Furnitor Designer, John Dunnigan
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John Dunnigan
Furniture Designer
BIO
John Dunnigan is a furniture designer and maker with over thirty years experience. While he is best known for what the New York Times referred to as his "stylish, urban furniture" in exotic woods and sumptuous fabrics, he also works in cast bronze, glass and plastics. The range of his work extends from petite objects to large-scale architectural interiors.
In the last twenty years, his work has been shown nationally and internationally in over one hundred exhibitions, including ten solo exhibitions. His work is included in several private and public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, and the National Museum of American Art, at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC. In 2004, he became a partner in Dezco Furniture Design LLC a company dedicated to sustainable design for production.
Dunnigan's work has been included in dozens of publications such as the New York Times, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, American Craft, Yankee, Casa Vogue, House Beautiful and the Chicago Tribune. His work has also been featured in over one dozen books and catalogs such as John Dunnigan: Furnituremaker, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, 1991, Art For Everyday, Pat Conway, Clarkson Potter, New York, 1990, and New American Furniture, Edward Cooke, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1989.
Articles written by John Dunnigan appeared in Fine Woodworking magazine in 1980 and 1987, and an essay titled "Understanding Furniture" appeared in Studio Furniture in 1999.
In 1984, an essay written by Dunnigan titled "A History Of Bentwood" anchored the exhibition catalog Bentwood and Lamination at the Museum of Art, RISD, which won the Award of Distinction from the American Association of Museums. Dunnigan was awarded the Individual Artist Fellowship for Design from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts in 1994 and the Individual Artist Fellowship for Craft in 1990. He was honored by the University of Rhode Island in 1998 with the Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in the Arts.
He is a frequent lecturer, panelist and juror. In 2002, he was a juror for an exhibition sponsored by The Furniture Society titled "The Right Stuff" which toured from the University of Wisconsin at Madison to the Gallery of Art and Design in Raleigh, NC, the Fuller Museum in Brockton MA and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, TX.
He is currently guest curator of an exhibition of furniture scheduled for 2005 at Gallery NAGA in Boston. John Dunnigan has been a member of the faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design for over twenty years. He has lectured in the Department of Interior Architecture since 1980 and played a central role in founding the Department of Furniture Design in 1995. Dunnigan holds the rank of Professor and his responsibilities include teaching theory, technique and history.
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