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Steven Weinberg

2 Wooden Buoys

Large Crystal Boat

Boat

Statement
Steven Weinberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1954. Growing up, he spent his formative years in Huntington, Long Island. Steven started studying ceramics at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University but graduated with a BFA in glass in 1976. At Alfred University, Steven was introduced to casting glass and crystal by Eric Hilton. He went on to study his first year of graduate school with William Carlson in Champaign, Illinois; twenty five years later, the two remain close friends. After one year of graduate work in Illinois, Steven won the first place award in glass for Young Americans in Clay and Glass at the American Craft Museum. One of the judges on the committee was Dale Chihuly, who then invited Steven to join his graduate department at the Rhode Island School of Design. Steven received his MFA from RISD in 1979 with fellow graduate students Michael Glancy and Howard Ben Tre. A year later, he bought the building in downtown Providence that housed his studio while he was in graduate school. During this time, Steven won an honorary prize from the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in the World Glass Now exhibition. With the money from two National Endowments for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships in 1980 and 1984, Steven bought and renovated his second studio in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he works today.

Steven is and has always been a forerunner in the arena of cast glass. Because much of the technology for casting glass did not exist when he started out, he designed and invented techniques and machinery that he and many other artists in the field of glass now use today. Steven's work is represented around the world in the permanent collections of over thirty museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and Palais du Louvre in Paris; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; and the LA County Museum in Los Angeles. He resides in Rhode Island with his wife and sons.

Profile

Education
1979 M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1976 B.F.A., The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Selected Honors
1985 Honorary Prize, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,World Glass Now Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan
1984 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 
1978 Award Winner, Young Americans: Clay/Glass, American Craft Museum, NewYork City, NY
 
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2001
Leo Kaplan Modern, NYC, NY
The Janice Charach Epstein Museum Gallery
Bloomfield Hills, MI
 
2000
Marx-Saunder's Gallery, Chicago, IL
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Wa
 
1999
Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Gallerie Rob Van Den Doel, The Hague, The Netherlands
Habatat Galleries, Farmington Hills, MI
 
1998
Riley Hawk Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Highline Gallery, Aspen, CO
Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA
 
1996
Marx-Saunder's Gallery, Chicago, IL
 
1995
Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL
Kristina Wasserman Gallery, Providence, RI
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2000
Habatat International, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI
Vessels, The International Exhibition of Glass, Koganezaki Glass Museum, Japan
Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
Extreme, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France
 
1999
Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York City, NY
Habatat International, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI
Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
Mixed Media, Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France
 
1998
Sculptural Objects, Functional Art, with the Marx-Saunder's Gallery, Chicago, Il
Habatat International, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI
Shoebox Sculpture, University of Hawaii Art Gallery at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
 
1997
Glass Today, American Studio Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Contemporary StudioGlass, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
International Contemporary Glass, Hinsinchu Cultural Center, Taiwan
Celebrating American Craft, Kunstindustrie Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Habatat International, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI
Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York City, NY
Shoebox Sculpture, University of Hawaii Art Gallery at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
 
1996
Studio Glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
40 Years of American Craft, American Craft Museum, NYC
Sculptural Objects, Functional Art, with the Marx-Saunder's Gallery, Miami Convention Center, Miami, FL
Habatat International, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI
Light Interpretations, The Jewish Museum, SanFrancisco,CA
Glass Art Three: The Belkin Collection, The Huntington Museum of Art,Huntington, WV
Triptych, La Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France
Shoe Box, The University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI

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