Tora Urup started her career working with ceramic art in Tokoname, Japan in 1982-83, after which she studied glass and ceramics at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark. In 1994, she graduated from the Royal College of Art in London and subsequently returned to Denmark to collaborate with Holmegaard Glassworks and Royal Copenhagen porcelain. Since 2001, Tora Urup has been running her own design studio and produced her works in collaboration with highly skilled craftsmen in Europe and Japan.
Tora Urup’s artworks are part of important museum collections such as The François Pinault Collection, Paris, France; The Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland; the MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland; The Craft and Design Museum Reykjavik, Iceland; Coburg Glass Museum, Germany; The Art Council, Copenhagen Denmark; Kunstforeningen af 14 August, Denmark; The Glass Museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, and the Designmuseum Danmark.