VELVET DA VINCI SHOWS

CHESS -- Contemporary Chessmen by International Makers

Orfeo Quagliata -- New Work

COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE

Mexico

EDUCATION

California College of Arts and Crafts, BFA, dual major industrial design/ furniture design Graduated with high distinction, 1998

Apprenticed under Catalonian glass artist Joseph Fernandez Castrillo, 1990-91

University of Barcelona, Spain, Centra de Vidra, 1990-92

Began apprenticing at the age of 12 with father, Narcissus Quagliata, 1985-98

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

CHESS, Velvet da Vinci, The Vennel Gallery, Irvine, Scotland, The Gallery, Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire, Wales, 2003, The Crafts Council Shop, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, Thomas Mann I/O Gallery, 2004

Between the Lines, Vetri Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2001

On Line, Bullseye Connections Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2001

A New Wave in Glass, Baisden Gallery, Tampa, Florida, 2000

Form Follows, Group Show, UC Davis, 2000

The Line, How to Praise and Torment, James Irvine Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1999

4@3A Group Shows, 3A Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2000-present General director for Phuze, a division of Nouvel Studio

Designer, Nouvel Studio, a crystal company based in Mexico City, 1999-presentInstructor, California College of Arts and Crafts, "Three Dimensional Thinking", 1999-2001

Design assistant to Furniture Designer/Architect Christopher Deam, 1996-1999

Assistant to Narcissus Quagliata, during the creation of the "Santa Maria degli Angeli" project in Rome, Italy: a crystal dome for the last architectural work of Michael Angelo Bonarotti in the national church of Italy, 1996-1999