Thursday, October 22, 2009

Vito Hannibal Acconci

Biography:
Born January 24, 1940, Vito Acconci resides in New York City were he practices as a architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. Vito is the son of an Italian immigrant father who raised Vito in the Bronx, taking his son to see museums, plays, and other art events. Vito too a like to architectural aspects and went to school at the College of Holy Cross, then to University of Iowa. He then taught at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Yale University; and the Parsons School of Design. He currently teaches part time at Brooklyn Colleges Art Department.

Some of his Art Work.












Performance Vito Acconci’s Seedbed (1972) at the Guggenheim Museum

For more about Vito Acconci you can visit
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/acconci.html - A interview on Vito Acconi or his website at
http://www.acconci.com/

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