“Bellwether,” 2021, conductive glass, radio, aluminum, wood, electrical components, environmental controls, 9 × 10 × 8 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Nate Ricciuto
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
Nate Ricciuto is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work envisions design, architecture, and craft as existing in the odd space between practical technology and naive fantasy. Through playful interventions and intuitive approaches, he explores the unique qualities of glass in creating immersive environments and experiences that conjure idealistic, inclusive, radical, and flawed visions of the future. These projects evoke the potential of both isolation and hyper-connectivity in cultivating delusional and speculative attitudes, while reconsidering narratives of progress and legacies of resistance.
Ricciuto’s recent sculptures and installations have been exhibited at the Corning Museum of Glass (New York), the Toyama Glass Art Museum (Japan), Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio), Traver Gallery (Seattle), Robert Lehman Gallery (Brooklyn), Practice Gallery (Philadelphia), S12 Galleri (Bergen, Norway), and BWA Wrocław Gallery (Poland).
Nate has been an Emerging Artist-in-Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, a Creative Glass Center of America Fellow at WheatonArts, and holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia. He was a recipient of the 2021 Momentum/Intersection Fellowship from the Toledo Museum of Art, the 2020 Saxe Emerging Artist Award from the Glass Art Society, and has received three Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council (2017, 2021, 2023). Nate lives and works in Columbus, Ohio, where he currently teaches glass and sculpture at Ohio State University and Columbus College of Art and Design.
Selected works
“Bellwether (detail),” 2021. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Amateurs (amber and aluminum),” 2025–26, glass, aluminum, two-way mirror, hardware, 14 × 8 × 2 in. (each). Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Wishing Well II,” 2023, hollow log section, two-way mirror, LED lights, aluminum, glass, hardware, 18 × 16 × 5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Drip and Drivel,” 2025, creek water, reclaimed wood, PVC tubing, glass, motor, ferns, heat lamps, mixed media, 8 × 12 × 10 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Two Points on a Curved Surface,” 2022, wire mesh, glass, cast plaster, aluminum, water, utility tarp, lights, mixed media, 10 × 7 × 8 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Two Points on a Curved Surface (detail),” 2022. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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