Alex Gabriel Bernstein grew up in a creative environment with access to many of the artists of the
American studio glass movement. As the child of two established glass artists, William and
Katherine Bernstein (Billy is one of the founding members of the Glass Art Society), the beautiful
surroundings of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western North Carolina where they lived played
almost as much of a part in his inspired upbringing as did the breadth of teachers around him.
Alex studied psychology at the University of North Carolina in Asheville and worked at a
children’s psychiatric hospital before making the decision to purse his artistic endeavors full time.
He received a Master of Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for
American Crafts and went on to teach at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Cleveland
Institute of Art, the Penland School of Crafts and The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass.
Most recently Alex was the Department Head of Glass at the Worcester Center for Crafts in
Massachusetts but he made the decision to return to his Asheville hometown in 2007 to set up a
studio and focus on creating his own work full-time.
Bernstein has recently mounted solo shows at Chappell Gallery in NYC; Hooks Epstein Gallery in
Houston; Habatat Gallery in Royal Oak, Michigan; and the William Traver Gallery, Seattle. His
work is included in numerous collections, including those of the Corning Museum of Glass, the
Glasmuseum Frauenau in Germany, the Mellon Financial Corporation, the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Palm Springs Art Museum.
Education
2001 Masters of Fine Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, The School for American
Crafts, Rochester, NY.
1999 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
Concentration in glass blowing with David Levi.
1998 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
Concentration in glass blowing with Dimitri Mechealidis.
1996 BA, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Contemplative Reduction, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Progressions, Chappell Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Winterowd Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Small Work, Tom Riley Gallery, Cleveland, OH
New Work, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
Time Exposed, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Work, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC
2007 Alex Gabriel Bernstein, Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
New Work, Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Inside Out, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
A look back- five years at Chappell Gallery, Chappell Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Habatat Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2006 New Work, Thomas R. Riley Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2005 New Work, Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
New Work, Prism Contemporary Glass Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Work, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville NC
2004 Tactile Visions, Chappell Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Featured Artist, Tomas R. Riley Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2001 Stories and Observations, Bevier Gallery; Rochester, NY
Observations, The Hope Collection; Santa Fe, NM
Public Exhibitions
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, NY
Glassmuseum Frauenau. Frauenau, Germany
Burchfeild-Penny Arts Center, Museum of Western New York Art, Buffalo, NY
Wallace Memorial Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
The Dean of Liberal Arts Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Mellon Financial Corporation, Harrisburg, VA
Wachovia Financial Group, Greenville, SC
Deloitte & Touche, Boston, MA
Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highland , NC
Royal Caribbean, Oasis of the Seas
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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