Anna Riley is a researcher, teacher, glassmaker, and artist.
She is a PhD student in the History of Science at Harvard University.
annaelizabethriley@gmail.com
Fellowships / Awards / Exhibitions / Lectures / Academic Teaching Appointments
2025
Glass Art Society, Panelist with Nadania Idriss and Erin O’Connor on “Life of Glass: Pathways of Connection, Alteration, and Rupture,” Arlington, TX
2024
History of Science Society, Paper presentation on the panel “Craft Knowledge,” Mérida, Yucatán, MX
Corning Museum of Glass, 61st Annual Seminar on Glass, online presentation
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Adjunct Faculty, Advanced Glass Studio, Boston, MA
2023
Bard Graduate Center, Clive Wainwright Award for Outstanding Qualifying Paper, New York, NY
The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Collaborative Residency with Justin Ginsberg, Corning, NY
Art Bio Matters Symposium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and NYU Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY
2022
Bard Graduate Center, Research and Travel Grant, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology, Washington DC
2021
Center for Craft, Craft Research Fund Project Grant, Ashville, NC
Bard Graduate Center, Windgate Fellowship in Craft, New York, NY
Bard Graduate Center, Full tuition scholarship, New York, NY
MFA Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2020
extra/infra, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
University of California Berkeley, Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellow, Berkeley, CA
University of California Berkeley, Graduate Division Travel Grant, Berkeley, CA
University of California Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor, Data Arts, Berkeley, CA
2019
Let’s Try Listening Again, 13th A.I.R. Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
New Glass Now, the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Flat File 2019, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Into the Same Someplace, UrbanGlass Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Fund, Brooklyn, NY
Residency Unlimited, Dirt & Debt Residency, Brooklyn, NY
Rochester Institute of Technology, Glass Department Visiting Artist, Rochester, NY
UrbanGlass Education Symposium, Co-presenter with Justin Ginsberg, Brooklyn, NY
University of California Berkeley, Full tuition remission, Berkeley, CA
2018
(solo exhibition) The Softening of Stone, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Workspace Exhibition, Dieu Donne Papermill Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Alchemy, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY
Symbiotic Spheres, The Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ
UrbanGlass Residency, Brooklyn, NY
The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, David Whitehouse Artist in Residence for Research, Corning, NY
University of Wisconsin Madison, Glass Department Visiting Artist, Madison, WI
University of Texas Arlington, Emerging Artist in Residence, Arlington, TX
2017
Museum of Arts and Design, Artist in Residence, New York, NY
Dieu Donné Papermill Workspace Residency, Brooklyn, NY
The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Artist in Residence, Corning, NY
A Dark Wood, The Noyes Museum of Stockton University, NJ
2016
Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center, Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship, Millville, NJ
Wavepool Gallery, Artist in Residence with Samual Ihrig, Cincinnati, OH
A Product of Sand, exhibition with Samuel Ihrig, Wavepool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Thicket Residency, with Samuel Ihrig, Darien, GA
2014
Rhode Island School of Design, Glass Department Award for Achievement and Growth, Providence, RI
2011
Rhode Island School of Design, Elizabeth Jones Scholarship for Excellence in Foundation Studies, Providence, RI
2010
Rhode Island School of Design, Scholastic Scholarship, Providence, RI