Richard Royal
Richard Royal, a native of the Northwest, is recognized internationally as one of the most skilled and talented glassblowers in the studio glass movement.
Royal began working as a glass sculptor in 1978 at the Pilchuck Glass School, located north of Seattle. After spending a number of years as a ceramist, the birth of a new artistic movement appealed to the young artist. Royal worked his way through the ranks to find himself as one of Dale Chihuly’s main gaffers. This relationship lasted for a number of years and consequently led to Royal’s emergence in the art market in the 1980’s. Royal has since been an independent artist exhibiting work internationally in both solo and group exhibitions.
Ben Bridge Jewelers, Seattle, WA
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
City Centre, Pilchuck Glass Collection, Seattle, WA
Daiichi Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle, WA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
IBM Collection, New York, NY
Mint Museum of Art & Crafts, Charlotte, NC
Monte Cristo Hotel, Everett, WA
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Price/Waterhouse, Phoenix, AZ
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Rigel Capital Managment, Seattle, WA
SAFECO Collection, Seattle, WA
Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle, WA
Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, WA
Seattle Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
US Bank Centre, Seattle, WA
US Embassy, Buenes Aires, Argentina
United Parcel Service Corporate Collection, Atlanta, GA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA
Washington Trust Bank, Spokane, WA
Westinghouse Corporation, Muskegon, MI
2010 Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 Marta Hewett Gallery, Cininnati, OH
2005 Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 Riley Hawk, Cleveland, OH
Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
Friesen Fine Art, Sun Valley, ID
1998 Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL
1997 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
Riley Hawk Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1996 Lyons/Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL
1994 Friesen Fine Art, Sun Valley, ID
Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Foster/White Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1993 LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Friesen Fine Art, Sun Valley, ID
Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Lyons/Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
1991 Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD
1989 Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD
1986 & ‘87 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1985 Richard Ian Green Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Tacoma Art Museum, Studio Art Glass, Tacoma, WA
2012 SOFA Chicago, The Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
City of Bellevue, Bellwether 2012: reGeneration, Bellevue, WA
2011 Traver Gallery, Pilchuck 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Tacoma, WA
Pittsburgh Glass Center, 10x10x10, Pittsburgh, PA
Nazareth College Arts Center, Glass Enchantment: Through the Looking Glass, Rochester, NY
2010 Palm Beach 3, with Ken Saunders Gallery, Palm Beach, FL SOFA Chicago, Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (con’t) pg 2/6
2010 Ken Saunders Gallery, Glass Envy, Chicago, IL
Bellevue Arts Museum, Eyes for Glass: The Price Collection, Bellevue, WA
2008 The Arts Center, Glorious Glass: Translucent & Opaque,St. Petersburg, FL
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
The Arts Center, Looking Through The Glass, Corvalis, OR
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
Butters Gallery, King Street Concentric, Portland, OR
SOFA Chicago, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
Palm Beach 3, with Marx Saunders Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2007 Racine Art Museum, A Toiuch of Glass: Selections from the Racine Art Museum’s Collection,
exhibition at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, WI
SOFA Chicago, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
William Traver Gallery, Annual Pilchuck Exhibition, Seattle, WA
The Arts Center, Behind Glass: Creativity and Collaboration, St. Petersburg, FL
2006 SOFA Chicago, Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Chicago, IL
William Traver Gallery, 3rd Annual World Glass Exhibit, Tacoma, WA
Kuivato Glass Gallery, Sedona, AR
Sea-Tac International Airport, Brillant: Celebrating Pilchuck Glass, Seattle, WA
2005 William Traver Gallery, 2nd Annual World Glass Exhibit, Tacoma, WA
Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH
D&A Fine Arts, Studio City, CA
Sea-Tac International Airport, Brillant: Celebrating Pilchuck Glass, Seattle, WA
2004 Palm Beach 3, R. Duane Reed Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Art Miami, R. Duane Reed Gallery, Miami, FL
William Traver Gallery, 1st Annual World Glass Exhibit, Tacoma, WA
SOFA Chicago, R. Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, IL
Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Baisden Gallery, Tampa, FL
2003 William Traver Gallery, Group Glass Exhibition, Seattle, WA
CEO Organization Annual Conference, Glass Exhibition, Seattle, WA
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Muskegon Museum of Art, Through the Generosity of Friends, Muskegon, MI
William Traver Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Seattle WA
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Instructor Exhibit, Seattle, WA
2001 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2000 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Gerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Holsten Galleries, Stockbridge, MA
Millenium Glass, Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY
1999 Bank of America Gallery, Outbound: Art at the Forefront of International Exchange, Seattle, WA
Habatat Gallery, 17 Annual Glass Invitational, Boca Raton, FL
Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, Masters of Contemporary Glass,San Francisco, CA
A.N. Bush Gallery, International Glass Masters Invitational,Salem, OR
1998 LewAllen Contemporary, Enduring Form, Santa Fe, NM
Gerald Melberg Gallery, Invitational, Charlston, SC
Coplan Gallery, Invitational, Boca Raton, FL
1997 Hsinchu Cultural Center International Glass Festival, Taiwan
Habatat Galleries’ 25th Annual International Glass Invitational, Pontiac, MI
1996 Friesen Gallery, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Sun Valley, ID
Gerald Melberg Gallery, Glass Invitational, Charlotte, NC
J. Gallery, Invitational Exhibition, Hong Kong
Archer Gallery, Glass Evolution,Clark College, Vancouver, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (con’t) pg 3/6
1996 Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Susan Duval, Glass Invitational, Aspen, CO
1995 Monte Cristo Hotel, Invitational Exhibition, Everett, WA
1995-2004 Sea-Tac International Airport, Celebrating Pilchuck Glass, Seattle, WA
Hall’s Corporation, American Art Glass, Kansas City, MO
Taipei International Glass Exhibition, Traveling throughout Taiwan
1994 The Gallery at Craft Alliance, Contemporary Glass: Process and Techniques, St. Louis, MO
Lyons/Matrix Gallery, Northwest Glass Invitational, Austin, TX
Sea-Tac International Airport, Pilchuck Invitational, Seattle, WA
1993 William Traver Gallery, Pilchuck Invitational, Seattle, WA
Susan Duval, Glass Invitational, Aspen, CO
Marx Saunders Gallery, Harmony in Glass, Chicago, IL
International Exhibition of Glass, Juried Show, Kanazawa, Japan
Glass Gallery, Out of the Fire, Bethesda, MD
1992-95 Clearly Art: Pilchuck’s Glass Legacy, Traveling to fourteen Museums, USA
1992 LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Works in Glass,Scottsdale, AZ
1991 Johnson County Community College, Chihuly, Scanga and Royal: Works in Glass,Overland Park, KS
1990-91 Sea-Tac International Airport, Pilchuck Glass Exhibition, Seattle, WA
1990 Seattle Center Pavilion, Art Work for AIDS, Juried Exhibition, Seattle, WA
1990 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Art in Form, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
C. Corcoran Gallery, Muskegon, MI
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle Plus, Seattle, WA
1989 Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
Banaker Gallery, Elegant Vessels, Walnut Creek, CA
Robert Kidd Gallery, Glass Invitational, Birmingham, MI
Judy Youens Gallery, International Glass Exhibition, Houston, TX
C. Corcoran Gallery, Glass 1989, Muskegon, MI
1988 American Embassy, Pilchuck Glass Show, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Kerns Art Center, Northwest Glass Exhibition, Corvalis, OR
C. Corcoran Gallery, National Glass Invitational 1988, Muskegon, MI
1987 Joanne Lyons Gallery, Glass and Clay, Aspen, CO
Foster/White Gallery, Visions in Glass, National Invitational Glass Exhibition, Seattle, WA
American Craft Council, American Crafts at the Armory, New York, NY
Helen Drutt Gallery, A Pilchuck Collaboration, Philadelphia, PA
1986 GH Dalsheimer Gallery, 1986 Glass Invitational, Baltimore, MD
Gump’s Gallery, Five Northwest Artists, San Francisco, CA
1978-93 Annual Pilchuck Glass School Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2012 Pilchuck: IDEAS, Museum of Northwest Art, Stanwood, WA
50 Years of Studio Glass, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Global + Local, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
2010 Inspired: The Corky Tuttle Glass Legacy, Muskegon Museum of Art, , Muskegon, MI
2007 Living Legacies: Homage to a Maestro, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Gathering of Contemporary Glass: Artists from Haystack & Pilchuck, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
2003 American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement, The William S. Fairfield Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI. Traveling to: Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI, The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA; Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA; Bertstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI; Heckscher
Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX; The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS (con’t) pg 4/6
2001 Lino Tagliapietra et Amici, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
2000 Founder’s Circle Collection, Mint Museum of Art and Crafts, Charlotte, NC
1999 Progressions in Glass, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach, VA
1997 Heir Apparent: Translating the Secrets of Venetian Glass, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1995-96 Northwest Glass: Part I & II, Northwest Museum of Art, La Conner, WA
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1994 Collective Brilliance: Contemporary Glass, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
Brunnier Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
1993 Nine Decades: Northern California Craft Movement, 1907-Present, College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Tuscan Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1992 Clearly Art: Pilchuck’s Glass Legacy, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham,WA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1991 Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA
Masterworks: Pacific NW Arts and Crafts Now, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1990 Pacific NW Arts and Crafts Festival, Juried Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue,WA
1988 Pilchuck School-The Northwest Glass Experiment, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1987 Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
Contemporary Glass 1987, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX
