Ginny Ruffner

born Atlanta, Georgia, 1952

BiographyGinny Ruffner is an internationally known artist based in Seattle who works in a variety of media. Ruffner received her MFA from the University of Georgia in 1975. Her glass sculptures helped popularize the field of lamp-worked glass art worldwide and she went on to combine glass with other materials, particularly metals.

Ruffner has had over 40 solo shows and participated in several hundred group shows. Her work is in 42 permanent collections in museums around the world including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (New York, NY), the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo, Japan) and the Museum of Design & Contemporary Applied Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland). She also has executed a number of commissions for public artwork.

She was recently the subject of an award-winning documentary film, Ginny Ruffner: A Not So Still Life.

[sources: the artist's website and several museum websites, accessed October 2016]

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