Published by Ken Saunders Gallery 230 West Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 www.kensaundersgallery.com © 2017 Ken Saunders Gallery All Rights Reserved Design by Amy Stieve Photography by Jeff Curtis
Published on the occasion of the exhibition JOHN KILEY & DANTE MARIONI: COLLABORATIONS November 3 - December 23, 2017
John Kiley, in studio
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Dante Marioni, in studio
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JEWEL RETICELLO blown, cut and polished glass 14 x 9 x 12.5 inches 2017
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RETICELLO DISK blown, cut and polished glass 14 x 6 x 14 inches 2017
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CURLING RETICELLO blown, cut and polished glass 14.5 x 12 x 14.5 inches 2017
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BASKET WEAVE HALO blown, cut and polished glass 13 x 15 x 15 inches 2017
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INCALMO ACRON #1 blown, cut and polished glass 12 x 17 x 12 inches 2017
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OPTIC RETICELLO blown, cut and polished glass 13 x 12 x 13 inches 2017
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INCALMO ACORN #2 blown, cut and polished glass 11 x 17.5 x 10.5 inches 2017
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INCALMO ACORN #3 blown, cut and polished glass 10 x 16 x 11 inches 2017
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INCALMO ACORN blown glass 10 x 16 x 11 inches 2017
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PATCHWORK HALO blown, cut and polished glass 10.5 x 14.5 x 11 inches 2017
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WOVEN ECLIPSE blown, cut and polished glass 13 x 13.5 x 8 inches 2017
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LEANING RETICELLO FINESTRA blown, cut and polished glass 14.5 x 13 x 12 inches 2017
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MERIDIAN NEST blown, cut and polished glass 15 x 13.5 x 14 inches 2017
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INTERIOR LEAF blown, cut and polished glass 14 x 11 x 13.5 inches 2017
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JOH N KI L EY SELECTED EDUCATION Pratt Fine Arts / Seattle, WA Pilchuck Glass School / Stanwood, WA Penland School of Crafts / Penland, NC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 1992 1990
33’18 / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA 10,000 MPH / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA Luminosity / The Chihuly Collection / St. Petersberg, FL John Kiley - Evenfall / Sculpture Along the Interurban / Shoreline, WA Evenfall / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA Structure / LewAllen Galleries / Scottsdale, AZ Aurorae / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA Interiours / Etienne Gallery / Oisterwijk, The Netherlands Perspectives - SOFA New York / Schantz Galleries Inclinations / LewAllen Galleries / Santa Fe, NM John Kiley / Hawk Gallery / Columbus, OH The Space Within / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA Abstract Paintings / The Village Gallery / Seattle, WA Reverse Paintings on Glass / The Gifted Answer / Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 2016
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Collaborations - John Kiley & Dante Marioni / Ken Saunders Gallery / Chicago, IL Art Palm Springs / J. Willott Gallery / Palm Desert, CA The Nature of Glass / Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood / Stockbridge, MA Etienne Gallery 35th Anniversary Show / Etienne Gallery / Oisterwijk, The Netherlands Easter Group Show / Solomon Fine Art / Dublin, Ireland Glass for the New Millennium / Crocker Art Museum / Sacremento, CA Art Toronto / Sandra Ainsley Gallery / Toronto, Canada Clearly Compelling: Glass Art from Tiffany to Chihuly / The Morris Museum / Morristown, NJ Art Palm Springs / J. Willott Gallery / Palm Desert, CA Greg Fidler, John Kiley and Ethan Stern / Sandra Ainsley Gallery / Toronto, Canada Seattle Art Fair / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA Glass Cllector Weekend, Featured Artist / Schantz Galleries / Stockbridge, MA Refract / Waterford City Hall / Waterford, Ireland 43rd International Invitational / Habatat Galleries / Royal Oak, MI John Kiley, Dante Marioni & Preston Singletary / Hawk Galleries / Columbus, OH Art Palm Beach / Habatat Galleries / Palm Beach, FL Gallery Artists Group Exhibition / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA Art Palm Beach / Pismo Gallery / Palm Beach, FL Glass Today: 21st Century Innovations / The New Briton Museum of American Art / New Briton, CT Silicon Valley Contemporary Art Fair / Schantz Galleries / San Francisco, CA Shades of White / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA The Magic of Glass / Denver International Airport / Denver, CO New Work / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA Curators Choice: Celebrating 40 Years / Concept Art Gallery / Pittsburgh, PA Transitions II / Davis and Cline Gallery / Ashland, OR Contemporary Glass / Palm Springs Art Museum / Palm Springs, CA Gallery Artists Group Exhibition / Traver Gallery / Seattle, WA Oisterwijk Sculpture / Etienne Gallery / The Netherlands
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Art Miami / LewAllen Galleries / Miami, FL Clear and Present / LewAllen Galleries / Santa Fe, NM Glass Weekend, Millville New Jersey / Litvak Gallery / Tel Aviv, Israel The Nature of Glass - Curated by Traver Gallery / Schack Art Center / Everett, WA Art Palm Beach / Litvak Gallery / Tel Aviv, Israel Fertile Ground / The Museum of Glass / Tacoma, WA 12 in Glass, Featured Artist / Holsten Galleries / Santa Fe, NM Outside In - The Artwork of John Kiley, Featured Artist / Schantz Gallery / Stockbridge, MA Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass - Ohio State University / Hawk Galleries / Columbus, OH
AWARDS & HONORS 2017 2016 2015
Residency / The Toledo Museum of Art / Toledo, OH Peoples Choice Award / Red Hot Auction – The Museum of Glass / Tacoma, WA Featured Artist and Peoples Choice Award / Red Hot Auction – The Museum of Glass / Tacoma, WA Honorary Artist, Art on Fire Auction / Pittsburgh Glass School / Pittsburgh, PA Jurors Choice Award / New Glass Review / Corning, NY 2014 Artist in Residence / The Museum of Glass / Tacoma, WA 2012-13 Cover Artist (Winter) / Glass Magazine 2011 Peoples Choice Award / Red Hot Auction – The Museum of Glass / Tacoma, WA Best in Show, Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass / Ohio State University / Columbus, OH Artist in Residence / The Museum of Glass / Tacoma, WA 2010 Francis S. Merritt Scholarship / Haystack Mountain School of Crafts / Deer Isle, ME Artist in Residence / The Museum of Glass / Tacoma, WA Scholarship / Pilchuck Glass School / Stanwood, WA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Museum Of Glass / Tacoma, WA The Shanghai Museum of Glass / Shanghai, China Sandy Baklor & Arlene Kaufman Al Berger & Carol Auerbach Jeffrey Bronfman The Kaplan/Ostergaard Collection Frank Everett Sir Elton John Perry Farrell Jim Flaws and Marcia Weber Snohomish County / Snohomish County, WA The Seven Bridges Foundation / Greenwich, CT Emirates Airlines Fly Dubai Airlines Qatar Airlines
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2017-Present 2010-Present 2012 1994-2011 2007 2003, 2005
Treasurer, Board Member / The Glass Art Society / Seattle, WA Glass Director / Schack Art Center / Everett, WA Visiting Instructor / Pittsburgh Glass Center / Pittsburgh, PA Principal Assistant / Lino Tagliapietra / Worldwide Visiting Instructor / Bezalel Academy of Arts / Israel Visiting Glassblower / Waterford Crystal / Ireland
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D A NT E MA RI O NI SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 2016 2015
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The Westmoreland Museum of American Art / All About Color and Geometry: Selections From the Diana and Peter Jannetta Gift of Art / Greensburg, PA National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland / Visiting Artist Collection from the Museum of Glass / Sunderland, England Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum / Greek Vases: From Myth to Modern / Aichi, Japan Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities / Fired: Glass / Arvada, CO Philadelphia Museum of Art / Tradition Reinvented: Italian and American Glass Art / Philadelphia, PA The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University / Luminous Allure: Studio Glass from the Collection of Audrey & Norbert Gaelen / University Park, PA Palm Springs Art Museum / Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest / Palm Springs, CA Wichita Art Museum / Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest / Wichita, KS Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft / Ritual & Residue: The Art of Drink / Louisville, KY Museum of Glass / Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest / Tacoma, WA Muskegon Museum or Art / Some Like it Hot: Color from the Collection / Muskegon, MI The Columbus Museum / Feel the Heat: Contemporary Glass Sculpture / Columbus, GA Tacoma Art Museum / The Marioni Family: Radical Experimentation in Glass and Jewelry / Tacoma, WA Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft / 50 Years of Studio Glass / Louisville, KY Cleveland Museum of Art / Studio Glass in Focus: Dialogue and Innovation / Cleveland, OH Museum of Fine Arts / Global + Local: Studio and Contemporary Glass on Florida’s West Coast / St. Petersburg, FL Mobile Museum of Art / The Harverty Collection of International Studio Glass: Redux / Mobile, AL Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art / Dante Marioni: Form, Color, Pattern / Virginia Beach, VA Museum of Glass / Dante Marioni: Form, Color, Pattern / Tacoma, WA Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University / Contemporary Glass / Stanford, CA Farnsworth Art Museum / A Gathering of Contemporary Glass: Artists from Haystack and Pilchuck / Rockland, ME Amarillo Museum of Art / Dante Marioni: Form, Color, Pattern / Amarillo, TX Muskegon Museum of Art / Dante Marioni: Form, Color, Pattern / Muskegon, MI Everhart Museum / Capturing The Light: Masters of Contemporary Glass / Scranton, PA Liuligongfang Museum and Gallery / Group Exhibition / Shanghai, China Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IVSLA) / Glass in the World Today / Venice, Italy Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts / Trial by Fire: Contemporary Studio Glass / Jacksonville, FL Norton Museum of Art / Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Art / Palm Beach, FL Toledo Museum of Art / Contemporary Directions, Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection / Toledo, OH Carnegie Museum of Art / Contemporary Directions, Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection / Pittsburg, PA Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (previously known as Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation) / Millennium Glass / Louisville, KY Palazzo Ducale and Museo Fortuny / International New Glass: Venezia Aperto Vetro / Venice, Italy Fresno Art Museum / Marioni/Marioni / Fresno, CA Cleveland Museum of Art / Group Exhibition / Cleveland, OH Bellevue Arts Museum / Heir Apparent: Translating the Secrets of Venetian Glass / Bellevue, WA Museum of Fine Arts / Glass Today by American Studio Artists / Boston, MA Huntsville Museum / Embracing Beauty / Huntsville, AL Seattle Art Museum / Holding the Past: Historicism in Northwest Glass Sculpture / Seattle, WA Carnegie Museum of Art / Formed By Fire / Pittsburg, PA Whatcom Museum / Clearly Art: Pilchuck’s Glass Legacy / Bellingham, WA Bellevue Art Museum / Pilchuck Glass / Bellevue, WA American Craft Museum / Vessels / New York, NY American Craft Museum / Young Americans / New York, NY Bellevue Art Museum / Pilchuck School: The Great Northwest Glass Experiment / Bellevue, WA
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Recipient of the Libenský | Brychtová Award / Pilchuck Glass School / Seattle, WA Elected Fellow of the American Craft Council College of Fellows / New York, NY First Place, Reticello Competition, Ebeltoft Museum / Ebeltoft, Denmark Outstanding Achievement in Glass, Urban Glass Award / New York, NY Young Americans Award, American Craft Museum Council / New York, NY The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS The White House Collection of American Crafts / Washington, DC Tacoma Art Museum / Tacoma, WA Seattle Art Museum / Seattle, WA Corning Museum of Glass / Corning, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Los Angeles, CA The Museum of Art and Design / New York, NY Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery / Washington, DC Carnegie Museum of Art / Pittsburgh, PA The Westmoreland Museum of American Art / Greensburg, PA Birmingham Museum of Art / Birmingham, AL Chrysler Museum of Art / Norfolk, VA Cincinnati Art Museum / Cincinnati, OH Columbia Museum of Art / Columbia, SC The Museum of Fine Arts / Houston, TX Hunter Museum of American Art / Chattanooga, TN The Henry Ford Museum / Dearborn, MI Flint Institute of Arts / Flint, MI Racine Art Museum / Racine, WI Vero Beach Museum of Art / Vero Beach, FL Huntsville Museum of Art / Huntsville, AL Mint Museum of Craft and Design / Charlotte, NC Mobile Museum of Art / Mobile, AL Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts / Suffolk VA New Orleans Museum of Art / New Orleans, LA Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia, PA Whatcom Museum / Bellingham, WA Washington State University’s Museum of Art / Pullman, WA University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum / Miami, FL Western Washington University / Bellingham, WA University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology / Columbia, MO Stanford University’s Iris & Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts / Stanford, CA Arizona State University’s Art Museum / Tempe, AZ Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Quebec, Canada Victoria and Albert Museum / London, England Scottish National Gallery / Edinburgh, Scotland Ebeltoft Glass Museum / Ebeltoft, Denmark National Museum if Fine Arts / Stockholm, Sweden The National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo, Japan Niijima Glass Art Center / Niijima, Japan Koganezaki Glass Museum / Shizuoka, Japan Yokohama Museum of Art / Yokohama, Japan Toyama Glass Museum / Toyama, Japan Liuli China Museum / Shanghai, China New Zealand National Museum / Auckland, New Zealand National Gallery of Victoria / Melbourne, Australia Powerhouse Museum / Sydney, Australia
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