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JOEL PHILIP MYERS
Born on January 29, 1934, in Patterson, New Jersey. Education: 1960 - 1963 BFA Studied Ceramic Design at New York State College.1968 MFA of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. 1957 - 1958 Studied Ceramic Design with Richard Kjaergaard at Kunsthaandvaerkerskolen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 1951 - 1954 Parsons School of Design, Graduated with honors in the Department of Advertising Design.
Selected Solo Exhibitions since 1975 2003 Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Art, Neenah, WI The Sunrise Museum, Charleston, West Virginia 2002 The Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN Charles Wustum Art Museum, Racine, WI 2001 Maureen Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C. McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL Riley- Hawk Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio 1999 Barry Friedman Gallery, NY Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago 1996 Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago 1993 Joel Philip Myers. Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Riley Hawk Gallery, Cleveland, OH. 1992 Kurland/Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Sanske Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. Riley-Hawk Galleries, Cleveland, OH. 1991 Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL. Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Maureen Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1990 Sanske Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Heller Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI. Illustrated Catalog. Galerie L. Hamburg, West Germany Maureen Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1988 Kurland/Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago, IL Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris, France. Illustrated Catalog. 1987 Heller Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Gottschalk-Betz, Frankfurt am Main, W. Germany Habatat Galleries, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 1986 B.Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Maureen Littleton Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1985 Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI. Heller Gallery, NY. 1984 SM Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. Galerie L., Hamburg, West Germany. Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL. Kurkland/Summers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1983 The Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Habatat Gallery, Lathrup Village, MI. 1982 Habatat Gallery, Lathrup Village, MI. Heller Gallery, NY. 1981 Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago Habitat Gallery, MI Branch Gallery, Washington, D.C. Heller Gallery, NY 1980 Galerie L, Hamburg, West Germany Gallery L, Hamburg, West Germany Galerie SM, Frankfurt, West Germany The Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada Gallery Two (Contemporary Art Glass Group), NY 1979 Habatat Gallery, Dearborn, MI Works in Glass. Columbia College Gallery, Chicago, IL Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, IL Contemporary Art Glass Group, NY 1977 J & L Lobmeyr, Vienna, Austria 1975 Nostalgia Et Cetera Galleries, Stevenson, MD
Selected Group Exhibitions since 1975 1999 Glass! Glorious Glass! Renwick Gallery of Smithsonian's American Art Museum 1997 Glass Today by American Studio Artists. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Blowing Hot, Cutting Cold: 35th Anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement. The Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection. The Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN En Verden I Glass. Hadeland Glasswerk Gallery, Jevnaker, Norway Glass Today. Cleveland Museum of Art, OH Via Venedig Til e'Beltoft. The Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Celebrating American Craft: 1975-1995. Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark The Glasmuseum-The First 10 Years. The Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark. 1996 Venezia Aperto Vetro. Exhibition at the Museo Correr, Venice, sponsored by the Commune Di Venezia Assessorato alla Cultura and the Ukai Art Museum, Japan The White House Collection of American Crafts. The Renwick Gallery 1994 International Survey of Contemporary Art Glass. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA Joel Philip Myers & David Hutchausen. Contemporary Art Niki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Illinois Connection. Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL Fractured Light: Contemporary Glass Sculpture. Elliot Smith Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1993 Tiffany to Ben Tre. The Milwaukee Art Museum. 50 Years of MFA Ceramic Art at Alfred 1943-1993. Alfred University, NY. Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection. The Toledo Museum of Art, The St. Louis Museum of Art, and the Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA, 1993-1994. 1992 Glass from Ancient Craft to Contempoary Art: 1962-1992 and Beyond. The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ. 1991 Exposition Internationale de Verre Contemporain. The Counseil Regional De Haute Normandie, Rouen, France Illinois Glass: A University of Illinois and Illinois State University Perspective. Sponsored by Marx Gallery, Chicago World Glass New ’91. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art Illinois State University and University of Illinois Glass Graduates. Exhibition sponsored by Anderson College, Anderson, IN Joel Philip Myers and Students. Sponsored by Galerie L, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany 2nd Masterworks of Contemporary Glass Benefit Auction. Christie's New York, The New York Experimental Glass Workshop 1989 History of American Glass. Exhibition organized by the Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art. Traveling to the USSR in 1989-1990, to the Decorative Applied and Folk Art Museum in Moscow, and the Hermitage in Leningrad. Hot Glass. The University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA The Vessel: Studies in Form and Media. Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA New Art Forms 20th Century Decorative and Applied Arts. Navy Pier, Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL. The 9th Stockholm Art Fair 1989. Stockholm, Sweden The Seventeenth Annual International Glass Invitational. Habatat Galleries, MI. New Forms in Glass. The Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN 1988 A Generation in Glass Sculpture. Florida State University, Tallahassee Holsten Gallery, Palm Beach, FL 1987 Twenty Five Years of American Glass. Hessisches Landesmusuem Darmstadt, W. Germany New Expressions with Glass: An International Exhibition. Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987. Sponsored by the Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art Glass ’87 in Japan. Japan Glass Artcrafts Association, Tokyo American Contemporary Glass. Galerie Rob van den Doel, Gravenhage, Holland Neuerwerungen des Museums fur Kunsthandwerk aus - der Zeit van 1974-1987. Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, W. Germany The Saxe Collection: Contemporary American and European Glass. The American Craft Museum Artists in Glass. Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR 1986 New American Glass: Focus 2 West Virginia. Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. American Craft Museum, NY Architecture of the Vessel. Rochester Institute of Technology, Bevier Gallery 1985 World Glass Now ’85. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan. L'exposition International de Verre. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France: 1984 Hot Stuff. The St. Louis Art Museum, MO. Americans in Glass. The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI. 1983 Holsten Gallery, Palm Beach, FL. Barbara Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, MO. The Rebirth of a Medium. The Gallery of the University of Texas, San Antonio. Studio Glass. Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C. The Fine Art of Contemporary American Glass. The Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH. 1982 International Directions in Glass Art. The Art Gallery of Western Australia World Glass Now ’82. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan Studio Glass in North America: 1962 – 1982. The Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada American Glass Art: Evolution and Revolution. The Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Morristown, NJ International du Verre en France. Musée du Verre, Sars-Poteries, France 1981 Contemporary Glass - Australia, Canada, USA & Japan. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Americans in Glass. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI Glass: Artist and Influence. Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena, MI Emergence, Art in Glass 1981. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 1980 New American Glass: Focus Glass Art Society. Huntington Galleries, WV Art for Use. American Crafts Museum, New York. 1979 Pioneers in Glass. Galleries L, Hamburg, W. Germany Glas aus Vien - J & L Lobmeyr. Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland Glass from the USA. Gallerie SM, Frankfurt, W. Germany 1979 Mid-States Craft Exhibition. The Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN. New Glass-A Worldwide Survey. Organized by the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY Beaux Arts Designer-Craftsmen '79. The Columbus Museum of Art, OH. 1978 Americans in Glass. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum Glass Now. Limited Editions Gallery, Newton, MA Glass America 1978. Lever House, New York, organized by Contemporary Art Glass Group Illinois Artists Who Teach and their Students. Springfield Art Association Handwerkspfelege in Bayern. Glass Studio Lobmeyr, Munich Altes und Neues Glass und Prozellan aus Osterreich. Austrian Government, Lugano, Switzerland. Professors/Produce. The Craftsmen's Gallery, Scarsdale, NY 1977 Two Person Exhibition. Holmegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark The American Table. Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1976 Modern Glass from America, Europe and Japan. Sponsored by the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, W. Germany American Crafts '76: An Aesthetic View. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL New American Glass: Focus West Virginia. The Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV 1975 Studiolasia. Finlands Glasmuseum, Riihmaki, Finland Contemporary Crafts Exhibition 1975. Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington Glass from all the World. Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen, Denmark The Container Show. National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Awards 1993 Decorative Artist of the Year- The Illinois Academy of Fine Arts. Honorary Life Member- appointed by the Glass Art Society. 1984 Craftsman’s Fellowship- The National Endowment for the Arts. 1976 Craftsman’s Fellowship- The National Endowment for the Arts. 1973 Federal Glass Award- for work submitted to the ‘7th Biennial Beaux Arts Designer Craftsman Exhibition.’ Sponsored by Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH Purchase Award- for work in glass submitted to ‘Illinois Craftsmen '73.’ Sponsored by the Illinois State Museum Society, Springfield: February. 1972 Merit Award- The Commonwealth Life Insurance Company. For work in glass at the ‘32nd Regional Craft Biennal.’ The Louisville Art Center Association. Purchase Award- for work in glass submitted to the ‘21st National Decorative Arts Exhibition.’ Sponsored by Wichita Art Association. 1970 Merit Award- for work in glass submitted to ‘Regional Craft Biennial.’ Sponsored by the Louisville Art Center Association, KY. Purchase Awards- two awarded for work in glass submitted to ‘Appalachian Corridors: Exhibition 2.’ Sponsored by the Charleston Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, Charleston, WV. 1968 Jury Award and two Purchase Awards- for work in glass submitted to the ‘Toledo Glass National II.’ Sponsored by the Toledo Museum, OH. Purchase Award - for work in glass submitted to the ‘20th Anniversary National Decorative Arts*Ceramics Exhibition.’ Sponsored by the Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KS. Capital Award- for work in glass submitted to ‘Regional Craft Biennial.’ Sponsored by the Louisville Art Center Association, Louisville, KY. First Place Award in Crafts- for work in glass submitted to the regional ‘Exhibition 80.’ Sponsored by the Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV. Achievement Award and Purchase Award- for work in glass submitted to ‘Appalachan Corridors: Exhibition.’ Sponsored by the Charleston Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, Charleston, WV. Purchase Award- for work in pottery submitted to the ‘6th Annual Charleston Art Gallery Exhibition.’ Sponsored by the Charleston Art Gallery of Sunrise, Charleston, WV. First Place Award- for work in pottery submitted to the ‘3rd Annual Greater Huntington Arts Festival.’ 1967 Purchase Award- for work in glass submitted to the ‘2nd Annual Greater Huntington Arts Festival.’ Sponsored by the Tri-States Art Association, Huntington, WV. First Place Award and Purchase Award- for work in glass submitted to the ‘32nd Annual Exhibition.’ The Allied Artists of West Virginia, Charleston, WV. 1966 Best of Show Purchase Award- for work submitted to the ‘4th Annual Piedmont Craft Exhibition.’ Sponsored by the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC. Award of Merit- for work in glass submitted to the national exhibition ‘Craftsman USA ’66.’ Sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NY.
Permanent Collections
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