Deborah Czeresko

American, born 1961

BiographyDeborah Czeresko is a New York City-based artist, designer, performer, and collaborator who has worked primarily with glass for more than three decades. She took her first glass classes at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop (now Urban Glass), studying with the American glassmaker Bill Gudenrath. She received a BA in psychology
from Rutgers University in 1987 and an MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1992.

She has taught and been a visiting artist at many institutions in the US and Europe, including Tyler School of Arts, Philadelphia, College of Creative Studies, Detroit, and LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium. Her practice includes work as a master fabricator and she has created work for Eric Fischl, Robert Gober, Kiki Smith and Lorna Simpson as well as Jeffrey Beer Intl, FORM Architecture, Selldorf Architects, Thad Hayes Inc. and The Wiseman Group.

Czeresko’s series that use common food (meat, eggs, potatoes) as a metaphor for gender, class and queer issues has been widely seen on Netflix’s reality show, Blown Away, which aired in Canada and the United States in 2019. The winner of the inaugural season of the show, Czeresko addresses issues she has experienced as a queer woman throughout her work. Her Meat Chandelier was included in the 2019 exhibition, New Glass Now, a survey of contemporary glass held annually at the Corning Museum of Glass and Oh God/Martina 59/9 was featured another 2019 exhibition, Collaborations with Queer Voices at the Heller Gallery, New York.

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