William Morris Works Biography
American, born 1957 in Carmel, California
- 1994
- National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
- 1997
- Outstanding Achievement in Glass, UrbanGlass Third Annual Awards Dinner, New York, NY
- 1997
- Distinguished Alumni Award, California State University, Chico, CA
- 1997
- Featured Artist, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Artist Series
- 2001
- Visionaries Award, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
- 2002
- Artist as Hero Award, National Liberty Museum, PA
- 2002
- Artist as Hero Award, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
- 2004
- Jurors Award, 32nd Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI
- 2005
- Master of the Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC
- California State University, Chico, CA
- Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
- Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
- Selected Collections
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Auckland Museum, New Zealand
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Daiichi Museum, Nagoya, Japan
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Louvre, Paris, France
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Musee des arts decoratifs, Paris, France
Museum fur Kunst and Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
The Mueum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum, Japan
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA
Exhibitions
- 2009
- Myth, Object and the Animal, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (solo)
- 2009
- The 37th International Glass Invitational Awards Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI
- 2008
- Myth, Object and the Animal, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN (solo)
- 2008
- Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (solo)
- 2008
- FLUX – Reflection in Contemporary Glass, New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM
- 2008
- Design Cities, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
- 2007
- Habatat Galleries. Boca Raton FL (solo)
- 2007
- Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge MA (solo)
- 2007
- Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA (solo)
- 2006
- Myth, Object and the Animal, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA (solo)
- 2006
- Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
- 2006
- The Huntsville Museum, Huntsville, AL
- 2006
- Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA
- 2006
- Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
- 2005
- Myth, Object and the Animal, Leighyawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
- 2005
- International Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
- 2005
- The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL (solo)
- 2004
- American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
- 2003
- American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement, Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art, Sturgeon Bay, WI
- 2003
- Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (solo)
- 2003
- Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO
- 2003
- Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
- 2003
- Fire and Form, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
- 2002
- Sphere, Galerie Internationale Du Verre, France
- 2002
- Myth, Object and the Animal, Traveling Exhibition, beginning at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
- 2002
- Man Adorned, Traveling Exhibition, beginning at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2001
- Vision, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
- 2000
- Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO
- 2000
- Heller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1999
- Glass! Glorious Glass!, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
- 1999
- Holding Light, Austin Museum of Art-Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
- 1998
- Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 1998
- Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 1997
- Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections, The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
- 1997
- Art Nouveau: Glass and Pottery, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
- 1996
- American Glass: Masters of the Art, U.S. Information Agency, International traveling exhibition
- 1995
- Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA
- 1994
- Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
