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Krista Israel (1975)
​Lives and works in the Netherlands

Selection of group exhibitions
2026 

• Foundation UNexpected Glass, Living the Glass Age - Dutch Glass Biennale - NL
  
• Foundation Glass Art, Nature in Glass - NL
  
• Oooit Art - NL
  
• KunstGarage Franx, De Magie van Glas - NL
  
• Galerie DNA - NL

2025

• Museum Otmar Alt Stiftung, Fascination Glass -DE
• Dutch Glass Association Friends of Modern Glass - Bernadine de Neeve Dutch Glass Prize - NL
• Habatat Galleries Detroit, GLASS53 International Invitational Award Exhibition - USA
  
• Oooit Art, Art The Hague - NL
  
• KCW De Kunstberg, duo exhibition with Inger Israel (photography), Hoe Het Licht Raakt - NL
  
• Kunsthal 45, glass and ceramics exhibition, Through Fire - NL
  

2024

• Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Habatat International Invitational Award Exhibition - USA
• Glass Museum MussVerre - Sars Potteries, Trop Plein/To Much - FR
• Glass Museum Lette, Neue Werbungen/New Aquisitions - DE  
• Foundation UNexpected Glass, Living the Glass Age - Dutch Glass Biennale - NL
• Association Modern Glass - Bernadine de Neeve Dutch Glass Prize, group exhibition selected artists - NL
• Oooit Art, Art The Hague - NL​
• Blowfish Glass Gallery, Fifteen x Fifteen - UK
• Habatat Galleries Detroit, 52nd International Invitational Award Exhibition - USA
• VestingVal, contemporary arts festival - NL
• Habatat Galleries Detroit, Glass Coast Weekend, Beyond the Material - USA

​2023

• Chengdu Art Museum - Tianfu Art Park, Chengdu Fine Art Biennale 'Time Gravity' - PRC
• Museum Karkonosze Exhibition Horowby Glass Prize - PL
• Glasmuseum Lette, Mit Feuer und Flamme / To Be on Fire - DE
• Ireland Glass Biennale - IE
• Rietveld Paviljoen Amersfoort, Glas in Beeld / Glas in View - NL
• Habatat Galleries Detroit, Not Grandma's Glass - USA
• Galerie Handwerk, Ein Herz für Glas / A Heart for Glass - DE
• Kunsthal KAdE, Blueprint/Blauwdruk - NL
• Geppart Gallery, Exhibition Horowby Glass Prize - PL
• Oooit Art, Sier Aard - NL

2022

• Qingdao Municipal Art Museum, Overflowing Color & Condensing Light - PRC
• Smithsonian American Art Museum @ Renwick Gallery, New Glass Now On Tour - USA
• Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburger Glas Preis Exhibition - DE
• Toyoma Glass Art Museum, New Glass Now On Tour - JP
• Habatat Galleries Detroit, Not Grandma's Glass - USA
• Oooit Art, Baoku Exhibition Shanghai - PRC
• Oooit Art, Reborn - NL

2021

• International Biennale of Glass, National Gallery Sofia - BG
• National Glass Museum & Dutch Association Friends of Modern Glass, Anniversary Exhibition Glass Association - NL
• National Glass Museum & Dutch Glass Association Friends Modern Glass, Bernadine the Neeve Prize Nominees - NL
• Glasrijk, annual international glass art festival - NL
• Habatat Galleries Detroit, Not Grandma's Glass - USA

2020

• Kunst Im Schloss, Sweet Nothing Sweet, international contemporary art exhibition - DE

2019

• Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Now - USA​
• Glasrijk, annual international glass art festival - NL

2018

• International Lampwork Glass Art Festival Hejian - PRC
• Stichting Glaskunst, Glas Natuurlijk...door haar - NL
• Glasrijk, annual international glass art festival- NL
• Schiepers Gallery, duo exhibition with Anne Petters (DE) - BE 

2017

• Gorcums Museum, Glass 4Ever - NL
• Liling Ceramic Valley Museum, Originality & Ingenuity - Invitational - PRC
• Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Special exhibition - das Instituut voor Kunst & Ambacht - DE
• Muzeum Krakonoski, European Glass Festival, Dr. Jykell & Mrs. Hyde - PL
• Europaïsches Museum für Modernes Glas, Lampenglas - Neue Blicke auf eine traditionalle Technik - DE
• Glass Wheel Studio, Layered Up Invitational Exhibition - USA
• Glass Art Society / Glass Wheel Studio, Members Juried Exhibition - USA
• ICI LABAS Gallery, Danger & Beauty - contemporay art and glass - PRC

2016

• European Glass Festival, main exhibition Play with Glass, Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde - PL
• Glassmuseum Alter Hof Herding, New Additions - DE
• Tianyuan International Glass Art Festival, Glassfashionshow Glass & Ice - PRC
• Tianyuan International Glass Art Festival, Collision & Fission Glassart Invitational Exhibition - PRC
• Tree Art Gallery, Traditional Flamework Exhibition - PRC
• Foundation Kilnformed Glass, Kilnformed Glass 2016 - NL
• State Institute for Art & Craft, Graduation Exhibition MFA IKA - BE

2015

• Glass City, Refract, Year of Design Ireland 2015 - IR
• Glass Museum Lette, New Aquistitions - DE
• Association Friends of Modern Glass, presentation Collectors Year Object 2015 - NL
• Foundation Kilnformed Glass, Kilnformed Glass 2015 - NL

2014

• Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Exhibition Coburg Prize Contemporary Glass 2014 - DE
• Foundation Kilnformed Glass, Kilnformed Glass 2014- NL

2013

• Glasrijk, annual international glass art festival- NL
• Once Upon A Time... - BE
• State Institute for Art & Craft, IKA Graduation exhibition BFA - BE

Solo exhibitions​

• 2022 Municipalty of Amersfoort, made possible with FlitsImpuls grant - BitterSweet - NL
• 2019 European Glass Festival, Best Served Gold - PL
• 2014 Stadsgalerij, Memories, City Hall Amersfoort - NL​

Collections

• 2024 Glass Museum Lette, Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding - DE
• 2023 Qingdao Municipal Art Museum - PRC
• 2021 National Gallery of Sofia - BG
• 2019 Corning Museum of Glass - USA
• 2017 Liling Ceramic Valley Museum - PRC
• 2015 Glass Museum Lette, Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding - DE
• 2015 National Glass Museum - NL
• 2014 Glass Museum Lette, Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding - DE
• 2014 Kunstsammlungen de Veste Coburg, Europaïsch Museum für Modern Glas - DE

Awards and honorable mentions

• 2024 Nominee Bernadine de Neeve Dutch Glass Prize 2025, Association Friends of Modern Glass - NL
• 2024 Selected for Bernadine de Neeve Dutch Glass Prize 2025,  Association Friends of Modern Glass - NL
• 2024 Winner Award of Excelence, Habatat Galeries Detroit - USA
• 2023 Winner Not Grandsma's Glass 2023, Habatat Galleries Detroit - USA
• 2022 Winner Not Grandma's Glass 2022, Habatat Galleries Detroit - USA
• 2022 Winner Saxe Emerging Artist Award, Glass Art Society - USA
• 2021 Winner Not Grandma's Glass,2021, Habatat Galleries Detroit- USA
• 2021 Nominee 2022 Saxe Emerging Artist Award, Glass Art Society - USA
• 2020 Selected for Bernadine de Neeve Dutch Glass Prize 2022, Association Friends of Modern Glass - NL
• 2019 Nominee Borowsky Glass Prize, University of the Arts Phillidelphia - USA
• 2018 The Glass Prize 2018, Highly Commended - Bullseye Artists, Keeping Up Appearances - UK
• 2016 The Glass Prize 2016, Highly Commended - Keeping up apearances, cherries - UK
• 2015 Designer collectors object, Association Friends of Modern Glass, invitational - NL

Residencies

• 2017 Liling Ceramic Valley Museum and JAEA Ceramic Art Centre, invitational - PRC
• 2016 Tianyuan Glass Art Festival, designer Glassfashionshow residency, invitational - PRC

Grants

• 2021 Municipality of Amersfoort, FlitsImpuls - Corona Relief Grant for Artists - NL
• 2018 Foundation Stokroos, stipend - NL
• 2018 Society Friends of Modern Glass Netherlands, stipend - NL
• 2017 Liling Ceramic Valley Museum, 'Originality & Ingenuity', grant - PRC
• 2014 Glass Gallery Aventurijn, academic grant for Dutch glassartists - NL

Education

• 2016 MFA, Fine Arts degree in Glassart, honors, State Institute for Art & Craft (IKA) - BE
• 2013 BFA, Fine Arts degree in Glassart, honors, State Institute for Art & Craft (IKA) - BE

Printed and online publications
2024

• Neues Glas Magazine #4, exhibitionTrop Plein @ MussVerre France - DE
• New Women's Work; Reimagining "Feminine" Craft In Contemporary Art, author Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy - USA/AU
• Qingdao Museum of Art, catalogue new glass collection of the museum - PRC

2023

• Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review 44, Virtue is Bold and Goodness Never Fearfull - USA
• The Flow Magazine, Annual Gallery of Women in Glass - USA
•  Neues Glas Magazine, cover, article Mit Feuer und Flamme exhibition by dr. U. Hoppe Oehl - DE
•  La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, Ireland Glass Biennale, Sous le Signe de Divesité - FR

2022

• GlasHaus/GlassHouse Magazine #4, Es Knistert Im Pelz, article by Heidi Schmitt - DE
• The Flow Magazine #4, Bard of the Glass Canvas, article by dr. J. Denton - USA
• The Flow Magazine #4 , Annual Gallery of Women in Glass - USA
• Glass Art Magazine, Pushing the Bounderies of Glass Sculpture, article by dr J. Denton - USA
• Glas Magazine #3, quarterly publication Dutch Glass Association, article #NGG2022 - NL
• Talking Out Your Glass Podcast by Shawn Waggoner, season 7 episode Krista Israel - USA

2021

• JAN Living Magazine, Heart of Glass - article on Dutch glass art and artists - NL

2020

• Neues Glas Magazine # 2/3 2020, article Krista Israel - Sweet Can Be Sweet But Also Dangerous - DE
• The Flow Magazine # 4, 2020, Annual Gallery of Women in Glass - USA
• Neues Glas Magazine, Beauty & the Beast 7th European Glass Festival in Poland - DE
• Sklo/Ceramica Magazine # 4 2019, EGF Festival - Krista Israel; Best Served Gold - PL

2019

• Glasrijk, coverphoto exhibition catalogue and poster, We've Been Sugared - NL
• Architectural Digest, 9 Contemporary Glass Artists You Need To Know - USA
• Artsy.net, 10 Innovative Glass Artists on the Challenges and Joys of their Medium - USA
• Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review 40 - Lapi Boli Project, - USA

2018

• Shanghai Museum of Glass, Glassy Magazine 5, article BROKEN - PRC
• Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review 39, with Lapi Boli Project - USA
• Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review 39,- Curators Pespective, Anjali Srinivasan - USA

2017

• Fjoezzz Glass Magazine nr 4, article report on residency at JAEA Ceramic Art Centre, China - NL
• Glass Art Society Member Monday interview, published 5.22.2017, Side Effects - USA

2016

• Fjoezzz Glass Magazine nr 4, article Tianyuan Glass Art Festival China - NL
• Fjoezzz Glass Magazine nr 4, article European Glass Art Festival - NL
• Glasmuseum Lette, ,...Wer Hätte Das Gedacht, anniversary book, Pussycat - DE
• Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review 37, Important Aquisitions, Kunstsammlungen Veste Coburg - USA/DE
• Fjoezzz Glass Magazine nr 2, article IKA Glass 2016, graduates IKA Glassdepartment - NL

2015

• Fjoezzz Glass Magazine nr 3, cover & feature article Members-object 2015 Klatergoud - NL
• Kunst Aus Der Flamme, H. Höhn & A. Guttgesel, cover Taking My Coat Off - DE

2013

• Eye On Amersfoort / Met het oog op Amersfoort, photo Steven v. Kooijk of Taking My Coat Off - NL
• Fjoezz Glass Magazine nr 2, article graduation exhibition IKA Glassdepartment - NL

Curator, exhibition design and board member

• 2026 Curator, Living the Glass Age - Dutch Glass Biennale - NL
• 2025 Copywriter article Neues Glas Magzine, exhibition Trop Plein @ MussVerre France - DE
• 2024 Exhibition design and execution together with Endrik de Jager, Living the Glass Age Biennale - Dutch Glass Biennale - NL
• 2024 Curator, Living the Glass Age - Dutch Glass Biennale - NL
• 2023 Guest curator, Rietveld Pavilion Amersfoort,Glas in Beeld - NL
• 2022 Exhibition organiser and curator, exhibition space De Kunstberg, Culture Centre Woudenberg - NL
• 2021 Guest curator, Anniversary Exhibition Association of Modern Glass @ National Glass Museum - NL
• 2020 Anniversary committee Association Friends of Modern Glass - NL
• 2017 Editorial Board member GLAS Magazine, Association Friends of Modern Glass, ongoing - NL
• 2016 Copywriter for Glas Magazine, Association Friends of Modern Glass, ongoing - NL

Other​

• 2023 Europaïsch Museum fur Modern Glas, Flamework Demo Weekend - DE
• 2022 Innovation Month Artist Talk, Contemporary Glass Society - UK
• 2021 Esti Kunstiakadeemia, studio assistant for Katya Isabel Filmus - EST 
• 2019 Head instructor glass program, until 2023, Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Nunspeet - NL
• 2019 Esti Kunstakadeemia, guest instructor and artist talk - EST
• 2018 International Lampwork Glass Art Event, artist talk - CHN
• 2018 International Lampwork Glass Art Event, demonstrating artist - PRC
• 2014 Europaïsch Museum fur Modern Glas, Flamework Demo Weekend - DE 
• 2013 Association Friends of Modern Glass, artist talk - NL​​