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WILLIAM MORRIS
Born July 25, 1957, in Carmel, California Education: California State University, Chico, California Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2005 Myth, Object and the Animal. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA. 2004 Myth, Object and the Animal. Traveled to: Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT. Past, Present, Future. National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK; Westfalisches Industriemuseum Glashutte Gernheim, Petershagen, Germany.
2003 Elegy. Cinerary Urn Installation, Museum of Arts & Design, NY. Past, Present, Future. Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark. Unearthed: The Glass Art of William Morris. Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL. Myth, Object and the Animal. Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN. William Morris: Cinerary Urns. Montgomery Museum of Art, AL.
2002 Myth, Object and the Animal. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX; The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. Man Adorned. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA.
William Morris: Two Installations. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA. 2001 Myth, Object and the Animal. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Akron Art Museum, OH; Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC. 1999 Myth, Object and the Animal. The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA.; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT.; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN.
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, WA. 1997 Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA. 1996 Meadows Museum of Art, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA. 1995 Everett Center for the Arts, WA. 1985 Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, MT.
Selected Group Exhibitions 2004 Vetri. Nel mondo. Oggi. Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy.
Transformed by Fire: Sculpture in Glass from the Collection of Jack and Becky Benaroya. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
A Glass Triumvirate: The Art of William Morris, Henry L. Hillman Jr. and Howard Ben Tre. Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretta, PA.
Best of the West. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA.
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
2003 Fire and Form. The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL. Ashes to Art. Funeria, Fort Mason Conference Center, San Francisco, CA. Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Contemporary Craft: 21 Artists from America, Europe, and Asia. Kanazawa Crafts Council Invitational Exhibition, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. 2002 Contemporary Directions. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Contemporary Glass Exhibition. Shanghai and Beijing, China.
The Bombay Sapphire Blue Room. Traveling Exhibition, U.K.
ReView: Glass at the Monte Cristo. Everett Center for the Arts, Everett, WA. Some Assembly Required. Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA. 2001 Contemporary Craft in the Museum of Fine Arts. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
Lino Tagliapietra and His Friends. Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA.
A Century of Design, Part IV: 1975-2001. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
2000 Shattering Precepts: The Fine Art of Contemporary Glass. Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI. Creativity and Collaboration: Pilchuck Glass School’s 30 Years. Bumbershoot Glass Exhibition, Seattle Center, WA.
Pathways. TransAmerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA.
Fired with Enthusiasm: A Selection of Contemporary Studio Glass. The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA.
1999 Studio Glass from the Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottdale, AZ. Glass! Glorious Glass! Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Holding Light. Austin Museum of Art-Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX. Art Glass of this Century. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL.
International Glass Masters Invitational. Salem Art Association, Salem, OR.
The Art of Craft: Works from the Saxe Collection. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA. 1998 Animal as Muse. The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL.
A Passion for Glass: The Aviva and Jack A. Robinson Studio Glass Collection. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI. Clearly Magic. The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA.
American Glass: Masters of the Art. Curated by Lloyd Herman, Circulated by: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
International Movements in Glass. Auckland Museum, New Zealand. Pilchuck Show. Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA.
1997 Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH.
Four Acts in Glass. American Craft Museum, New York, NY. Blowing Hot, Cutting Cold. Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, IL. Celebrating American Craft. The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark. Heir Apparent. Bellevue Art Museum, WA. Glass Today by American Studio Artists. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA. Recent Glass Sculpture: A Union of Ideas. Milwaukee Art Museum, WI. Al Fin Del Milenio. Museo Del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico.
Pilchuck Show. Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA.
1996 Studio Glass. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Holding the Past, Historicism in NW Glass Sculpture. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Interior Images. Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS. 1996 The Brillson Foundation: American Glass of the 1980’s. Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI.
Almost Alchemy. Trans Amercia Corp., San Francisco, CA. Hsinchu International Festival of Glass Art. Hsinchu Cultural Center, Taiwan. Triptique. Galerie Internationale Du Verre, France. Pilchuck Show. Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA.
Craft at Gump’s: The Helen Heninger Years. San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. Glass Enchantment: An Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Art in America. Rochester Children’s Theatre, Rochester, NY. 1995 Northwest Glass: Part I. Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA. Glass Now 17: World Studio Glass Exhibition. Hokkaido Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
The Three Artists. The Azabu Museum of Arts & Crafts, Sponsored by the Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
Past/Present/Past: Artifacts for Our Times. Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA. Pilchuck Show. Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA.
Taipei International Glass Exhibition. Taipei, Taiwan.
A Touch of Glass. Explorers Hall, National Geographic Society Museum, Washington, D.C.
Light Interpretations. The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA. American Art Glass. Halls Gallery, Hallmark Headquarters, Kansas City, MO.
A Powerful Presence: Pilchuck Glass School’s 25 Years.Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA.
Contemporary Northwest Art. Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR.
Breaking Barriers:Recent American Craft. Portland Art Musuem, OR.
1994 Form and Light: Contemporary Glass from the Permanent Collection. American Craft Museum, New York, NY.
Pilchuck Glass at the Monte Cristo. Everett Center for the Arts, Everett, WA. Birds and Beasts. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Collective Brilliance: Contemporary Glass. Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA. World Glass Now ’94. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan.
Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft. American Craft Museum, NY. Pilchuck Show. Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA.
Trasparenze D’Arte A Venezia. Serge Gallerie Biot, Venice, Italy.
1993 Contemporary Glass from South Florida Collections. Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Glass Installations. American Craft Museum, New York, NY.
Formed by Fire. The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.
Storytelling in Northwest Craft. Bumbershoot Arts Festival and Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA. Pilchuck Show. Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA. Maximizing The Minimum. Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ. 1992 International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa ’92. Kanazawa, Japan.
First International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass in Latin America. Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City and the Marco, Monterrey, Mexico.
Clearly Art: The Pilchuck Legacy. Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA (touring through 1996).
Contemporary Glass Sculpture: Innovative Form and Expression. New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ.
Spirit of the West. West One Mobile Art Museum (touring NW region). Remains. Grove Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA. Artists from Pilchuck Glass School. SeaTac International Airport, Seattle, WA. Focus Northwest. Old Pueblo Museum, Tuscon, AZ.
1991 Artists at Work. Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA, and Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID.
Masters of Contemporary Glass. Naples Philharmonic and Museum, FL. Artists from Pilchuck Glass School. SeaTac International Airport, Seattle, WA.
Frozen Moments: Glass Artists of the Northwest. Bellevue Art Museum, WA. Studio Glass: Selections from the David Jacob Chodorkoff Collection. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI. 1989 Documents Northwest: Figures of Translucence. Seattle Art Museum, WA. Artful Objects: Recent American Craft. Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
1988 Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. American Craft Museum, NY; The Denver Art Museum, CO; the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; San Diego Art Museum, CA.
Pilchuck School: The Great Northwest Glass Experiment. Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA. A Generation in Glass Sculpture. Florida State University, Tallahasee, FL. 1987 Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.
New Expressions with Glass. Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN. Contemporary Glass. Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX.
Thirty Years of New Glass: 1957-1987. The Corning Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, OH. 1986 California Glass Today. Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA. Poetry of the Physical. American Craft Museum, New York, NY.
Contemporary American and European Glass. The Saxe Collection, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
Pilchuck:The Creative Fire. Washington State Capital Museum, Olympia, WA 1985 World Glass Now ‘85. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan.
1985 Governor’s Invitational Art Exhibition: Washington’s Contemporary Glass Artists. Washington State Capital Museum, Olympia, WA. 1984 Crafts ’84. Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA.
Glass National - International. Owens Illinois Art Center, Owens, IL. 1983 Selected Works in Glass. Fine Arts Center of Tempe, AZ. 1982 Americans in Glass: Evolution and Revolution. Morris Museum of Arts & Sciences, Morristown, NJ.
Recent Awards 2005 Master of the Medium Award. James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC. 2004 Jurors Award. 32nd Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI. 2002 Artist as Hero Award. National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA. 2001 Visionaries Award. American Craft Museum, New York. 1997 Distinguished Alumni Award. California State University, Chico, CA. Featured Artist. Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery Artists Series. Outstanding Achievement in Glass. Urbanglass, Third Annual Award Dinner, New York. 1994 Individual Artist Grant. National Endowment for the Arts. Selected Museums and Public CollectionsAmerican Craft Museum, NY Auckland Museum, New Zealand Birmingham Museum of Art, AL Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Cincinnati Art Museum, OH The Corning Museum of Class, Corning, NY Daiichi Museum, Nagoya, Japan Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle, WA Dayton Art Institute, OH Delta Airlines, Portland, OR The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI Edmonds Arts Commission, WA First Union Bank, Charlotte, NC Florida National Collection, Florida National Bank, Jacksonville, FL Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN IBM Corporation, Tulsa, OK J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY The Jewish Museum San Francisco, CA Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA McDonald's Corporation, Oakbrook, 111., and Bellevue, WA Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA Milwaukee Art Museum, WI Mobile Museum of Art, AL Musée des arts decoratifs, Paris Museum fin- Kunst und Cewerbe Hamburg, Germany Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Missoula, MT Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum, Japan Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Pilchuck Collection, Stanwood, WA The Pilchuck Glass Collection at City Centre and US Bank Center, Seattle, WA Port of Seattle, WA Portland Art Museum, OR Rockefeller Center, NY Royal College of Art, London Safeco Insurance Company, Seattle, WA Seattle Art Museum, WA Seattle-First National Bank Collection, WA Seattle Repertory Theatre, WA Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Permanent Installation, WA Security Pacific Collection, Security Pacific Bank, Seattle, WA Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers Collection, Seattle, WA Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Japan Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. State Foundation of Culture in the Arts, Honolulu, HI State of Oregon Public Services Building, Portland, OR The Toledo Museum of Art, OH Toyota USA, Corporate Retreat, Hilo, HI United Airlines, San Francisco, CA University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI UPS Corporate Collection, Louisville, KY U.S. News and World Report, Washington, D.C. The Valley National Bank of Arizona, Tucson, AR Victoria and Albert Museum, London Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Westin Hotel, San Francisco, CA Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT |