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1948 Born Whitehead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Nationality, British.
1965-1968 Apprenticed Linen Damask Designer, William Ewart and Son Ltd., Belfast.
1965-1968 Intensive drawing classes, Belfast College of Art.
1965-1968 Awarded, 1st, City and Guilds Certificate, Woven Textile Technology, Belfast College of Technology.
1968 Four months crewing with fishing trawler, Vestmannjar, Iceland.
1968-1969 Foundation Certificate in Art and Design from the Hornsey College of Art, London.
1969 Four-month student exchange to the United States of America, Drove from New York to Los Angeles.
Worked for May Co. Wilshire Boulevard. Drove from Los Angeles to Vancouver.
1969-1971 Diploma in Art and Design (Dip. AD) Sculpture and Drawing, The Waltham Forest School of Art, London.
1970 Season touring Norway with Circus Berny.
1971 Worked for Kastrup and Holmegaards Glassworks, Nestved, Denmark.
1971-1973 Master of Arts Degree, Royal College of Art, London.
1972 Awarded travelling scholarship to the Iittala Glassworks, Finland.
1973-1974 Living in the Greek Islands and Turkey.
1974 Set up studio, Phipp Street, London.
1975 Traveled through Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Rhodesia, Botswana, and South Africa.
Executed series of drawings for Piccadilly Gallery Exhibition, London (1976).
1974-1975 Lecturer at the Hornsey College of Art in drawing.
1976-1977 Lecturer at the Middlesex Polytechnic in the Foundation Department.
1977-1984 Visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.
1978 Living in Mustique, West Indies, Visited St. Vincent, Barbados, Granada, Martinique, Trinadad and Tobago.
1978 Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.
1980- 1984 Senior Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.
1980 First Class Passage on Cunard’s, Queen Elizabeth 2, Southhampton- New York.
Sculptural works for the Heller Gallery Show shipped in the hold.
1984 Set up studio, West 57th Street, New York.
1985 Set up studio and glass casting facility, Worship Street, London.
1991-1996 Visiting Professor of Fine Art, Chair of the Glass Program at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA.
1996 Tenured Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California.
2007 Taught Masterclass, North Lands Creative Glass, Quatre Bras, Lybster, Caithness, Scotland.
Present Nature First. Sarco Creek Farm. A Nature Preserve and Californian Native Plant Restoration Project. Napa, CA.
Professor of Fine Art and Chair of the Glass Program at the California College of the Arts. Oakland, California.
1974 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom.
1975 David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
1975 Asset Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
1976 Waterloo Place Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
1977 Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1977 David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
1979 Kunstzaal ‘De Hooge Hess’ Eersel, Holland.
1980 Heller Gallery, New York, USA.
1982 David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
1986 Octagon Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1986 Habatat Galleries, Miami, Florida, USA.
1986 David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
1986 Smith Goodrich Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
1987 Heller Gallery, New York, USA.
1988 Essener Glasgalerie, Essen, Germany.
1989 Piccadilly Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
1990 Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
1990 Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris, France.
1992 Habitat Galleries, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA.
1992 Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
1992 Habatat Galleries, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA.
1997 Homo Faber. Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
1998 A Survey of Major Works from 1988 to 1998. Habatat Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2000 Clifford Rainey: An Obsessive Image. A Series of Mono Casts. Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, Michigan, USA.
2001 Cycles of Life. Habatat Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2004 Conley Art Gallery, California State University, Fresno, California, USA.
2005 Glass Master; Technology-Old and New. Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California, USA.
2005 ‘Boyhood’ A Series of Mono Casts and Preparatory Drawings. Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
2006 Global Icons. Habatat Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2008 Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California, USA.
2008 Clifford Rainey, Retrospective. Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA.
2009 Masters of the Medium. Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
2013 In The Beginning Was Black. Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA, cat.
2013 Loss. Belfast Print Workshop Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2014 In The Beginning Was Black. Bullseye Resource Center, Emeryville, California, USA.
1973 Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1973 Patrick Reyntiens, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
1973 Woodstock Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
1973 Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland.
1973 Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1976 Irish Exhibition of Living Art. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
1977 Coburger Glasprels. Kungstsammlungen Der Veste, Coburg, Germany.
1977 Silver Jubilee Exhibition. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
1979 Galerie Des Tanneurs, Tours, France.
1980 Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
1981 New Glass, A World Survey. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
1981 First Bath Festival Contemporary Art Fair. Asset Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
1982 The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
1983 Contemporary Drawings. Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1983 British Artists in Glass. The Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1985 Pilchuck: Creative Fire. Washington State Capital Museum, Olympia, Washington, USA.
1986 Beelden in Glas. Fort Aperen, Asperen, Holland.
1986 Cast Glass Sculpture. California State University, Fullerton, California, USA.
1986 Light Values: Modern Architectural Glass. Crafts Council Touring Exhibition, London, United Kingdom.
1986 Contemporary Glass. Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
1986 British Exhibition. Vienna, Austria.
1987 Solsin Collection. University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan, USA.
1988 European Glass. Kent State University Art Gallery, Kent, Ohio, USA.
1989 Expressions en Verre 2. Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1990 New Glass in Europe. Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany.
1991 Exposition Art Contemporain Du Verre. Espace Duchamp-Villon, Normandy, France.
1991 Selections from the David Jacob Chodorkoff Collection. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
1992 Clearly Art. Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington, USA.
1992 Crocker Museum of Art. Sacramento, California, USA.
1992 Clifford Rainey with Selected Seniors from the Glass Program, California College of Arts and Crafts. Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
1992 Cristalomancia, Art Contemporaneo en Vidro. Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.
1992 Museo de Arts Contemporaneo. Monterrey, Mexico.
1992 Invitational. Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
1992 Glass: From Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art. The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, USA.
1992 Fine Art Museum of the South. Mobile, Alabama, USA.
1992 Sixteen Contemporary Sculptor/Printmakers. Oliver Art Center, Oakland, California, USA.
1993 Art Museum of South Texas. Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
1993 Scottsdale Center for the Arts. Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
1993 Saxe Collection. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
1993 The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
1993 Contemporary Glass from South Florida Collections. Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
1993 Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
1993 Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
1993 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA.
1993 Hybridization: Contemporary Northern California Craft 1975- Present. Oliver Art Center, Oakland, California, USA.
1993 Brunnier Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
1994 Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
1994 Large Scale Sculpture. Oakland Museum Court at City Center, Oakland, California, USA.
1994 Brunnier Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
1994 Wunderkammer. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
1994 Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan, USA.
1994 Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
1994 Sculpture and Drawing. Habatat Galleries Michigan, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA.
1994 Breaking Traditions, Contemporary Artists Who Use Glass. University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA.
1994 Newport Beach Museum, Newport Beach, California, USA.
1994 World Glass Now. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan.
1994 Form, Matter and Content. University of Art Gallery, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
1995 From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate: 16 Contemporary Sculptors/Printmakers. Larry Evans Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
1996 Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
1996 Menorah Exhibition. Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, USA.
1996 Larry Evans Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
1997 Calido – Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona, USA.
1997 Shoebox, Small Works. University of Hawaii Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
1997 Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
1998 Invitational. Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
1998 Invitational. Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, Michigan, USA.
1998 The Olive Grove Sculpture Garden at Auberge Du Soleil. Napa, California, USA.
1998 Calido. Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington, USA.
1998 The Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, USA.
1998 San Francisco International Art Exposition. Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
1998 S.O.F.A. Habatat Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1998 Glass UK Exhibition. National Glass Center, Sunderland, United Kingdom.
1998 Edinburgh City Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1999 The Art of Craft, Contemporary Works From the Saxe Collection. M.H de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, USA.
2000 Millennium Glass Exhibition, An International Survey. Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
2000 Making Change: 100 Artists Interpret the Tzedakah Box. The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, USA.
2000 International Studio Glass. Millennium Museum, Beijing, China.
2001 A Glass Odyssey. Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
2001 Gallery Artists. Larry Evans Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
2002 Sculpture First. Sculpture for Public Collections, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2002 Crossover. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA.
2002 Sphere. Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France.
2003 Visual Perspectives: 14 Years of the Virginia A. Groot Foundation. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2003 Warm/Hot/Cold. Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, California, USA.
2003 International Invitational, Habatat Galleries Florida, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
2003 Repetition. Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France.
2005 The Gorden Lambert Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
2005 Contemporary British Glass. Daniel Katz Gallery, London, England.
2005 Glass-Neu Erleden. Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Museum, Munich, Germany.
2005 Verriales 2005: Fear. Galerie International du Verre Biot, France.
2005 26 From The World of Glass. Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
2005 Contemporary Glass. San Francisco Airport Museum, San Francisco, California, USA.
2006 Glass: Material Matters. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2006 Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France.
2006 Das Gesicht-Verloren and Wieder Gefunden. Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Museum, Munich, Germany.
2007 Four Decades of Glass Graduates from the Royal College of Art 1967-2007. Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
2007 Dorothy and George Saxe Collection, M.H de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, USA.
2007 Contrast. Galerie Internatioale du Verre, Biot, France.
2007 3x3, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature, Napa, California, USA.
2007 Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis. Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
2007 The Nature of Things. Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
2008 Light, A Source of Life. Galerie International Du Verre, Biot, France.
2009 Voices of Contemporary Glass, The Heineman Collection. Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA.
2009 Positive – Negative. Galerie International Du Verre, Biot, France.
2009 The Kaplan and Ostergaard Collection, Palm Springs Museum, California, USA.
2010 Mendel Collection at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada.
2011 Amorphous Dreams. Micaëla Gallery+Projects/Bekris Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
2011 A Selection of Works from the Collection of Dan Klein and Alan J. Poole. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2011 Expressions. Habitat Gallery Invitational. Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.
2011 The Fragile Skin. Schack Art Center, Everett, Washington, USA.
2011 Another Self. Gordon Heuther Gallery, Napa, California, USA.
2012 Fusion [A New Century of Glass]. Oaklahoma City Museum of Art, Oaklahoma City, Oaklahoma, USA.
2012 Evolution/Revolution: 50 Years of American Studio Glass. The Patty and Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida, USA.
2012 Playing With Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement. The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA. cat.
2012 Playing With Fire: 50 Years of Comtemporary Glass. Museum of Art and Design, New York City, New York, USA.
2013 Chroma – Culture. Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA.
2013 Expressions in Contemporary Glass. ECHT Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2013 Dan Klein and Alan J. Poole Collection. National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom.
2014 Cast. Bullseye Resource Center New York, Mamaroneck, New York, USA.
2014 Facets of Modern and Contemporary Glass. Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
The Richard Sloan Collection. Tarzania, California, USA.
Collection Dr. Harold Weiss, Bloomfield, Illinois, USA.
Collection Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA.
2008 Title: Fragmented Shadow of Time.
The Kaplin - Ostergaard Foundation. Promised Gift, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA.
The Saxe Collection. Promised gift, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, USA.
Collection Stephen Fehler, Palm Desert, California, USA.
1977 Art in Ulster, M. Catto, pp. 48, 50 U., 114 F., illus.
1981 House and Garden, August, illus.
1982 The Sunday Times. Atticus. Going broke on success. 2 May. Stephan Pile.
1983 Crafts “Belfast 1981”, Nr 61:37, Nr/Ap, illus.
1984 The History of Glass, Dan Klein-Ward Llyod, pp. 270 illus.
1984 Sunday Telegraph Magazine. Nr 408, Aug19, PP 6-7, illus. Now Glass is the stuff a sculptor’s dreams are made on. Adrian Woodhouse.
1986 Studio International, “Integrating Glass and the Environment”, F. Carr, V. 199, Nr. 1014, September, pp. 26-31, illus. – Jeddah Monument.
1986 Los Angeles Times. Glass Society Shows its Mettle. Suzanne Muchnic, April 17, illus.
1986 Art News, “Culculainn Series 1986”, V. 85:48, D ’86 illus.
1987 Art News, “Spring After the Fire”, ’86 V. 129, N 87, illus.
1988 Arts Review, M.R. Beaumont, BD 40, Nr. 25, 12-28, pp. 895, illus.
1988 American Craft, “CuCulainn series: Deirg 2 1987”. V. 48-5, f/m/’88, illus.
1988 Zeitung fur Essen, “Skulpturen mit sprodem Kern”, N. 03/06, illus.
1988 Waz Samstag, “Kuhne Skulpturen von Clifford Rainey ind Bert Van Loo” Manfred Krause, Nr. 95, April, illus.
1989 Country Life, “At the Cutting Edge”, John Russel Taylor, BD. 183, Nr. 45, 11/89, pp. 80-81, illus.
1989 British Artists in the Glass Journal, “Clifford Rainey: The Savage Approach”, Nr. 1, sp. ’89, 24-28, illus.
1990 Alte Vitrie, “Clifford Rainey and Bretislav Novak, Lausanne Museum”, V. 3, Nr. 1, July ’90, pp. 31-32, illus.
1990 Neues Glas, “The White Bison Nr. 1”, Nr. 4:301, 1990, illus.
1991 American Craft, “Bright Red Stick, 1990”, V. 51:3, Feb/Mar ’91, illus.
1991 La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, Clifford Rainey-Toots Zinskey, Nr. 56 Jan/Feb ’91 pp. 55 illus.
1991 Glass (New York Experimental Workshop), Richard Kollath, Nr. 44, Summer ’91, pp. 3-13 illus.
1992 Detroit Art Quarterly, “Clifford Rainey: Art Documentations and Aesthetics Fundamentalism”, J. Gilbert, Vol. 10, Nr. 2-3, sum. ’92. pp. 3-13, illus.
1992 Glass; From Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art: 1962 – 1992 and beyond. The Morris Museum. Curated by Karen S. Chambers and Ferdinand Hampson. PP 60, illus.
2000 Glass Art From Urban Glass. Richard Wilfred Yelle, PP 206, 207, illus.
2004 Contemporary International Glass, V&A, Jennifer Hawkins Opie. PP 10. illus.
2005 Sculpture, Glass and American Museums. Martha Drexler Lynn. PP. 101, 184-185. illus.
2008 Napa Valley Register, Six Dimensions. Illus. Napa Valley Museum, May 14, C1, illus.
2011 Art and Antiques. November. Sculpture, Full Transparency. Dan Hofstadter.
1977 Coburger Glass Prize. Kungstsammlungen Der Veste, Coburg, Germany.
2000 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award.
2009 Outstanding Achievement award. Urban Glass, New York, USA.

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