MARY SHAFFER  PO Box 1379, El Prado NM 87529 Tel & Fax (505) 776·2836

Public Collections and Commissions


  Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, Japan
Museum of Art & Design; New York, NY
Smithsonian Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C.
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center; Charlotte, NC
The American Craft Museum; New York, NY
Huntington Museum; Huntington, WV
Museum Bellerive; Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Decorative Arts; Lausanne, Switzerland
The Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, MI
The Toledo Museum of Art; Toledo, OH
Musee de Verre; Sars-Poteries, France
Corning Museum of Glass; Corning, NY
Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art; Palm Beach, FL
Stadt Museum; Fraunau, West Germany
Glas Museum; Ebeltoft, Denmark
Frontrunner Awards for Sara Lee Corporation; Chicago, IL
The John Pappajohn Pavilion, Iowa City Hospital; Iowa City, IA
Berman Museum of Art; Collegeville, PA
U.S. Chancellery in La Paz; Bolivia
Indianapolis Museum of Art; Indianapolis, IN
Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Providence, RI
Grounds for Sculpture; Hamilton, PA
Providence Park Department; Providence, RI
Columbus Museum of Art; Columbus, OH 'Tool-Wall'

Selected Exhibitions
Individual


2007  Kunstmuseum, Kitzbühel, Austria
2006  Sculpture Site Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005  Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2004  Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH
2003  Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI, Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002  Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL (2000,1998,1996)
2001  Habatat Galleries, MI & FL (1999,1997,1994,1992 1990), Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA
1999  Heller Gallery, New York City, NY (1996, 1980, 1978)
1998  William Travers Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997  Sanske Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1995  Troyer, Fitzpatric, Lasserman Gallery, Washington, DC (1993)
1994  Habatat Gallery, Aspen, CO
1991  Rochelle Monique Gallery, San Diego, CA
1988  O.K. Harris Gallery, New York City, NY (1982,1979, 1977, 1975)
1982  Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
1980  Mandel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979  Hadler Rodriques Gallery, Houston, TX, Just the Two of Us, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Hang Out, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1977  In Memory of, Fine Arts Gallery, Murray State, University, Murray, KY, Spilled Milk, Anyart Gallery, Providence, RI
1975  Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY, Gallery G.A.P., Rome, Italy

Group Exhibitions

2006  Two Mediums/Two Expressions, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, OH. New England Glass: The Quiet Force, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA

2005  Sculpting In Glass, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL. Art Fair Chicago, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004  Blown, Hook-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX. Commitment 10 over 10, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL. Art Fair, Florida, Habatat Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2002  Red as a Color for Exploration and Expression, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Transcending Translucence, ARTS Manhattan, Long Beach, CA. San Francisco Art Fair, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Sculpture in Glass, Walton Arts Center, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Fayetteville, AK

2001  Glass: Artist, Influence and Evolution, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI. Arts, Arts Midland: Galleries and School of the Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, TX. Breaking the Mold: Conceptual Glass, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH. Celebrations in Glass: Contemporary Studio Glass, Northern Indiana Arts Association, William J. Bachman Gallery, IN. Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico

2000  2000 Shattering Precepts, Dennos Museum, Taverse City, MI. SOFA New York, Heller Gallery, NYC, NY. SOFA Chicago, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL. Glass: Artist, Influence & Evolution, Kreft Gallery, Ann Arbor MI. 29th Annual International Exhibition, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac MI. Buy/By Women, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Shadyside, PA. Millennium Glass, Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY

1999  Hot and Cool: Contemporary Glass Works, Exhibits USA, College Station, Tyler, TX, 1999-2001; Glorious Glass 1997-1999, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; SOFA Chicago, Habatat Galleries, MI. 28th International Exhibition, Habatat Galleries (1979-1982, 1987-1999), Pontiac, MI. SOFA New York, Heller Gallery, NYC, NY. Clearly Sculpture, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, MI. The Art of Glass, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL. Women Artists from the Land of Enchantment, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, curated by Lucy Lippard.

1998  Inaugural Exhibition, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Duo, La Verrerie de Biot, Biot, France. Glass: A Group Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ. Essence of Water, 5 Sculptors, Fujiya HR Center, Kyoto, Japan; Aster Plaza, Hiroshima, Japan. SOFA New York, Marx Saunders Gallery. SOFA Chicago, Habatat Galleries

1997  Glass Today by American Studio Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN. SOFA, Navy Pier, Heller Gallery, NY & Habatat Galleries, MI, Chicago, IL. Union of Ideas, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI. Calido; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ. Glass Today: Recent American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Molten Marriage, Pilabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ. Blowing Hot Cutting Cold, Lakeview Museum of Arts & Science, Peoria, IL

1996  3 Views: Brock, Shaffer, Zynsky, Reilly Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH. Studio Glass, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. People in Glass Houses, Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 12 x 12, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. New Look; Contemporary Women Sculptors, Washington Square, Washington, DC. 35 Years of American Glass, The Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL. Venezia Aperto Vetro, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy. Sculpture: Crossing Boundaries, International Sculpture Conference, Providence, RI. Convergence IX, International Arts Festival, Providence Park Department, Providence, RI. Four Decades of Discovery, The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1995  A Regional Survey from Maryland to Louisiana, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC. Kouros Gallery, NYC, NY. Hsinchu Cultural Center, Taiwan. Spring-Summer Show, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ. Glass America Heller Gallery, NYC, NY. Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. 24th International Exhibition, Habatat Gallery, MI (1979-1982; 1987-1995). Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC. Constantine Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD. Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC. Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA (through 1993)

1994  Across Borders/Sans Frontieras, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.. Transparanscene, Palm Beach Community College of Art, Fort Worth, FL. Three, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI. On Site: Sculpture from the Berman Atelier, Phillip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA. Constantine Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1993  Glass Installations, American Craft Museum, New York, NY. From Hand to Hand: The Saxe Collection, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH. Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK. Our Public Image, The Hans and Walter Bechtler Gallery, Charlotte, NC. Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL. Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK. The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA. New Art Forms, Navy Pier, with Habatat 1990 through 1993, Chicago, IL. The 14th Annual International Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, through 1991. Marx Gallery, Chicago, IL. Constantine Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD. Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA

1992  Cristalomancia, The Ruffino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. Glass From Craft to Contemporary Art 1962-1992, The Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ. A Personal Perspective, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX. Materials and Mass, Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD. Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, The Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA (Travels through 1995). Collectors Eye, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD. 8th Glass Invitational, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX, 1989 through 1992. Glass Now '92, Yamaha Corporation, Japan. Scale Detail, Habatat Galleries, Farmington Hills, MI, 1988 through 1992

1991  Henry Moore International Sculpture Competition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Sight Through Touch, National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio, Brazil. Masters in Glass, Naples Museum, Naples, FL. Le Verre, Duchamp-Villon Art Space, Rouen, France

1988-90  World Glass Now, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan. The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK. (National tour includes Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; and The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA.)

1989  Sculpture '89, Washington Square Partner, Washington, D.C. Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York, NY. Kunsthaus am Museum, Koln, Germany

1988  New Aesthetics, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL. (and 1987)

1987  Annual Juried Exhibition and Invitational Show, Columbia Museum of Art and The South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC. Sculpture Today, Old State House, Hartford, CT. Glass as Sculpture, Contemporary Craft Association, Portland, OR

1986  New American Glass: Focus 2, Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV

1984-86  Americans in Glass, Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, WI. International tour by LYWAM & Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf. Includes: Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Hallands Lansmuseer, Sweden; Kestner Museum, Hanover, Germany; Kunstindustriemueet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Gemeentemuseum, Amhem, The Netherlands; City Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Museum for Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; and Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1985  Mary Shaffer, Chung Don-Hong, Korean Culture Center, New York, NY

1983  Sculptured Glass, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

1981-83  Americans in Glass, Leigh Yawky Woodson Art Museum, Wassau, WI. (Co-sponsored with Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY and The Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; tour by AMA includes: Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Anchorage Historical and Fine Art Museum, Anchorage, AK; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; and Art Center Inc., South Bend, IN.)

1982  Stadt Museum, Fraunau, Germany. 4 Artists, 4 Views, Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena, MI. Premier Symposium du Verre, Musee du Verre, Sars-Poteries, France. Museum of Modern Art, Milan, Italy. Gallery Passman, Frieburg, Germany. Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada

1981  Matter, Memory, Meaning, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI. (Circulated through the Art Museum Association.)

1979  Musee Chateau d'Annecy, d'Annecy, France. Gallery des Tanneurs, Tours, France. Habatat Galleries, Dearborn, MI. N.C.E.C.A. Pennsylvania State College, State College, PA. Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ. Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, NY

1978  Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN. Conceptual Art, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA. Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV. Glass America, Lever House, New York, NY. The Hadler Galleries, New York, NY. Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. Earth, Wind and Fire, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Newport Arts Association, Newport, RI. Private Parts, What Cheer Arts, Providence, RI

1977  Mercado del Sale, Milan, Italy

1976  New American Glass, Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV. National Endowment for the Arts Fellows, Newport Art Association, Newport, RI. Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Gallery Toselli, Milan, Italy

1974  Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY

1970  Tyler School of Art Gallery, Temple University, Rome, Italy. Rhode Island Arts Festival, Providence, RI. Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI


Honors

1996  Innovated use of Glass and Sculpture Award, Urban Glass, New York, NY.
1995  Visionary, American Craft Museum, New York, NY.
1994  Fellowship for Individual Artists. National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1987  Fellowship for Individual Artists. D.C. Commission of Arts and Humanities.
1981  Glaspris '81. Kassel Competition, West Germany.
1979  Huber Grant. Wellesley College. Funded study of art in Czechoslovakia.
1977  Glass in Architecture Award. National Endowment for the Arts through the Rhode Island School of Design.
1974  Fellowship for Individual Artists. National Endowment for the Arts.
1972  Citation of Excellence. U.S. Labor Department. For directing manpower program.


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