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Nisha, an Indian woman with brown eyes, glasses, and short, black hair tied in a colorful bandana, smiles softly at the camera. She sits in a chair in a light-filled apartment with her head resting in her hand.

Photo by Adam Sternin.

Artists

Nisha Bansil

Glass Sculptor

New York, New York

My studio practice is driven by curiosity about how the remnants of phenomenological events found in nature relate to patterns that become ubiquitous, sacred, and divine.”

Nisha Bansil is an artist and educator. Splitting her time between the Catskills and New York City, she fabricates work for other artists and her studio practice. Bansil has been a resident artist at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass and Bullseye Projects. She has created performance pieces for The Chrysler Museum of Art and the Corning Museum of Glass. She teaches her techniques to students around the world with various institutions including Penland School of Craft, Urban Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass, Pittsburgh Glass, Creative Glas, and The Bullseye Glass Co. Bansil's work has been exhibited nationally, and she currently works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a conservation mount maker.

Donor -The Maxwell/Hanrahan Awards in Craft are supported by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.20.2024

<em>Lens 1200Hz</em> by Nisha Bansil.

Lens 1200Hz by Nisha Bansil, 2018. Cast and cold worked glass, 36 × 8 × 2 inches.

Photo by Richard Walker.

Diamond Fold 1 by Nisha Bansil.

Diamond Fold 1 by Nisha Bansil, 2017. Cast and cold worked glass, 40 × 12 × 1/2 inches.

Faraday Lens by Nisha Bansil.

Faraday Lens #2 by Nisha Bansil, 2017. Cast and cold worked glass, 12 × 10 × 2 inches.