Born 1949 in Sacramento, CA
EDUCATION:
1968-71 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS:
1990 California Arts Council, Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts
1988 "World Glass Now '88", Honorary Prize, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
1982-83 National Endowment of the Arts Crafts Fellowship Grant, Washington, D.C.
1982 "World Glass Now '82", Honorary Prize, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2001 Space 201, The Brewhouse, PIttsburgh, PA
2001 Heike Pickett Gallery, New Versailles, KY
2000 Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2000 Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, SUNY at Alfred, Alfred, NY
1999 University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
1999 Merwin and Wakely Galleries, Illinois Westeyan University, Blommington, Il
1999 The Lowe Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1998 Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington D.C.
1996 "Jay Musler: Primitiva," Butters Gallery, Ltd., Portland, OR
1996 "California Glass Exhibition," John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1995 "Jay Musler: Imaginary Evolution," Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco,CA
1995 "Jay Musler," Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo, Japan 1994
1995 "Romantic Philosophy", Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 "Jay Musler", Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1995 "Jay Musler", Kavesh Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
1995 "Butters Glass", Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 "Breaking Traditions", Black Hawk Museum at Danville, University of California at Berkeley, CA
1993 "Jay Musler: Light and Freedom", Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1993 One person show, Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1992 "Jay Musler", Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1992 "Contemporary Glass Sculpture: Innovative Form and Expression", NewJersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1992 "Le Verre: International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass", Espace Duchamp-Villion Centre Saint-Sever, Rouen,
France
1991 "Jay Musler", Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1991 "World Glass Now '91", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo,Japan
1991 "The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from the Corning Museum", National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1990 "Jay Musler", Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1990 "American Glassmaking: The First Russian Tour", Steuben, New York, NY
1989 "The Universe of the Transparent", Musee des Art Decoratifs de la Ville de Lausanne, Switzerland (catalogue published)
1989 "The Boat Show: Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages", Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1989 "Jay Musler", Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1988 "World Glass Now '88", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan (awarded Honorary Prize, catalog)
1988 "Jay Musler: Recent Boats, Bowls and Masks", Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, DC
1987 Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
1986 "Poetry of the Physical", American Craft Museum, New York, NY (traveling exhibition, catalog)
1986 "Jay Musler", Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 "Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection", The Oakland Museum, CA (catalog)
1986 "Perspectives in Glass: Present Tense", Craft and Folk Art Museum, New York, NY (traveling exhibition, catalog)
1986 "Contemporary Vessels", The Tampa museum, Tampa, FL
1985 "Jay Musler: Glass Sculpture", Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1985 "World Glass Now '85", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan (traveling exhibition, catalog)
1985 "New Masks for Modern Living", Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1984 "New American Glass:FocusWest Virginia; Arber/Carlson/Edward/Musler", Huntington Galleries, Huntington,WestVA (traveling exhibition, catalog)
1984 "Americans in Glass", Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, (traveling exhibition, catalog)
1984 "Glassworks: Twenty Artists", Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of CA, Davis
1983 "Glass", Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 "Sculptural Glass", Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (catalog)
1983 "Pacific Glass '83", Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1982 "Jay Musler", Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, Michigan
1982 "World Glass Now '82", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan, (awarded Honorary Prize, traveling exhibition, catalog)
1981 "Emerging Artists in Glass: Lynn Baretti, Dennis Elliot Smith, Jay Musler", California Crafts Museum, Palo Alto, CA
1980 California State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Sacramento, CA (awarded First Place Glass Forms, catalog)
1979 "New Glass", The Corning Museum of Glass, New York (traveling exhibition, catalog)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
1995 Porges, Maria. "Jay Musler" Glass and Art Magazine No. 9, front cover, pp.35-49.
1992 Marks, Ben. "The Brinkmanship of Jay Musler". Glass Magazine. Fall, cover, pp. 20-27
1991 New Glass Review 12, New York: The Corning Museum of Glass
1991 World Glass Now '91, Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, pp. 100-101
1990 Prism of Fantasy: The Glass Collection of the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, p. 190
1989 Frantz, Susanne K. Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from the Corning Museum of Glass, New York: Harry N. Abrams, cover, pp. 171, 218
1989 Lippiner, Rosemarie. Expressions in Glass II, Basel, Switzerland: Musee de Arts Decoratifs, pp XV, 26
1988 Hammel, Lisa. "An Apocalyptic Art", American Craft, Oct/Nov, cover, pp. 26-29
1988 "World Glass Now '88". Neues Glass, Nov/Dec, p. 273
1988 New Glass Review 9, New York: The Corning Museum of Glass
1986 Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, New York: Weidenfield Nicholson, pp. 110, 305
1986 Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection The Oakland Museum, pp. 18, 27
1985 World Glass Now '85, Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
1985 Hollister, Paul."Jay Musler Painted Glass: the Face of Anger", Neues Glass, Jan, pp.12-19
1984 Eige, Eason. New American Glass: Focus West Virginia Arber/Carlson/Edwards/Musler, Huntington, West Virginia: Huntington Galleries, pp. 10-12
1984 Wagner, David. Americans in Glass, Wausau, WI: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, pp. 92, 93
1984 Mack, James. "Pacific Glass: New Zealand", Craft Australia, Spring, p.53
1983 Pacific Glass '83, New Plymouth, New Zealand: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, p. 36
1983 Sculptural Glass, Tucson, Arizona: Tucson Museum of Art, pp. 46, 47
1982 "1982 NEA Artists Fellowships", American Craft, Vol. 42, no. 6, Dec 1982/Jan 1983, pp., 2-7
1982 World Glass Now '82, Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, pp. 110, 111, 219
1982 Ricke, Helmut, "International Exhibit, Hokkaido: World Glass Now '82", Neues Glass, March, pp. 149-156
1982 New Glass Review 3, New York: The Corning Museum of Glass, p. 8
1981 Michelson, Maureen R. "Profile: Jay Musler", Glass Studio, no. 23, Aug pp. 55-57
1981 New Glass Review 2, New York: The Corning Museum of Glass, p. 8
1980 New Glass Review 1, New York: The Corning Museum of Glass, p. 9
1979 New Glass: A World Survey, New York: The Corning Museum of Glass, p.166
WORK EXPERIENCE:
1995 Guest Artist, Toyama City Institute of Glass, Toyama City, Japan
1995 Guest Artist, Kurashiki University of Science and The Arts, Kurashiki, Japan
1994 Guest Instructor, California College of Arts and Crafts Oakland, CA
1994 Guest Artist, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
1994 Lecturer, Glass Art Society Conference, Oakland, CA
1992 Lecturer, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1992 Guest Artist, Renwick Alliance, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1990 Guest Instructor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1989 Juror, Visual Artist Fellowship Panel, North Carolina Arts Council, Raleigh, NC
1988 Lecturer, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1987 Guest Instructor, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1986 Guest Lecturer, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1985 Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1984 Guest Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1984 Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1984 Guest Lecturer, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
1983 Guest Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Lecturer, The Glass Art Society Annual Conference, Tucson, AZ
1982 Guest Lecturer, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1972-81 Glassblower, Maslach Art Glass, Greenbrae, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
JB Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Kitano Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Wheaton American Glass Museum, Millville, NJ
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Wustum Art Museum, Racine, WI
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