RESUME
Born: Providence, RI
Education:
1991 BA, Anthropology
Franklin Pierce University, NH
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/PUBLIC ART
Present
Sculptor, Owner/Operator Scavo Studios
2024-2025
Design and fabrication of Large Scale “Lander” Sculpture, Miami, FL
2022-2024
Design and fabrication of two Public Sculptures – Octopus and Heron
Bellevue 555 Project Vulcan, Bellevue, WA
2024
Artist Residency, Starworks – Lecturer/ Demonstrator, Star, NC
2019
Lecturer/ Demonstrator
Ausglass/New Zealand Glass Conference, Whanganui, NZ
2017
Featured Artist, Glass Weekend Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ
2016
Visiting Artist, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
2015
Created “Champion for Global Health Award” sculptural honor presented to Paul Allen
Visiting Artist, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
2013
Presenter, Demonstrator: Glass Boston, Boston MA
2012
Designer, Venetian Collaboration Project, Davide Salvadore and Shelley Muzylowski Allen, Venice, Italy
2009 – 2013
Glass Art Society, Board of Directors, Member
2008 May/August
Assistant Artistic Program Director, Pilchuck Glass School
2007
Scholarship Juror, Glass Art Society
1995 – 2007
Primary team; Finisher/Engraver, William Morris Sculpture Team
1995 – 2002
Coordinator, Pilchuck Glass School
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018-2019
Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2015
“Out There”, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014
“New Work” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2013
“Seeker” Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2012
“Launch” SOFA Chicago/Blue Rain Gallery, Chicago,IL
2011
“Adrift” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010
“Incortex” Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009
“Transience” Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2007-2008
“Innersphere: Sculptural Works of Rik Allen”, Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame November 16, 2007 – April 28, 2008, Seattle, WA
2007
“Innersphere” Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006
Thomas Riley Galleries, Cleveland,OH
2003
“Vestiges of Galactic Craft” Vetri Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001
R. Duane Reed Galleries, St.Louis, MS
1998, 2000
Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Art + Flight” The Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA
2020
“Fluid Formations” Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2018
“Symbiotic Spheres”, Museum of American Glass, Milleville, NJ
“Animalia” Allen Family Focus Gallery, Anacortes, WA
“Turner On” South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
2017
40th Anniversary Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016
“Metalmorphosis” Bellevue Art Museum, Biannual Juried Metals sculpture exhibition
“Turned On” Sculptural Lighting exhibition; Pittsburgh Glass Center
“Collector’s choice: Selections from the Habatat Gallery International Invitational” Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
“Warping the Bubble” Collaboration w/Lanny Bergner, Smith and Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA
2015
Invitational, Glass Weekend, Schantz Gallery
2014
Harwood Museum of Art, ”ORALE!”, Taos, NM
Napua Gallery, Glass sculpture Group show, Maui, HI
Blue Rain Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2013
Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
“The Art of Glass” Lanoue Fine Art, Boston, MA
Thomas R. Riley Galleries at Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ
Schantz Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
2012
“Yesterday’s Tomorrow”, Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner WA
“50 Year International Invitational”, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI
2010
Fertile Ground, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2009
Inspired by, Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Weird Science, Flame Run Gallery, Louisville, KY
SOFA NY, New York, NY
2005 – 2012
SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007
Palm Beach 3, West Palm Beach, FL
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2006
Palm Beach 3, West Palm Beach, FL
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2005
Thomas Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH
2003
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Looking North from Pilchuck, Camano Island, WA
2002
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Goldesberry Gallery, Houston, TX
Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2001
Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
Gallerie Dorita, Atlanta, GA
2000
Baisden Gallery, Tampa, FL
SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL
R. Duane Reed Galleries, St. Louis/Chicago
Gallerie Dorita, Atlanta, GA
1999
R. Duane Reed Galleries, Chicago / St. Louis
Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
Gallerie Dorita, Atlanta, GA
Gallerie Alegria, Birmingham, AL
Arts of Utah Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
1998
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
Pilchuck Staff Exhibit, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Poncho Juried Auction, Seattle,WA
Vetri International Glass, Seattle, WA
1996
Jewish Federation Menorah Show, Seattle, WA
History of the World Gallery, Camano Island, WA
AWARDS
Grand Artist of the Future Award, Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
American Craft Magazine Dec/Jan 2016/2017 ,“Rocket Man”, Feature cover story 2016
NASA Webpost
2013
Josslin, Victoria, “Review: Group Exhibition,” The Urban Glass Quarterly, Fall, Issue 132, p. 56
DeCagna, Gina, “Rik Allen’s Futuristic ‘Seeker’ Museum Exhibition,” The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet, June
Zoellner, Andrew, “The Outer Limits,” American Craft magazine, June
2012
Cheek, Lawrence W., “Rik Allen’s Rockets,” Western Art & Architecture, October/November, p. 150
2011
New Glass Review 33, Reviewed, and Significant Accusations; The Corning Museum of Glass Annual
Gutierrez, Jason, “Rik Allen boldly goes where no Glass Artist has gone before,” Glass, The Urban Glass Quarterly, Fall, pp. 12-13
“Adrift,” American Art Collector, October, p. 156
Jackson, Devon, “To Infinity and Beyond,” Santa Fean, Fall
2010
Carver, Jon; “Rik Allen,” THE magazine, Critical reflections, p. 53
Borgwardt, Michelle, “Incortex,” American Art Collector, Fall
Dewalt, Robert,” Space Modulator,” Pasa Tiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican, October
2009
Josslin, Victoria, “Morris Code,” Glass, The Urban Glass Quarterly
Davison, Dave, “Emerging artists reveal their inspirations at Traver Gallery,” Tacoma Weekly, May
2008
Simon, William, “Dreams Lift off at the Science Fiction Museum,” Launch Magazine, May
Hackett, Regina, “Innersphere: Sculptural Works by Rik Allen,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 25
Glowen, Ron, “Innersphere: Sculptural Works by Rik Allen,” American Craft Magazine, March/April
Wagoneer, Shawn; “Innersphere, Sculptural Works by Rik Allen,” Art Glass Magazine, March, pp. 64-68
Cass, Robin, “Innersphere; Sculptural Works by Rik Allen,” Critical Issues, Glass Art Society News, March
2007
Goffredo, Theresa, “Blast off into a world of space imagination,” The Herald, Everett, WA
Lintereur, Josh. “Space Sculptures-the Voyages of an Artist,” Skagit Valley Herald, November 22
2006
500 Glass Objects, p. 384, Lark Publishing
2005
“Team Effort,” Artisan Northwest Magazine, Spring Issue, p. 24
2002
Carol Duvall Show, HGTV, Aired May 23: “Marriage in Glass,” Interviewed/filmed working in glass studio
2001
American Craft Magazine, June/July, Portfolios Section, p. 76
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2016
Tianyuan Glass Art Festival, Demonstrator, Symposium participant, Tianyuan, China
Chrysler Museum Visiting Artist
2015
“Champion for Global Health Award”sculptural award made to honor and present to Paul Allen (major contribution to the fight against Ebola)
2014
Instructor; Sculpture in Glass; Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA
Demonstrator; Glass Art Society Conference, Chicago, Il
Instructor- Nuutajårvi Glass School, Nuutajårven Lasikylå, Finland
2009, 2012
Instructor – Sculpture, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2008
Instructor – Glass, Penland Craft Center, Penland, NC
2007
Instructor – Sculpture Techniques, Toyama Institute of Glass, Toyama, Japan
2006
Instructor – Sculpture Techniques, International Glass Festival, Stourbridge, England
Instructor – Surface + Sculpture, Pittsburgh Center for Glass, Pittsburgh, PA
2006, 2011
Instructor – Surface + Sculpture, Pittsburgh Center for Glass, Pittsburgh, PA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
SpaceX, Los Angeles, CA
Imagine Museum, St Petersburg, Fl
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Eugene Roddenberry, Los Angeles, CA
Spark Museum of Electrical Invention, Bellingham, WA
Blue Origin Aerospace, Kent, WA
Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
Boeing World Headquarters, Chicago, IL
Toyama Institute of Glass, Toyama, Japan
Amazon, Seattle, WA