Group Exhibitions
  2012 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI. "Recasting the Loving Cup: From Traditional Silver to Contemporary Media"
 
  2011 Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, “Contemporary Glass”
 
  2010 Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan, “Inspirations: 38th Annual International Glass Invitational” (exh. cat)
 
  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, “Studio Glass: Anna and Joe Mendel Collection” (exh. cat)
 
  2009 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, “Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection” (exh. cat)
 
  Galerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France, “Verriales 2009” (exh. cat.)
 
  Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, “Glass: Trends in Contemporary Glass Sculpture” (exh. cat)
 
  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Pioneers of Contemporary Glass: Highlights from the Barbara and Dennis DuBois Collection" (exh. cat.)
 
  2008 AS220, Providence, Rhode Island, "NetWorks 2008" (video)
 
  Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, "Art Detroit Now" (exh. brochure)
 
  LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York, "Rites of Spring"
 
  Palm Springs Art Museum, California, "Contemporary Glass".
 
  Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, "A Touch of Glass: Selections from the Racine Art Museum's Collection" (exh. brochure)
 
  Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, "Chihuly at RISD" (exh. cat)
 
  2007 Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. "A Gathering of Contemporary Glass: Artists from Haystack and Pilchuck" (exh. brochure)
 
  2006 Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, "Emergence: Early American Studio Glass & its influences: 1964 - 1989"
 
  Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan, "The 34th International Glass Invitational" (exh. cat.)
 
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, “Glass: Material Matters” (exh. cat.)
 
  2005 Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Providence, “Chazan’s Choice: Gifts of Contemporary Art to The RISD Museum” (exh. cat)
 
  2004 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania, “A Glass Triumvirate: The Art of William Morris, Henry L. Hillman, Jr., and Howard Ben Tré” (exh. cat.)
 
  2003 California State University, Fullerton, “Hot for Glass: Contemporary Glass From Los Angeles Collections” (exh. cat.)
 
  2002 Global Art Glass Triennial, Borgholm Castle, Sweden, “Global Art Glass 2002” (exh. cat.)
 
  Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan, “Howard Ben Tré: Works on Paper and Wendy MacGaw: Sculpture”
 
  2000 Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, “Living in the Moment: Contemporary Artists Celebrate Jewish Time” (exh. cat.)
 
  1999 Booth Contemporary Art, Wakefield, Rhode Island, “Form & Function: objects and drawings”
 
  Global Art Glass Triennial, Borgholm Castle, Sweden, “Global Art Glass 1999 Live” (exh. cat.)
 
  M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, “The Art of Craft: Works from the Saxe Collection” (exh. cat.)
 
  Purchase College/State University of New York, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, “Contemporary Classicism” (exh. cat.) (traveled to the Tampa Museum of Art)
 
  Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, “Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Permanent Collection”
 
  1998 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, “The Winter Show”
 
  Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, “Works on Paper”
 
  The Detroit Institute of Arts, “A Passion for Glass: The Aviva and Jack A. Robinson Studio Glass Collection” (exh. cat.)
 
  Gallery Shiraishi, Tokyo, “World Artist Tour” (exh. brochure) (traveled)
 
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Glass”
 
  University of California, San Diego, University Art Gallery, La Jolla, California, “VisAlchemical”
 
  1997 The Cleveland Museum of Art, “Glass Today” (exh. cat.)
 
  Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, “Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection” (exh. cat.)
 
  International Contemporary Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan, “The 5th International Contemporary Art Festival ‘97” (exh. cat.)
 
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “Glass Today by American Studio Artists” (exh. cat.)
 
  Tulane University, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, “Trial by Fire: Glass as a Sculptural Medium” (exh. cat.)
 
  1996 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, “Studio Glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” (exh. cat.)
 
  Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, “Minimalism”
 
  1995 Palo Alto Cultural Center, California, “Concept in Form: Artists’ Sketchbooks and Maquettes” (exh. brochure)
 
  The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, “Toledo Treasures” (exh. cat.)
 
  1993 J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, “The Art of Contemporary Glass”
 
  Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, “Tiffany to Ben Tré: A Century of Glass” (exh. cat.)
 
  The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, “Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection” (exh. cat.)
 
  Turbulence, New York, “Art and Application” (exh. cat.)
 
  1992 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, “Design Visions” (exh. cat.)
 
  Centro de Arte Vitro, Monterrey, Mexico with Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey and Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, “Cristalomancia, arte contemporaneo en vidrio/contemporary art in glass: (exh. cat.)
 
  The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, “Glass from Ancient Craft to Contemporary Art: 1962-1992 and Beyond” (exh. cat.) (traveled to Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas)
 
  National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, “Works on Paper: The Craft Artist as Draftsman”
 
  Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington, “Clearly Art, Pilchuck’s Glass Legacy” (exh. cat.) (traveled)
 
  1991 The Detroit Institute of Arts, “Studio Glass: Selections from the David Jacob Chodorkoff Collection”
 
  Espace Duchamp-Villon, Centre Saint-Sever, Rouen, France, “Exposition Internationale de Verre Contemporain” (exh. cat.)
 
  Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan, “World Glass Now ’91” (exh. cat.) (traveled throughout Japan)
 
  1990 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, “Glass Today: Memphis Collects Exhibition”
 
  1989 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, “Recent Acquisitions, 1986-88”
 
  1988 Art Awareness Gallery, Lexington, New York, “Civilized Life” (exh. brochure)
 
  The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, New York, “Columnar” (exh. cat.)
 
  The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, “The Eloquent Object” (exh. cat.) (traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; and other sites)
 
  Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Gallery, Staten Island, New York, “Seeing Glass”
 
  1987 Arizona State University, University Art Museum, Tempe, “3 + 3 x 7: Sculpture in Glass and Works on Paper” (exh. cat.)
 
  Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, “The Heroic Sublime”
 
  The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, “Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987”
 
  DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts and Brown University, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, “New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States” (exh. cat.) (traveled to Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine; The New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut; University of Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington)
 
  La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, “Faux Arts: Surface Illusions and Simulated Materials in Recent Art” (exh. cat.)
 
  Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, "Director's Choice"
 
  University of Michigan - Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, "Contemporary Glass from the Sosin Collection" (exh. cat)
 
  1986 American Craft Museum, New York, “Craft today: Poetry of the Physical” (exh. cat.) (traveled to Denver Art Museum; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia)
 
  Arts Festival of Atlanta, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia, “Thirty-Third Arts Festival of Atlanta” (exh. cat.)
 
  Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, “Sculptural Objects and Installations” (exh. cat.)
 
  California State University, Fullerton, Visual Arts Center, “Cast Glass Sculpture” (exh. cat.)
 
  Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, “Transparent Motives: Glass on a Large Scale” (exh. cat.) (traveled to Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana; Owens-Illinois Art Center, Toledo, Ohio; San Jose Museum of Art, California)
 
  The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, “Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection” (exh. cat.)
 
  The Saint Louis Art Museum, “Art of the ‘80s”
 
  1985 The Detroit Institute of Arts, “Detroit Collects”
 
  Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, Michigan and Habatat Galleries, Farmington Hills, Michigan, “Glass: State of the Art” (exh. cat.) (traveled to Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan; Midland Center for the Arts, Michigan)
 
  Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and Asahi Shimbun, Sapporo, Japan, “World Glass Now ‘85” (exh. cat.)
 
  Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, “44 Alumni” (exh. brochure)
 
  1984 The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, “Americans in Glass” (exh. cat.) (traveled throughout Europe)
 
  The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, “Hot Stuff”
 
  1983 Art in Embassies Program, US Embassy, Prague, Czechoslovakia, “Contemporary American Glass Sculpture” (exh. cat.)
 
  The Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio, “The Fine Art of Contemporary American Glass” (exh. cat.)
 
  Fine Arts Center of Tempe, Arizona, “Selected Works in Glass”
 
  Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island, “Ben Tré - Chihuly: Sculpture and Works on Paper” (exh. cat.)
 
  1982 Art Gallery of Western Australia and Australian Consolidated Industries Ltd., Perth, “International Directions in Glass Art” (exh. cat.)
 
  Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York, “Columns, Ornament, and Structure”
 
  The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, “Contemporary Art in Detroit Collections”
 
  Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and Asahi Shimbun Sapporo, Japan, “World Glass Now’ ‘82” (exh. cat.)
 
  Jesse Besser Museum and Habatat Galleries, Alpena, Michigan, “Glass Sculpture: 4 Artists, 4 Views” (exh. cat.)
 
  1981 Bowling Green State University, Ohio, “Emergence” (exh. cat.)
 
  Bundesgartenschau and Orangerie, Kassel, Germany, “Glaskunst ‘81”
 
  DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, “Glass Routes” (exh. cat.)
 
  Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia, “New American Glass: Focus West Virginia” (exh. cat.)
 
  1980 Galerie Skandinaviske Mobler, Frankfurt, Germany, “Ten American Artists”
 
  Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, "A Case for Boxes"
 
  1979 The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, “New Glass: A Worldwide Survey” (exh. cat.) (traveled to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France; Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan)
 
  University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, “The Pilchuck Show”
 
  1978 The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, “Americans in Glass” (traveled as “50 Americans”)
 
 
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