Vito Acconci
Dist Lecturer
Art
Location: 5306 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5181
Fax: 718.951.4728
Email:
Education:
DOCTOR DEGREE EQUIVALENT - 2005
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Detroit College of Creative Studies. (Awards and Honors) 2009
Design Distinctions, I.D. Magazine. (Awards and Honors) 2008
Honorary Doctorate of Art, New School University, New York. (Awards and Honors) 2008
AIA Merit Award, rehabilitation of the West 8 Street subway station. (Awards and Honors) 2007
The Chicago Anthenaeum, American Architecture Awards. (Awards and Honors) 2007
Bienal Miami + Beach 2005 [Landscape Architecture/Urban Design (Mur Island, Graz) - Silver]. (Awards and Honors) 2005
New York City Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design. (Awards and Honors) 2004
New York Construction Award. (Awards and Honors) 2004
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Awards and Honors) 2002
Robert Gwathmey Chair, Cooper Union, New York. (Awards and Honors) 2002
Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists. (Grants and Fellowships) 2001
Sculpture Center Award for Lifetime Achievement. (Awards and Honors) 1997
NEA Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 1984
NEA Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 1980
Skowhegan Award. (Awards and Honors) 1980
Guggenheim Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 1979
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"MTA Arts for Transit - Meet the Artists" panel. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010
"Space Activism." Institut fur Raumexperimente. Berlin. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"Talking Heads" discussion panel. Vienna. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010
Arts Santa Monica. Barcelona, Spain. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Barcelona Institute of Architecture. MBIArch. Barcelona, Spain. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Fashion Institute of Technology. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Hunter College (CUNY). New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
LEAP Public Art Event. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Mills College. Oakland, Calif. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
ParaSite Gallery. Hong Kong Arts Center. Hong Kong. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Pompidou Center. Paris. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Setouchi International Art Festival. Seto Inland Sea, Japan. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Terrefarm. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
The Aubette. Strasbourg, France. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Université Paris Sorbonne. Paris. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
University at Buffalo. Buffalo, N.Y. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
University of California - San Diego. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
University of Southern California. Los Angeles. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Other Professional Activities
Architectural project: Pavillion for Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea. 2011
Architectural proposal: Pershing Square, Department of Transportation, New York. 2011
Aware Art Fashion Identity group exhibition. Royal Art Academy. London. 2011
CAA - Put Up or Shut Up group exhibition. New York Academy of Art. New York. 2011
Nominator and Denominator group exhibition. Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Herzliya, Israel. 2011
Spaceship Earth group exhibition. Centre of Contemporary Art. Torun, Poland. 2011
Upcoming Exhibition: TBA. Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. Milan. 2011
Where Do We Migrate To? group exhibition. Maryland BC, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture. Baltimore. 2011
Artpark 1974-1984 group exhibition. University of Buffalo Art Galleries, SUNY Buffalo. 2010
Daled: A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More: The Collection and Archives of Herman and Nicole Daled: 1966-1978 group exhibition. Munich. 2010
Exposed, Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 group exhibition. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 2010
How Many Billboards? Art Instead group exhibition. MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Vienna. 2010
Lobby for the Time Being. Bronx Museum. New York. 2010
Relational Objects: MACBA Collection 2002-07 group exhibition. Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. 2010
TV/ARTS/TV: The Television Shot by Artists group exhibition. Arts Santa Monica. Barcelona, Spain. 2010
WORK group exhibition. Festival Arte Contemporanea. Faenza, Italy. 2010
Built project: Open-Book Store, Armory Art Fair, New York. 2007
Built project: Wave-a-Wall, West 8 Street subway station, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2006
Built project: Roof Like a Liquid Flung Over the Plaza, Performing Arts Center, Memphis, Tenn. 2004
Built architecture: Mur Island (floating cafe, theater and playground), Graz, Austria. 2003
Built project: United Bamboo Store, Daikanyama, Tokyo. 2003
