____Selected exhibitions

• Translating Substance, Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, 2005
• Richard Jolley: Glass Sculptor, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, 2005
• Richard Jolley: Sculptor of Glass, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, 2004
• Transformations, Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 2004
• Contemporary Directions, Carnegie Museum, Carnegie, Pennsylvania; Toledo Museum, Toledo, Ohio, 2004
• Art of Tennessee, First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2003
• International Glass Masters Invitational, A. N. Bush Gallery, Salem, Oregon, 1999-2000
• Venezia Aperto Vetro 1998, Murano, Venice, Italy

Richard Jolley was born in 1952 in Wichita, Kansas. He received a BFA from George Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, in 1974, and continued his studies at Penland School, North Carolina. He received a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant, 1988, and has done artist residencies at Galeria Angela Hollings, Hameln, Germany, 1986; Israeli Cultural Artist Exchange, 1998; and the University of Sydney, Australia, 1999.