Jocelyne Prince

currently on sabbatical

Jocelyne Prince is an artist working with the material and conceptual properties of glass. Her process explores how actions can be recorded through matter (most often, molten glass or light). Transparency, optical phenomena and projection are key tools that translate her poetic and haptic gestures into performative events or objects that highlight ephemeral occurrences.

A significant part of her practice is site-specific Live Event projects. These performance-based works involve collaborations with musicians Laura Cetelia, Ai Isshiki, Sarah Hennies, Chris Gross, Jung Jae-ho and Laura Potter as well as a Butoh dancer and some professional riggers. These events have been realized at various international studios/institutions—KArts (Seoul, Korea), S12 (Bergen, Norway), Gent Glas (Belgium), Nijiima (Japan), TIGA (Toyama, Japan), Vrij Glass (Netherlands), ArtLab (Rejmyre, Sweden), ACAD/Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary, Alberta)—and US-based institutions Urban Glass, The Studio at Corning, Chrysler Museum, Tacoma Museum and MIT Glass Lab. Recent site-specific installation-based works have been on view at Brown University’s Ladd Observatory and Hay Library and the Redwood Athenaeum in Newport, RI. Prince’s works are in the collections of the American Museum of Glass, the Corning Glass Museum and the Tacoma Glass Museum.

Prince has an experimental and hands-on practice where research is manifested in both the hot glass studio and the glass factory. This past year she has been working with an industrial rolled glass process at Wissmach Glass in West Virginia. During her upcoming Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in the Czechia (Tomas Bata University), she intends to continue her glass factory explorations in combination with her research in light and optics. Other notable fellowships and awards include the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship and RISD’s Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching.