Selected Resumé

Born: September 1, 1938, Barrington, Illinois
Died: January 15, 2016, Berkeley, CA

Education

1962 BFA, Industrial Design, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
1964 MS, Sculpture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1964 MFA, Sculpture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Positions held

1964 Instructor of Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1964-72 Assistant Professor, Department of Design, University of California, Berkeley, California
1967-87 Professor, Program Head, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California

Visiting artist at 30+ institutions internationally

Collections

Works in over 100 collections including:

Museum of Arts and Design (American Craft Museum; Museum of Contemporary Crafts), NYC, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Oakland Museum of California (Oakland Art Museum), Oakland, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco Museum of Art), San Francisco, California
Musee D'Art Contemporain, Skopje, Yugoslavia
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
National Museum of Glass, Leerdam, Holland
Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
Stedelijke Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Museum Für Kunsthandwek, Frankfurt, Germany
Kunsthaus AM Museum, Koln, Germany
Kunstsammlungen Der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
Musee de Design ET D'Arts Appliques/Contemporains (Musee des Arts Decoratifs) Lausanne, Switzerland
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Umeleckoprumyslove Muzeum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Musee des Arts Decoratifs (Fonds National d'Art Contemporin) Paris, France
Hokkaido Government Prefectury, Sapparo, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
International Glass Symposium Collection, Crystalex, Novy Bor, Czech Republic, 1982 II; 1985 III; 1988 IV; 1991 V; 1994 VI; 1997 VII 2000; Crystalex, A.S./Lemberk Castle
Zsolnay Museum, Pecs, Hungary
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Museum of Decorative Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
All-Russia Decorative, Applied and Folk Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
National Museum in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
The Hsinchu Cultural Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Museo del Vidrio, La Granja, Spain
Museo Del Vidrio, Monterrey, N.L. Mexico
Musée Du Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Tacoma Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California
The De Young Museum, San Francisco, California

Awards / Honors

1974/76 National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship
1983 Honorific Prize, Viconiter '83 1st International Exhibit of Contemporary Glass, Valencia, Spain
1985 "California Living Treasure," Creative Arts League of Sacramento, Sacramento, California
1986 Honorary Life Member, Glass Art Society, Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California
1989 Distinguished Graduate Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art, Barrington High School, Barrington, Illinois
1991 College of Fellows, The American Craft Council, New York, New York
1998 Trustee emeritus, American Crafts Council, New York, New York
2002 Honorary Award for Inspiration and Instigation of the Bay Area Glass Community, California Glass Exchange, San Jose, California
2003 Master of the Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, D.C.
2005 Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass 2005 Artist Award
2009 Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society, 39th Annual GAS Conference,
Corning, New York
2016 Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Award, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin

Selected solo exhibitions

1969 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York
1969 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
1970 Stedelijke Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1974 California Institute of Technology, Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, California
1978 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
1979 University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
1981 Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, Michigan
1982 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1985 Ree Schonlau Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
1985 Holsten Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida
1989 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artist Gallery (2 Person Exhibit), Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California
1991 Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, New York
1996 Marvin Lipofsky's World of Glass Show: An Historical Retrospective, Kennedy Art Center Gallery
1996 Holy Names College, Oakland, California
2003 Marvin Lipofsky: A Glass Odyssey, Retrospective, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
2005 Marvin Lipofsky: A Glass Odyssey, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
2006 Marvin Lipofsky: A Journey in Glass, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California
2009 Marvin Lipofsky: Survey 1969-2009, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Marvin Lipofsky: Survey 1969-2009, 555 Concourse Gallery, SF, CA
2015 Duane Reed Gallery, Marvin Lipofsky, SOFA Chicago, Illinois
2017 Richmond Art Center, Marvin Lipofsky: Molten Matter/Fantastic Form, Richmond, California
2018 World Without Borders: The Art of Marvin Lipofsky, Jay Musler Gallery, San Francisco, California
2021 Craft Front & Center: What Can You Do with Glass?, Museum of Arts & Design, NYC, New York
2021 Marvin Lipofsky: International Studio Glass, SFO Museum, San Francisco, California

Lectures and Workshops

Over 300 lectures and/or workshops internationally

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