About the Artist

"The uses of glass are as limitless as the artists inventivness"

Henry Halem has been a pioneering glass artist since 1968. He earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, his MFA from George Washington University, and pursued post-graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin. In 1969, he founded the glass program at Kent State University, where he taught for 29 years until retiring in 1998. Since then, he has devoted his time to his studio practice—and to refining his golf game.

Halem was a co-founder and the first president of the Glass Art Society. In 2008, he received the organization’s esteemed Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual conference in Portland, Oregon. A Fellow of the American Crafts Council, he was also honored with the Ohio Governor’s Award for the Arts in 1994 and the President’s Medal for Outstanding Achievement from Kent State University in 1998.

His work has been widely exhibited across the United States, Europe, and Japan, and is included in major public and private collections worldwide. Permanent collections featuring his art include the Cleveland Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution and the Smithsonian Institution Renwick Gallery, Detroit Institute of Art, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, as well as the Hokkaido and Niijima Glass Museums in Japan and the Museum of Decorative Arts in the Czech Republic.

My work is included in the collections of the following museums.