Laura de Santillana
Italian, 1955- 2019

Select Solo Exhibitions
2015 Tokyo, Ippodo Gallery
2014 Tokyo, Ippodo Gallery, Tokyo-Ga
Venice, Marignana Gallery Hourglass
2013 Paris Galerie Arc en Seine Big Flats
2011 Paris, Galerie Arc-en-Seine, Grands Transparents, (catalogue)
Seattle, Traver Gallery, Liquid Glass
2010 Prague Festival, Istituto di Cultura Italiano, Laura de Santillana
2009 Paris, Galerie Arc en Seine, Sassi
Zurich, Sanske Galerie
2008 Los Angeles, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Laura de Santillana
2007 Venezia, Galleria Marina Barovier, Khadi (catalogue)
2006 Paris, Galerie Arc en Seine, Bodhis
New York, Barry Friedman Gallery, Bodhis
2005 Zurich, Sanske Galerie
2004 Paris, Galerie Arc en Seine, Partitions (catalogue)
Seattle, Elliott-Brown Gallery, New Work
2002 New York, Barry Friedman Gallery, Titan, (catalogue)
Paris, Galerie l’Arc en Seine, OS, OR (catalogue)
2001 Venezia, Museo Correr, Laura de Santillana Works (catalogue)
New York, Barry Friedman Gallery, Laura de Santillana Works (catalogue)
Memphis, David Lusk Gallery, Laura de Santillana
Seattle, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Laura de Santillana Metals
1999 Paris, Galerie l’Arc en Seine, Laura de Santillana (catalogue)
Seattle, Elliott Brown Gallery, Laura de Santillana, New Work
Zurich, Sanske Galerie, Laura de Santillana
1998 Tokyo, Gallery Tryangle, Laura de Santillana, seisensi
London, D Johns Contemporary, Laura de Santillana Cigars smoker’s dream
1997 Seattle, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Mountains
Zurich, Sanske Galerie, Laura de Santillana
1995 Milano, Blanchaert & Arosio, Laura de Santillana
GROUP EXHIBITS (selection)
2015 Wakefield, UK, YSP (Yorkshire Sculpture Park)
Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Tresors de sable et de feux
2014 Artissima Torino with Faggionato Gallery London UK
Vienna MAK (Austrian Museum for Applied Arts/Contemporary Art), I Santillana
Venice Le Stanze del Vetro, Fondazione G Cini, I Santillana
2013 New York, MAD, Playing with Fire, 50 Years of Contemporary Glass
2012 Tacoma, Museum of Glass, Scapes (catalogue)
Toledo, Museum of Art, Color Ignited. Glass 1962-2012 (catalogue)
Orlando, Museum of Art, OMA, Contemporary Glass Sculpture, (12-2012 03-2013)
2011 Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Venice 3 Visions (catalogue) (March 23/ Sept 5)
Ebeltoft, Glass Museet, Venice, 3 Visions in Glass (Oct 15/ Spring 2012)
Boston, MFA, Linde Wing for Contemporary Art Event
2010 Kansas City, Nelson Atkins Museum, Venice 3 Visions (catalogue)
Naples, Naples Museum of Art, Venice 3 Visions (catalogue)
2009 Venezia, 53 Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Padiglione Venezia (catalogue)
New York, Barry Friedman Gallery, Venice 3 Visions in Glass (catalogue)
Palm Beach Art Fair w/ Barry Friedman
Indianapolis Museum of Art, European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century
2008 Luzern and Zurich, Sanske Galerie
Zurich, Galerie Proarta, Gold und Licht
2007 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America.
London Art Fair
2006 Los Angeles, LACMA, Glass: Material Matters (catalogue)
Tacoma, Museum of Glass, Contrasts A glass primer
Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel Museum Islands of glass (catalogue)
2005 Pietrasanta, Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Vetro&Scultura (catalogue)
Roma, Accademia di San Luca, Lo spirito della pietra (catalogue)
Detroit, DIA, Detroit Institute of Art,
Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection (catalogue)
Evanston, Block Museum of Art, Sculpting in glass
2004 Venezia, Palazzo Franchetti, Vetri. Nel mondo. Oggi. (catalogue)
2003 Milano, Mi-Art, Galleria Tognon
Torino, Artissima, Galleria Tognon
London, Italian Cultural Institute, Venice. A touch of glass.
Norfolk, The Crysler Museum of Art, Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection (catalogue)
Kenzo Air perfume bottle
2002 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Contemporary currents:
Glass from William and Maxine Block (catalogue)
Aosta, Museo Archeologico, Glassway Le stanze del vetro (catalogue)
Palm Beach, The Norton Museum of Art, Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass
2001 New York, Giorgio Armani, Laura de Santillana, Fashion meets Art
London, Paul Hughes Fine Arts, Translucency
Milano, Spazio Lucioli, I de Santillana
San Diego, Mingei International Museum, Venini, Glass and Design
Milano, Spazio Oberdan, Venetian Glass (catalogue)
2000 Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Form and Content
New York, American Craft Museum, Venetian Glass (catalogue).
1998 Venezia, Palazzo Ducale, Venezia Aperto Vetro (catalogue)
New York, Barry Friedman Gallery, New Traditions in glass from Venice (catalogue).
Memphis, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery
1996 Seattle, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Murrine Storia
Dusseldorf, KunstMuseum, New Design in Glass (catalogue)
Venezia, Fondazione Cini, Vetri Venini 1921-1985 (catalogue)
Venezia, Studio d’Arte Barnabò, Laura de Santillana e Susan Kleinberg
Venezia, Museo Correr, Venezia Aperto Vetro (catalogue)
1995 Venezia, Studio d’Arte Barnabò, New Glass (catalogue)
1994 Denver, Denver Art Museum, Italia, Italia Masterworks of Italian Design 1960-1994
1990 Kanazawa, Giappone, International Exhibition of Glass
1986 Paris, Galerie Clara Scremini, Laura et Alessandro de Santillana
1985 Coburg, Zweiter Coburger Glaspreis Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (catalogue)
Paris, Galerie Clara Scremini
Paris, Galerie Gerard Laubie, GlassPanels
Rouen, Museé de Rouen, Art du Verre
1984 Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Glass in Miami
1983 New York, Heller Gallery, Venini: The Spirit of the Moment
1982 Venezia, Palazzo Ducale e Museo Correr, Vetro A Venezia (catalogue)
1981 Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Vetro Murano Oggi (catalogue)
Washington, Renwick Gallery, Venini Glass (catalogue)
1979/82 Corning, Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (catalogue)
Toledo Museum of Art
Washington Renwick Gallery
The Smithsonian Institution
New York Metropolitan Museum,
San Francisco Fine Arts Museum,
London Victoria & Albert Museum,
Paris Museé des Arts Decoratifs.
MUSEUMS/PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Venezia, Museo Vetrario di Murano
Corning, Corning Museum of Glass
London, Victoria & Albert Museum
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Arts
St Louis, St Louis Museum of Fine Arts
New York, Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum
Denver, Denver Art Museum
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts
Pittsburg, Carnegie Museum of Art
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lausanne, mu.dac
New York, MAD
Sao Paolo Museu de Arte
Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs
San Diego, Mingei International Museum
Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum im Ehrenhof
Coburg, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Coeffeld-Lette, Ernsting Stiftung, Alterhof Herding Museum
Hamburg, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe
Munchen, Neue Sammlung
IMA Indianapolis Museum of art
Boston MFA
BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana, Chapel, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Rachel Spence, Financial Times, July 8, 2015
In vitro veritas, Marcus Woeller, DIE WELT, 10_01_15
Fradei, Martin Bethenod, 2014
..fa come natura face in foco, 53 Venice Art Biennale catalogue, Marco Arosio, 06/2009
‘Sits perfectly with one’s soul’:The Art of Laura de Santillana, Jennifer Hawkins Opie 12/2008
Venice: 3 Visions in Glass catalogue
Triple Play: Innovative Glass Works from Venice, Janet Koplos, 3 Visions catalogue 11/2008
Laura de Santillana au coeur du verre, Elisabeth Vedrenne, Connaissance des Arts n.644 12/2006
NY e Parigi si contendono gli eredi di Venini, Cesare Cunaccia, Capital n.318, 08/2006
Breaking the glass lineage, Rachel Spence, Financial Times 4/5-122004
Laura de Santillana et ses Partitions, Jean Luc Olivié, L’OEIL, Juin 2004
Ligne de partage, Christian Simenc, Journal des Arts, Avril 04
Laura de Santillana at Barry Friedman, Janet Koplos, Art in America, July 2003
Red hot The Economist July-Aug 2002
Wax, bronze and glass: new sculpture and a new direction from L de S, Susanne K.Frantz,
Titan, Barry Friedman Gallery, 11/2002 (catalogue)
Laura de Santillana, la fille de verre. LeFigaro Culture, Beatrice de Rochebouet, 08/10/02
Laura de Santillana Pioniera del design, Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Vetro n.15/2002
Laura de Santillana, Grace Glueck, ART IN REVIEW, The New York Times, 6/15/01
Laura de Santillana, Attilia Dorigato, Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venezia, Italia (catalogue)
2001An introduction, Tina Oldnow, Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venezia, Italia (catalogue)
2001Radiant space Janet Koplos, Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venezia Italia (catalogue)
In the Envelope: Laura de Santillana, Geoff Wickert, Glass n. 79, 2000
A propos de Laura de Santillana, Jean-Luc Olivié, Galerie Arcenseine, Paris, Francia 1999 (catalogue)
Laura de Santillana, Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, NY, USA 1998 (catalogue)
Laura de Santillana , Tina Oldnow Vetri , vol 4, n.2, 1998
Laura de Santillana, NO III, Artists in the World, 1997
Italy’s Laura de Santillana, Ron Glowen Glass n. 50, 1993
Laura de Santillana, Nally Bellati, New Italian Design, Rizzoli International, 1990
STUDIES
Classical studies, Venezia, Italia
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA