Curriculum Vitae
OBEN ABRIGHT
Born San Francisco, CA, 1980
EDUCATION
2004 California College of Arts, BFA, San Francisco, CA
1999 Lorenzo de'Medici The Art Institute of Florence, Florence, Italy
1998 College of Marin, Life Drawing and Painting
1997 California College of Arts and Crafts, Pre-College Program
MUSEUMS & PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Imagine Museum, Saint Petersburg, FL
Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Sarasota Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
RESIDENCIES
2018 Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2018 California College of Art Residency, Oakland + San Francisco, CA
2015 College of the Arts, California State University, Fullerton, CA
2011 Floating World Projects, Bezalel Academy of Arts + Design Jerusalem,
Israel
2011 Floating World Projects, Mimar Sinan Fine Art University, Istanbul,
Turkey
2011 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2011 Department of Art & Art History, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
PUBLICATIONS:
Survival Stories, UrbanGlass Art Quarterly, Page, Andrew. Summer 2020, issue 159.
Habatat World Glass Post. Habatat Galleries issuing body. 2019
Inspired by the Everyday, Oakland Magazine, Mailman, Erika. September 2016, page 65.
Glass for the new millennium : masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection. Kaplan, David; Ostergaard, Glenn.; Crocker Art Museum.; Palm Springs Art Museum. 2016
Glass 2, the James Della collection. Della, James.; Della, James. 2016
Glass, the James Della collection. Della, James. ©2012
Playing with fire : artists of the California studio glass movement / Muñiz, Julie M.; Van Zwoll, Micaëla, author, editor.; Fogarty, Lori, editor.; Bernstein, Gail, editor.; Oakland Museum of California, host institution. 2012
Articulation. Ganis, William V., (b.1970) 2010 Glass, no. 120 (Autumn 2010), pp. 32-37, ill.
Who's Hot in the Hot Shop: Artists to Watch. 2007 Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Newsletter, (Spring 2007), pp. 6-7, ill.
Oben Abright: "New Figurative Works," Tobin-Hewett Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1-May 28, 2005. Heilenman, Diane. 2005 Glass, no. 99, Summer 2005, p. 67, ill.
SOFA New York : [catalog]. SOFA New York.; Expressions of Culture, Inc. 2000
EXHIBITIONS
2019
Solo Exhibition, Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, CA
Group Exhibition, Lure of the Object: Art from the June and Rob Heller collection, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Group Exhibition, Divergent Materiality: Contemporary Glass Art, from private collections, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2018
Solo Exhibition, Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2017
Group Exhibition, A Kaleidoscope Of Color: Studio Glass At The Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
2016
Group Exhibition, Glass for the New Millennium masterworks of the Kaplan Ostergaard Collection Crocker Museum Sacramento, CA
Group Exhibition, Hot Spot: Contemporary Glass from Private Collections, Toledo Museum, Toledo OH
2014
Solo Exhibition, Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, CA
New Work SOFA Chicago, Austin Art Projects, Chicago, IL
2012
Group Exhibition, Playing with Fire Exhibition 50 Years of Studio Glass, Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
Group Exhibition, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
Group Exhibition, Selections from the Richard and Barbara Basch Collection, Sarasota Visual Artists Studio, Lakewood Ranch, FL
2011
Solo Exhibition, SOFA New York, Echt Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Invisible Cities, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
2010
Solo Exhibition, Portraits of Loi Tailang Burma, Echt Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, SOFA New York, Habatat Galleries Chicago, New York, NY
2009
Group Exhibition, GlassWeekend ’09, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Habatat Galleries Chicago, Millville, NJ
Group Exhibition, SOFA New York, Habatat Galleries Chicago, New York, NY
2008
Group Exhibition, SOFA Chicago, Habatat Galleries Chicago, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, SOFA New York, Habatat Galleries Chicago, New York, NY
2007
Solo Exhibition, Habatat Galleries Chicago, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, SOFA New York, Habatat Galleries Chicago, New York, NY
2006
Group Exhibition, SOFA Chicago, Habatat Galleries Chicago, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, Arizona Fine Art Expo, Habatat Galleries Chicago, Scottsdale, AZ
2005
Group Exhibition, Habatat Galleries Chicago, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibition, Tobin-Hewitt Gallery, Louisville, KY
2004
International Emerging Artist Show, Louisville, KY
The Urban Glass Auction, Chelsea Piers, New York, NY
New Artists, New Works, Public Glass, San Francisco, CA
Glass Being, BFA Exhibit, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA