"Klumpar's work is exciting… in addition to having visual appeal, it is so provocative. The measure of it grows and expands as we look at it, think about it, and let go of our ideas of what glass ought to be."
                                                         - Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican

vladimira klumpar has exhibited her glass sculptures in venues throughout Europe and the United States. Her sensuous glass and multi-media pieces engage a dialogue between contradictory elements; blending delicate glass with reinforced plaster. The sculptures' voluptuous curves reflect Klumpar's intimate relationship with nature and contrast with the elements' cold smooth surfaces. The animated effects of light and reflection in the glass charge the simple clarity of her forms with optical energy.

She attended the School of Glass art and the Academy of Applied Arts and Architecture, and has been actively displaying her glass and mixed-media sculpture since the early 1980's. Klumpar received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1997), The New England Artist Foundation Fellowship (1991) and the Massachusetts Artist Foundation Fellowship (1991). She has had solo exhibitions at: The Heller Gallery - New York, Holsten Gallery - Palm Beach, Sanske Gallery - Zurich, and the Drury Gallery at Marlboro College. She has been a part of invitational group shows at: Sandra Ansley Gallery - Toronto, Compozition Gallery - San Francisco, Boston Center for the Arts, Habatat Gallery - Detroit, Groll Gallery - Nuremberg, Rob Van Doel Gallery - Hague, Dan Klein - London, and Exempla - Munich. Klumpar's sculpture is in the collections of: The Museum of Art - Liberec, Museum of Glass - Jablonec n.Nisou, Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, and the Lannan Foundation - Palm Beach.

"Vladimira Klumpar's delicately powerful sculptures combine a play of light and dark, soft and hard, dark glass against white shells, volumes and undulating planes that evoke a sense of softened constructivist formalism." 
                        - Michael Boylen, Glass Magazine

1967 - 1973 BA. School of Glass Art Zelezny Brod, Czechoslovakia

1997. Pollock – Krasner Foundation Grant

1997. Sculpture and Drawings Drury Gallery Marlboro College, Vermont

1995 - 1988 Glass America Exhibition at Heller Gallery New York, New York

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