
Deborah Czeresko
Deborah Czeresko is a New York City-based artist and designer, best known for her work with glass. Her work references food, art history, gender, and her experiences as a queer artist. After receiving her MFA from Tulane University in 1992, she first started working with glass at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop, now known as Urban Glass. In 2019, Czeresko captivated viewers as the winner of the inaugural season of Netflix's Blown Away. As a glass artist, Czeresko creates work that challenges societal norms and speaks on queer issues. Her work references the traditions of Venetian glassblowing while also adding contemporary discussions on feminism and gender politics.Czeresko has most notably been shown in the Corning Museum of Glass and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Resume
Education
1990-1992 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA MFA Studio Art
1979-1983 Rutger’s University, New Brunswick, N.J. BA, Psychology
Membership
2008-2019 Board of Directors, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
Television and Media
2022 Blown Away, Guest Judge
2021 Blown Away, Guest Judge
2021 Halston, Guest Feature 2020 Buddy vs. Christmas, Featured Contestant
2019 Blown Away, winner of TV’s first reality program for glassblowing
Awards & scholarships
2020 Urban Glass Brooklyn, NY Residency
2020 (postponed) Wheaton Arts Millville, NJ Residency
2018 College of Creative Studies Detroit, MI Residency
2020, 2018, 2016 Tyler School of Art Philadelphia, PA Residency
2014 Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center Millville, NJ Fellowship
2012 Museum of Glass Tacoma, WA Residency
Permanent collections
Toledo Museum, Toledo, Ohio
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Museum of American Glass, Millville, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Frauenau Glasmuseum, Frauenau, West Germany
Press
Dec 2019 Time Magazine online Best new TV characters of 2019
July 2019 Los Angeles Times print & online Unlikely Star of Blown Away
Sept 2019 Hyper Allergic online The World of Glass Proves Less Fragile
June 2019 Icon Magazine print & online craft and the Art of Making
May 2019 Architectural Digest online 9 Contemporary Glass Artists
May 2019 Artsy online 10 Innovative Glass Artists
Selected Exhibitions
2020 Heller Gallery New York, NY Meat Chains
2019 Heller Gallery New York, NY Queer Voices
2019 Corning Museum of Glass Corning, NY Blown Away Display
2019 Corning Museum of Glass Corning, NY New Glass Now
2018 Habatat Gallery Royal Oak, MI StreetKraft
2018 Rockland Center for the Arts Rockland, NY How Shall We Dine
2015 UGent, Rommelaere Instituut, Gent, Belgium Post Mortem
2015 Museum of American Glass Millville, NJ Creativity Ascertained
2013 Museum of American Glass Millville, NJ Art of the Fellowship
2011 Hudson Beach Glass Philadelphia, PA Shoefitti
2010 Glasphemy by Macro Sea Brooklyn, NY The Fabritory
2010 Louisville Glassworks Louisville, KY Shoefitti & Ibeam
2010 Urban Glass, Armory Arts Week Brooklyn, NY Armory Show
2007 Middlebury College Museum of Art Middlebury, VT Art Now
2006 Corridor Gallery Reykjavik, Iceland Transparency
Performances
2019 Urban Glass Brooklyn, NY Fall Fund Raiser
2017 Urban Glass Brooklyn, NY Women Up!
2016 Urban Glass Brooklyn, NY The...
2015 Urban Glass Brooklyn, NY Fabrication Collective
2014 Disembodied Voices at Brooklyn Glass Brooklyn, NY Glass Medea
2011-2014 Chrysler Museum of Glass Norfolk, VA World’s Largest
2012 Armory Arts Week, Brooklyn Glass Brooklyn, NY Performance as Medium
Visiting Artist
2020 Corning Museum of Glass Zoom
2020 Urban Glass Zoom 2020 College of Creative Studies Zoom
2019 Corning Museum of Glass Corning, NY
2019 Sheridan College Ontario, CA
2018 College of Creative Studies Detroit, MI
2018 Tyler School of Art Philadelphia, PA
2015 2018 Brooklyn Glass Brooklyn, NY 2017 Gent Glass Gent, Belgium
2015-2017 Urban Glass Brooklyn, NY Teaching Experience
2019 Urban Glass Don’t Blow It, Intro to Solid Sculpture
2017 Brooklyn Glass Special Projects
2016 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA The Maestro Series: Professional apprenticeship in academia
2015 LUCA School of Art, Gent, Belgium Chandelier Project: Exploring art, design and function
2013 LUCA School of Art, Ghent, Belgium Blowing and Turning a Still Life: clay and glass still life
2013 LUCA School of Art, Ghent, Belgium Material-ize; A collective approach to a glass- centric assemblage
2011-12 IKA Glass, Mechelen, Belgium Intro to Venetian Glassblowing Techniques
2008 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, City of Your Dreams
2007 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA City of Your Dreams
2004-6 Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY Hot Glass & Critical Thinking
Performance Groups
World’s Largest Glass
The Fabritory at Glassphemy
The Burnt Asphalt Family
The B Team
Art Commissions
Thad Hayes Inc. NYC, FORM Architecture NYC, Carter LaRoche Interiors, Bainbridge Island, WA, Alan
Wanzenberg Architect PC, NYC, Matthew Bialecki Associates, New Paltz, New York, Jeffrey Beers Int.
NYC, The Wiseman Group, San Francisco CA, Diana Kellogg Architect NYC, Selldorf Architects NYC
Christine VanDeusen Interior Designs NYC