EDUCATION
1985 Master of Design, Royal College of Art, London
1981 Bachelor of Arts (Honors), Ulster University, Belfast School of Art, (formerly Ulster Polytechnic), Northern Ireland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Flute”, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
2024 “Hedgerow”, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
2023 “Field”, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
2023 “Toile”, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
2022 “Double”, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
2022 “Lineage”, 1700 S Santa Fe, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Brae”, Digital Presentation, studio installation, Los Angeles
“Unearth”, Digital Exhibition, installation Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
2020 “Reflections”, Digital Exhibition, Estudio Persona, Los Angeles
2018 “The Shape of Cloth”, Craft in America, Los Angeles
2017 “Intent & Serendipity”, Google L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2003 “The Knotted and the Stitched”, Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1996 “Have a Seat: the Köln Project”, Galerie Andrea Leenarts, Cologne, Germany 1994 “Coat of Arms Collection”, Galerie Valerie, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Terra”, Two Faced Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 “Artist Residency”, House of Honey, Montecito, CA
2023 “It’s About Time”, Brand Library & Art Gallery, Glendale, CA 2023 “Kunsthalle B”, Bulthaup, Los Angeles, CA
2023 “Creatures of Sense”, Carvalho Park Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 “Connective Threads”, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
2022 “Cosmic Trace”, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
2022 “A Loom of One’s Own”, Oona House, The Hamptons, NY
2022 “Inspiration & Home: Highlights from the Episodes”, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Inaugural exhibition, UNREPD, Los Angeles
2019 “With a Little Help from my Friends”, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 “Fall Forward: An Exploration of Language and Light”, Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles
2019 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Art Aspen, Aspen, CO
2019 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Market Art and Design, The Hamptons, NY
2019 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco
2019 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, LA Art Show, Los Angeles
2018 “London Calling”, Musée de la civilization, Québec, Canada
2018 “Mono | Mano”, SCAPE Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA
2017 Galen Lowe Gallery, San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show, San Francisco
2017 “Material As Metaphor”, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “Harbinger”, Fresh Paint Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 “Gentle & Cruel”, Gallery 310, Los Angeles, CA
2015/16 “Crafted: The Fine Art of Furniture”, National Museums Northern Ireland, Belfast, UK
2015 “California Handmade: State of the Arts”, Craft in America & The Maloof Foundation, Alta Loma, CA
2015 “Cloth & Clay: New Work by Mary Little and Stephanie Chiacos”, Design Matters Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Reynolds Fine Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012 “Instructions Not Included”, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
2007 “Private Pleasures: Collecting Contemporary Textile Art”, Textile Museum, D.C. 2005 “Anderson Ranch Art Exhibition”, Anderson Ranch Art Center, CO
2004 “Go West!” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2004 “Yuten: Fusion Project”, Gensler Architectural Office, San Francisco, CA
2004 “Form Follows Function”, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO “California Design
2004”, Design Center, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Bay Area Furniture Art”, Blue Room Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “Functional Fine Art”, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “Early Spring Show”, Pritam & Eames Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2001 “East to West”, Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
2001 “Furniture Focus”, Contemporary Applied Art, London, UK
2000/03 “Home Sweet Home”, British Council, International Tour
1999/00 “Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 1999: Furniture”, Crafts Council, London and touring 1999 “A Grand Design”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
1998 “Spirit of the Times”, Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
“London: Form and Function”, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York
1997/98 “Objects of Our Time”, cur. Martina Margetts, American Crafts Council, New York 1997 “Contemporary Decorative Arts”, cur. Janice Blackburn, Sotheby’s, London, UK
1996 “Design Im Wandel”, cur. Alessandro Mendini, Übersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany 1995 “Inaugural”, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1995 “Furniture Today, it’s Craft & Design”, cur. Peter Dormer, Crafts Council, London, UK
1995 “Cross-over-2”, Galerie Andrea Leenarts, Cologne, Germany
1994 “3 Ways, New Directions in Furniture”, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1990 “Wood – Mary Little & Anthony Byrant”, WG Gallery, London, UK
1988 “The Modern Chair”, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
1988 “Luci”, a Memphis Collection, Milan, Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Bunker Artspace, The Collection of Beth DeWoody, West Palm Beach, FL Cedars-Sinai Art and Healing Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
Musée des Arts Décoritifs, France
Fonds national d’art Contemporian, France Vitra Design Museum, Switzerland
Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland, UK Manchester City Art Galleries and Museums, UK
Public Art Commissions
2024 Design Within Reach, Ballylagan Collection, USA
2022 1 Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Hotel Marcel, New Haven, CT
Beaudry, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Tributary Hotel, McMinnville, OR
2020 AC Hotel by Marriott, Washington D.C.
2019 The Rogers Foundation, Las Vegas, NV
2018 The Fess Parker, Hilton Resort, Santa Barbara, CA
196 Orchard, New York, NY
2017 Hotel Figueroa, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point, CA
656 Broome SoHo, architect Renzo Piano, NY
2016 Atelier Luxury Apartments, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Tyrebagger Sculpture Trust, Scotland, UK
1997 Leicester City Challenge, UK
London Filmmakers Co-Operative, UK
1996 Northumberland County Council, UK
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
AWARDS + GRANTS
2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, US
2007 The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, US. Good Design Award
2007 Interior Design: Design magazine, US. Best of Year, Merit Award
1999 Jerwood Applied Arts Prize
1999: Furniture, UK. Shortlist
1993 Harold Hyam Wingate Trust, UK
1992 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust, UK
1992 Crafts Council, UK Media
2023 Double: Body as Source, DUE WEST Episode 4, Consulate General of Ireland, Los Angeles, March 8 youtube.com/watch?v=01Q0t4Sa0NU&t=338s
2022 Inspiration, Craft in America Series, PBS publication, December - youtube.com/watch?v=txhhDcPJaDA Catalogues/Publications
2015 “California Handmade: State of the Arts”, Craft in America & The Maloof Foundation, CA
2000 “Home Sweet Home”, British Council, UK
1999 “Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 1999: Furniture”, Crafts Council, UK
1997 “Objects of Our Time”, Martina Margetts, Crafts Council, UK
1996 “Design Im Wandel”, Alessandro Mendini, Übersee-Museum, Germany
1995 “Furniture Today, it’s Craft & Design”, Peter Dormer, Crafts Council, UK