Laura de Santillana (Italian, –2019)

Timeline

1955
Born in Venice Italy
1955
Born in Italy
1977
School of Visual Arts, New York
Education:
Liceo classico, Venice, Italy
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
Awards
Honorary Price for Outstanding Achievement
Coburger Glaspreis for Modern Glassmaking in Europe. Coburg, Germany
Lives and works in Venice, Italy

Exhibitions

2012
SCAPES: Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma Washington
2011
Verre à Venise. 3 artistes, 3 visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (catalogue)
2010
Venice. 3 Visions in Glass, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida (catalogue)
2009
Venice. 3 Visions in Glass, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York (catalogue)
2009
“… Fa come natura face in foco – Dante,” Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice Pavilion, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
2008
Laura de Santillana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, California (Solo)
2008
Sanske Galerie, Luzern & Zurich, Switzerland (Solo)
2007
Khadi, Galleria Marina Barovier, Venice, Italy (Solo)
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
2006
Contrasts: A Glass Primer, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington Islands of Glass, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006
Bodhis, Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris, France (Solo)
2006
Bodhis, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York (Solo)
2005
Laura de Santillana, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (Solo)
2005
Vetro & Scultura, Pietrasanta, Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Rome, Italy
2005
Lo Spirito della Pietra, Accademia di San Luca, Rome, Italy
2005
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
2005
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)
2004
Laura de Santillana: Partitions, Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris, France (Solo)
2004
New Work, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington (Solo)
2003
Mi-Art, Milano; Galleria Tognon, Bergamo, Italy (Solo)
2003
Artissima, Torino; Galleria Tognon, Bergamo, Italy (Solo)
2003
Venice: A Touch of Glass, Italian Cultural Institute, London, United Kingdom (Solo)
2003
Murano: Glass From the Olnick Spanu Collection, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia (catalogue)
2003
Mi-Art, Milan, Galleria Tognon, Bergamo, Italy
2003
Artissima, Torino, Galleria Tognon, Bergamo, Italy
2003
Venice, A Touch of Glass, Italian Cultural Institute, London, United Kingdom
2002
Titans, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York (Solo)
2002
Laura de Santillana, Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris, France (Solo)
2002
Contemporary Currents: Glass from William and Maxine Block, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2002
Glassway Le Stanze del Vetro, Museo Archeologico, Aosta, Italy
2002
Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass, The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida
2002
Barry Friedman Ltd. New York, NY, USA, Laura de Santillana: Titans (catalogue)
2002
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Contemporary currents: Glass from William and Maxine Block
2001
Museo Correr, Venice, Italy, Laura de Santillana Works (catalogue)
2001
The Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA, USA
2001
Laura de Santillana: Fashion Meets Art, Giorgio Armani, New York, New York
2001
Translucency, Paul Hughes Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom
2001
L de Santillana, Spazio Lucioli, Milan, Italy
2001
Venini, Glass and Design, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California
2001
Murano: Vetri dalla Collezione Olnick Spanu, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
2001
Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (Solo)
2001
Laura de Santillana, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York (Solo)
2001
Laura de Santillana, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee (Solo)
2001
Metals, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington (Solo)
2000
Form and Content, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
2000
Venetian Glass: The Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Collection, American Craft Museum, New York, New York
2000
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA, Form and Content
2000
American Craft Museum, New York, NY, USA, Venetian Glass (catalogue)
1999
Laura de Santillana, Galerie L’Arc en Seine, Paris, France (Solo)
1999
Laura de Santillana, New Work, Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington (Solo)
1999
Terre, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (Solo)
1998
Sei Sensi Laura de Santillana, Gallery TRTangle, Tokyo, Japan (Solo)
1998
The Cigar Smoker’s Dream, Daphne Johns Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom (Solo)
1998
Gallery Tryangle Tokyo, Japan, LdeS, seisensi
1998
Barry Friedman Ltd, New York City, NY, USA, New Traditions… (catalogue)
1997
Mountains, Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, Washington (Solo)
1997
Laura de Santillana, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (Solo)
1996
Laura de Santillana, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (Solo)
1996
KunstMuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany, New Design in Glass (catalogue)
1996
Fondazione Cini, Venezia, Italy, Vetri Venini 1921-1985 (catalogue)
1996
Contemporary Art Center, Utrecht, NL , LdeS
1995
Murrine, I Vetri di Laura de Santillana, Blanchaert & Arosio, Milano, Italy (Solo)
1994
Laura de Santillana, Osiris Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (Solo)
1994
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA, Italy, Italy Masterworks of Italian Design 1960-1994
1990
Kanazawa, Giappone, International Exhibition of Glass
1989
Laura de Santillana: Glas, Glas Galerie, Salzburg, Austria (Solo)
1985
Coburg, Germany, Zweiter Coburger Glaspreis Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (catalogue)
1984
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FLO, USA, Glass in Miami
1979–1982
1979-1982 Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY USA, New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (catalogue) traveled to:
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA,Victoria & Albert Museum, London, GB, and Museé des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
1981
Palazzo Grassi, Venezia, Italy, Vetro Murano Oggi (catalogue)
1981
Renwick Gallery, Washington DC USA, Venini Glass (catalogue)

Literature

2001
Laura de Santillana, Grace Glueck, ART IN REVIEW, The New York Times, 6/15/01
2001
Laura de Santillana, Attilia Dorigato, Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
2001
An introduction, Tina Oldnow, Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
2001
Radiant space Janet Koplos, Laura de Santillana Works, Museo Correr, Venice Italy (catalogue)
2000
In the Envelope: Laura de Santillana, Geoff Wickert, Glass n. 79
1999
A propos de Laura de Santillana, Jean-Luc Olivié, Galerie Arcenseine, Paris, France (catalogue)
1998
Laura de Santillana, Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
1998
Laura de Santillana , Tina Oldnow, Vetri , vol 4, n.2
1993
Italy’s Laura de Santillana, Ron Glowen, Glass, n. 50
1990
Laura de Santillana, Nally Bellati, New Italian Design, Rizzoli International
English (US)

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