DAVID DOWLER / CV

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Arnot Art Museum - Elmira, NY

Brooklyn Museum of Art – Brooklyn, NY

Corning Museum of Glass – Corning, NY

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art – Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Musée des Arts Décoratifs - Paris, France

Musée de Design et d’Arts Appliqués Contemporains (mudac)- Lausanne, France

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City, Missouri

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

Objects and Outcomes, solo exhibition of metal works, Houghton Gallery, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning ,NY

​2017

Cut & Welded: solo exhibition of metal works, Exhibit A, Corning, NY

2009    

About Things: solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture Atrium Gallery Corning Community college, Corning, NY

2006

In Plein Site: solo exhibition of painting and sculpture, West End Gallery, Corning, NY

2002

Thirty Year Retrospective of Sculpture, Paintings and Production Designs, Corning Incorporated Gallery, New York, NY

2000

Inaugural Sculpture “Innerlight,” commissioned for new Steuben Gallery, The Gallery at Steuben Glass, New York, NY

1997    

Structure Revealed: Glass Sculpture by David Dowler, Steuben Gallery, New York, NY

1990

Image and Framework: Sculpture in Crystal, Heller Gallery, New York, NY 

1980

David Dowler: Cast Crystal Sculpture, Steuben Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004    

Corning on Canvas: exhibitor and curator, Houghton Gallery at 171 Arts Center, Corning, NY 

2003

69th Regional Exhibition, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

Painting at Yellow Bird Gallery, Newberg, NY

13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Atrium Gallery, Corning Community College, Corning, NY 

1999

SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL

1990

New Art Forms, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

Heller Gallery, New York, NY

1988

The Steuben Project, Heller Gallery, New York, NY 

Pride of Place Setting, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 

1987

Glass 87 Japan, Tokyo and Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan

1986

Mostly 3D, Rockwell Museum, Corning New York

1985

Designed and Made for Use, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1982

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Habitat Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

1981

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Washau, WI

The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, New York

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan,

1979

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

AWARDS

1982    “Progressive Architecture Magazine,” Furniture Design Award

FEATURED IN ARTICLES, REVIEWS, FILMS, and CATALOGS

Contemporary Glass Art, mudac, 2006

“New Paintings and Sculpture,” The Leader, 2004

“The Artist Eye,” Derrick Ek, The Leader, 2004

Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal Revised, Mary Jean Madigan, 2003

“Art Show,” Star Gazette, Wilson 2003

Structure Revealed: Glass by David Dowler, Thomas Hoving, 1997

The Steuben Project: Sculptures in Crystal, Heller & Geldzahler, 1988

“Keeping Tradition Exciting,” Jeremy Ehrenreich, The Leader, 1997 

The Steuben Designers: Glass Art 1991, Waggoner, 1991

Contemporary Glass, Suzanne Frantz, 1989

David Dowler at Steuben and Alone: New Work 1988, Nancy Dickinson

“Steuben Breaks the Mold,” Sargent/Moore. Connoisseur 

“Splendid Steuben, in a Dramatic Light,” Paul Hollister, New York Times, 1988 

“Transformation,” a film by Mediaworks, 1987

Progressive Architecture, May 1982, p. 160

Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal, Mary Jean Madigan, 1982

“A Portrait of America,” Turner Broadcasting

Glass in Japan: Japan Artcrafts Association, 1981 

“Assignment in Glass,” A film by Elliott Erwitt, 1978

EMPLOYMENT

Artist/Designer, Steuben Glass, 1972 – 2000

Artist/Designer, Samuel Kirk & Sons 1969 – 1972

Independent Artist, always

EDUCATION

Syracuse University School of Art, Syracuse, NY 

BFA with honors, 1969