Selected highlights of exhibitions, collections, and research.
For the complete record, the full CV is available for download HERE.
EDUCATION
2011 MFA, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
2004 BA, American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
AT&T - The Foundry Corporate Collection, Dallas, TX
The City of Arlington, Public Artwork, Arlington, TX
The Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
Kunstpalast Museum, Helmut Hentrich Glass Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Arts, Millville, New Jersey
Pilchuck Glass School Print Collection, Seattle, WA
The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
The Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
The Toyama Institute of Glass, Toyama, Japan
The University of Texas at Arlington, Art + Art History Department, Arlington, TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Distance Between Touch, Momentum Intersection, The River Arts House, in partnership with The Toledo Museum of Art and The
Toledo Arts Council, Toledo, OH
2021-22 Sky Column: Shaking the Shadow, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Ft. Worth, TX
2018 Liquid, Rope, Coil, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Considerations and Ants, S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway
2016 What is Known is Unknown, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Light of Other Days, West TX A&M, Canyon, TX
2014 Décadence, Berlin Glas e.V., Berlin, Germany
2013 Mesophase, Ro2 Art: Downtown Project Space, Dallas, TX
2012 A Study of Motion and Gesture, PEEL Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 Glass Calligraphy, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
SOLO PERFORMANCES
2016 The Pursuit of Happiness, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2027 Common Things: Art and Objects in Public Life, American University Museum, Washington, D.C. Juried by Sarah E. Rogers Morris; PhD and Founding Director and Curator, of Crowstep Projects
2026 Portals and Passages, Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ
Curated by Jocelyn Prince; Professor – Rhode Island School of Design
2025 Craft Texas, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Juried by Abraham Thomas; Daniel Brodsky Curator of Modern Architecture, Design, and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2024 Conduit at 40: Forte, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 Texas Glass, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
Curated by Eric Hess; Artist and CEO/Artistic Director, Sanctuary Arts School
2017 Glass Video, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Juried by Charlotte Potter; Glass Studio Manager and Programming Director, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
2016 InLight, 1708 Gallery and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Juried by Alex Baker; Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art
2014 Taos International Biennial, David Anthony Fine Art, Taos, NM
Juried by Tina Oldknow; Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York
AWARDS & GRANTS
2026 Alexander Stiftung Tutsek, Project Funding, Munich, Germany
2022-24 Torres, C. (PI), Nguyen, P. V. (CoPI), Dolezal, B. P. (CoPI), Adnan, A. (CoPI), Payusova, Y. (CoPI), Ginsberg, J. E. (CoPI), Donjuan, C.
D. (CoPI), Eftekhari, F. (CoPI), "REU Site: Hybrid Design and Fabrication," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal,
Total Amount $402,181.25. (June 11, 2022 - May 31, 2024).
2021 Awardee, Faculty Supplemental Grant, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2019 Awardee, Faculty Supplemental Grant, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2017 Nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, NY, NY
2015 Dallas Observer, Masterminds Art Award, Dallas, TX
2014-2019 Nominated for the Irwin Borowsky Prize, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Award, “Best New Art Movement of 2013”, Dallas Observer, Dallas, TX
JURIED PUBLISHED EXHIBITIONS
(New Glass Review is an annual International publication surveying the top 100 works using glass)
2024 New Glass Review 44, published by the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Juried by Tami Landis - Curator of Postwar & Contemporary Glass, Corning Museum of Glass; Natalie Melton; Executive Director, Crafts Council London | Anna Mlasowsky — Artist, Educator, Curator | Alpesh Kantilal Patel; Art Historian, Curator, Critic
2023 New Glass Review 43, published by the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Juried by Davin Ebanks; Professor, Kent State University | Kim Harty; College for Creative Studies | Kimberly Thomas; Artist | Samantha De Tillio; Independent Curator
2016 New Glass Review 37, published by the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Juried by Geoff Isles; Artist | Silvia Levinson; Artist | Tina Oldknow; Senior Curator, Modern and Contemporary Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass | Charlotte Potter; Director of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Glass Studio
2015 New Glass Review 36, published by the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Juried by Beth Lipman; Artist | Tina Oldknow; Senior Curator, Modern and Contemporary Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass | Angus M. Powers; Chair of Sculpture, Area Head Glass, and Associate Professor of Glass, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University | Laura de Santillana; Artist/Designer
2014 New Glass Review 35, published by the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Juried by Paul Haigh; Principal, HAIGH Architects + Designers, Greenwich, Connecticut | Tina Oldknow; Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass | Caroline Prisse; Director, Van Tetterode Glass Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | James Yood; Director, New Arts Journalism M.A. Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013 New Glass Review 34, published by the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Juried by Hank Murta Adams; Artist and Glass Studio Creative Director, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Millville, New Jersey | Jeroen Maes; Artistic Coordinator and Curator, Glazen Huis, Lommel, Belgium | Tina Oldknow; Curator of Modern Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass | Jutta-Annette Page; Curator of Glass and Decorative Arts, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
2011 New Glass Review 32, published by the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Juried by Diane Charbonneau; Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Richard Harned; Director, Ohio State University Glass Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio | Mark Zirpel; Assistant Professor, Dale Chihuly Endowed Chair of Glass, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington | Tina Oldknow; Curator of Modern Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass
FELLOWSHIPS/ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2026 Artist in Residence, Berlin Glas, e.V., Berlin, Germany (June 9 – July 10)
2023 Artist in Residence, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (September 11-22)
Artist in Residence, Watermill Center, Watermill, NY (August 21-28)
Artist in Residence, Vespertine Press, Boulder, CO (June 28 – July 21)
2018 Fellowship, Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA (August 10 – 17)
2017 Artist in Residence, S12 Studio, Bergen, Norway (June 5 – August 8)
2016 Artist in Residence, Toyama Institute of Glass, Toyama, Japan (September 26 – October 3)
2015 Artist in Residence, Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA (December 9 – 16)
Fellowship, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ (June 3 – July 15)
Artist in Residence, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY (April 27 – May 31)
Artist in Residence, West Texas A & M, Canyon, TX (April 2-9)
2014 Fellowship, Berlin Glass e.V., Berlin, Germany (June 1 – July 15)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY / EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Vasquez, Christian, “North Texas Glass Artist Reveals the Beauty of What We Rarely See,” KERA, January 13, 2026, https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2026-01-13/north-texas-glass-artist-reveals-the-beauty-of-what-we-rarely-see
Vasquez, Christian, “Making the Invisible Visible with Artist Justin Ginsberg,” KERA Arts Docs, YouTube, 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKqqRiFLqfs
Tiffany, Kaitlyn, “A ‘Radical’ Approach to Reclaiming Your Attention”, The Atlantic, December 2, 2024
Heller, Nathan, “A Battle for Attention”, The New Yorker, April 29, 2024
Briggs, Robbie, “A Hologram of Jane Goodall and 30-foot Threads of Hot Glass”, The Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2022
Vora, Shivani, “Taking the Museum Experience Outdoors”, The New York Times, April 27, 2022
Hanson, Catherine, “Roundtable on COVID-19 and The Attention Economy”, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 21, 2020
Daniel, Diane, “Traver Gallery”, American Craft, August/September, 2018
Hughes, Valerie, “Justin Ginsberg Puts Glass Inquiries on Display in Traver Exhibit Opening February 1, Glass Quarterly, February 2018
Porter, Stella, “Justin Ginsberg Challenges Complacency in S12 Residency”, Glass Quarterly, August 2, 2017
PUBLISHED WRITINGS AS AN AUTHOR
“Refugee Status”, Glass: The Urban Glass Quarterly, Fall, 2024
“The Urgent Present”, Glass: The Urban Glass Quarterly, Summer, 2024
“The Twelve Theses of Attention”, co-contributor with members of ESTAR(SER), published by Princeton University Press, 2022
“A new glassblowing reality show asks artists to give up control of their image, and might present a warped perspective on the field”, Glass Quarterly, August, 2018, https://urbanglass.org/glass/detail/opinion-an-artist-worries-about-the-unreality-of-the- planned-glassblowing-television-competition-blown-away
“Subverting an Arbitrary Mandatory System of Rules”, Issues in Glass Pedagogy: Curriculum and Career, The Robert M. Minkoff Foundation Academic Symposium publication, Urban Glass, New York, NY, 2017
“Northern Outpost”, Glass : The Urban Glass Quarterly, Winter, 2017