Exhibitions / Installations / Commissions
2008 San Jose Airport – public sculpture, in collaboration with Didier Hess
2008 The City of Calgary – public sculpture for Emergency Operations Centre
2008 Santa Monica College – design team, Steinberg Group Architects
2008 Fire Station 39 – public sculpture, city of Seattle
2008 Whitetail Plaza – sculpture plaza commission, Warner Center, Los Angeles
2007 Sh’me’ – public/private sculpture commission, Quail Botanical Gardens
2006 Port of Los Angeles - master plan design team, Sasaki associates
2005 Riverside Bridge - integrated bridge artwork, Los Angeles, ca
2005 Avenue 19 Bridge - integrated bridge artwork, Los Angeles, ca
2004 Fairmont Skate Park - public sculpture, Salt Lake City, Utah
2003 Soto Street Bridge - public sculpture and site work, city of L.A.
2002 Nohara - temporary public site work, City of West Hollywood, CA
2001 Tie - Electric Lodge, Venice CA commissioned by L.A. Cultural Affairs Dept. (CAD), L.A,
Six Bridges Public Art Master Plan- Little Rock, Arkansas
2000 Southeast Shear – Public Gateway Plaza, Pine Bluff, AR, commissioned by NEA
Onisaburo - Cement and Bamboo permanent installation Interfaith Center of New York
1999 Jo - private commission, Los Angeles
Kerse - private commission, L.A.
Eastscrape - public site work, commissioned by city of Los Angeles
1998 Yellow Bridge private commission, Los Angeles
Uphill - private commission, L.A.
Floating Stone Bridge - private commission, Palm Springs
1997 Koi Stiks - private commission, Los Angeles
Fear of Night - Moscow Circus, Tokyo, Japan
Crescendo - Cathedral St Jon the Divine, NYC (with Philippe Petit)
1996 Hundred Steps - Mandeville Canyon, private commission
Enit Festival - Big Bear, CA produced and commissioned by Perry Farrel
Turning Plows – bamboo installation, Atlanta Olympics. King Plow Art Center
War/Was - Public Site work, commissioned by L.A. Cultural Affairs Dept. (CAD), L.A, CA
Arms - Outdoor Public Site work, commissioned by L.A. C.A.D
Cathedral - Outdoor Public Site work, commissioned by L.A. C.A.D.
The Hood - Outdoor Public Site work, commissioned by L.A. C.A.D.
1995 Sylvia Campuan Bridge - Ubud, Bali
1994 Ginko - Outdoor Public Site work, commissioned by L.A. C.A.D.
Amelia Flies Again - Outdoor Public Site work, L.A. CA
Dreamcatcher - Outdoor Public Site work, Commissioned by L.A. CAD
Skin of the Rich - Indoor site work, La BOCA, Los Angeles, CA *
1993 Antwerpen 93 - Outdoor Public Site work Antwerp, Belgium
Everywoman Evidence - Bradbury Building, L.A. Getty Center*
1992 Brown - Airplane Hangar Installation (sculpture of 38,000 Ibs of recycled trash) Commissioned by Governor Jerry Brown Presidential Campaign, Santa Monica, CA.
Sidewinder - Self destructing performance sculpture commissioned by REM
1990 Zoo - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA*
Open Vault of Recent History - Security Pacific Bank, Venice, CA
Public Place, Private Space, Virginia Park, Santa Monica, CA
American Artists Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan (group show)
Nature and Nations Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
Systems Barnsdall Municipal Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
1989 Future Fossils - Laguna Art Museum, Costa Mesa, CA.*
Frozen Precedents - Thomas Solomon’s Garage Los Angeles, CA
Blind Faith - L.A.C.E. Los Angeles, CA*
Abundance - Cathedral St. John the Divine, NYC, NY*
1987 Motion Pictures - Piezo Electric Gallery, Venice, CA
Breaking Through the Looking Glass - East Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC (group show)
Breaking Through the Looking Glass - West Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Social Spaces - Artists’ Space, NYC, NY (group show)
1986 Physics Piezo Electric Gallery, NYC, NY (group show)
Hang Twelve Piezo Electric Gallery, Venice, CA (group show)
1985 Sculpture - White Columns Gallery NYC, NY
Select Awards, Honors, Grants, Competition
2007 AIA SF Award for Excellence in Urban Design (Sasaki Master Plan Team)
American Society of Landscape Architects Award of Honor (Sasaki Master Plan Team)
2002 PANELIST – Creating Powerful Public Places (USC Public Art Studies Program)
JUROR – Northeast regional arts fellowship awards
JUROR – Pennsylvania state arts fellowship awards
2001 Chrysler Design Award nominee
2000 Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Endowment Award
1999 NEA Millennium Fellowship
1996 Nathan Cummings Foundation
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Endowment Award
1995 Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Endowment Award
1994 Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Endowment Award
1993 Antwerpen 93 - selected to represent L.A. at the European Cultural Capital Festival
1990 Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Endowment Award
1990 Santa Monica Arts commission
1990 NEA / Santa Monica Museum of Art
1989 California Arts Council
1985 NEA / White Columns, N.Y.C.
1983 California Arts Council
Select Bibliography
www.landscapeonline.com/research/article/12114
www.laweekly.com/2009-06-11/calendar/woodland-hills-yes-woodland-hills
www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2?_new=31463
www.fabrikmagazine.com/content/events/sculptor-stephen-glassmans-white-tail-plaza
www.enewschannels.com/2009/06/23/enc7633_155814.php
Upright, Jason “Bamboo’s Yin and Yang” Garden Design May 2006
Klein, Deborah “America Creates for the Millennium” NEA National catalogue, 2004
Gielis, Johan “Inventing the Circle” published by Geniall bvba, Antwerpen 2003
Goldman, Edward KCRW “Public Art in West Hollywood” May 7, 2002
Pagel, David “Edges and Hedges” Los Angeles Times May 12, 2002
Curatorial survey “2000 in Review: Public Art” Art In America August, 2001
Mark Johnstone, Emily Hui, Carolyn Peter, Public Intent (catalogue essays) 2001
Broadwater, Lisa “Stix and Stones” Arkansas Democrat Gazzette Nov 5, 2000
Peacock, Leslie Newell “21st Century Bridge” Arkansas Times Aug 18, 2000
Young, Emily “Poles Apart” L.A. Times Magazine April 10, 2000
“L.A. Antwerp Project” L.A. Times April 5, 1993
Greenstein, E M, “Miracle at Hoover and Adams” Artweek June 1992
Albertano, Linda “Zoo” High Performance. Winter 1990
Snow, Shauna “Stephen Glassman...” LA. Times May 5, 1990
O’Brien, John “Between Man and Beast” Artweek December 28, 1990
Somer, Sally “Abundance” Village Voice Nov 1989
Smith, Roberta “Social Spaces” New York Times. 1988
Black, Ezra Jean, “Phantom Limbs” LA Weekly March 11, 1988
Konno, Yuichi, “Stephen Glassman” Wave pgs 25 - 33, July ‘87 (Japan)
Tanney, Cathy “Houdini Rediscovered” Artweek
Feb 1987 Ohland, Gloria “Paradox on Earth” LA Weekly Dec 1986
Berman-Enn, Beatte “Traveling Energy” Artscene March 1984