Open Daily 9:30–6:00, Monday Until 8:00

CHRISTINA BOTHWELL

resides in Stillwater, Pennsylvania

EDUCATION

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania, for painting self taught- ceramics, glass

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Year Exhibition
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
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
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
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

  • 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

Colossal Magazine, Grace Ebert, Managing Editor, 2022 httpw://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.

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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