SONJA BLOMDAHL
EDUCATION
1974 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1976 Orrefors Glass School, Orrefors, Sweden
SELECTED FACULTY POSITIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1983-Present Owns and operates private glass blowing studio, Seattle, WA
1991-Present Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA, Board of Trustees, Advisory Board
2002, 1985 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, Instructor
1998, 92, 88 Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, ME, Instructor
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH
2001-1981 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH
2000, 1999 Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 "Twenty Years", Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, WA
1998 R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Taking Shape: The Pilchuck Glass School in the 70s, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Second Annual World Glass Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2004 The Italian Influence in Contemporary Glass, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Transformed by Fire: Sculpted in Glass From the Collection of Becky & Jack Benaroya,Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Perfect Collection: A Shared Vision of Contemporary Craft, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA
"Group Show: Blomdahl, Gardner, Morris, Tagliapietra," Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2003 "Tribute to Jan Erik Ritzman," Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
"Masters of Contemporary Glass Art," Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, curated by Holsten Gallery
2002 "Seige Damer: 3 Person Show," Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA
2000-1999 "Glass! Glorious Glass!", Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
2000 "Vessels: The International Exhibtion of Glass," Koganezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
"An International Survey of Glass," Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY
"Glass from the Emerald City," Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
1998 "Aperto Vetro - Exposizione Internazionale del Vetro Contemporaneo", Venice, Italy
1997 "Glass Today by American Studio Artists", Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1995-1992 "Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy", Whatcom County Museum, WA and touring
1992 "International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa", Kanazawa, Japan
1990-1989 "History of American Glass" Hermitage, Leningrad, USSR
1986 "Crafts Today: Poetry of the Physical", Inaugural Exhibition, American Crafts Museum, NY
SELECTED AWARDS
2001 U.S. State Dept. Gift, presented by President Bush to the Prime Minister of Sweden
1987 Artists' Trust Fellowship Grant, Washington State
1986 NEA Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2005 Southwest Art, "Infinite Imagination", May 2005
Elements of Living, "Glass Lines", February/March 2005
2004 International Glass Art, Richard Yelle, Schiffer Publishing Limited
2003 Women Working with Glass, Lucartha Kohler, Schiffer Publishing Limited
1999 New Glass Review, No. 20 The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
1998 Skilled Work, American Craft in the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
1996 Pilchuck A Glass School, Tina Oldknow, University of Washington Press
1995 The White House Collection of American Craft, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc
Glass Quarterly, No. 59 "Matters of Mood: The Glass of Sonja Blomdahl", Spring
1992 New Glass Review, No. 13 The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
1991 Out of the Fire: Contemporary Glass Artists and Their Work, B. Miller, Chronicle Books
1990 Artists at Work: 25 Northwest Glassmakers, Ceramists, and Jewelers, S. Biskeborn, Alaska Northwest Books
1985 New Glass Review, No. 6 The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
1983 New Glass Review, No. 4 The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, Little Rock, AR
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Montgomery Museum of Fine Art
Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, New York, NY
Museum of Decorative Art, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bank of America, Portland, OR
Boeing Corporation, Seattle, WA
IBM Corporation, New York, NY
Mayo Clinic, Minneapolis, MN
MCI Communications Corporation, World Headquarters, Washington D.C.
Prescott Collection of Pilchuck Glass, Pacific First Centre, Seattle, WA
Safeco Corporation, Seattle, WA
Seafirst Bank, Seattle, WA
Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA
Sprint Art Collection, Overland Park, KS
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
United Parcel Service Headquarters, Atlanta, GA
Westin Hotel, Seattle, WA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Everett Public Library, Everett, WA
Harborview Medical Center, Cultural Heritage Artwork Collection, 1% for Art, Seattle, WA
Oregon Public Arts Commission (Salem Public Service Building), Salem OR
Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA
Seattle Arts Commission Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
United States Department of State: Art in Embassies Program
United States Department of State: Official Gift to Sweden 2001, Washington, D.C.
Washington State Arts Commission (Art in Public Places), Olympia, WA