Kris Rumman is a Palestinian-American artist that uses glass to creates sculpture, performance, and installations that act as impermanent fugitives in search of home.
Her work maneuvers mirror and reflection to track, surveil, guide, and comply with its witnesses. Captivated by compositions of architecture, authority and chance (inshallah), her work is migratory, situationally responsive, and inextricably linked to the geopolitics of her ancestors.
Raised in Toledo, Ohio, the birthplace of the Studio Glass Movement, she began her nearly two decade long relationship with glass. She graduated with a BFA from Bowling Green State University in 2008 and an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2018.
Rumman has exhibited and made performances across the United States and internationally including the Strohl and Fowler-Kellogg Art Center (Chautauqua, NY), UrbanGlass (NYC), Temple Contemporary, Little Berlin, Conwell Dance Theater, and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Project Gallery (Ann Arbor, MI), Georgetown Space (Washington D.C), Ohio Craft Museum (Columbus, OH), Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH) and Abate Zanetti Gallery (Murano, Italy). She has taught at Chautauqua Institution, Pratt Fine Art Center, The Toledo Museum of Art, Salem Community College and Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
Rumman has received international awards and grants, including support from The Velocity Fund through Temple Contemporary and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Laurie Wagman Prize in Glass, and recognition from the Glass Arts Society, naming her the 2019 Saxe Emerging Artist. Kris earned her MFA at Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BFA from Bowling Green State University.
Most recently, Rumman was awarded a collaboration with Pilkington NSG, a global glass manufacturer, to actualize her project Body-Building, which debuted at the Center for Visual Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art and went on to be seen at Urban Glass as a part of her first solo show in NYC.
She currently lives and works brooklyn, NY.
kris.rumman@gmail.com @krisrumman