Grace Whiteside (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist working between glass, performance, and video art. Glass has become their most intimate co-star after over a decade of rigorous practitioning. The focus of their work draws from urgent and formative personal histories as a participant in reality television shows: their father’s “Salvage Dawgs,” (HGTV, 2013) and the glassblowing competition,“Blown Away” (Netflix, 2022). They currently own and operate a glass design and fabrication business called Sticky Glass and have worked with a wide range of clients, executing large commissions from Museum installations to custom lighting projects.
They have exhibited and performed at venues such as The Museum of Art and Design (New York, NY), The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY) , Museum of American Glass (Millville, NJ), UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, NY), Recess Arts (Brooklyn, NY) and Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA). Whiteside received two BFA’s (in glass and sculpture) in 2017 from Virginia Commonwealth University and has been an Artist in Residence at Vermont Studio Center, Tyler School of Art, Pilchuck Glass School, Rochester Institute of Technology and The Corning Museum of Glass. There were also a 2023 recipient of the NYSCA Grant for Individual Artists and named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in 2024.
