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Dante Marioni

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Born 1964 in Mill Valley, California. Dante Marioni is a glass artist in Seattle, Washington. A second generation glass artist, in 1979 his family moved from California to Seattle where he soon took an after-school job as an apprentice at the Glass Eye studio in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. He quickly immersed himself in Seattle’s glass community; spending his formative years working with seminal glass artists like Benjamin Moore, Lino Tagliapietra, and Richard Marquis. In 1987, at the age of 23, Marioni won a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award, had his first sell-out solo exhibition and began to rapidly establish himself as one of the leading figures in the field of contemporary glass. In addition to an extensive international exhibition record, his work can be found in the collections institutions like the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, the Japanese National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. 

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