about the artist
Lance Friedman is a Chicago-born, internationally exhibited sculptor who works in glass. He has had solo exhibitions at Habatat Gallery in Chicago and The Utasuyama Museum in Kanazawa Japan. He has been a visiting artist and lecturer at The Studio at The Corning Glass Museum and most recently was invited to critique the graduate work at the Rochester Institute of Technology glass department. According to New Glass Review, “Lance Friedman is one of the most versatile and talented sculptors working in glass today.” He was one of six artists voted as "New Talents for the Millennium" by Glass Magazine.
Education
• California College of Arts and Crafts
BFA Honors & High Distinction
Major: Glass
Instructor Marvin Lipofsky
• Kansas City Art Institute
Major: Glass
Instructor: Robert Naess
• Kansas City Art Institute
Major: Ceramics
Instructors: Ken Ferguson and Victor Babu
Experience
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 2005
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY 2003
• Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL 2003
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York 2002
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 2001
• Instructor, Glass Art Society Conference, Seto Japan 1998
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, October 1997
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, Aichi University of Education Glass Department, Aichi, Japan, September 1996
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, Utatsuyama Crafts Workshop, Kanazawa, Japan, August 1996
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, Red Deer College, Series ‘96, ‘97 Alberta, Canada 1996 & 1997
• Glass Designer, Design Ideas Inc. (Personally hold U.S. and Taiwan, R.O.C. patents), 1995
• Assistant to Lino Tagliapietra, Shatter Glass Group Demonstration, Chicago, IL 1993
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, Aichi University of Education Glass Department, Aichi, Japan, May 1993
• Visiting Artist and Instructor, Espace Verre, Montreal, Canada 1992
• Consulting Glass Designer, Crate & Barrel, Chicago, IL 1992,1993
• Guest Lecturer at School of the Art Institute Sculpture Department 1991,1992,1993
• Guest Lecturer at University of Illinois, “Image as Metaphor” 1989
• Established Shatter Glass Group 1987
Publications
New Art Examiner, Glass Magazine, New Glass, Glass Magazine, Glass & Art, Reader Arts Review, New York Times Arts Section, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Tribune Arts in the City, Chicago Sun Times Art Section.
Galleries, Exhibitions Committees, Grants and Collections
• Linklater (British Law Firm) Public Sculpture, Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 2006
• Lance Friedman Sculpture, Habatat Galleries Chicago, Chicago, IL 2001 -2004
• International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, Michigan 2000
• New Talent for the Millennium, GLASS Magazine, March 2000
• Collection LaSalle Systems Leasing Corporation, Chicago, IL 2000
• Collection Lancaster Colony Corporation, Columbus, OH 2000
• Lance Friedman Sculpture Habatat Galleries Chicago Chicago, IL 1999
• Lance Friedman, Sculpture in Glass, Morlen Sinoway Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997
• Grant Selection Committee Chicago Artists’ International Grant, Chicago IL, 1997
• Permanent Collection of the Utatsuyama Crafts Workshop Museum Collection, Kanazawa, Japan, 1996
• Recipient, Chicago Artists’ International Grant to teach and exhibit in Japan 1996
• Finalist The International Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa, Japan 1995
• Morlen Sinoway Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994
• Gallerie L, Hamburg, Germany 1994
• New Glass Review 15, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY 1994
• A Glass for Champagne, Christies Auctioneers, New York, NY 1994
• Universal Myths, Narrative
Go to Lance Friedman's Studio to find out more.
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