Curriculum Vitae 2010 Taos Art Glass Invitational- Henningsen Fine Art 2011 Pilchuck Glass School -GANM Scholarship- "Imaging on Glass" 2012 Taos Art Glass Invitational - Wilder Nightingale Fine Art 2016 Secondary School of Glassmaking, Kamenicky Senov http://www.czech-glass-school.com/news.html?lang=en the oldest glass school in the world, located in Bohemia, Czech Republic studying with Glass Maestro Petr Stacho Petrstacho.com/home/gallery/glass/ 2017 September 2017 Farmington, NM Museum "18th Annual Gateway to Imagination": A National Juried Art Competition 7-2018 Taos Art Insurgency: A National Juried Art Competition David Anthony Fine Art and Wilder Nightingale Fine Art 6-2018 SFCC Invitational Sculpture Show:Fine Arts Department 4-2019 "Luminous Reflections" -Solo Exhibition Palette Contemporary Arts and Craft Albuquerque, NM April 21, 2019 Albuquerque Journal Show Review https://www.abqjournal.com/1305039/delving-into-light- and-gravity.html 9-2019 9 New Mexico Glass Artists- Palette Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 9-2019 Arts Thrive- Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM11- 2019 Glass Hub, Wiltshire, England Master glasscasting class with Fiaz Elson http://www.fiazelson.com/ 1-2020 New Year, New Visions, Stern Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 7-2021 Casa Nova Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 3-2022 Winterowd Fine Art Gallery, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 3-2022 Duncan McClellan Gallery, St Petersburg, FL 6-2022 Winterowd Fine Art Gallery, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM "Illuminations in Glass"-Group Show 8-2022 Technical Assistant- Petr Stacho- Glass Casting The Studio-Corning Museum of Glass10-2022 Albuquerque International Airport -Glass Alliance New Mexico Juried exhibit 12-2023 Solo Show Winterowd Fine Art Gallery, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 12-2023 Albuquerque International Airport -Glass Alliance New Mexico Juried Exhibit 1-2024 Globe Fine Art Gallery, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 7-2024 Technical Assistant- Petr Stacho - Glass Casting Bildwerk- Frauenau, Germany 12-2024 Albuquerque International Airport-Glass Alliance NM Juried exhibit 12-2025 Albuquerque International Airport-Glass Alliance NM Juried exhibit
Artist Bio
Willi Haye is a contemporary cast glass sculptor based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born in the Netherlands to Dutch-Indonesian parents who were both abstract artists, Haye was immersed in creative practice from an early age. After immigrating to California as a child, she later settled in the Southwest, where the shifting desert light, geological formations, and expansive landscapes of New Mexico became enduring influences on her evolving sculptural language.Haye’s work investigates the relationship between mass, light, and internal space through cast glass forms that explore tension, asymmetry, containment, and spatial transformation. Redirected voids, dissolving passages, and flowing structural movement play central roles within her sculptures, allowing transparency and opacity, stability and erosion, to coexist within a single form.Before fully dedicating herself to sculpture, Haye worked in nursing and later raised two sons while continuing to explore visual art through photography and design. Her return to studio practice eventually led her to cast glass sculpture, where the material’s optical depth and ability to transmit and transform light aligned naturally with her longstanding interest in abstraction and spatial form.Haye has pursued extensive technical and conceptual training in glass casting, studying at Santa Fe Community College, Pilchuck Glass School, Pittsburgh Glass Center, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Glass Hub in England. A pivotal period of study in the Czech Republic further expanded her understanding of sculptural casting traditions and process-intensive approaches to glass.Her practice combines traditional lost wax casting methods with evolving experimental techniques that include direct investment casting, sculpting foam, and selective integration of 3D printing technologies. Recent work has also focused on incorporating hot shop elements into kiln cast sculpture through years of material research and technical development.