Laura de Santillana
Italian, 1955 – 2019
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BiographyLaura de Santillana, an internationally recognized artist, creates elegant sculptural forms in glass and other media such as bronze and marble. She was born in Venice, Italy where she spent much of her youth surrounded by glass in Venini, her family’s glassworks company. She joined the firm as a designer, producing iconic pieces such as Numeri (1975) and Quattro Stagioni (1976). Her work first appeared in the United States in 1979 as part of the traveling exhibition New Glass: A Worldwide Survey, organized by the Corning Museum of Glass. Since then, de Santillana has had numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her work is collected internationally and can be found at prestigious institutions such as the Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Corning Museum of Glass, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Victoria and Albert, London.