Glen Kaufman Group Shows

“Objects: USA,” S.C. Johnson & Son, Collection of Contemporary Crafts; Opened National Collection of Fine Arts, 1969; Toured United States, 1969-71; Toured Europe, 1972-74
National Decorative Arts and Ceramics, Invitational Exhibition, Wichita Art Association, Kansas, 1970
“Crafts 1970,” Boston City Hall, 1970
“Art in Other Media,” Burpee Art Gallery, Rockford, Illinois, Museum Purchase 1970
“Fur and Feathers,” Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, 1971
“2nd Invitational Contemporary Crafts Show,” Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, New York, 1971
“Georgia Artists,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1971, 1972, 1974
“Group Show,” American Crafts Council Gallery, New York, 1972
“Fabrications” Galleries, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1972
“Fabrics Exhibition,” Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 1972
“Designer Craftsmen Today,” Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1972
“Modern American Textile Sculptures and Tapestries,” 1972-73: Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo Kunstindustrimusem, Trondheim, Norway; Ars Studeo, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Four Contemporary Craftsmen,” Lee Gallery, Clemson University, South Carolina, 1973
National Decorative Arts and Ceramics, Invitational Exhibition, Wichita Art Association, Kansas, 1973
“Pacesetters and Prototypes – Weavers and Fabrics,” Detroit Institute of Arts, 1973
“National Craft-Invitational Exhibition,” School of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 1973
“Contexture,” Invitational Exhibition, The Gallery, Fort Wayne Public Library, Indiana, 1974
“Invitational Craft Exhibition,” The Member’s Gallery, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1974
“Coastal Craftsmen ’74,” Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, Michigan, 1974
“Southeastern Invitational Crafts Exhibition,” Greenville County Museum, Greenville, South Carolina, 1974
“Fiber,” Invitational Exhibition, Viterbo College, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 1974
“lst International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles,” The British Craft Center, London, Exhibition toured 1974-75: Bellerive Museum, Zurich; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Laussane; Artweave Textile Gallery, New York
“Miniature World and Delicate Objects,” Fairtree Gallery, New York and galeria del sol, Santa Barbara, 1975
“US Invitational: Fiber,” The Arts and Science Center, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1975
“Emphasis Art ’76,” Miami University Crafts, Invitational Exhibition, Oxford, Ohio, 1975
“2nd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles,” The British Craft Center, London, Exhibition, toured 1976-78: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland; Museum Boymans-van Beunigen, Rotterdam; Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Holland; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne; Australia, September 1977 – March 1978
“Artists in the Southeast,” 1976-78: High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Greenville County Museum, South Carolina; Hunter Museum of Art, Tennessee; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
“Third Edition – Ltd.,” New England College, East Henniker, New Hampshire, 1977
“Invitational Textile Exhibition,” Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina, 1977
“Focus on Crafts: An Exhibition,” University of Minnesota, 1977
“Fibers National Invitational Exhibition,” 1977: Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina; East Carolina University, Greenville, South Carolina; Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia
“Feathers: Plain and Fancy,” Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, New York, 1977
“Effort: Effect,” The Signature Shop, Atlanta, Georgia, 1977
“American Crafts 1977,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1977
“3rd International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles,” The British Crafts Center, London, Exhibition toured 1978-82: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Decorative Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; Bouse Art Gallery, New Zealand; The Octagon Art Center, Ames, Iowa; San Diego State University, California; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia; Oregon School for Arts and Crafts, Portland; Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri; Ontario Arts Council, Canada; Cartwright Street Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Worcester Craft Center, Massachusetts; Monogalla Arts Center, Morgantown, West Virginia
“Fibers Southeast ’79,” Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 1979
“National Crafts Invitational,” Arts and Crafts Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1979
“Miniature Fiber Arts: A National Exhibition,” Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, toured 1979-80: Textile Museum, Washington, DC; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
“Southeast Craft Exhibition,” Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, 1980
“4th International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles,” The British Crafts Center, London, Toured 1980-83: South Glamorgan Institute, Cardiff, Wales; City Art Center, Edinburgh, Scotland; Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Holland; Provincial Museum, Antwerp, Belgium; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; Tour of Australia
“Midwest Constructed Fiber Exhibition,” Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 1980, Swen Parson Gallery, North Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, 1981 Lafayette Art Center, Lafayette, Indiana, 1981 University of Tennessee Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1981
“Textile Impressions” (three-person show), Visual Arts Gallery 200, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb Illinois, 1981
“Indigenous Crafts of Georgia,” (two-year traveling exhibition), Atlanta, Georgia, 1981
“Haystack Celebration,” Cooper Lynn Gallery, New York, 1981
“Georgia Crafts Professionals Exhibit”, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, 1982
“The New Plastics: Fiber in Today’s Technology,” Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, 1982
“Fibers National Invitational Exhibition 1982”, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, 1982
“Georgia Weaving,” Museum of Art and Science, Macon, Georgia, 1983
“100 Gloves,” Performing Arts Center Gallery, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida, 1983
“Wood and Fiber”, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 1983
“Cranbrook Today,” Robert L. Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 1983
“Legends in Fiber,” The Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa, 1986
“Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, “American Craft Museum, New York, 1986. Exhibition toured 1987-88 The Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Laguna Art Museum, California; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; The J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
“Gendai Kogei Annual Exhibition,” Tokyo, Japan, 1987
“Interlacing, the Elemental Fabric,” American Craft Museum, 1987
“Shibori Festival” Denki Kaikan Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, 1987
“World Textile Studio,” International Textile Fair, Kyoto, Japan, 1987
“Pioneers in Fiber: 1987 – 1990”
“Japan: Under the Influence” Gayle Wilson Gallery, Southampton, New York, 1988
The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, 1988
“Art as Craft” Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois, 1988
“Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans” (3 works) Tour sponsored by USIA; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, 1988; Ishikawa Industrial Center, Kanazawa, Japan, 1988; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 1988; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, 1988; Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea, 1988; The Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok, 1989; National Art Galleries, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1989; Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China, 1989; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines, 1990; Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong, 1990; National Art Galleries, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1990; National Art Gallery, Singapore, 1990;
“Threadworks: Miniature Textile Art” (4 works) Sponsored by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. SITES Gallery, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC, 1988-1989; C.I.G.N.A. Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, 1989; Bloomingdale Park District Museum, Bloomingdale, Illinois, 1989; Creative Arts Center, Sunnyvale, California, 1989; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan, 1989-1990; National Library, Mbabane, Swaziland, 1990; National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1990; Namibian Arts Association, Windhoek, Namibia, 1990; Makerere University Art Gallery, Kampala, Uganda, 1990; American Cultural Center, Kigali, Rwanda, 1991; National Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1991; National Library, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 1991; Natural History Museum, Port Louis, Mauritius, 1991
“Beyond Craft” Visual Arts Museum, The School of Visual Arts, New York, 1989
“Craft Today USA” (1 work) USIA Arts America Program. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1989; Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki, 1989; Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfort, 1990; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, 1990; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1990; Museum of Decorative and Folk Art, Moscow, 1990; State Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey, 1991; The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway, 1991; St. Peter’s Abbey, Ghent, Belgium, 1991; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany, 1991; Eommex Cultural Center – The Zappeion, Athens, Greece, 1991; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1992; The Grassi Museum, Liepzig, Germany, 1992; Sula Sant Jaume de la “La Caixia”, Barcelona, Spain, 1992; The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, 1993
“Artful Objects: Recent American Crafts” Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, 1989
“1st Textile Artists Exhibition,” Sembikiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
“Itami Craft Competition,” Itami Craft Center, Osaka, Japan, 1989, Silver Prize
“2nd Itami Craft Competition,” Itami Craft Center, Osaka, Japan, 1990
“From Tapestry to Vessel: Contemporary Fiber Art”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, 1990
“Works by Seven NEA Fellowship Winners,” The Farrell Collection, Washington, DC, 1991
“20th Anniversary Exhibition”, The Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1991
“In Our Hands An International Competition”, Nagoya Trade and Industry Center, Nagoya, Japan, 1991
“Selected Grant Recipients”, New Visions Gallery of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992
“Fiber Art – New Directions for the Nineties”, Manchester Institute for the Arts and Sciences, NH, 1992
“3rd International Textile Competition – Kyoto”, Museum of Kyoto, Japan, 1992
“American Craft: The Nation’s Collection”, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1992-93
“Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine”, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993
“Textile Miniature Work”, Gallery Watanabe, Fukushima and Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 1993
“Hard Edge/Soft Edge”, Atlanta Financial Center, Atlanta, 1993
“Diverse Directions”, The School of Art Faculty Exhibition, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, 1993
“Simply Fabric Design”, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1993
“American Craft: The Nations Collection”, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1993
“Crafts of the World” (30 Years Anniversary Exhibition), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 1993
“Textile Acquisitions, 1987-93”, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1993
“Textile Miniature Works Contemporary Art of Japan”, Kasteel Van de Landcommanderij, Alden Biesen, Belgium, 1993
“Beyond Function”, Brenau University Gallery, Gainesville, GA, 1993
“Dyeing Art Exhibition”, Museum of Kyoto, Japan, 1994
“West Meets East”, Asian Arts Center, Towson State University, Towson, MD, 1994
“Uncommon Threads”, Southern Bell Center, Atlanta, GA, 1994
“Pan Pacific International Fine Arts Exhibition”, Tokyo Fine Arts Theater Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1994
“Fiber: Five Decades/Selections from the Permanent Collection,” American Craft Museum, New York, 1995
Third “In Our Hands: Mixed Media, Small Scale and 3-Dimensional Works, An International Competition”, Nagoya Trade and Industry Center, Nagoya, Japan, 1995
“Textile Miniature Works Contemporary Art of Japan II”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1995
“Textile Miniature Works Contemporary Art of Japan II”, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada, 1995
“Textile Miniature Works Contemporary Art of Japan I”, Musée Marsil, Montreal, Canada, 1995
“Group Show”, The Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1995
“Crossed Threads”, Salem Art Association, Salem, Oregon, (3-person show), 1996
“SOFA” (Sculpture Objects and Functional Art), Navy Pier, Chicago. Represented by Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1996
“Textile Miniature Works – Contemporary Art of Japan”, (Tour of Australia), 1996; Craftwest Gallery, Crafts Council of Western Australia, Perth; Craft Vic Gallery, Crafts Council of Victoria, Melbourne; Craftspace, Crafts Council of New South Wales, Sydney; University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston
“Mini-Drawing Exhibition”, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1996
“Threads-Fiber Art in the 90’s”, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, 1997
“Reflections/Visions – Precious Metals in Textiles”, (a two-person show with Junco Sato Polack), Georgia State University, School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta, 1997
“The 10th Wave/Part II: Textiles and Fiber Wall Sculpture”, Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1997
“Fiberworks”, (a three-person show), Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1997
“School of Art Faculty Exhibition: Part I”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, 1997
“New Acquisitions”, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998
“Glen Kaufman and Hisako Sekijima Textiles and Sculptural Baskets”, Brown/Grotta Gallery, Wilton, Connecticut, 1998
“SOFA/New York 1998”, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, Represented by Brown/Grotta Gallery, 1998
“Contemporary Georgia Fiber: Five Perspectives”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, 1998
“Twentieth Century American and European Art”(permanent collection), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1998
“Contemporary Fiber Art” (a two person show with Edward Lambert) Gainesville College Art Gallery, Gainesville, Georgia, 1998
“Photo Synthesis: Photography as an Element in Contemporary Southern Art”, ArtWalk at Lenox Square, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998
“Converging Cultures”, The Center of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, 1999
“Handmade: Shifting Paradigms” Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 1999
“Lamar Dodd School of Art Celebrates 2000”, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, Georgia, 2000
“Meditations: Japanese Fiber Traditions Today”, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, Virginia, 2000
“Contemporary Trends in fiber arts”, Gray Gallery, School of art, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 2001
“UGA/Dong-A University Fiber Exchange Exhibition”, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, Georgia, 2001
“Prints by Georgia Artists”, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2001
“SOFA New York 2002 Expo”, browngrotta Arts, New York, New York, 2002
“browngrotta arts Group Show”, HBO Gallery, New York, New York, 2002
“Eloquent Threads: Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection”, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002
“Fiber Arts Today”, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002
“2002 Busan Textile Fashion Art Festival (Art to Design, Design to Art)”, Busan Exhibition and Convention Center, Busan, South Korea, 2002
“New Works for the New RAM: Acquisitions for RAM Inaugural Year, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, 2004-2005
“East Meets West: The Contemporary Asian Aesthetic in RAM’s Collection”, Racine Art Museum, WI, 2005-2006
“Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works”, Chicago Cultural Center, IL, 2006
“12^th International Triennial of Tapestry”, Lodz, Poland, 2007 (Selected as 1 of 5 Americans.)
“Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art” 2008 – 10; Atlanta History Center; Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft; Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; Pensacola Museum of Art, FL; Asheville Art Museum, NC; Sumter County Gallery of Art, SC; Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, AL; Louisiana Art & Science Museum; Hattiesburg Historic Train Depot, MS
“Seamless” (a four-person show), One Twelve Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2011
“Without Borders”, “Kaunakes GAO”, Craft Alliance, St Louis, 2012
“Without Boundaries: Transformations in American Craft”, Craft Alliance Delmar Loop Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2012
“Cross Sections” “Chronicle @ MoMAK 1963 – 2013”, 50^th Anniversary show, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, 2 works from permanent collection, Japan, 2013
“The Kyoto: Textile Miniatures”, GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2015
“Precious Metals: Shining Examples from RAM’s Collection”, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, 2016
“Crossing Generations: Past, Present & Future”, Oregon College of Arts and Craft, Portland, OR, 2017
“Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, 2018
“A Chronicle of Modern Crafts: Works from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Collection”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 2021
“2nd Collection Gallery Exhibition: The Crafts of Ornament and Apparel”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 2022-2023
“Acclaim! Work by Award-Winning International Artists”, BrownGrotta Arts, Wilton, CT, 2023
“Collection & Innovation”, Gallerie h2O, Kyoto, Japan, 2023
“Miniature Works – The Kyoto – Vol. 3”, Gallery NEUTRAL, Kyoto, Japan, 2024