Bio
Lahaie has a degree in glass sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and a BA in Fine Art from Emmanuel College, Boston, MA. Her sculptural work is in the permanent collections of the Crocker Art Museum (CA), Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Collection (NY), the DiRosa Collection (CA), and the Glassmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark). In addition, she has been an artist in residence at the Kala Art Institute (CA) and had three honorary fellowships at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (CA).
She is the 2015 national award winner of the LuciteLux Just Imagine award for her Art in Public Places commission Crossing Signal Mosaic in Emeryville, CA. She lives and works at the 45th Artist Cooperative in Emeryville, CA.
She is the 2015 national award winner of the LuciteLux Just Imagine award for her Art in Public Places commission Crossing Signal Mosaic in Emeryville, CA. She lives and works at the 45th Artist Cooperative in Emeryville, CA.
Statement
Lahaie uses a combination of sunlight, LED lighting, drawings, and glass as a reflective and transmissive canvas. Her work cultivates an intimate relationship with light and rhythm within an architectural setting.
References to the natural world can be absorbed quietly without the noise of technology and in turn, quietly transmit the solace of transmitted light.
References to the natural world can be absorbed quietly without the noise of technology and in turn, quietly transmit the solace of transmitted light.
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EDUCATION
1986 B.F.A. – Glass Sculpture, MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART, Boston, MA
1980 BA – Fine Art, Cum Laude, Distinction in Art – EMMANUEL COLLEGE, Boston, MA
1979 Junior Year Abroad – RICHMOND COLLEGE, London, England
AWARDS / VISITING ARTIST
2023 Playa Art & Science Residency, Summer Lake, OR
2022/23 Visual Arts Grant, City of Emeryville, CA, Exterior Lightbird sun reflections on a 200’w x 30’h architectural sky canvas
2017 Featured Artist, International Glass Exhibition, Sebastopol Art Center,
Sebastopol, CA
2015 LuciteLux JUST IMAGINE – National Design Award for “Crossing Signal Mosaic”
2013 Tyler School of Art Resident Artist, Glass Dept. Philadelphia, PA
2010 Djerassi Resident Artist Program Honorary Fellowship, Woodside, CA
2008 Djerassi Resident Artist Program Honorary Fellowship, Woodside, CA
2006 Djerassi Resident Artist Program Honorary Fellowship, Woodside, CA
California State University, Visiting Artist, Sculpture Dept., Sacramento, CA
City of Emeryville-Purchase Award 1st Place, Emeryville, CA
2004 International Kinetic Sculpture Competition
2003 Encoding Altruism: SETI Workshop, Paris, France
EYAP Grant, Solar Mural Project, Emery High School, Emeryville, CA
2002 Fellowship Award, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
2000 Merit Award, High Touch/High Tech, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
1999 Premier Visiting Artist Award, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1992 Silver Award Winner, Kristallnacht Competition – Artists Confronting the Inconceivable
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS and PUBLIC ART
2019 Fuller Craft Museum Acquisition, Brockton, MA
2015 Crossing Signal Mosaic – Emeryville, CA Art in Public Places, LED Art and Technology Project: Parc on Powell, Emeryville, CA.
2013 Glassmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark – “Forgotten Ocean”, Video Projection through architectural glass, 10’ h x 18’ l x 10’d
2012 Crocker Art Museum – acquisition of “Quiet Two Departure:” – A wall installation glass wings with shadows activated by the movement of sunlight through the museum windows
2009 Olive 8-Hyatt Hotel, Seattle, WA, Permanent Sculptural Installation
2009 TMG Partners, 650 Townsend Street Lobby, SF, CA, Permanent Installation
2006 Emeryville City Hall, Purchase Prize City of Emeryville, CA
2005 Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY
2004 di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2000 65th Street Development, Emeryville, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Vargas Art Gallery, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
2009 Longing for the Background, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2009 Sensorial Literacy, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Verge, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Breathing Lessons, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Making A Wake, Somarts Gallery, S.F., CA
1999 Pollinations, Gallery 371, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1997 Markers: Kinetic Sculpture Installation, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Markers of the Invisible Contours, Open Arts Circle Gallery, Oakland, CA
1986 Bundling, University of Vermont Art Gallery, Burlington, VT
Light Works, Lillian Immig Gallery, Boston, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Multiverse, George Lawson Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Kinetics: Art in Motion, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
2018 Kinetic Energy, Museum of Neon Art, Glendale, CA
2017 International Glass Exhibition, Featured Artist, Sebastopol Art Center, Sebastopol, CA
2015 Shattered: Defying Expectations in Glass, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2014 Glass Today: 21st-Century Innovations, New Britain Art Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2013 Machine Muse, Lois Lambert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ocean, Glassmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark – Traveled, Kastrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 Her Elegant Universe, Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2011 Glass Canvas, Glazen Huis Museum, Lommel, Belgium
75th Anniversary Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Outlandish, Bedford Regional Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
2010 H2O, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
Cynosure, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Just Add Water, Solana Beach, CA
Adelante, Eileen Braziel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Ephemeral, Heller Gallery, NY, NY
2009 Altered States, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Technopia, Skyline College Gallery, San Bruno, CA
Vetri//Alt,The Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University, Norfolk,VA
2008 New Directions Winston Wachter Gallery Seattle WA
Ginny Ruffner and Therese Lahaie, Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Places Between– Diablo Valley College Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
Glass Concepts, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Balancing Perspectives, Arts and Consciousness Gallery, JFK University, Berkeley, CA
Bicoastal Love, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2007 Area, Blurring The Lines, University Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Shattering Glass: New Perspectives, Katonah Museum, Katona, NY
DuoPolis, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
2006 2 Feet Up, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
This Is Glass, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Global View, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Lucid, Contemporary Quarterly Project Space
2005 Cafesjian Art Trust Museum, Roseville, MN
2003 The Invisible Thread, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
Fresh!, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Bay Area Currents, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Orange, !hey! Gallery, Oakland, CA
2001 6 -35 Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2000 High Touch/ High Tech, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Disparities II, Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1999 Quality of Light, Museum of Art, McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA
1998 Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Art & Digital Technology, Santa Clara County Fair, Santa Clara, CA
1997 Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Calido, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ – Traveled: Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Finding the Fulcrum, Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
For, By and With Women, Morgan @Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1996 Glass Linking Art & Science, M.I.T., Compton Gallery, Cambridge, MA
A Case for Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Glass, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1995 The Art of Light and Glass, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Anonymous Arrangements, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1994 New Images, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
Glass, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
World of Maps, Anchorage Museum of Art and History, Anchorage, AK
Artist’s Shedding Light on Science, San Francisco State Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Wunderkammer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
North by Northeast II, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Truth in Glass, Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1993 The Living Room Show, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Filler, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
Blue Sky Thinking, Opts Events Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Interactive Sculpture Performance
Light Escapes, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Known and the New, Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Art and Physics: Ylem Exhibition, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1992 “Mapping,” Open Arts Circle: Oakland, CA, Dance Co. Collaboration, 4th Annual B.C. Glass Exhibition, Hong Kong Bank, Vancouver, BC
Mass Art Glass Show, Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, MA Therese Lahaie
Art and the Cosmos, YLEM Exhibition, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
California Design 92, Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
New Views, Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ, “Featured Artist
L x H x W, Main Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1991 National Glass Invitational, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
7Th Annual Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
West Coast Glass Show, California Craft Museum, San Francisco, CA
1990 Bay Area Glass, Soco Gallery, Napa, CA
National Glass Invitational, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1989 Buoy Woman, York Street Studios, S.F., CA, Glass installation
Glass Fashion Show, Art Zone, Toronto, Canada
National Glass Exhibition, University Art Gallery, San Bernadino, CA
1987 Bay Currents, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS
Crossing Signal Mosaic featured in Architectural Record Magazine, December 2015
Baker, Ken, Reviews: Sensorial Literacy, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco Chronicle, February, 2009
Genocchio, Benjamin, Reviews: Shattering Glass, Katonah Museum of Art, The New York Times, Dec, 2007
Spicer, Jakki, Reviews: Duopolis, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, East Bay Express, Dec. 2007
Barclay Morgan, Ann, Reviews: The Invisible Thread, Newhouse Center
for Art, Sculpture Magazine, September, 2004
Mc Elroy, Joseph: Reviews: The Invisible Thread, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Shambhala Sun, March, 2004
Baker, Ken: Making A Wake, Somar Gallery, San Francisco Chronicle , Feb.2001
Uhlin, Craig: Disparities II, Arizona Daily Wildcat, November 1999
Chambers, Karen: Glass America 1997, Review, p. 24-25, January 1997
Rinaldo, Ken, Article: “Integrated Hemispheres: Women Art and Technology”.
Leonardo, vol. 30, no. 1, p. 4 -5, Color and B & W reproductions, April 1997
Calido: Tucson Museum of Art, Calido Exhibition Catalog, 1997
American Craft, featured PORTFOLIO, p. 64, color reproduction, June-July,1997
Lahaie, Therese, Lecture, “Emerging and Diverging Artists Using Glass in the Bay Area,” published in Glass Art Society Journal, 1994
Marsden, Guy, “Motion Sensor Applications for Artworks,” Marquette, p. 18, Dec, 1994
Sherman, Ann Elliott:”Glass Act, “San Jose Metro Guide, p. 49, Oct, 20-26, 1994
Glowen, Ron: Wunderkammer, Glass, Spring/ Summer 1994
Regan, Margaret:”New Views,” The Tucson Weekly p. 26, Feb. 19-25, 1992
PUBLIC LECTURES
2022 CODAsummit, Artist Showcase Speaker, Denver, CO
2021 Artist Showcase, CODAsummit, Scottsdale, AZ
2019 Kinetics: Art in Motion, Artist discussion with curator, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
2017 International Glass Exhibition, Featured Artist, Sebastopol Art Center, Sebastopol, CA
2015 L.A.S.E.R. Leonardo Art & Science Rendezvous, Sa – Permeability and the Icons that Govern Our Movement
2013 Visiting Artist – Tyler School of Art, Glass Dept. Philadelphia, CA
2012 Best of LASER, Swissnex, SF, CA
2011 Leonardo Art and Science Lecturer, Longing for the Background, SF, CA
2010 Living Glass History, Video Interview, Corning Museum, Alberta College of Art. Canada
California College of the Arts – Instructor – Glass Dept.
2008 Meet the Artist, Artist Lecture, Corning Museum, Corning, NY
2007 “Verge,” California College of the Arts
1999 “How I Learned to Breath,” Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada
“How I Learned to Breath” 20th Yuma Symposium, Yuma, AZ
1995 “Navigating with Walt the Solar Subversive,” Tuesday Artists Series, San Jose State University
“Navigating with Walt the Solar Subversive”, Exploratorium, SF, CA
“Navigating with Walt the Solar Subversive”, 20th Anniversary, Summervail Symposium, Colorado Mountain College, Vail, CO
1994 “Emerging Artist Using Glass in the Bay Area” GAS Conference,Oakland, CA
“Artists Lecture Series “, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Oakland,CA
Artists in “GLASS” exhibition, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1991 “3 Dimensional Drawing with Glass,” Urban Glass, NY, NY
1986 Traveling Lecturer, “American Glass Programs,” Tama University, Tokyo, Japan