Vincent Tiley
EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, Class of 2013 MFA recipient
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore Maryland, Class of 2010 BFA recipient
Summa Cum Laude
Osaka University of Art, Osaka Japan, Spring Semester 2009
REPRESENTATION
Zeit Contemporary Art | New York | 2018-2020
PDA Projects | Ottawa | 2017 – 2018
Christopher Stout Gallery | New York | 2015-2016
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2019
How Bats Drink Water | Zeit Contemporary Art | New York
2017
Blue Zombie | The Institute for American Art | Portland ME
Material Eyes | The International Surgical Science Museum | Chicago
The Past Three Nights | AxeNeo7 | Gatineau Canada
2016
Silent Heat | Christopher Stout Gallery | New York
2015
Look at the Moon | City Bird Gallery | New York
2014
New Skin | Elee Mosynary Gallery | Chicago
BABY YOURE NEVER THERE | Glasshouse ArtLifeLab | New York
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2019
Send Nudes | Chris Habana Jewelry FW19 | NSFW | New York
2018
Touchstone | American Medium | New York
The Unspeakable | Pfizer Building | New York
Cast of Characters | Bureau of General Services Queer Division | New York
If Happy Little Blue Birds Fly | Abrons Art Center | New York
Haptic Tactics | Leslie-Lohman Museum | New York
2017
Re Art Show XV | Pfizer Building | New York
Small Works for Big Change | Participant Inc. | New York
Queer Fight Songs | ADO Project | New York
FIAR Resident Show | Cherry Grove Community Center | Cherry Grove
Material Kink | Chicago Leather Archives and Museum | Chicago
The Chosen | PDA Projects | Ottawa
Kinetic Intimacies | Museum of Art and Design | New York
Ill At Ease: Disease in Art | Buffalo University Galleries | Buffalo
If You Sit Long Enough | High Tide | Philadelphia
Fruiting Bodies | Iceberg Projects | Chicago
Spring Break Art Fair | Christopher Stout Booth | New York
2016
Mentors | CFHILL | Stockholm
Multitask 13.0 | New York
May I Introduce | Lantern Hall | New York
Coney Island Babies | Bureau of General Services-Queer Division | New York
Humans Who Design | Alliance Storefront Gallery | New York
Painting in Time: Part 2 | Sullivan Galleries | Chicago
Queer Art Festival | Drama Queer | Vancouver
2015
Casings and Treatments | Panoply | New York
Beauty Without Intention | Tenri Cultural Institute | New York
First Annual NYC Porn Film Festival | Secret Project Robot | New York
2014
Bushwick Does Basel | BrickHouse | Miami
Zones Contemporary Art Fair | Edge Zones | Miami
FUTURE SAD | Grace Exhibition Space | New York
Rapid Pulse 3.0 | Defibrillator | Chicago
Phresh Produce | Strange Loop | New York
The Sodomites of Sans-Souci | Macie Gransion Gallery | New York
Upon the Skin | 49B Studios | Brooklyn
The New Romantics | Eyebeam | New York
2013
American Dream(s): (W)Holy Grail | Flats Studio| Chicago
MFA Commencement Show | Sullivan Galleries| Chicago
Near Dwellers | Russell Industrial Center| Detroit
2012
BABY YOURE NEVER THERE | New Capital Gallery| Chicago
Voidobject()| Warehouse508| Albuquerque
THE BUNKER | Defibrillator| Chicago
Bent | Jenny’s Common| Chicago
Domain+Range | Jenny’s Common| Chicago
Layered Cities | Kriti Gallery| Varanasi India
2011
RoomsPlay | Current Gallery | Baltimore
Neon /// | Lion vs. Gorilla | Chicago
New Blood V | Columbus Building | Chicago
2010 Cavities | CRYSTALTOOTH gallery | Charleston WV
2010 Senior Commencement Show | MICA | Baltimore
Panoptic | North Avenue Market | Baltimore
COLLECTIONS
Bill Arning | Houston, TX
Evan Garza | Houston, TX
Kahled Habayeb and Kyle Meyer | New York, NY
Hunter Reynolds | New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of Art Library | New York, NY
Yale University Library | New Haven, CT
Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY
Leather Archives and Museum | Chicago, IL
TEACHING
Ox-Bow School of Art | Adjunct Faculty | 07.2019
Co-taught “Alter Overflow: Garment Making as Studio Practice” with artist and designer
Brad Callahan of BCALLA. Together, Callahan and I led a two week intensive course on
the subject of queer garment making and performance. Students were led through
technical exercises and theoretical discussions on garment making and crafting identity.
ACRE Residency Program | Print Technician | 08.2018
Oversaw the use and maintenance of the print facilities. Aided residents in the
conception, production, and editioning of prints and cyanotypes.
LECTURES
The Origins of Color | Printed Matter Inc. | New York
Vincent Tiley Artist Presentation | Maine College of Art | Portland ME
Into the Light with Hunter Reynolds | Leslie-Lohman Museum | New York
The View From Here: Creating Meaningful Art in Hostile Times | Daniel Cooney Fine Art | NewYork
RESIDENCIES
Institute for American Art Residency 2017
Fire Island Artist Residency 2017
ACRE Residency 2013
Ox-Bow School of the Arts Residency 2012
ACHIEVEMENTS
Official Participant in ISEA 2012 festival
Marie W. Sharpe Foundation Scholars Award
Academic Excellence Scholarship
Trustee Award, MICA Achievement Award
General Fine Arts Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
The Origins of Color | Raw Meat Collective | 2018
CATALOGUES
Cast of Characters 2018
Queer Art Festival Catalogue 2016
Ill At Ease Catalogue Essay | Vincent Tiley | Dana Tyrell
http://files.cargocollective.com/317269/Ill-at-Ease_Catalogue.pdf
Monsters and Dust: Pink Punk Vol. 4, Winter 2014
New Romantics Catalogue and Essays Summer 2014
PRESS
New York Times | Stephen Varble: The Street was his Stage, the Dress was his Weapon | Holland Cotter | 01.10.19
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/arts/design/stephen-varble-performance-art.html
Pride Guide 2018 | Arts in Activism | Samantha Marie J
https://issuu.com/nycpride/docs/2018prideguide_pages_5.21
Filthy Dreams | Vincent Tiley: A Body Without Organization | Efrem Zelony-Mindell
https://filthydreams.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/vincent-tiley-a-body-without-organization/
Chicago Tribune | Material Eyes Video Probes Link Between Humans, Robots at Surgical Science
Museum | Michael Workman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-material-eyes-surgical-science-museument-
0629-20170628-story.html
Performa | Kinetic Intimacies at Fashion after Fashion | Jeppe Uglevig
http://performa-arts.org/magazine/entry/kinetic-intimacies-at-fashion-after-fashion
Out Magazine | Fetish Wear Meets Durational Performance in Queer Installation | Justin Moran
https://www.out.com/art-books/2017/6/05/fetish-wear-meets-durational-performanceartqueerinstallation
GlassTire | Not Just Naked People: Experimental Action Houston Performance Art Festival |
Brandon Zech
http://glasstire.com/2017/02/27/not-just-naked-people-experimental-action-performanceartfestivalin-
houston/
Hyperallergic | The Offstage Art of Brooklyn Drag Queens | Elyssa Goodman
http://hyperallergic.com/338595/the-offstage-art-of-brooklyn-drag-queens/
Art in America | Revisitation Phase | Eric Sutphin | 07/20/16
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/revisitation-phase-looking-atartandaids/
Posture Magazine: The Ornamentation Issue. Issue No. II, “The Vortex Wears a Suit” Spring 2016
Art F City
http://artfcity.com/2016/06/13/this-weeks-must-see-events-queer-power-edition/
http://artfcity.com/2015/05/18/this-weeks-must-see-art-events-gaze-and-gayze/
http://artfcity.com/2015/12/14/this-weeks-must-see-events-suggested-double-dates/
http://artfcity.com/2015/09/21/this-weeks-must-see-events-butch-queens-and-dykesinbrooklynregular-
queens-has-everything-else/
Textile Art Center Blog | Vincent Tiley: Fiber Fashion and Performance | Janina Anderson |
06/30/15
http://textileartscenter.com/blog/vincent-tiley-fiber-fashion-and-performance/
Huffington Post |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phillip-m-miner/post_13945_b_14224356.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/21/vincent-tiley-look-at-the-moon_n_7353148.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/21/vincent-tiley-queer-designer_n_6357360.html
New City | Portrait of the Artist: Vincent Tiley | Matt Morris | 2014
http://art.newcity.com/2014/07/27/portrait-of-the-artist-vincent-tiley/