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José Chardiet

Blue Lady

Pegasus

Regal Shark

Statement
Chardiet focuses on designing and making glass sculpture using blowing, casting, painting and electroplating processes. Drawing from topics as diverse as Spanish still-life paintings, woodwind instruments, and African art, Chardiet's goal is to create sculptures imbued with a spiritual inner life. Using the natural transparency and translucency of the material allows the viewer to look beyond the surface, to get to the core or soul of the sculpture. His bold sensuous shapes and pungent sense of color narrate the cultural sensibilities of his Cuban heritage.
José Chardiet has received international recognition amongst curators, critics, and collectors. His work can be found in significant galleries, and important museums worldwide, including the American Craft Museum, New York, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Switzerland, and Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan and the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Profile

Educational and Professional Experience
Professor, Glass, Sculpture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991-
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, 1997; Faculty
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington, 1989-1990; Faculty
 
Honors, Recognitions and Outstanding Achievements
Cintas Fellowship, Institute of International Education, 1988-1989
Artists Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council Fellowship, 1985
Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship, 1984
 
One-Person Exhibitions
Habitat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida, 2001
Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2000
Leo Kaplan Modern, New York City, New York 2000
Habitat Galleries, Pontiac, Michigan, 1998 
Leo Kaplan Modern, New York City, New York 1998
Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1996
 
Selected Invitational Group Exhibitions
"Sculptural Objects and Functional Art Exposition (SOFA)," New York City, New York 2001
represented by Leo Kaplan, New York City, New York
"Splendor in the Glass: Contemporary Glass from the Palley Collection," Lowe Art Museum,
Miami, Florida, 2000
"Defining Craft," American Craft Museum, New York City, New York, 2000
"The Object Considered," Contemporary Still Life in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, 2000-2001,
traveling exhibition to: Columbus College of Art and Design, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; The South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana; The Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, Ohio
"Millennium Glass," An International Survey of Studio Glass, Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation,
Louisville, Kentucky, 2000
"The 28th Annual International Glass Invitational," Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, Michigan, 2000
 
Public Collections
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
American Craft Museum, New York City, New York
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Glass Center, Corning, New York
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Selected Publications
Hotchner, Holly and David M. McFadden. Defining Craft. New York, NY: American Craft Museum,
2000, p. 105.
Miro, Marsha. José Chardiet. Glass Spring 1999: 54.
Yood, James. "Chardiet: Still Life." American Craft Dec. 1998/Jan. 1999: 32.
Fike, Bonita. A Passion for Glass: The Aviva and Jack A. Robinson Studio Glass Collection
(Detroit, Michigan: the Detroit Institute of Arts, Oct. 11, 1998-Feb.14, 1999) p. 31
Hawley, Henry H., Glass Today, American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections
(Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997), pp.68-69.

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