Christine Barney was born and raised near Corning, New York, where her father, a physicist, worked for the Corning Glass Works in research and development. An early memory from childhood is playing “hide and seek” with her brothers in the Corning Museum of Glass. This was in the nineteen fifties, when the museum was dark and quiet with infrequent visitors. 

Many years later on Murano, Christine’s family history was vital in her acceptance as a student in Italy where glassmaking is a family business. A two-year apprenticeship from 1985 – 1987 with Livio Seguso concentrated on learning how to respond to glass as a unique material. This experience included designing for production as well as the fundamentals of sculpture at the furnace. 

Christine has a studio in Jersey City, New Jersey where her current work concentrates on sculpture in glass and painted constructions. 

Christine has received two fellowships from Wheaton Arts in Millville, New Jersey and has completed private and public commissions. Her sculpture has been featured in numerous galleries, as well as national and international expositions, since 1979. Christine has received two visual arts fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her sculpture is included in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of American Glass, Merck & Co., Tropicana Products and Centeon Pharmaceutical, as well as many private collections. 

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