Steve Tobin earned a degree in theoretical mathematics from Tulane University while simultaneously pursuing his interests in science and glass blowing. For more than 30 years, he has intertwined art and science in glass, clay, and bronze. From the 1970s through the early ’90s, he created ambitious sculptures and installations and exhibited extensively in museums and galleries worldwide. “I am interested in translating forces of nature into form,” Tobin has said.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Installations

1979
Sculptured Glass, Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, La.

1980
Glass Portraits, Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, La.
Glasscapes, Spring Street Enamels Gallery, New York

1982
Glass Sculpture, Gallery10, New York

1985
David Bernstein Gallery, Boston
Manhattan Bowls, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia

1986
Wheaton Ware, LaVaggi Gallery, New York
Glasscapes, Glass Gallery, New York

1987
Dream Glass, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Glass for Tea Ceremony, Tazawa Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1988
Steve Tobin: The Glass Garden, Moore College of Art and Design, Levy Gallery for the Arts, Philadelphia, catalogue

1989
Cocoons, Holsten Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida

1990
Cocoons, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, Texas
Steve Tobin, Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

1992
Steve Tobin, Transformations: Three Installations in Glass, Lehigh University,
Wilson and Hall Gallery, Bethlehem, Pa., catalogue
Habatat Gallery, Boca Raton, Fla.

1993
Steve Tobin at Retretti, Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju, Finland, catalogue

1994
Sanske Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Habatat Gallery, Boca Raton, Fla.

1995
Steve Tobin: Reconstructions, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus
College, Collegeville, Pa., catalogue
Steve Tobin: Reconstructions, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Ariz.

1996
Matzoh House, Gallery B.A.I., New York

1997
Broadway River, New York University, Broadway Windows, New York

1998
Earth Bronzes, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Mass., catalogue
Earth Bronzes, OK Harris, New York, catalogue
Earth Bronzes, artetindustrie Gallery, New York, catalogue

1999
Cocoons, Corning Museum of Glass, Sculpture Gallery, Corning, NY

2000
Earth Bronzes, American Museum of Natural History, NY
Earth Bronzes, Montefiore Park, West Harlem, NY,

2001
Earth Bronzes, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
Earth Bronze Trilogy–Part I, Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Vancouver, B.C., Canada,

2002
Tobin’s Naked Earth,George C. Page Museum, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles,
Tobin’s Naked Earth, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Lantern House, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Selected Bibliography

Baca, Judy. “APermanent Home.” Norristown (Penn.) Times Herald,
28 August 1995, sec. D, p. 1.
Barnes, Lisa Tremper. Steve Tobin: Reconstructions. Exh. cat. Collegeville, Pa.:
Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, 1995.
Bilau, Geoffrey. “Nature vs. Nurture.” Pasadena (Calif.) Star News, October 2002,
pp. 12–13.
Bird, Tim. “Glass Magician.” Finnair Blue Wings. June-July 1993, pp. 36–37 and cover.
Cash, Stephanie. “Public Sculpture.” Art in America Annual, 2001–2002, p.50.
Check, Erica. “Preserving a Bug’s Life.” Newsweek,6 November 2000, p.73.
Clark, Kathryn F. “Dramatic Vision.” Doylestown (Pa.) Intelligencer-Record,
23 December 1993, sec.C, p.1.
———. “Industrious Art.” Doylestown (Pa.) Intelligencer * Record, 25 July 1994,
sec. A, p.1.
Conlin, Michelle. “Sculptor Creates a Tribute to Victims of the Holocaust.”
Philadelphia Inquirer, 6 November 1994, sec.M, p. 1.
Cotter, Holland. “Glass Sculptors Whose Work Transcends Craft.” New York Times,
18 June 1993.
Crow, Kelly. “Not Quite Creatures from Outer Space.” New York Times, 19 November 2000, sec. B, p.1.
Csaszar, Tom. Review. Phillip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College,
Collegeville, Penn. Sculpture,January 1996, pp. 80–81.
Feldman, Kathryn. “No Glass Ceiling for Main Line’s Steve Tobin.” Ardmore (Pa.)
Main Line Life, 26 December 1996, p.8.
Fisher, Don. “Westward Mound.” Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call, 24 April 1998,
sec. B, p. 8.
Gehman, Geoff. “Resonant Legacy.” Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call, 2 March 1997,
sec.F, p. 1.
———. “Monuments to the Insect Gods.” Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call, 3 May
1998, sec. F, p.1.
Glueck, Grace. “Gladly Glassy-Eyed at the American Craft Museum.” New York
Observer,June 1993.
Goodale, Gloria. “The ROOTS of his ART.” Christian Science Monitor, 18
October 2002, p. 13.
Goodman, Jonathan. “Steve Tobin at Art et Industrie and O.K. Harris.” Art in
America, September 1998.
Gross, Richard. “AHouse of Glass.” Stained Glass Quarterly, summer 2002,
pp. 116–17.
Julian, Debbie. “Earth Bronzes.” Gallery Guide New York, June/July/August 1998,
p. 17 and cover.
King, Kelly. “The Natural.” Philadelphia Magazine, June 1999, p.25.
Koskinen, Ulla. “The Event Itself Is the Only Truth.” Exh. cat., Steve Tobin at
Retretti. Punkaharju, Finland: Retretti Art Centre, 1993.
Lawrence, Jenny. “Events in Nature.” Natural History, May 2001, p.16.
Levy Feldman, Kathryn. “The Material World of Steve Tobin.” Inside Magazine,
Spring 1997, p.47.
Naedele, Walter F. “Artist Sees Nature’s Secrets in Termite Hills.” Philadelphia
Inquirer, 1 May 1998.
Perreault, John. “Steve Tobin: Nature and Beyond.” Exh. cat., Earth Bronzes. Brockton, Mass.: Fuller Museum of Art; New York: OK Harris Gallery; New York: artetindustrie Gallery, 1998.
———. “Ideas and Theatre.” Ceramics Monthly, March 2001, pp.59–63 and cover.
———. “The Murano Mystique.” Glass 81, December 2000, pp. 28–35.
Porges, Maria. “Breaking the Rules of Glass.” ArtToday2, (1990), pp. 32–37.
———. “Glass Does Not Grow in the Forest.” American Craft Magazine,October/
November 1990, pp.32–39.
Princenthal, Nancy. “Glass Installations.” Exh. cat.New York: American Craft
Museum, 1993, p. 64.
Sherman, Mary. “Tobin’s Termite Hills Beg Us to Consider the World Anew.”
Boston Sunday Herald, 15 February 1998, sec. A, p.6.
Small, Michael. “Bronzed Beauties.” People Magazine, 29 June 1998, p. 65.
Smith, Roberta. “Creativity Overhead, Underfoot and Even in the Air.” New York
Times, 27 July, 2001, sec.E, p. 25.
Sozanski, Edward. “The Art of Nature.” Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, 14
November 2000, sec.F, p.1.
Stemle, Lisa A. “World of Water.” South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 29 April 1994,
sec. L., p.1.
Temin, Christine. “Making Mountains Out of Termite Hills.” Boston Globe, 31 January
1998, sec. F, p. 1.
Tobin, Steve. “When the Unreal Becomes Real,” Chronicle of Higher Education,13
November 1995, p. 76.
Torchia, Richard. “Steve Tobin: Glass and Environment.” Neues Glas, March 1989,
pp. 216–21 and cover.
Travis, Mary Anne. “Visual Philosopher.” Tulanian, Fall 2001, pp. 20–29.
Uslan, Rachel. “Termites and Roots, but It’s No Problem.” Los Angeles Times,
October 2002, p.64.
Vaudour, Catherine. “Le Verre.” Neues Glas, February 1992, p.65 and cover.
Warmus, Bill. “The Event Itself Is the Only Truth.” Sculpture, March 2001, pp. 30–37.
“World’s Largest Blown Glass Bottle,” Guinness Book of World Records.1995,
pp. 78–79.