Select Museum Solo* and Group Exhibitions
2024
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, USA, Toots Zynsky: Past/Present*
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Glass Art Rising
2023
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, USA, Unfinished Business
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, USA, Geppeto's Children: Italo Scanga at Pilchuck Glass School
2022
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy, Double Act: A Contemporary Glass Collection
*Caterina Tognon Vetro Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy, Nature and its Image
2021
Long Island Museum, Long Island, NY, USA, Fire and Form: New Directions in Glass
Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, MA, USA, In Her Voice: Influential Women in Glass
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, USA, Beyond the Ceiling: Women of Studio Glass
2019
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA, New Glass Now
2018
Barry Art Museum, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA, Richard and Carolyn Barry Collection Opening Exhibition
The Clinton Presidential Library & Museum at the Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, AR, USA, 25th Anniversary Exhibition of the White House Collection of American Craft
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI, USA, Davidson-Gerson Modern Glass Gallery Opening Exhibition
2017
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA, No glass Ceiling! Women Working in Glass, Part 1
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA, USA, Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection
Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts, Dania Beach, FL, USA, Hot Glass
2016
*Liuli China Museum, Shanghai, China, Dance of the Aurora
2015
*Liuli China Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Dance of the Aurora
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France, Tresors de Sable at de Feu Verre
2014
*Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, Italy, Toots Zynsky
Liuli China Museum, Shanghai, China, Why Glass
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, USA, Dayton Celebrates Glass: Chihuly, Labino, Littleton and Beyond
New Britain Museum, New Britain, CT, USA, Glass Today: 21st Century Innovations
2013
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA, Designing Modern Women 1890-1990
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA, Top 10 at 10: Favorites from RAM’s Collection
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, USA Playing with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass
New Mexico Museum of Art , Santa Fe , NM, USA, Chromatic Fusion:The Art of Fused Glass
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA, Creating the New Northwest: Selections from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collection
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, USA, The Chihuly Effect: Pushing the Boundaries of Studio Glass
Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY, USA Fluid Reformations: Smith, Gaffer, Potter
2012
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA, Studio Glass in Force: Dialogue and Innovation
Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg FL, USA, Global and Local: Studio and Contemporary Glass on Florida’s West Coast
The Newark Museum , Newark, NJ, USA, Studio Glass 1962-2012
Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, USA Glass Act, The Contemporary Art Glass Movement Turns 50
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA The Studio Glass Movement 1962-2012
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA Selections from the Permanent Collection, Patty and Jay Baker
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL, USA, Evolution/Revolution:Fifty Years of American Studio Glass
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA, Studio Glass: Works from The Museum Collection
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA, Red Hot and Blown: Contemporary Glass from the Crocker’s Collection
2011
*The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Masters of Studio Glass 2011, Toots Zynsky
2010
The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA, Beyond the Figure: Abstract Sculpture in the Norton Collection
The Racine Art Museum Racine, WI, USA, A Glass Act: First Rate Glass from RAM’s Collection
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Studio Glass: Anna and Joe Mendel Collection
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, Eyes For Glass: The Price Collection
2009
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA, Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA, Pioneers of Contemporary Glass: Highlights from the Barbara and Dennis Dubois Collection
The Patty and Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL, USA, Living with Studio Furniture: Collection of Robert & Carolyn Springborn
2008
The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY, USA, New York Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, USA, Hot Glass, Cool Collections
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA, Contemporary Glass
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA, Studio Glass in Rhode Island: The Chihuly Years
The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, Inspired! Design Across Time, permanent exhibition of objects from the
collection of the Powerhouse Museum
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, USA, Networks 2008
2007
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, All for Art! Great Private Collections Among Us
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America, 1950-2006
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, USA, The Art of Glass from Galé to Chihuly: Highlights from the Lowenbach Collection
The Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland, Contemporary Glass Art: A new vision of the MUDAC’s collection (Permanent exhibition)
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, USA, A Gathering of Contemporary Glass
2006
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark Twenty Years On
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Glass: Material Matters
Steninge Slott Cultural Centre, Marsta, Sweden, Steninge World Exhibition of Art Glass
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio, USA, Two Media/ Two Expressions; an exhibition of Contemporary Clay and Glass
Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA, U.S.A., A Transparent Legacy: Studio Glass Gifted to the Seattle Art Museum from the Collection of Jon and Mary Shirley
The Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, From Craft to Art: Contemporary Studio Sculpture
Worcester Center for Crafts, USA, Worcester, MA, USA New England Glass: The Quiet Force
2005
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Transformations: the Language of Craft
Musée Tomo, Tokyo, Japan, Contemporary Glass - Light Transfigured, from Toyoma City Collection
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA, Taking Shape: Pilchuck Glass School in the ‘70s
*Notojima Glass Art Museum, Notojima-machi, Japan Toots Zynsky
Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, North American Tour, 2003-2006, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI, Chazan’s Choice: Gifts of Contemporary Art to the RISD Museum
The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AZ, American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement (traveling exhibition)
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark, Exhibition of the Permanent Collection
Traveling exhibition:Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art
Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
2004
*Shoha Museum of Sarutahiko Shrine, Ise, Japan Toots Zynsky
The Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University, Seward Nebraska, USA, Studio Glass International: Selections from the Esterling/Wake Collection
The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI, Recent Acquisitions in Glass
Traveling exhibition: American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, International Museum of Art and Science, NcAllen, TX
Traveling exhibition: Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Kogenezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan, Technique and Expression II: Fusing and Gluing
Traveling Exhibition: The White Collection of American Crafts, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, GA
2003
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass
The Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia, USA Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art (traveling exhibition)
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH USA, Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection (traveling exhibition)
Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design (formerly Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation), Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Glass Vessel: An International Invitational
The World Craft Forum Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan, World Competition of Arts and Crafts, Kanazawa,
Traveling exhibition: Special Invitational Exhibition Crafts Now - 21 Artists each from America, Europe, and Asia ”American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement, The William S. Fairfield Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, USA
Traveling Exhibition: The White Collection of American Crafts, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2002
The Gallery at Steuben, N.Y, N.Y., USA UrbanGlass @ 25- An Anniversary Exhibition
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block
Collection (traveling exhibition)
*Museo Correr (Civici Musei Veneziani D’Arte e di Storia), Venice, Italy, Toots Zynsky, (traveling exhibition)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Crafting a Legacy
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, USA, Transparent Illusions
2001
*Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark, Toots Zynsky (traveling exhibition)
Shanghai Fine Arts Museum, Shanghai, China, and China Millenium Monument Museum, Beijing, China, Contemporary Glass Worldwide
Nordjllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark and Tonder Museum, Tonder, Denmark, Flet Braid
Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA, Venini- Glass and Design in a World Perspective
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., Late 20th Century Sculpture
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Fire and Light, 3000 Years of Glass Artistry
The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Contemporary Glass from the Permanent Collection
2000
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA, Open Ends, MoMa2000
American Craft Museum, New York, NY, USA, Venetian Glass: 20th Century Italian Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection concurrent with Memories of Murano: American Glass Artists in Venice,
Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, USA, From Westmoreland Glass to Contemporary Glass
Koganezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan Vessels: The International Exhibition of Glass
The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, USA, Splendor in the Glass: Contemporary Glass from the Palley
Collection
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition (SITES), American Glass: Masters of the Art, Civic Fine Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia
Traveling Exhibition: The White Collection of American Crafts, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
1999
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Handmade: Shifting Paradigms
Borgholm Castle, Borgholm, Sweden, Global Art Glass
*Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
*Koganezaki Glass Museum, Toots Zynsky and Nakao Yuko, Shizuoka, Japan
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition (SITES), American Glass: Masters of the Art, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Traveling Exhibition: The White Collection of American Crafts, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Mint Museum of Art,
Charlotte, NC; Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1998
Venezia Aperto Vetro, Venice, Italy
Traveling Exhibition: The White Collection of American Crafts, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
1997
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA, Masters of Contemporary Glass, Selections from the Glick Collection
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA, ¡Cálido!, Contemporary Warm Glass
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, USA, Glass Today by American Studio Artists
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA, Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections
Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico, Inaugural Exhibition
Musée des Arts Décoratifs de la Ville de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Artistes Verriers Contemporains
Traveling Exhibition: The White Collection of American Crafts, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
1996
Venezia Aperto Vetro, Venice, Italy
Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, France, Couleurs et Transparence, Chefs-d’œuvre du Verre Contemporain
Traveling Exhibition: The White Collection of American Crafts, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA; LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
1995
National Museum of American Art, The White House Collection of American Craft, Washington, D.C.
Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, Glass Now ’95, ’94, ’92,’ 91,’ 90,’ 89, & ’87
Traveling Exhibition: The White Collection of American Crafts, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; American Craft Museum, NY, NY
1994
Winter Olympics, Lillehammer, Norway, International Craft Exhibition
1993
The White House, The White House Craft Collection, Washington DC, USA
Toledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection
1992
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australia, The Second Australian International Crafts Triennial
The Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA, USA, Clearly Art - The Pilchuck’s Glass Legacy,
Conseil Régional de Haute-Normandie, France, Exposition Internationale de Verre Contemporaine
1991
Erfurt, Germany, Configura 1 - Kunst in Europa Erfurt 91
Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Prague, Czechoslovakia, Chefs d’Oeuvres de la Verrerie Française du XIXe siècle à nos jours
1990
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, Gaste aus Frankreich
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA, Masterpieces of Glass from the Corning Collection
The Hermitage, St. Petersberg, Russia, Masterpieces of Glass from the Corning Collection
1989
*Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Toots Zynsky
1988
Traveling Museum Exhibition, The Netherlands, Vormen in Glas
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan, World Glass Now
1986
American Craft Museum, New York, NY, USA, Poetry of the Physical
Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia, Huntington, W. VA, USA, New American Glass, Focus 2
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA, The Saxe Collection
1985
Hokkaido Museum of Art, Sapporo, Japan, World Glass Now
Musée des Beaux Arts de Rouen, France, Art du Verre Actualité International
1984
Cheney-Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA, USA, Pilchuck Glass
1983
The American Embassy, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Special Exhibition of Contemporary American GLASS
1982
Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, The Fine Art of Private Commissions
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, USA, New York Experimental Glass Workshop Exhibition
1981
Traveling exhibition: Americans in Glass; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, IL, USA; The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY; The Krannert Museum of Art, Illinois: (The Western Association of Art Museums)
De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA, Glass Routes
1980
Clayworks-Glassworks Gallery, New York, NY, USA, Sculptural Glass: 10 New York City Area
Artists