Sean Salstrom

Sean Salstrom approaches making through action, object and performance and often seeks out the poetic through absurdity, temporality, instantaneity and perceptual phenomena. He has a keen interest in glass’ ability to collaborate with light and partakes in hand-grinding optical components for telescopes in pursuit of far-looking. He has held full-time academic posts at the Toyama City Institute of Glass Art (Japan), the Akita University of Art (Japan) and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
 
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, galleries and artist spaces such as The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, the Stevens Point Sculpture Park in Stevens Point, WI; the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, WA; the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY; the Nizayama Forest Art Museum in Nyuzen, Japan; Cocolaboratory Gallery in Akita City, Japan; and Nami Island Glass Gallery in Nami Island, South Korea. His work is in the collection of the city of Toyama, Japan; The Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Japan; the Akita University of Art; and numerous private collections. He has been a Smithsonian Artist Research Fund (SARF) nominee and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award nominee and has received the Irvin Borowsky Prize in Glass Juror’s Choice Award.