Stine Bidstrup is a Danish artist who explores optical phenomena, and interprets and brings past ideas about utopic social and architectural visions to life through glass sculpture, installation and video. Her curiosity revolves around the power of perception and power of context and point of view in constructing our understanding through vision and how the human eye and mind are engaged in myriad determinations and negotiations all the time.
Stine is educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, School of Design on Bornholm, Denmark in 2004, and the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States in 2006. She is a founding member of the Copenhagen-based artist collective and studio Luftkraft Glasstudie. She has taught at the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, in the Art Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at Pilchuck Glass School as well as been a visiting artist at institutions world-wide such as The Royal College of Art (UK), University of Sunderland (UK), Bergen Academy of Art and Design (Norway), The Finnish Glass Museum (Finland), Alfred University, Southern Illinois University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Cornish College of the Arts, and University of the Arts.
She is the recipient of several work and travel grants as well as an honorarium from The Danish Art Council, The Hempel Glass Prize 2012, The Esther and Jep Finks Memorial Foundation for Architecture and Applied Arts 2011, The Kunsthåndværker Prize in 2010 as well as numerous grants from private foundations in Scandinavia. She pursues many of her artistic inquiries through residencies across the world, most recently in Estonia, The United States, Norway, The United Kingdom and India.
