BRIAN HIRST
Born in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 1956 EDUCATION 1987 Canberra School of Art (Senior Lecturer) 1980-81 Sydney College of Arts (Glass Department) 1979 Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002 "Relationships in Form," Quadrivium, Sydney "Silent Surface Sacred Surface," Project Space, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 2001 Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris "Surface," Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT 2000 Miller Gallery, New York "Reflection, Contemplation," Lake Russell Gallery, NSW "St'art," Clara Scremini Gallery, Strasbourg 1999 Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT 1998 "Silent Surface," Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, NSW 1997 Gallery Nakama, Tokyo 1996 "Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT "Makers Mark," Sydney, NSW "Sacred Surface," UTS Gallery, Sydney, NSW 1995 "Glass Now 17," The Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo "Brian Hirst," The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland 1994 "Glass by Brian Hirst," Gippsland Regional Art Centre, Victoria 1993 "A Celebration of Glass," Narek Galleries, ACT "The Two Australians," The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland 1992 "Object and Image Series," Blaxland Gallery, Sydney 1986 "Cycladic Series," Gates Gallery, Sydney, NSW 1985 "Glass by Brian Hirst," Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria 1982 "Glass Connection," Blackfriars Gallery, Sydney, NSW GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2002 "Facets of Australian Glass," Leo Kaplan Modern, New York 2001 "Glass," Adam Whitney Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska "Glass Art in Australia," Quadrivium, Sydney "Glass 2001," Without Pier Gallery, Melbourne Habatat Galleries International Glass Invitational, Detroit "Objects of Desire II," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York "Prime Verre," Musee Atelier du Verre de Sars Poteries, France Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris "19th Annual International Glass Invitational," Habitat Florida 2000 "Glass, A Celebration," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, Renwick Tour "Shattering Perceptions," Dennos Museum Center of Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City 1999 "Brian Hirst Studio Glass," Beaver Galleries, ACT "Contemporary Australian Craft," Customs House, Sydney "Contemporary Australian Craft," Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan "Documenta 98," Kanazu, Japan "Drawn in Form," Brisbane City Gallery, Queensland "Handmade Shifting Paradigm," The Art Museum, Singapore "Masters of Australian Glass," Quadrivium, Sydney "National Craft Award," National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne "Objects of Desire," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York 1998 "Australian Glass, 10 Artists," Gallery Enomoto, Osaka, Japan "Contemplating the Bowl," Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne "Sacred Surface," UTS Gallery, Sydney 1997 "The Art of Gold," Ballerat Fine Art Gallery,² Victoria "Expo Glass," GAS, Tucson, Arizona "Glass Weekend CGCA," Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland "Objects of Ideas, Ten Approaches to Contemporary Practice," Crafts Council Queensland 1996-97 Hsinchu International, Habatat Galleries, Taiwan 1996 Artworks Gallery, Nungumer, Victoria "Director's Choice," Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne "Esponizione Internationale del Vetro," Contemporaneo Venezie, Aperto Vetro, Venice "The First 10 Years," Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark "Natural Progressions," Studio One, Canberra, ACT 1995-96 "Glass from Australia 1995," Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Galerie L. Standtisches Museum and Glasmuseum, Reinbach, Germany 1995 "Art of Glass," Golden Canvas Gallery, Sydney National Craft Award, National Gallery of Victoria 1994-01 "Annual International Glass," Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, Michigan; Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California 1994 "International Directions in Glass," Blaxland Gallery, Sydney "Glass Now 16," Tokyo "World Glass Now'94," Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan, Winner of the Grand Prize 1993 "The Bowl Show," Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne "Coast to Coast," Myer Perth, Western Australia "Ten Guineas Show," Blaxland Gallery, Sydney 1992 "Crystalex Collection," Lemberk Castle, Czech Republic "Glass and Drawing," Gallery Nakama Annexe, Tokyo, Japan "International Directions in Glass," Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 1991 "Appreciating the Medium Glass Artists," Gallery Sydney "Art Glass from Australia," Galerie Art de Verre, Luxembourg; Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany; Gallerie Rob van den Doel, Holland "Challenging the Medium," Blaxland Gallery, Sydney "Glass Weekend," GCA, Wheaton "The Glass Bowl," Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne "Interglas Symposium," Crystalex, Novy Bor, Czech Republic "Profiled Personalities," National Ceramic Conference, Queensland "A Touch of Glass," Bellingen River Gallery, NSW "Ten Guineas Show," Blaxland Gallery, Sydney 1990 "Art Glass from Australia," Galerie Gottschalk, Betz, Frankfurt, Germany "Australian Crafts '90," Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland 1988 "ACI Collection," Queensland Art Gallery 1987 "Glass '87 in Japan," Tokyo and Kobe "Glass from Australia and New Zealand," Heisslsches Landmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany 1981 "Contemporary Glass, Australia, U.S.A., Canada and Japan," National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Artbank, Sydney Australian National Gallery, Canberra The Australian National University, Canberra Corning Museum of Glass, New York Ebeltoft Glasmuseum, Denmark Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Victoria Glasmuseum, Hentrich, Germany Guang Don Province, China Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan Koganazaki Glass Museum, Japan Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany Musee de Verre, Sans Poteries, France Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Victorian State Craft Collection, Melbourne Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales Yokohama Museum, Japan
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