquisitive Award.
Australian National University Collection, Drill Hall gallery.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2008 “ Exhibition: Wheaton Fellows ‘The Space Between’, Glass Art:design:Culture, The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly, Dec 2008.
2006 “Rosslynd Piggott, Roberto Giostra, and Edison at Omotesando Hills”
ASIAN ART NEWS Vol.16, No5 Sept/Oct, p132.
New Glass Review 27.
“Edison Osorio Zapata: Transcription of Legends”, Japan Times, Thursday, August 3rd 2006, p.17
“Legends on Glass” Weekender, Vol.03, No.15 Aug, 4-18, 2006.
“Rosslynd Piggott in Collaboration with Roberto Giostra and Edison”, Japan Times, Thursday, May 18th 2006, p. 17.
2005 New Glass Review 26.
Craft Arts International 63.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009 Collaboration - window project with Tokyo/NewYork based Architect Yumi Kori.
Installation & fabrication, Mara Haseltine, Parsons School of Design, New York
Teacher UrbanGlass Studios Brooklyn, New York.
Teaching assistant, Jane Bruce, Urbanglass Studios, New York.
2007 Teaching assistant, Nagoya Art University, Nagoya.
2006 Guest teacher at Furuki Studios, Mashiko, Japan, ‘Glass meets Clay’.
Teaching Assistant, Tama Art University, Tokyo.
2003 Teaching Assistant, Ryuhei Nadatani, Glass Blowing techniques workshop,
Kyoto Seika exchange program, Canberra School of Art.
Thylacine, preparator, Sari to Sarong Exhibition National Gallery of Australia.
Teaching Assistant, Sophia Emmet Glass blowing techniques, Canberra School of art.
Teaching Glass Blowing Techniques, MC Glass Lab, Tokyo.
2002 Assistant to Tom Rowney, Jane Bruce exhibition work.
Teaching Assistant, Lene Lunde, Glass Blowing techniques.
Graphic Design, Michael Donohue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2000-2002, Team Leader – Gallery Operations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2001 Weekly assistant, Denizen Glass Studio, Robert Wynne, Manly.
Weekly assistant, Keith Rowe Glass Studio, Blackheath.
Andrew Lavery, Glass Blowing assistant, Sydney College of the Arts.
VISITING ARTIST
2005 American School In Japan, Tokyo.
Sacred Heart International School, Tokyo.
2003 Sydney University.
LANGUAGES
Japanese, Spanish, English
