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| Glenn Gissler | |
|---|---|
| Name | Glenn Gissler |
| Birth place | United States |
| Occupation | Interior designer, curator, educator |
Glenn Gissler is an American interior designer, curator, and educator known for work integrating contemporary art with interior architecture. He has operated a New York City design practice and collaborated with institutions, collectors, and artists across the United States and Europe. His career bridges residential, institutional, and exhibition projects and spans collaborations with museums, galleries, and design firms.
Gissler was raised in the United States and pursued formal studies that connected design to the history of art, architecture, and decorative arts. He studied in academic environments associated with Yale University, Harvard University, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, New York University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and the Cooper Union art and architecture communities. His educational influences intersected with faculty and visiting critics from institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and private academic programs connected to Smithsonian Institution exhibitions. During formative years he engaged with archives and collections from the Library of Congress, The Frick Collection, Brooklyn Museum, and university museums at Yale University Art Gallery and Harvard Art Museums.
Gissler established a New York practice that engaged with collectors, architects, and curators and worked on residential commissions, institutional installations, and gallery spaces. His professional trajectory involved collaborations and dialogues with firms and figures connected to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Richard Meier & Partners Architects, Peter Marino Architect PLLC, Michael Graves Architecture & Design, and boutiques associated with Calvin Klein Collection and Ralph Lauren Corporation. He participated in projects alongside cultural institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, and regional museums like the New-York Historical Society and Walker Art Center. His curatorial and installation practice intersected with galleries such as Gagosian Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, David Zwirner, Cheim & Read, Mary Boone Gallery, and Pace Prints.
Gissler’s aesthetic synthesizes historical references with contemporary art and material culture, drawing on influences from architects and designers connected to Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, and Eero Saarinen. He references furniture and decorative arts associated with Charles and Ray Eames, George Nakashima, Jean-Michel Frank, Dorothy Draper, and Wright & Sons traditions and dialogues with modernists like Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, and Poul Henningsen. His work reflects curatorial strategies akin to exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The J. Paul Getty Museum while engaging with contemporary artists linked to Jeff Koons, Matthew Barney, Cindy Sherman, Richard Serra, and Anish Kapoor.
Gissler’s commissions include high-profile residential interiors, showroom environments, and curated domestic installations for collectors whose holdings relate to institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and private foundations linked to Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. He has worked for clients with collections featuring works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Gerhard Richter, Brice Marden, Ellsworth Kelly, and Donald Judd. Project types have ranged from townhouse restorations in neighborhoods associated with Greenwich Village, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, and SoHo to country estates in regions tied to The Hamptons and New England locales like Newport, Rhode Island. He has collaborated with landscape practices connected to Martha Schwartz Partners, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and interior fabricators associated with Knoll, Herman Miller, Roche Bobois, B&B Italia, and Poltrona Frau.
Gissler’s work has been recognized in publications and award programs associated with Architectural Digest, Interior Design (magazine), Elle Decor, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His projects have appeared in curated features alongside designers and architects honored by institutions such as the American Institute of Architects, Royal Institute of British Architects, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. He has been noted in lists and exhibits connected to NYCxDesign, Salon Art + Design, Frieze New York, and TEFAF.
Gissler has taught and lectured in programs related to interior design and decorative arts at institutions including Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, New York University, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and at museum education programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Arts and Design. He has served as a juror and mentor in academic reviews and fellowship committees connected to Guggenheim Fellowships, New York Foundation for the Arts, MacArthur Foundation, and design awards administered by Interior Design (magazine) and Architectural Digest.
Category:American interior designers Category:Living people