CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO WITH HIS MODERN VISIONS IN STAINED GLASS.
“One of the really interesting things that Joseph does is tap into all of our associations with stained glass and
then flips them on end”. — Jennifer Scanlan, Associate Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design NYC / 2010
“Joseph Cavalieri’s Missing Episodes takes characters from the Simpsons and deposits them in stained glass mounted
in light boxes. The tension between Simpsons creator Matt Groening’s irreverent style and the sacred references in the
form of the stained glass is dark and achingly funny.” - Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe / 2013
CV & Exhibitions
Joseph Cavalieri
Born in Pleasantville, NY
Lives & works in New York City
Joseph Cavalieri is an artist and educator living in New York City working in glass and oil paintings. His painted, printed and air brushed stained glass techniques dates back to Medieval times but Joseph updates it by using modern day imagery. The glass work is kiln fired to a temperature of 1300 degrees Fahrenheit (700 Celcius), soldered then set into a wall hung LED light box.
His art career began as a graphic designer and art director working for more than twenty years in the publishing industry in New York City, at People, GQ and Good Housekeeping magazines. In 2000 he began a career as an artist and educator working in glass, and in 2019 began painting in oil.
His art can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, the Italian American Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.
His public art commissions include an MTA Arts for Transit public art installation in New York, and a six-foot-round stained glass window at Our Lady of Sorrow Church on the island of Itaparica, in Brazil.
He has attended fifteen art residencies in the US, South America, Israel, Europe, Australia and India, including the Open Studio Program at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.
His teaching credentials include over fifty workshops in the US, Israel, South America and Europe, including Corning Glass and Pilchuck Glass School.
He studied under Milton Glaser and Paula Scher at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and Kazumi Ikemoto, Klaus Moje, Judith Schaechter, Erica Rosenfeld, and Toby Upton at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn.
Solo Exhibitions
- LUX Art Center, Lincoln, NE
Upcoming in February 2025
- Columbus Glass Art Center,
Columbus OH (Aug 6-9, 2024)
- The Lounge at Dixon Place, NYC
(2013-14, 2018-21, 2023-current)
- THINK Coffee, New York NY (2023)
- Folsom Gallery, LUX Center for Arts,
Lincoln NE (2022)
- Mesa Arts Center in Arizona (2021-22)
- Zabar Project Gallery Studios of
Key West, FL (2020)
- Duncan McClellan Gallery, FL (2013, 2019)
- Ivy Brown, Chelsea, NYC (2017)
- Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY (2016)
- Axis Glass, Kennedy Galleries,
Columbus, OH (2016)
- Better Being 940, NYC (2014 and 2016)
- OUT Hotel, NYC (2015-16)
- Italian American Museum, NYC (2016)
- Agnes Varis Art Center, UrbanGlass,
NY (2015)
- The Church of St. Paul the Apostle,
NYC (2014)
- The Society of Arts and Crafts,
Boston, MA (2014)
- TS Art Projects, Berlin, Germany (2014)
- “VOICES X” Dubuque, IA (2014)
- Theater for the New City, NYC (2014)
- Elmo Restaurant Installation, NYC
(2012-13)
- SOFA representing UrbanGlass,
Chicago, IL, (2010)
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Atlantic Gallery, NYC
(2014, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 July 13-28)
- BobbleHaus, NYC (2023)
- MVA Gallery Bethlehem, PA (2023)
- Long Island Museum, NY (2021)
- NYU Tandon School of
Engineering, NYC (2021)
- Firehouse Art Center,
Longmont, Colorado (2021)
Public Art
- Floating Forest, Lapua, Finland (2022)
- Our Lady of Sorrow Church, Itaparica,
Brazil (2017)
- GoggleWorks Center for the Arts,
Reading, PA. (2018)
- Glass Axis, Columbus, Ohio (2017)
- Sanskriti Kendra Foundation, Delhi
India (2010)
- MTA Arts for Transit Commission at
Philipse Manor Station, NY (2010)
- Dixon Place Theatre, New York, NY
(Entrance art 2009)
- Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica Brazil (2011)
- Northlands Creative Glass, Scotland (2008)