Locations of Work
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Installations
January 2024 to February 2025 Steve Tobin: “Earth to Sky”, Imua Discovery Garden, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii
November 30, 2023 to January 20, 2024 Steve Tobin’s “Everything Grows”, Shanghai Station 1907, Shanghai, China
2023 Steve Tobin’s Intertwined, Houston Botanical Garden, Houston, Texas
2022 Steve Tobin: Rooted, San Antonio Botanical Garden, San Antonio, Texas
2020 – 2021 Steve Tobin: Nature Underground, Naples Botanical Garden, Naples, Florida
2020 Alter Root, Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
2019 – 2020 Steve Tobin: Roots, Sculpturesite Gallery, Glen Ellen, Callifornia
2018 Steelwaters, 5th Shanghai Jing’An International Sculpture Project, Shanghai, China
2016 – PRESENT San José Museum of Art, San José, California, Installation
Steve Tobin: Cocoon Awakenings, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2016 – 2017 Steve Tobin: Southern Roots, Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee
Steelroots, 4th Shanghai Jing’An International Sculpture Project, Shanghai, China
2015 – 2016 Exposed: The Secret Life of Roots, United States Botanic Gardens, Washington, D.C.
2014 – 2016 Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, California, Installation
2014 Out of this World: Works by Steve Tobin, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Steve Tobin:Roots, Museum of Art-DeLand, DeLand, Florida
2013 Roots on 7, Morrison Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
2012 Steve Tobin’s Natural History, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida
Aerial Roots, States, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey (catalogue)
Exposed Roots, Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, Vail, Colorado
Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2011 Steve Tobin’s Natural History, Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida
Touching Earth & Sky, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, University of Minnesota, Chaska Minnesota
2010 Steelroots, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Steelroots,The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois
Steelroots, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2009 Steelroots, Calgary, Canada, Permanent Public Installation
Steelroots, Chicago, Illinois, Public Installation
2008 Steelroots, The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Weeds in the Garden, Fordhook Farm of the W. Atlee Burpee Company, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Installation
Steelroots, Kouros Gallery, New York, New York
2007 Steelroots, Brooklyn,40 Years of Art in the Parks, New York Department of Parks and Recreation,
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York (catalogue)
Coocoons, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Steelroots, Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Steve Tobin Paintings, OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York
Exploded Earth, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
Steelroots, Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, Connecticut
2005 Trinity Root, 9/11 Memorial, Wall Street and Broadway, New York, New York, Installation
Moved to Trinity Retreat Center, West Cornwall, Connecticut, 2015
Steve Tobin Paintings, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Earth Bronzes and New Nature, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine
2004 Roots, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri, Installation
Roots, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, Installation
2003 Lantern House, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Permanent Installation
Earth Bronzes, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine
Earth Bronzes, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, Permanent Installation
2002 – 2003 Naked Earth, George C. Page Museum at La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California;
ancillary exhibition, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California
Lantern House, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York
2001 – 2002 Earth Bronzes, Lehigh University Art Galleries and Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2001 Earth Bronze Trilogy, Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Canada, Vancouver
Lantern House, Marco Polo Gallery, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1999 – 2001 Earth Bronzes, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York;
ancillary exhibition, African Termite Mounds, Montefiore Square, West Harlem, New York
Cocoons, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
1998 Earth Bronzes, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts.
Traveled to OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York (catalogue)
Termite Hills, Art et Industrie, New York, New York (catalogue)
1997 Broadway River, New York University, Broadway Windows, New York, New York
1996 Matzoh House, Gallery B.A.I., New York, New York
1995 Steve Tobin: Reconstructions, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College,
Collegeville, Pennsylvania (catalog)
Steve Tobin: Reconstructions, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Steve Tobin: Reconstructions, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
1994 Sanske Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida
1993 Steve Tobin at Retretti, Retretti Art Centre, Punkaharju, Finland (catalogue)
1992 Carpe Diem Gallery, Paris, France
Waterglass, American Craft Museum (Museum of Arts and Design), New York, New York, Installation
1991 Lehigh University Art Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida
1990 Cocoons, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, Texas
Steve Tobin, Sanske Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1989 Cocoons, Holsten Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida
1988 Steve Tobin: The Glass Garden, Moore College of Art and Design, Levy Gallery for the Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1987 Dream Glass, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Glass for Tea Ceremony, Tazawa Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1986 Wheaton Ware, LaVaggi Gallery, New York, New York
Glasscapes, Glass Gallery, New York, New York
1985 David Bernstein Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
Manhattan Bowls, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1982 Glass Sculpture, Gallery 10, New York, New York
1980 Glass Portraits, Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Glasscapes, Spring Street Enamels Gallery, New York, New York
1979 Sculptured Glass, Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Selected Group Exhibitions & Installations
2014 Vanitas, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
2012 Uncommon Ground III, Bridge Gardens, Bridgehampton, New York
Burning Man festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada, large burning installation
2009 The 5th World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, South Korea.
2008 Retrospective of the Permanent Collection, inaugural exhibition in the Museum of Art and Design
(formerly American Craft Museum), Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
2007 Shattering Glass: New Perspectives, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
2005 – 2007 Earth Bronzes, Spring/Summer 2005 Exhibitions, Grounds for Sculpture, Trenton, New Jersey (catalogue)
El Bosque / The Forest, Museo Federico Silva Sculpture Park, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Traveled throughout Mexico and the United States (catalogue)
2000 Roots, Vancouver International Sculpture Project, Vancouver, Canada (catalogue)
Traveled to Kirkland, Washington
Exploded Clay with Glass Riverbed, Americans in Venice Exhibition, American Craft Museum
(Museum of Arts and Design), New York, New York (catalogue)
1994 Alene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Waterworks, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida
Robert Morris Gallery, New York, New York
1993 From Our Vault, Wustum Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
1991 Friends of Birdyland, Carpe Diem Gallery, Paris, France
La verre, Espace Duchamp-Villon, Rouen, France
1990 Glass Doesn’t Grow in the Forest, St. Augustine Chapel, Brussels, Belgium
1989 Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York, New York (also 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993)
1986 Southern Studio Glass, Traveled to Kingsport, Tennessee, Asheville, North Carolina,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Tokyo, Japan
1984 Pilchuck Glass, Travor Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1983 Southern Glass, Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, Virginia
1981 National Art Glass, Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1980 Liquid Color, Elizabeth Fortner Gallery, San Francisco, California
Selected Museum & Public Collections
America Center, Finland, Helsinki
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
American Museum of Glass, Millville, New Jersey
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Mizner Park, Boca Raton, Florida
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
City of Calgary, Canada
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine
Coca-Cola Corporation Collection, Atlanta Georgia
CSC Global, Wilmington, Delaware
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Fordhook Farms, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Golisano Children’s Museum of Naples, Naples, Florida
Gratz College, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
James A. Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Jing’An International Sculpture Project, Shanghai, China
Karl Stirner Arts Trail, Easton, Pennsylvania
King Faisal’s Palace, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Lehigh University Museum of Art, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of American Glass, Millville, New Jersey
Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, New York
National September 11th Memorial & Museum, New York, New York
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Osaka Japan Public Art Installation
Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Retretti Art Centre, Punkajarju, Finland
The Sculpture Foundation Collection
Stephane Janssen Collection, Phoenix, Arizona, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
The White House Permanent Art Collection, Washington, D.C.