Richard Jolley
Richard Jolley was born in Kansas in 1952, earned his BFA from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1974 and did graduate studies at Penland the same year. He currently lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he has maintained a studio since 1975. His work is included in the collections of museums in the U.S. and abroad, including the Museum of Art and Design, NY; Corning Museum, NY; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, CA; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, D.C.; International Glasmuseum, Denmark; Kunstmuseum, Germany. He has had numerous solo exhibitions over the past 25 years, including his most recent exhibition “Richard Jolley: Sculptor of Glass” which opened at the Knoxville Museum of Art in 2002 and will travel through 2007. In 2003, Skira published a monograph written by noted art historian Sam Hunter titled “Richard Jolley: Transformations”.
Education |
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| 1970-1973 | Undergraduate studies, Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee |
| 1974 | BFA, George Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee |
| 1974 | Graduate Studies, Penland School, Penland, North Carolina |
Public Collections |
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| Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, North Carolina | |
| Atlantic Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey | |
| Baton Rouge Art and Humanities Council, Baton Rouge, Louisiana | |
| Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania | |
| Carillon Importers Ltd., Teaneck, New Jersey | |
| Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia | |
| Coburg Museum, Coburg, Germany | |
| Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York | |
| Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan | |
| Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee | |
| Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia | |
| Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana | |
| International Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark | |
| Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee | |
| Künstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, California | |
| Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida | |
| Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama | |
| Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design, New York, New York | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| North Carolina State University Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, North Carolina | |
| Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin | |
| Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC | |
| Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Collegeville, Pennsylvania | |
| Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois | |
| The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky | |
| Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee | |
| The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina | |
| University Hospital of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California | |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2007 | Mitchell Art Gallery of St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland |
| Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey | |
| Leo Kaplan Modern Gallery, New York, New York | |
| 2006 | Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama |
| Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan | |
| Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida | |
| Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama | |
| 2005 | Paine Art Center and Gardens, Oshkosh, Wisconsin |
| Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia | |
| Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee | |
| Simmons Visual Art Center, Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia | |
| Leo Kaplan Modern Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas | |
| 2004 | Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, California |
| Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia | |
| Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| 2003 | Tennessee State Museum, Richard Jolley: Sculptor of Glass, Nashville, Tennessee |
| 2002 | Knoxville Museum of Art, Richard Jolley: Sculptor of Glass, Knoxville, Tennessee; Traveling (Catalogue) |
| Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, New York | |
| 2001 | Fay Gold Gallery, Tabula Rasa, Atlanta, Georgia |
| 2000 | Habatat Galleries, Chicago, Illinois |
| Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, New York | |
| Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida | |
| 1998 | Fay Gold Gallery, Meridian, Atlanta, Georgia |
| Arthur Roger Gallery, Cairn, New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| 1997 | Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida |
| Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho | |
| Mint Museum of Art, Art Currents 22: Richard Jolley, | |