Born
1971 New Jersey
Education
2000 Master of Arts, Visual Arts (by Research), Canberra School of Art,
The Australian National University
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1992–94 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Albedo, Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
2020 Current, Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
2018 Demiror, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
2017 Aubade, Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
Galerie B, Baden-Baden, Germany
2016 Lustrare, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho (e-catalogue)
2015 Afterlight, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho (e-catalogue)
2014 Mirari, Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
2011 Lux, Heller Gallery, New York, New York
2008 Heller Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie B, Baden-Baden, Germany
2007 Volo, Heller Gallery, New York, New York
2006 Sky / Water, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
2005 Between Glances, Heller Gallery, New York, New York
Sky / Water, Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea
2004 R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2003 R. Duane Reed Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
2002 Between light and matter, Chappell Gallery, New York, New York
Sky / Water, Chappell Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Art Miami, Miami, Florida, printed by Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
The Newport Biennial 2022, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
Innovators in Glass, Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts
2021 From Pedestal to Wall, European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, Germany
Permanent Collection Installation: Recent Gift and Acquisitions, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Night Vision: Nocturnal Musings, Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
2020 Summer Camp, Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
2017 40th Anniversary: Artists A-K, Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
Revelo, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
Recent Acquisitions, The Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
2016 Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, presented by Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea
Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection, The Crocker
Art Museum, Sacramento, California (catalogue)
Color and Light, Embassy of the United States, Panama City, Panama (catalogue)
Korean Galleries Art Fair, presented by Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea
American Art: 1945 to the Present, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
2015Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, presented by Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea
Dynamic Conversations, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts (catalogue)
Masterpieces in Glass: What They Face, Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea
2014Landscape, abstracted, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Form from Fire, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Glass Today: Contemporary Innovations, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut (catalogue)
Filtered, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
Surfaces, Massachusetts College of Art, Paine Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, presented by Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea
2013Locally Made, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Ellipses, Massachusetts College of Art, Bakalar Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
10 Years, Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea (catalogue)
2012 Approaching Volume, Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
Eclats, Musee Wurth, Erstein, France
20 Years, Galerie B, Baden-Baden, Germany
2011 The Wall, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
Field of Vision: Artists Explore Place, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Water, Sand, Sky, The Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island
2010 NetWorks, The Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, presented by Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea
Transformation 6: Contemporary Works in Glass, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee (traveling exhibition, catalogue)
Fifty Years of Contemporary Glass: Art, Craft, or Otherwise?, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
2009 Rising Stars of the 21st Century, Museum of American Glass, Millville, New Jersey
2008 Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, presented by Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea
2007 The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize Exhibition, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (traveling exhibition)
CCA: A Legacy in Studio Glass, San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, San Francisco, California
2006 The Bombay Sapphire Prize 2006, Studio 95, London, England (international traveling exhibition)
Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, presented by Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea
2005 Magnificent Extravagance: Artists and Opulence, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Seeds of light, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2004 Intersection, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Palm Beach Contemporary, presented by R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2003 Fresh!, Heller Gallery, New York, New York
ARTform, International Pavilion, West Palm Beach, Florida
2002 Luminosity, Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Glass Palimpsest, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Between 2 Spaces – Air/Liquid/Solid, Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2000 Essentially Canberra, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore (international traveling exhibition, catalogue)
Learning to breathe, Foyer Gallery, Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia
1999 Light Through Skin, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998 Aperto Vetro – International New Glass 1998, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
North American Glass 1998, The Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, Connecticut
1997 Young Glass International 1997, Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark (catalogue)
Selected Awards and Commissions
2019Toledo Museum of Art, museum commission, Toledo, Ohio
2016Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Summer Party Benefit Print Artist
2015 Commencement Ceremony Alumni Address, Massachusetts College of Art
2013 Massachusetts College of Art, Public Art Commission, Boston, Massachusetts
2011 7 World Trade Center, Commission with private funds, New York. Installed 2013
2010 The Wells Fargo Center, Commission with private funds, Norfolk, Virginia
2009 The Wheeler School Public Art Initiative Commission with private funds, Providence, Rhode Island
2007 The Palm Springs Art Museum, Commission with private funds, Palm Springs, California
2005 The Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Commission, Corning, New York
2004 UrbanGlass Award for New Talent, Brooklyn, New York
2001 The Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation Supporting Award, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000 Glass Art Society Conference Takako Sano Scholarship
1999 Canberra School of Art Drawing Prize Ausglass Conference Student Award, Juror: John Perreault
1998 Canberra School of Art Graduate Award David Thomas Foundation Travel Grant, Australia
1997 Art School Alliance Trust Fund Award, Massachusetts College of Art
Honorable Mention, Elusive Mind, Copenhagen and Elsinore, Denmark
Selected Articles and Publications
“From Pedestal to Wall: An interview with Dr. Sven Hauschke,” Uta M. Klotz, Neues Glas, Issue. 3, 2021
“Profile: Nicole Chesney,” Elizabeth Maynard, Art New England, July / August, 2021
“Nicole Chesney: A meditation on Light and Color,” Sabina Dana Plasse, SVPN, August 2018
Color and Light, Art is Embassies Exhibition, United States Embassy Panama, 2017
The Chazan Collection at The RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, 2016
Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection, The Crocker Art Museum, 2016
“Ethereal Afterlight,” Martha McGuinness, SVPN, August 2015
Dynamic Conversations, Chris Rifkin, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts, 2015
Collecting Contemporary Glass, Tina Oldknow, The Corning Museum of Glass, 2014
“Critics’ picks: Theater, arts,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, October 22, 2014
“Opportunities for Art Collectors,” Peter S. Green, The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2014
Glass Today: 21st Century Innovations, New Britain Museum of America Art, 2014
“America Reflected,” Leah Triplett, Glass Quarterly, Summer 2014
New Glass Review 35, The Corning Museum of Glass, 2014
“Arts Review,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, January 28, 2014
10 Years – Gallery Sklo, Gallery Sklo, Seoul, Korea, 2013
“Arts Review,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, October 17, 2012
Eclats!, Bettina Tschumi, Musee Wurth, Erstein, France, 2011
“Old and New, On Location,” Martina Windels, Public Art Review, Fall/Winter, 2011
“Review: ‘Field of Vision’ at the Racine Art Museum,” Eddee Daniel, JSOnline, August 24, 2011
“ ‘The Wall’ at Friesen Gallery,” Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, June 20, 2011
“Art Preview: ‘Water, Land & Sky’ in Bristol,” Bill van Siclen, The Providence Journal, March 13, 2011
“Arts Review,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, January 12, 2011
“Working Definition,” Daniel Combs, The Newport Mercury, November 24, 2010
NetWorks 2009-10, exhibition catalog, published by AS220 and The Newport Art Museum, 2010
“Networks 2009 – Rhode Island Artists Video Documentaries,” broadcast on Rhode Island Public Broadcast Television Station
“Nicole Chesney: Welkin,” Martina Windels, Art New England, February/March, 2010
“Artistic Wall Feature,” Rita Catinella Orrell, Architectural Record, November 2009
“Traumwelten aus Wasser…,” Irene Schroder, Badisches Tagblatt, Germany, May 3, 2008
“Mystische Landschaften…,” Doris Steffens, Badisches Tagblatt, Germany, April 24, 2008
“Meine Werke…,” Beatrix Dimmock, Badisches Tagblatt, Germany, April 23, 2008
Contemporary Sculptures and Panels: Selections from The Corning Museum of Glass, Tina Oldknow, The Corning Museum of Glass, 2008
“Nicole Chesney: Sky / Water,” Francine Koslow Miller, Neues Glas, Spring 2007
25 Years of New Glass Review, Tina Oldknow, The Corning Museum of Glass, 2006
New Glass Review 27, The Corning Museum of Glass, 2006
“Review – Nicole Chesney ‘Between Glances’,” Robert C. Morgan, Glass, Summer 2005
“Interview: Nicole Chesney,” Oh Seung-hae, Privilege, Korea, June 2005
“Art Feature: Nicole Chesney,” Jisu Kim, Noblesse, Korea, June 2005
New Glass Review 26, The Corning Museum of Glass, 2005
“Glass Acts,” Nancy A. Ruhling, Art & Antiques, May 2004
“Art Review,” Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 10, 2003
New Glass Review 23, Neues Glas, Summer 2002
“Arts Review,” Christopher Mills, The Boston Phoenix, January 25, 2002
“Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award 2001,” Dr. Helmut Ricke, Neues Glas, Fall 2001
“The Shooting Gallery,” Verity Newman, Sydney Hub, July 6, 2000
Art and the Brain II: Investigations into the Science of Art, Joseph Goguen, Imprint Academic, 2000
“Form and Process,” Graham Shearing, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 2, 2000
“New Directions: Emerging Glass Artists in Australia,” Anna Grigson, Craft Arts International, number 47, 1999
Venezia Aperto Vetro – International New Glass 1998, Edited by Dan Klein, Electa, Milan, 1998
Essentially Canberra, exhibition catalog published by The Australian National University, 1998
“Drawing gets back to basics,” Kathleen Alien, Tucson Citizen Newspaper, August 21, 1997
Young Glass ’97, Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, 1997
“Making Their Marks,” Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly, August 21-27, 1997
Elusive Mind, exhibition catalog edited by Cindi Laukes, 1997
Selected Public and Corporate Collections
7 World Trade Center, New York, New York
Alinda Capital Partners, New York, New York
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Berkshire Partners, Boston, Massachusetts
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, Germany
Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Millenium Place, Boston, Massachusetts
MIRVAC Group, Melbourne, Australia
Mobile Art Museum, Mobile, Alabama
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (Promised Gift)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania
Pilchuck Glass School, Print Archives, Stanwood, Washington
Pureun Savings Bank, Seoul, South Korea
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (Promised Gift)
The Wells Fargo Center, Norfolk, Virginia
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Twin Focus Capital Partners, Boston, Massachusetts
Wheeler School, Providence, Rhode Island
Private collections throughout the United States and internationally