Dale Chihuly is considered the single most important contemporary artist working in glass today.  It was through his own personal vision that he has been responsible for transforming the scope and reputation of blown glass as medium for fine art. The recipient of a voluminous number of awards and citations including both a Fulbright and NEA Fellowship, Chihuly was honored as the first National Living Treasure of the United States in 1992.  He is famous for his use of resplendent colors and fantastic shapes and over the last decade, his projects have proliferated in galleries, museums and site-specific installations.  A founder of the renowned institution, The Pilchuck Glass School, Chihuly has revolutionized the studio glass movement in addition to paving the way of the most prolific and creative glass progression in the world.  Chihuly's incredible work can be viewed in almost every major Art Museum in the world.

Education

1968 MFA, Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1967 MS, Sculpture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1965 BA, Interior Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Selected Collections

American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY           
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Museo Contemporaneo de Vidrio Ciudad de Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain
Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Umelecloprumsylove Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The White House, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY