BIO
Lucio Bubacco (1957) is a glass artist who trained and lives in Murano. Since the beginning of his career he has been working glass with the lampwork technique, drawing inspiration from mythology and the Commedia dell'Arte. He’s an artist who has revolutionized the centuries-old technique of lampwork by arriving at astonishing results that have made him one of the most important and internationally established artists.
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Glasmuseum Frauenau, Frauenau, Germany
Image Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Atelier du Verre, Sars-Poteries, France
Nagoya Museum, Nagoya, Japan
University of Michigan-Dearborn Department of Art Collections and Exhibitions - Stamelos Gallery Center
Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
Niijima Art Center Museum, Niijimamura, Tokyo, Japan
Museo del Vetro, Murano, Venezia, Italy
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA
Venetian Glass Art Museum, Otaru, Japan
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, USA
J. & L. Lobmeyr Museum Collection, Vienna, Austria
Collection Litvak, Tel Aviv, Israel
Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, Millville, USA
Tampa Museum, Tampa, USA
Collection Margot and Roman Fuchs, Vienna, Austria
Collection Sir Elton John, London, GB
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Veste Coburg Art Collections, Coburg, Germany
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Salem Community College, Glass Education Center, Salem, New Jersey, USA
The National Museum Toys and Miniatures, Kansas City, USA
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, USA
MAIN EXHIBITIONS
2024, The Art of Craftsmanship. A Project by Venetian Masters, Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2023, Solo museum exhibition, Palazzo Ferrero, Biella, Italy
2023, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
2023, International Biennale of Glass, Bulgaria
2023, Doppia Firma, Palazzo Litta, Milano, Italy
2022, Eterna Fornace, Caffè Florian, Venezia, Italy
2021, VITREA. Il vetro italiano contemporaneo d’autore, Quadreria di Triennale Milano, Milano, Italy
2021, Lucio Bubacco. Venezia 1600 : il tempo e la mitologia, Spazio Filatelia Venezia - Poste Italiane, Venice, Italy
2019 Visions of Murano, group exhibition, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2019, Materia Eterna, group exhibition, Palazzetto Tito, Venezia, Italy
2018, Homo Faber, Venezia, Italy
2017, Venezia Carnevale - Projection, Casinò di Venezia, Palazzo Vendramin, Venice, Italy
2017, Il mondo in una perla - Museo del Vetro di Murano, Italy, December 2017
2016, Villa dei Vescovi - Padova, Italy, April 2016
2015, La lavorazione a lume nel XXI secolo - Palazzo da Mula Murano, Italy, April
2015, Denizli International Glass Biennal, II-III - Conference and exhibition, Turkey
2014, Trip to Ploutonion, Gate of Hades - Antique theatre Hierapolis, Turkey, August 2014
2013, Giardini di Vetro, Villa Carlotta, Como, Italy
2000, Baisden Gallerie - Tampa, Florida, USA, December 2000
2000, Habatat Galleries - Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 2000
2000, Habatat Galleries - Pontiac, Michigan, USA, April, 2000
2000, Museo del Vidrio - Monterrey, Mexico, April 2000
1999, Scuola Grande dei Carmini - Nativity, Venice, Italy, December 1999
1997, Habatat Galleries - Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 1997
1996, Habatat Galleries - Boca Raton, Florida, USA, April 1996
1996, Habatat Galleries - Recent works, Pontiac, Michigan, USA, May 1996
1994, The Roy Miles Gallery - A Return to Beauty, London, GB, 1994
1994, Venetian Glass Art Museum - Carnevale di Bubacco, Otaru, Japan, November 1994
1994, Casa Mazzucchelli - Light of Romance, London, GB, June 1994
1993, Habatat Galleries — Venetian Boudoir, Aspen, Colorado, USA, December 1993
1993, Habatat Galleries — Boca Raton, Florida, USA, April 1993
1992, Muriel Karasik Gallery - Southampton, New York, USA, October 1992
1992, Venetian Glass Art Museum - Otaru, Japan, September 1992
1992, Habatat Galleries — Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA, September 1992
1990, Muriel Karasik Gallery — New York, New York, USA, April 1990
1990, Venetian Glass Art Museum - Otaru, Japan, March 1990
1990, San Marco Gallery — Tokyo. Japan, November 1989