LAURA DE SANTILLANA

Italian, b. 1955  

School of Visual Arts, New York,

Lives and works in Venice, Italy.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008          Laura de Santillana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, California

                  Sanske Galerie, Luzern & Zurich, Switzerland

2007          Khadi, Galleria Marina Barovier, Venice, Italy

2006          Bodhis, Galerie Arc en Seine, Paris, France

                  Bodhis, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York

2005          Laura de Santillana, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2004          Laura de Santillana: Pritions, Galerie Arc en Seine, Paris, France

                  New Work, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2003          Mi-Art, Milano; Galleria Tognon, Bergamo, Italy

                  Altissima, Torino; Galleria Tognon, Bergamo, Italy

                  Venice: A Touch of Glass. Italian Cultural Institute, London, United Kingdom

2002          Titans, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York

                  Laura de Santillana, Galerie l'Arc en Seine, Paris, France

2001          Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy

                  Laura de Santillana, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York

                  Laura de Santillana, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee

                  Metals, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1999          Laura de Santillana, Galerie l'Arc en Seine, Paris, France   

                  Laura de Santillana, New Work, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington

                  Terre, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

1998          Sei Sensi Laura de Santillana, Gallery TRTangle, Tokyo, Japan

                  The Cigar Smoker's Dream, Daphne Johns Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom

1997          Mountains, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington

                  Laura de Santillana, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

1996          Laura de Santillana, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

1995          Murrine, I Vetri di Laura de Santillana, Blanchaert & Arosio, Milano, Italy

1994          Laura de Santillana, Osiris Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

1989          Laura de Santillana: Glas, Glas Galerie, Salzburg, Austria

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011          Venice: 3 Artists | 3 Visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (catalogue)

2010          Venice: 3 Artists | 3 Visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida (catalogue)

2009          Venice: 3 Artists | 3 Visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York (catalogue)

                  "... Fa come natura face in foco - Dante" 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice Pavilion, Venice, Italy (catalogue)

2007          Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  

2006          Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

                  Contrasts: A Glass Primer, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington

                  Islands of Glass, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

2005          Vetro & Scultura, Pietrasanta, Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Rome, Italy

                  Lo Spirito della Pietra, Accademia di San Luca, Rome, Italy

                  Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina and The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee (catalogue)

2004          Vetri. Nel Mondo. Oggi, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy

                  Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, and Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan (catalogue)

2003          Murano: Glass From the Olnick Spanu Collection, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia (catalogue)

                  Mi-Art, Galleria Tognon, Milan, Italy

                  Artissima, Galleria Tognon, Torino, Italy

                  Venice, A Touch of Glass, Italian Cultural Institute, London, United Kingdom

2002          Contemporary Currents: Glass from William and Maxine Block, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

                  Glassway Le Stanze del Vetro, Museo Archeologico, Aosta, Italy

                  Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass, The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida

2001          Laura de Santillana: Fashion Meets Art, Giorgio Armani, New York, New York

                  Translucency, Paul Hughes Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom

                  L de Santillana, Spazio Lucioli, Milan, Italy

                  Venini, Glass and Design, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California

                  Murano: Vetri dalla Collezione Olnick Spanu, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy (catalogue)

2000          Form and Content, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

                  Venetian Glass: The Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Collection, American Craft Museum, New York, New York

1999          Glass: Daniel Clayman, Flo Perkins, Laura de Santillana, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee

1998          Venezia Aperto Ventro, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy

                  New Traditions in Glass from Venice, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York

                  Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee

1996          Murrine Storia, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington

                  New Design in Glass, KunstMuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany

                  Vetri Venini 1921-1985 Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy

                  Laura de Santillana e Susan Kleinberg, Studio d'Arte Barnabò, Venice, Italy

                  Venezia Aperto Vetro, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy

1995          New Glass, Studio d'Arte Barnabò, Venice, Italy

1994          Italia, Masterworks of Italian Design 1960-1994, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

1990          International Exhibition of Glass, Giappone, Kanazawa, Japan

1986          Laura et Allesandro de Santillana, Galerie Clara Scremini, Paris, France

1985          Zweiter Coburger Glaspreis Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Corburg, Germany    

                  Galerie Clara Scremini, Paris, France

                  Glass Panels, Galerie Gerard Laubie, Paris, France

                  Art du Verre, Musée de Rouen, Rouen, France

1984          Glass in Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida

1983          Venini: The Spirit of the Moment,  Heller Gallery, New York, New York

1982          Vetro a Venezia, Palazzo Ducale e Museo Correr, Venice, Italy

1981          Vetro Murano Oggi, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

                  Venini Glass, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1979/82     New Glass: A Worldwide Survey, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York Exhibition traveling to: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Renwick Gallery, A Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

Selected Museum and Public Collections

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, New York

Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany

Ernsting Stiftung Alterhof Herding Museum, Coeffeld-Lette, Germany

Kunstmuseum im Ehrenhof, Dusseldorf, Germany

Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, San Diego, California

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

Musée de Design et d'Arts Appliqués Contemporains, Lausanne, France

Museo Vetrario di Murano, Venice, Italy

Museu de Arte de  São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany

Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York

The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom