Born in Venezuela, Edison Osorio Zapata has lived extensively in Australia, Japan, and the USA. He obtained an undergraduate degree from The Australian National University, Canberra School of Art and Masters from Tama Art University in Tokyo. His work revolves around the topic of failed communication, which developed out of his varied life experiences as an outsider assimilating to the cultural norms of where he relocated. Zapata’s work has been featured in UrbanGlass Quarterly, Wheaton Fellows “The Space Between”, Japan Times, New Glass Review, Craft Arts International, and Asian Art News, Japan, New York Times, New York Post, New York Magazine, CBS New York, Glass Quarterly Magazine and New Glass Review by the Corning Museum of Glass and The Examiner. Exhibiting internationally for over a decade, his glass is in such places as ‘Art London’ at Saatchi Gallery, Sydney Opera house, and the Museum of Art and Design, NY, Vitraria Museum in Venice, Memorial Sloan Kettering Infusion Center, Brooklyn the Agnes Varis Art Center, Brooklyn. You will find his art in the permanent collection at the Museum of American Glass, The Australian National University, the Ebeltoft Glass Museum in Denmark and most recently the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.