Information provided by the Artist: Mr. Abildgaard received a BA degree in Art from San Francisco State University in 1979 and a MFA degree in Art from the University of Hawaii in 1984. After graduating he worked as an artist in residence at the Tokyo Glass Art Institute in Japan and at Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. Has been awarded a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America, an individual artists grant from the Leff-Davis Fund for Visual Artists of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, and the Susan Cooley Gilliom Artist in Residence and Teaching Program at the Blue Line Arts Center in Roseville, California. His sculptures have been included in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Oakland Museum of Art in Oakland, California, and the Richmond Museum of Art in Richmond, Virginia. Mark Abildgaard's work is represented in the Crocker's permanent collection.