Born in France in 1973, Nadège Desgenétez passed her Baccalauréat Arts Appliqués (Baccalaureat in Applied Arts) in Caen, France in 1991. From 1991-92, she continued her artistic studies un ceramics and design at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers D’art in Paris, France. In 1993-95, she turned her attention to glass making at the Centre Européen de Recherches et de Création aux Arts Verriers in Vannes-Le-Chatel, France.

Desgenétez has worked, taught, and exhibited in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including the “Prix d’Honneur de la Fondation de France” (Paris, France), the Saxe Award from Pilchuck Glass School in 1997 and 2004 (Stanwood, USA), the “Prix de la Vocation” from the Fondation Marcel Bleustein Blanchet (Paris, France), grants from Arts ACT and the Australia Council for the Arts, and residencies from Northlands Creative Glass (Lybster, UK), Pittsburgh Glass Center (Pittsburgh, USA) and the Tacoma Museum of Glass (Tacoma, USA). She has been teaching at the Glass Workshop of the Australian National University in Canberra since 2005.

[With excerpts from https://www.hellergallery.com/nadege-desgenetez/]