Joseph Cavalieri

Born in Pleasantville, New York

Currently lives & works in Vouleme, France  

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Joseph Cavalieri is an artist and educator working in glass. 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 Celsius), then soldered.

 

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. November 2024 Joseph moved from Manhattan to France.

 

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 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. Two more upcoming in 2026 in China and Italy.

 

His teaching credentials include over 100 workshops in the US, Israel, South America and Europe, including The Studios of the Corning Glass Museum, Penland and Pilchuck glass schools.

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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.

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Art Residencies

Joseph Cavalieri has been invited to and has attended: 

- Bethany Arts Community, New York (2024)

- Vanha Paukku in Lapua, Finland (2022) 

- GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA (2018)

- Sacatar Foundation in Bahia, Brazil (2011 and 2017)

- Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA (2014 and 2017)

- Uroboros Glass, Portland, OR (2016)

- The Studios of Key West, Florida (2012)  

- Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Monasterace, Italy (2012) 

- Museum of Arts and Design, NYC (2010)

- Sydney College for the Arts (2010)

- Sanskriti Kendra in Delhi, India (2010) 

- Australian National University, Australia (2010)

- Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (2010)

- North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland (2008)

 

Upcoming 2026 residencies in China and Italy.

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Invited and unable to attend:

- Vermont Studio Center (2017 and 2019)

- Penland School of Craft, Winter Residency, NC (2022)

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Solo Exhibitions (current)

- Columbus Glass Art Center, Columbus OH (Current since Aug 2024)

- The Lounge at Dixon Place, NYC (2013-14, 2018-21, 2023, current)

- East Gallery, LUX Art Center, Lincoln, NE (2025)

- 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) (Photo above)

- 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)

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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)

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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)

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Awards and Scholarships

- Lasater Drawing and Painting Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, NC 2021

- Abrons Arts Center and Henry Street Settlement Artist Community Relief Fund, NY 2020

- American Glass Guild Grant / James C. Whitney Scholarship 2012 / 2013 / 2023

- Community of Education Retreat at Penland School of Crafts, NC 2011

- 4th International Arte Laguna Prize, Venice Arsenale, Italy 2010

- Glass Arts Society Emerging Artist Award, Seattle WA 2008

- The Corning Museum of Glass: 25 years of New Glass Review, NY 2005

- The Corning Museum of Glass: New Glass Review, NY 2004

- Silvermine Guild Arts Center: Board of Trustees Award, New Canaan, CT  2002

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Selected Publications

- River Journal, NY 2024

- Daily Camera Newspaper, Bolder, CO 2022

- AZ Central Newspaper, Mesa, AZ 2022

- Lapuan Sanomat Newspaper, Lapua Finland 2022

- Longmont Leader 2021

- River Journal, New  York 2021

- Florida Weekly 2020

- East Villages Grieve 2019
- Queer PGH 2019

- The Blade Toledo, Ohio 2019

- City Paper Pittsburgh 2019

- TRIB live article 2019

- BCTV Interview 2018

- Philadelphia Gay News 2018

- BTCV.org 2018

- Philadelphia Gay News 2017

- Video by the Sacatar Foundation, Brazil 2017

- iBahia Media 2017

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Quotes

“We have a community of nuns, the Oblates of Jesus the Priest, who live on the 3rd floor of our building. They are from Mexico and are semi-contemplative, wear the habit and are pretty traditional. They do the cooking for us as part of their work to sustain their community. Anyhow they visited Joseph’s exhibit and the review is in- they loved it! Sr. Doris told me she really appreciated the connection of the traditional stained glass and the descriptions of the addictions. By the way all of us here deeply admire the sisters for their joy and deep spirituality. So it’s not the Times but it’s a great review none the less!" — Fr. Frank Sabatte, CSP, Director at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, NY, About Joseph’s “Deliver Us From Our Addictions” solo exhibition 

 

“One of my favorite pieces is this one here, with Isaac Hayes, this really great stained glass piece by Joseph Cavalieri, another New York artist, highlighting some thing Isaac is know for which is his car collections, and of course his iconic ‘Black Moses’ record album, that came about in the early 1970’s”-- Jeff Kollath, Executive Director of the STAX Museum in Memphis Tennessee. Live segment on WATN TV

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Critics’ Pick: “Cavalieri’s illuminated, painted-stained-glass images give a pseudoreligious treatmentto a wide variety of subjects”  -- Ethan La Croix, TIME OUT NEW YORK