Artist

Josh Simpson

born New Haven, CT 1949
Born
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Active in
  • Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, United States
Nationalities
  • American
Biography

Josh Simpson first experimented with glass when he was a student at Hamilton College in 1970. Some of his one-man shows have taken place at the Lobmeyr Werkstatte, in Vienna, Austria; the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts; and the Galerie d'Amon, Paris. Simpson's work is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Royal Ontario Museum; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. He has taught at the Penland School of the Arts, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Aichi University, in Tokyo, Japan.

White House Collection of American Crafts exhibition (Washington D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1995)

Exhibitions

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Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
November 13, 2015March 6, 2022
Connections is the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world.