Richard Meitner

Richard Meitner is an artist with decades of experience in both art practice and education. He has lectured and conducted workshops in the USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Malta, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Japan. He has been an invited artist-in-residence in many countries and has worked as a designer for the glass industry in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

Additionally, Meitner has served on the Dutch National Commission for Endowments for the Arts and the Dutch National Advisory Board for the Arts. Together with Mieke Groot, he was responsible for the Glass Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 to 2000. In 2006, he was appointed to the Faculty of Science and Technology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon), Portugal.

His major exhibitions include a retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of the Louvre in Paris, and solo shows at the National Museum for the History of Science and Medicine in Leiden, the Netherlands; the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, England; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; and the Corning Museum of Glass in the USA. Meitner’s work is included in the permanent collections of more than 60 museums in 16 countries.

In 2016, Meitner earned a PhD in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.