Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Department of Kinetic Imaging, Richmond, VA, Professor
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Stephen Vitiello [email protected] www.stephenvitiello.com Professional Practice/Work Experience 2004- Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Department of Kinetic Imaging, Richmond, VA, Professor. Hired at the rank of Assistant Professor (2004), later promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (2009) to Professor (2014). Interim Chair (since 2018) 2001-2005 The Kitchen, New York, NY, Media Archivist Oversee the Kitchen’s ongoing initiatives in the cataloguing, preservation, restoration, distribution and access planning of its unique repository of performance documentation, video art, and audiotapes 1999-2000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Video Researcher. Year-long project to document over 2000 film, video and audio tapes from the archives of the artist Nam June Paik. Supervised restoration and made recommendations to Guggenheim Curator of works for major exhibition of Paik’s Work 1991-2002 Nam June Paik, New York, NY, Archivist, Producer. Project based producer of videotapes, installations and exhibitions for world-renowned artist. Archive and restoration work as well as collaborations on videos and installations for numerous museum exhibitions and unique works for collectors 1988-2000 Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY, Director of Distribution. Supervised distribution of artists’ videos. Coordinated exhibitions and contracts with educators, curators, artists, broadcasters. Frequent international travel included festival representation, juries, and lectures on history of video, restoration, programming and sound for moving images 1986-1988 American Federation of Arts, New York, NY, Film Program Assistant. Coordinated film prints and videotapes for touring exhibitions of avant-garde media. Assisted in acquisition of documentaries on contemporary art and artists for distribution to universities, museums and public libraries Awards, Residencies, Grants & Fellowships 2016 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works: Media Arts grant to VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond to support a new sound installation ($25,000) Distinguished Award in Teaching, VCU, School of the Arts Dean’s Exploratory Research Grant, VCU, School of the Arts. Funds to support research-based field recordings 2015 Presidential Distinguished Alumni Award, SUNY Purchase 2014 Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Buckner W. Clay Artist in Residence, ArtLab, Mountain Lake Biological Station, Pembroke, VA 2012-2013 Faculty Research Grant, Office of the Dean, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. Funds to support the production costs for an LP based on the Rauschenberg Residency 2012 Rauschenberg Residency, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL (pilot year) Sirius Art Centre Residency, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland 2011-2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2011 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Fellowship Alpert/Ucross Foundation Residency Prize, Wyoming 2006 Creative Capital, “Emerging Fields, and Innovative Literature” category Short-listed for the Nam June Paik Award, with exhibition and performance at the Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne, Germany 2005 Faculty Research Grant, Office of the Dean, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. Funds to support the completion of a sound installation presented in conjunction with the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Performance/Multi Disciplinary. Funding received in support of ongoing artistic projects 2001 Penny McCall Award, Penny McCall Foundation. $30,000 received in support of ongoing artistic projects (by nomination) 1999 Independent Radio and Sound Art Fellowship, Jerome Foundation/Media Alliance. Grant received to support sound installation produced in connection with WorldViews residency in the World Trade Center Gallery Affiliation/Representation 2006-2015 American Contemporary, NYC (Previously Museum 52, London) 2005-2010 Galerie Almine Rech, Paris 2000-2010 The Project, New York, NY Solo and Two Person Exhibitions 2019 Singing Amongst the Weeds, collaborative exhibition with Kasey Fowler-Finn PhD, Sediment Arts, Richmond, VA 2017-2019 You Are the Magic, Culture Lab, City Place, West Palm Beach, FL, commissioned by Related Group, organized by Culture Corps, New York, NY 2015 A Scuttering Across the Leaves, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2014 Stephen Vitiello, American Contemporary, New York, NY Light Reading, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY Sense Objects: Leah Beeferman and Stephen Vitiello, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY Scraped and Bowed, Spazioersetti, Udine, Italy Electro-Dynamic Drawings: Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2012 And the room into my buzzing head, Testsite, Austin, TX Field Recordings: Saul Becker and Stephen Vitiello, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, NY 2011 More Songs About Buildings and Bells, Museum 52, New York, NY All Those Vanished Engines, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (long-term installation, 2011-2016 or longer) 2010 Stephen Vitiello: Tall Grasses, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS A Bell For Every Minute, the High Line, New York, NY The Sound of Red Earth, Sydney Park, Sydney, Australia The Birds, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Something Like Fireworks, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA 2009 Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello - Sounds Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass, The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2008 Finding Pictures in Search of Sounds, Museum 52, London The Project, New York, NY Four Color Sound, Diverseworks, Houston, TX Stephen Vitiello: Duets, MC, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Slow Planes, Fast Trees, Contemporary Art Centerof Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA Reverberations: Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX Night Chatter, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Smallest of Wings, Broadgate Arena, London, UK 2006 Sound Works and Drawings, The Project, New York, NY Night Chatter, Museum 52, London, UK 2005 Smallest of Wings, The Project, New York, NY Wind in the House, Wind in the Trees, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France Dolly Ascending, Diapason, NY 2004 My Blue Sky, The Project, Los Angeles, CA 2002 The Project, New York, NY Marfa Recordings, Apex Art, New York, NY Wet, Engine 27, New York, NY 2001 World Trade Center Recordings, Diapason Gallery for Sound, New York, NY 2000 Light Readings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Group Exhibitions (Selected) 2019 Making Art Public: 50 Years of Kaldor Public Art Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia Traversées/Kimsooja, Baptistere Saint-Jean, Poitiers, France as part of a city-wide exhibition organized by Ville de Poitiers organized by artistic curator, Kimsooja By Any Means: Modern and Contemporary Drawings from the Morgan, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY Sounding New, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France 2018 Declaration, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA 2017 Now Hear This! An Exercise in Listening, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA 2016 Dark Sounds in White Nights, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia Beijing Media Art Biennale, Beijing, China 2015 From Field Recording to Data Sonification in Late Capitalism, Labor Neunzehn, Berlin Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY Light and the Space of the Void, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY It's gonna take a lot of love, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT 2014 The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia In The Garden of Sonic Delights, Caramoor, Katonah, NY With Hidden Noise, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA With Hidden Noise, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY 2013 Soundings: A Contemporary Score, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Reading List: Artists’ Selections from the MoMA Library Collection, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, New York, NY Silence, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA A City Shaped, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven, Belgium Fruits of Captiva, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY New York Electronic Art Festival, Governor’s Island, NY 2012 Silence, Menil Collection, Houston, TX Tokyo Art Meeting (III): Art & Music—Search for New Synesthesia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Things Not Seen Before: A Tribute to John Cage (with 33-1/3 –Performed by Audience), Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Edison State College, FT Myers, FL Forte Piano: The Shapes of Sound, Parco della Musica Auditorium, Rome, Italy Sounds Like Silence, Hartware MedienKunst Verein, Dortmund, Germany Hybrid Forms, Austin Museum of Art/Arthouse, Austin, TX Westobou Festival, Augusta, Georgia 2011 September 11, PS 1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY Just Listen, National Sculpture Factory presented at the Old Beamish Factory, Cork, Ireland On Shuffle, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York,NY Después del Silencio, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Memories and Meanings: Objects Speak, Tribute WTC Visitor Center, New York City 2009 What Sound Does a Color Make? Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD 2008 (dis)concert, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA The Marfa Projects, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX Every Sound You Can Imagine, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX 2007 Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music, The Kitchen, New York, NY Organizing Chaos, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling, the Museum of Contemporary Art San