Dante Marioni

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Dante Marioni's works are a combination of exquisite craftsmanship, classical forms and exciting contemporary style. Marioni is a prodigy-turned-Young Master, heir to the cross-pollination of the Studio Glass Movement of the 1970's and the rising influence of the Italian (Murano) tradition of fine workmanship in glass.
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Purple & Green Pair, 2001
Blown Glass, 38.5" x 6.25"
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Yellow Trio, 2000
Blown Glass
Greatest Height 39"
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Red Mosaic Vase, 2000
Blown Glass, 39" x 8"
Born 1964, Mill Valley, CA

EDUCATION
1984-85 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1983 Colorado Mountain College, Vail, CO
1983  Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2000
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
1999
Bullseye Glass, Portland, OR
Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, CO
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998
Maureen Littleton Gallery, Washington, DC
Riley Hawk Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Riley Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH
Leedy Voulkos, Kansas City, MO
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1997
Contemporary Art Niki, Tokyo, Japan
Barovier Gallery, Venice, Italy
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996
Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Murrine Storia, Elliot Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995
Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
1994
Marta Hewett Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Nakama, Tokyo, Japan
Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Robert Lehman Gallery, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Nikki, Out of the Fire, Tokyo, Japan
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Kate Elliott/Betsy Rosenfield, Chicago Intl New Art Forms Exp at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1992
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh
1991
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Grohe Gallery, Boston, MA
1990
Studio 5 Seibu, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Traver/Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987
Traver/Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Concept Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
Holsten Gallery, SOFA, New York, NY
Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Millennium Glass, Louisville, KY
Galleri Glas Ett, Sweden
Buschlen-Mowatt, Palm Beach, FL
Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1999
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Jenkins Johnson, San Francisco, CA
Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX
Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL
SeaTac Airport, Influences in Contemporary Glass, Seattle, WA
1998
Aperto Vetro, Venice, Italy
Galleria Marina Barovier, Venice, Italy
Fresno Art Museum, Marioni/Marioni, Fresno, CA
Buschlen Mowatt, Vancouver, Canada
1997
Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Heller Gallery, SOFA Miami, Miami, FL
Etherton Gallery, Mano Volante, Tucson, AZ
Penland's Gallery, Raucous Color, Penland, NC
Bellevue Art Mus., Heir Apparent: Translating the Secrets of Venetian Glass Bellevue, WA
Museum of Fine Arts, Glass Today by American Studio Artists, Boston, MA
Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
Heller Gallery, SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Huntsville Museum, Embracing Beauty, Huntsville, AL
1996
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, N
Susan Duvall Gallery, Aspen, CO
Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Riley Hawk Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1995
Seattle Art Mus., Holding the Past: Historicism in NW Glass Sculpture, Seattle, WA
1993
Carnegie Museum of Art, Formed by Fire, Pittsburg, PA 
1993
Buschlen/Mowatt Fine Arts, Benjamin Moore & Dante Marioni, Vancouver, Cn.
Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Dante Marioni and Benjamin Moore, Portland, OR
LewAllen Contemporary, Collectibles, Santa Fe, NM
1992
Kate Elliot Contemp. Glass, Chicago Intl New Art Forms Expo at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Whatcom Mus. of Hist., Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, Bellingham, WA (touring USA through 1995)
Gallery Nakama, 100 Goblets, Tokyo, Japan
Cone/Solow Gallery, Modern Glass, Mendocino, CA
Imago Gallery, Glass '92, Palm Springs, CA
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
SeaTac Airport, Artists from Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Wa
Buschlen/Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1991
Civic Centre, La Verre Contemporain, Rouen, France
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Heller Gallery, Glass America, New York, NY
Bellevue Art Museum, Pilchuck Glass, Bellevue, WA
1990
Gallery Nakama, American Glass, Tokyo, Japan
American Craft Museum, Vessels, New York, NY
1989
American Craft Museum, Craft Today, New York, NY
1988
Bellevue Art Mus., Pilchuck School: The Great NW Glass Experiment, Bellevue, WA
American Embassy, Pilchuck Glass Artists of the American NW, Prague, Cz
American Craft Museum, Young Americans, New York, NY
1987
Beaver Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Traver/Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
Philbrook Art Center, Northwest Glass, Tulsa, OK
1986
Traver/Sutton Gallery, Symmetry in Contemporary Glass, Seattle, WA
1985
Mandarin Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Richard Ian Green Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984
Greenwood Gallery, Seattle, WA
1983 Yamaha Corporation, American Glass Now, Tokyo, Japan
AWARDS
1997
"Outstanding Achievement in Glass", Urban Glass Award, New York, NY
1988
"Young Americans", American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1987
"A Glass for Wine", Second place, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, N Y, NY
1985
Glass Eye Scholarship

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, AL
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Davis, Wright & Jones, Seattle and Bellevue, WA
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
Huntsville Museum, Huntsville, AL
Japanese National Museum of Craft, Tokyo, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
MCI, Washington, DC (promised gift to National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery Smithsonian Institution)
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museum of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
New Zealand National Museum, Auckland, Australia
Powerhouse Museum, New South Wales, Australia
The Prescott Collection of Pilchuck Glass at the U.S. Bank Centre, Seattle, WA
Safeco Insurance Company, Seattle, WA
Security Pacific Bank, Seattle, WA
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Vero Beach Museum, Vero Beach, FL
The White House Crafts Collection, Washington, DC
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 
1990-2000
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2000
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME Miami University, Miami, FL
1999
CCAC, Oakland, CA
Kent State, Cleveland, OH
1996
SUWA Glass Museum, Nagano, Japan
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1993
New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Rhode Island School of Design (winter session), Providence, RI
Toyama Glass Art Institute, Toyama City, Japan
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA (co-taught with Lino Tagliapietra 
1992
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME (co-taught with Lino Tagliapietra)
New York Experimental Glass Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (visiting artist with Richard Marquis)
1989-92
Nijiima Glass Art Center, Nijiima, Japan
1991
Haystqack School, Deer Isle, ME (co-taught with Paul Marioni)
1990
Fujikawa Craft Park, Fujikawa, Japan
1989
Wanganui Summer School, Wanganui, New Zealand
1988
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1987
Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia
Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA (assistant to Lino Tagliapietra and Benjamin Moore)
1985
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA

PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES
Glass and Art, Winter 1997, No. 16, "Dante Marioni, Seattle's Standard Bearer". Cover, pp.14-44
Town and Country Magazine, "Hot Glass", December 1996, pp. 71
The White House Collection of American Crafts, Michael W. Monroe, 1995. Jacket cover and back and p. 44
Smithsonian Magazine, June 1995, cover 
Booklist, Vol. 92, No. r, 10/15/95, American Library Association, cover
Puget Sound Business Journal, Vol. 16, No. 30, Dec. 8-14, 1995. Front page and p. 39
American Craft, February/March 1994, Cover and pp. 34-37. "Dante Marioni: Apprentice to Tradition", by Matthew Kangas
Glass Art, Winter 1994, cover and pp. 4-8. "Dante Marioni: Upholding the Vessel Tradition", by Shawn Waggoner
Glass and Art, Spring 1993, cover and pp. 25-35. "Contemporary Art Glass Movement"
Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, by Lloyd Herman for Whatcom Museum of History, Bellingham, WA, 1992, p. 46
Seattle Post Intelligencer, "Father and Son Put Different Varieties of Pop into Glass Art", by Regina Hackett, May 1992
Elle Decor, December 1991/January 1992, p. 26
Out of the Fire: Contemporary Glass Artists and Their Work, by Bonnie Miller, Chronicle Books, 1991, pp. 60-63
Financial Executive, "Art That Pulls Its Weight at Safeco", November/December 1991
Gump's Since 1861: A San Francisco Legend, by Roseman, Birmingham and Saeks, Chronicle Books, 1991, pp. 72-73
Beauty of Contemporary Glass, Sekisho Shoji Company Ltd., 1991
Glass Work, "Interview with Rika Kuroki", January 1990, No. 4, pp. 60-61
American Craft, "Young Americans 1988", by Lisa Hammell, December 1988/January 1989, pp. 42-49
Craft Arts, "Anatomy of the Vessel", by Nola Anderson, March 15, 1987
Seattle Times, "Dante Marioni", review by Dolores Tarzan, February 15, 1987

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