CHRISTINA BOTHWELL
resides in Stillwater, Pennsylvania
EDUCATION
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania, for painting self taught- ceramics, glass
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| Year | Exhibition |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Imaginary Friends, Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, CA |
| 2023 | The Persistence of Eternal Optimism, Momentum Gallery, Asheville, NC |
| 2021 | Luminous Dreams in Cataclysmic Times, Heller Gallery, New York, NY “Back to Work, Christina Bothwell”, Nasty Magazine, Maria Marabramenko @nastymagazine |
| 2020 | Craft in America, “Storytellers” episode, featured artist, PBS |
| 2020 | Live Feed Studio Show, Christina Bothwell/Robert Bender, moderated by David Austin |
| 2017 | Christina Bothwell and Robert Bender, Dearborn University, Michigan |
| 2016 | Christina Bothwell, Long Boat Key Center for the Arts, Ringling College of Art, Fl |
| 2015 | Spirit Into Matter, Fort Wayne Museum, Indiana, full color catalogue |
| 2014 | Toy Chronicles, Heller Gallery, New York Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, California |
| 2012 | Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 2011 | POWER IN EACH STEP, Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA |
| 2010 | LANDSCAPE WITHIN, Echt Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2007-2008 | INVISIBLE REALITIES, Exhibition, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio, Heller Gallery, New York, NY, 32 page full color catalogue available |
| 2005 | BETWEEN FASCINATION AND FEAR: Mixed Media Sculpture, Heller Gallery, New York, NY |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| Year | Exhibition |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Spring Awakening, The Philadelphia Show, Heller Gallery |
| 2023 | Esprits Libres, La Halle Saint Pierre Musee, Paris, France 9/2023- 8/2024 |
| 2022 | Esprits Libres, Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges, France, 6/2022-3/2023 “Beyond the Glass Ceiling, Influential Women in Glass,” Habitat Gallery, Michigan, and Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan Esprits Libres, Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges, France, 6/2022-3/2023 “On Nature”, Tory Folliard Gallery,, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| 2024 | CFEVA at 40, Michener Art Museum, PA |
| 2025 | Spring Awakening, The Philadelphia Show, Heller Gallery “Beyond the Glass Ceiling, Influential Women in Glass,” Habatat Gallery, Michigan, and Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan “On Nature”, Tory Folliard Gallery,, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| 2021 | Lucid Dreaming, Copra Gallery, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine curated Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA “In Her Voice”, Sandwich Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts “Small Works, Big Impact”, Momentum Gallery, Asheville, NC DAS, Distinguished Artist Series, Guest Speaker, |
| 2020 | Narrative Offerings, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 20 in ’20, 19th Amendment” Invitational. Sandwich Glass Museum and Historical Society, Sandwich, MA Midnight Garden, Modern Eden Gallery, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine curated Exhibition, San Francisco, CA Midnight Garden, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA Invitational Glass Show, Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2019 | Mythic Menageries, Fabulism and the Natural World, Tory Folliard Gallery, WIS |
| 2017 | Women in Glass, Palm Desert Museum, Palm Desert, CA |
| 2017 | Karen Johnson Boyd Collection, RAM Museum, Racine, WIS |
| 2016 | Winter Exhibition, Anima Mundi Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK |
| 2015 | New Space, New Light, Art & Design after 1990, Corning Museum of Glass, full color book, essay by Tina Oldknow |
| 2014 | Figure It, Ohio Craft Museum,Columbus, Ohio |
| 2013 | Ocean, A Look at Marine Life Through Glass, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark, *full color book |
| 2012 | Perturbations, Le Musee Febre, France, full color catalogue Fire and Sand, Mesa Museum, Contemporary Art Center |
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
| Year | Exhibition |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Grant, Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, Creative Entrepreneur |
| 2019 | Grant, The Haven Foundation, Brewer Maine Grant, CERF Plus (Craft Emergency Relief Foundation, Montpelier, VT |
| 2018 | Artist of the Future Award for Most Compassionate Artist, Imagine Museum, Saint Petersburg, Florida |
| 2008 | Winner of the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award for Excellence in Sculpture, First Place Award, Chicago,Illinois |
| 2018 | Imagine Museum, Artist of the Future Award, for Most Compassionate Artist |
| 2003 | Grant, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, Midatlantic Arts Foundation |
| 2002/1985 | Grant, Greenshields Foundation, Quebec, Canada |
| 2001 | Full Scholarship/ Pilchuk Glass School, Seattle, WA |
| 1997 | Grant, Ruth Chenven Foundation, NYC |
| 1996 | Grant, Elizabeth Foundation, NYC |
| 1994 | Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NYC |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Glasmuseum Lette, Ernsting Stiftung Collection, Germany
- SMOG, (Shanghai Museum of Glass), Shanghai, China
- Imagine Museum, Saint Petersburg, Florida
- University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan
- Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Museum of Contemporary Glass,
- Denmark
- Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
- Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation, Munich, Germany
- The Smithsonian Museum of Art’s Archives of American Art,
- Oral History Collection
- Fuller Craft Museum, MA
- Racine Museum, Racine, WI
- Corning Glass Museum, NY
- Palm Springs Museum, CA
- Lowe Art Museum, FL
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
The Amphibian Literary Journal, issue 8, Metamorphosis-Christina Bothwell, by Anna Potter, 2025
https://pub.marq.com/ba17e33a-d905-40d2=8f47-69ba517f5e15/
Colossal Magazine, Ceramics and Glass Merge in Christina Bothwell’s Transformative
Sculptures, by Kate Mothes 2025
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/christina-bothwell-glass-ceramics/
Demilked Magazine, Christina Bothwell Brings to Life Otherworldly Figurines in Glass &
Ceramics Sculptures, by Shanilou Perera
https://www.demilked.com/christina-bothwell-sculptures/.
Colossal Magazine, Grace Ebert, Managing Editor, 2022 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/01/christina-bothwell-glass-sculptures/ Art and Object Magazine, Paul Laster, “Izumi Kato’s Otherworldly Creatures & More Fantastical Shows, 2021
Featured on PBS Craft in America, Storyteller Episode, https://www.artandobject.com/news/izumi-katos-otherworldly-creatures-more-fantastical Featured on PBS Craft in America, Storyteller Episode, Christina Bothwell
“Back to Work, Christina Bothwell Nasty Magazine, Maria Marabramenka @nastymagazine Colossal Magazine, Grace Ebert, 2021 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/12/christina-bothwell-glass-sculptures/ Glass- The Urban Glass Quarterly, # 159, Summer 2020, Survival Stories, Let it Burn, Christina Bothwell, 46-48, Andrew Page
Featured on Talking Out Your Glass podcast, with Shawntel Waggoner and Anthony Cowan http://www.talkingoutyourglass.com
Instagram @talking_out_your_glass
Featured on Blog- https://christina-bothwell-i-vidrio-ceramica.html by Javier Fuentes Bentaberry
Women’s Work, Stories from Pioneering Women Shaping Our Workforce, Chris Crisman, Simon & Schuster, 2020, Christina Bothwell, Mixed Media Artist (pages 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193)
Glass Quarterly Blog, Andrew Page, 9/2018
Miroir Magazine, Specter, Cover, and feature article by Nina Pak, 8/2017 Christina Bothwell, Jardin Secret, La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre essay by Pascale Nobecourt, Mai- Jun 2017
Glass, The UrbanGlass Quarterly, Cover and feature article- The Extractionist, by William Warmus
Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review, #35, #34, #33 Spirit Into Matter, full color catalogue, Fort Wayne Museum, essay by John Drury
New Space, New Light, Art & Design after 1990, Tina Oldknow, Corning Museum of Glass
Charming Identities online magazine, Luna Cesari, Review, John Drury, Glass Quarterly, Winter 2014 Divining Her Mediums,Joyce Lovelace, American Craft Magazine 8/2014
Carlos Ortega, Vidrio Glass Magazine, Spain, 11/2014
Richard, Anne, HEY! Revue Magazine, Paris France, 9/2013
Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review, #33
Gallery Representation.
Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, California
Heller Gallery, New York, New York, https://www.hellergallery.com/christina-bothwell
Habatat Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan, https://www.habatat.com/artist/38-christina-bothwell/
Momentum Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina, https://momentumgallery.com/artists/160-christina-bothwell/
Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, California, http://www.austinartprojects.com/artists/christina-bothwell
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