Lives in Richmond, VA
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013
American Contemporary, New York, NY
2012
Saul Becker and Stephen Vitiello: Field Recordings, New York Horticultural Society
Stephen Vitiello, curated by Lora Reynolds, Testsite/Fluent Collaborative, Austin, TX
2011
More Songs About Buildings and Bells, Museum 52, New York
All Those Vanished Engines, semi-permanent installation, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2010
Something Like Fireworks, Davis Museum, Wellesley, USA
Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
A Bell For Every Minute, The High Line, NYC
John Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2009
Sound Scores: Paper, Wood and Glass (2 person collaborative show), The Warehouse Gallery, New York
2008
Four Color Sound, The Project, New York
Duets, MC, Los Angeles
The Project, New York, NY
FInding Pictures in Search of Sounds, Museum 52, London
Four Color Sound, Diverse Works, Texas
2007
Slow Planes, Fast Trees, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
Night Chatter, Weatherspoon Art Museum North Carolina
The Smallest of Wings, Broadgate Arena, London
2006
Night Chatter, Museum 52, London
Sound Works and Drawings, The Project, New York
2005
Heaven and Hell, Solvent Space, Richmond, VA
Wind in the House, Wind in the Trees, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
The Smallest of Wings, The Project, New York
Surround Sound, Fine Arts Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Dolly Ascending, 111 Gallery at the iEAR program at Rensealer Polytechnic, New York
2004
My Blue Sky, The Project, Los Angeles
2003
The Project, Los Angeles
Gallery 111, Rensealear Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.), Troy, NY
2002
The Project, New York
Marfa Recordings, Apex Art, New York
Engine 27, New York
2001
World Trade Center Recordings, Diapason, New York
2000
Light Readings, Texas Gallery, Houston
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Art and Music Search for New Synesthesia, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Japan
Silence, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Sounds Like Silence, HMKV at Dortmunder, Germany
Search for New Synesthesia, Museum of contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Silence, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2011
September 11, MoMA PS 1, New York, NY
Just Listen, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland
On Shuffle, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2010
Preconceived Iconography, Museum 52, New York, NY
2009
Every Sound You Can Imagine, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008
Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston ,Texas
Transmisssion, Richmond, VA
Marfa Sessions, Ballroom Marfa, Texas
Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore
Sound Scores:Paper, Wood and Glass, The warehouse Gallery, New York
Cohan and Leslie, New York
2007
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Making Noise, Melville Gallery - South Street Seaport Museum, New York
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
Inverventions, El Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador
Lost and Found City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Bard College's School of Curatorial Studies
Sensorium, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York
Networked Nature, Foxy Production Gallery, New York
Silence, Gigantic Artspace, New York
Laura Reynolds Gallery, Texas
2006
Echoes from the Mountains, Cultural Olympics, Torino, Italy
Sonic Presence , Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
What Sound Does a Color Make? Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore
Playing John Cage, Arnolfini, Bristol
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Tony Oursler: Sound Digressions in Seven Colors, Nyehaus, New York
Exhibition for the Nam June Paik Award 2006, Museum for Applied Arts, Cologne
Green Flame, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
2005
Rotterdam Film Festival, program curated by Kathleen
Forde, Rotterdam, Netherlands
In Resonance, Seattle Center (as part of Bumbershoot), Seattle, WA
Audio Files, Contemporary Art Museum, USF, Tampa
Inaudit, Sound Art Museum, Rome
2004
Workspace Project,organized by Harvestworks, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Synaesthesia: A Neuro-Aesthetics Exhibition, Digital Studio at the ICA, London
Flight, Lift, Cherokee, New York
Yanomami: Spirit of the Forest, Banco Do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Space to Face, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany
Suspension, Consolidated Works, Seattle
An Uneasy Feeling, Danese, New York
Treble, Sculpture Center, L.I.C., New York
Rock's Role (After Ryoanji), Art in General, New York
Sound Cube, The Kitchen, New York
2003
UNDER COVER: sound/art in social spaces, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
Listening to Judd, Maes & Matthys Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Attack! Kunst und Krieg in den Seeiten der Medien, Kunsthalle Vienna
Yanomami: Spirit of the Forest, Fondation Cartier pour l'art
contemporain, Paris
Open House, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Tar Beach: New Artists from New York, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2002
Unknown Quantity, Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
Open House, Chinati, (The Ice Factory & The Locker Plant), Marfa, TX
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Photogenic: Photography through its Metaphors in Contemporary Art, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Cinema, Sounds, Synergy, De Appel, Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Musiques en Scene: New York, New Sounds, New Spaces, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
The LP Show, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2001
Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
The LP Show, Exit Art, New York, NY
National /Int'l. Studio Program Exhibition, P.S. 1, New York, NY
BitStreams, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Electronic Arts Program, Fine Arts Academy of Beijing, China,
Electronic Arts Program Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
2000
The Project, New York, NY
Greater New York, P.S. 1, L.I.C., NY
Scenes of Sounds, The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Hole Space, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
White Hot, Smack Melon, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Musiques en Scene, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
World Trade Center, New York, NY
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2013
Art and Process, Smithsonian American Art Museum, with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Washington D.C., VA
2012
Presents Gallery, with Taylor Dupree, Brooklyn , NY
The Stone, solo and with Ryuichi Sakamoto, New York, NY
Rothko Chapel, with Steve Roden, Houston, TX
2011
Performing with mem1 at the EQUINOXYGEN Festival at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Hackensack, NJ
2010
Art Gallery of New South Wales, collaboration with Lawrence English, Sydney, Australia
2009
Send + Receive, Winnipeg, Canada
Casa del Popolo, Montreal, Canada
Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2008
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
SummerScape Festival, Bard College, Tivoli, NY
2007
Winter Garden at the World Financial Center, New York, NY
Roulette, Alfred University, New York
Arttrail, Cork Ireland
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
2006
804 Noise Festival, ArtSpace Richmond USA
2005
Tivoli Theater, Washington, DC.
Third Practice Festival of Electroacoustic Composition for Eighth Blackbird, University of Richmond, VA
Solvent Space, performance with Andrew Deutsch, Richmond, VA
2004
Lines in the Sand, with Joan Jonas, Tate Modern, London
Tune (In) Kitchen, The Kitchen, New York, NY
sound/surface, Tate Modern, London
2003
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
2002
International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Canada
2001
Diapason, New York, with Tetsu Inoue
The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
2000
The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Paik Performance
1999
Kitchen, New York, NY
Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
1997
The Performing Garage, New York, NY- Fantastic Prayers, for the Whitney Biennial
Fantastic Prayers, National Galerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Fantastic Prayers, The Philadelphia Museum of Art
INTERNET PROJECTS
2001
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, ZKM, Sound Archive 7.01-7.31.01, (http://crossfade.walkerart.org)
2000
Center for the Arts, New York, NY, Tetrasomia, (www.diacenter.org/vitiello)
1995
Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY, Fantastic Prayers - in collaboration with Constance De Jong and Tony Oursler
CURATORIAL WORK
2011
With Hidden Noise, Independent Curators International (ICI), premiere at Aspen Art Museum
2009
Hidden City, (multiple sites), Philadelphia, PA
2004
New Music, New York + 25, Town Hall, New York, NY
concert featuring Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk,Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley
Sound Cube, The Kitchen Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Musiques en Scene Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, Deputy Curator
2001
After Psychedelivision, 9th Biennial of the Moving Image, St-Gervais Geneve, Program Curator
The 1st Valencia Bienale, Spain, Video Program Curator
2000
I am Sitting in a Room: Sound Works by American Artists 1950-2000 American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,
1996
Young and Restless, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
AWARDS
2012
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
2010-2011
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Fellowship
2010
Creative Capital, travel funding, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship
2006
Creative Capital Fellowship 'Emerging Fields'
2003
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,
Performance/Multi-Disciplinary'
2001
Penny McCall Award, Penny McCall Foundation
1999
Independent Radio and Sound Art Fellowship, Jerome Foundation/Media Alliance
DISCOGRAPHY
2012
Dowsing (Far Point Recordings, Ireland)
2011
Up Through the Trees, collaboration with Taylor Deupree and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kizuna World
MOSS (12k)
Acute Inbetweens (Cronica)
Birds in a Box (Nuun Records)
2010
The Sound of Red Earth (Kaldor Public Art Projects)
2009
The Gorilla Variations, collaboration with Molly Berg (12k)
2008
Box Music, collaboration with Machinefabriek (12k)
Four Color Sound (Texas Gallery)
Stephen Vitiello with eighth blackbird (Magic If)
2007
Listening to Judd, Sub Rosa
Untitled/exchange, collaboration with Michael J. Schumacher (A Question of Re-entry)
On Isolation, Room 40
2003
Scratchy Monsters, Laughing Ghosts, collaboration with David Tronzo and Michael J. Schumacher (New Albion Records) Buffalo Bass Delay (Hallwalls)
Scanner/Stephen Vitiello, collaboration with Scanner, (Audiosphere/Sub Rosa)
Autumn Light, (Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University)
2002
Humming Bird Feeder (ver.02), (Lucky Kitchen)
2001
Bright and Dusty Things, (New Albion Records)
17:48 from the Texas Gallery , (Texas Gallery)
Sounds Building in the Fading Light, 10' vinyl, (Creamgarden)
2000
Scratchy Marimba, 2000 (Sulfur U.S./Sulphur U.K.)
Bite the Neighbor, 3' CD, (iea)
Fantastic Prayers, CD ROM in collaboration with Constance De Jong and Tony Oursler, (Dia Center for the Arts and Prop Foundation)
1999
Uitti/Vitiello, 3' CD, (JDK Productions)
1998
The Light of Falling Cars, 1998 (JDK Productions)
1996
Chairs Not Stairs
1995
Enredando as Pessoas (Intriguing People), (EMVIDEO)
RESIDENCIES
2012
Rauschenberg Residency, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, FL
2011
Ucross Foundation, WY
2004 - 2005
Rensealear Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.), Troy, NY
2003 - 2004
Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
2002 - 2003
The Space Program, Marie Sharpe Walsh Foundation, New York
Engine 27, New York, NY
2000 - 2001
P.S. 1 National/International Studio Program, New York, NY
1999
World Views, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at the World Trade Center, NY
1996
Harvestworks A.I.R. Program, New York, NY
Selected Collections
The Morgan Library & Museum
Selected Bibliography
2013
Dwyer, Michael. â€Å"Score: Short Notes on Music,†The Age, March 11
2012
Tuck, Geoff. Steven Roden and Stephen Vitiello:The Spaces Contained in EachÃÆ'¢â‚¬, Notes on Looking, July 30
Geha. Katie.Interview with Steven Vitiello, Glasstire, July 22
Green, Tyler. The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Franz West, Blouin ArtInfo online, August 9
2011
Smith, Roberta. Three Ways To Look Back, None Easy, The New York Times, September 9, 2011
Chou, Kimberly. Stephen Vitiello, Art in America, May 16, 2011
2010
McQuaid, Cate, 'Sound Artists Stephen Vitielo, Susan Hiller Take Different Approaches to Installations,' The Boston Globe, March 6
Stuart, Robyn. Stephen Vitiello:a furnace of sound, dasSUPER PAPER, Issue 15, 2010
Scott, Andrea K. Chime After Chime, The New Yorker, August 16, 2010
Farber, Jim. Stephen Vitiello's 'A Bell For Every Minute' at High Line Park highlights amazing clangs of 59 Bells, Daily News, July 29, 2010
Wilson, Michael. Stephen Vitiello 'A Bell For Every Minute', Time Out New York, July 29
McGarry, Kevin. Public Spectacles | Art in Plein Air, T Magazine Bog, June 4, 2010
Vogel, Carol. Ringing in Summer, The New York Times, March 18, 2010
Sound installations conjure pea plants and 'Star Trek', The Boston Globe, March 6, 2010
2009
Kim-Cohen, Seth, In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art, Continuum
Notations 21, Mark Batty Publisher
Between Thought and Sound, published by The Kitchen
Liebert, Emily. The Marfa Sessions, Frieze, Issue 121, March 2009
2008
Ollman, Leah, 'Rattle and Hum: Stephen Vitiello's Duets,' Los Angeles Times, August 22
Britt, Douglas. 'Light, Sound, Video, Smoke: All Part of Diverse Works' Atmosphere,' Houston Chronicle, June 5
Burket, Brent. 'Big, Dumb, and Beautiful,' Artcal Zine, April 7
Traub, Peter. 'Interview: Stephen Vitiello,' Networked Music Review, March16
Timin, Allyssa, Picturing Music: The Return of Graphic Notation, New Music Box, 27 February
Kilston, Lyra, Working Practice, Modern Painters, February 2008, P112
Cain, Nick, The Wire, April, 2008
Vitiello, Stephen, Finding Pictures in Search of Sounds, 2008, Museum 52
2007
Smith, Roberta, Organizing Chaos, The New York Times, 6 July
2006
Bell, Eugenia, Stephen Vitiello, Art Forum, 11 September
2005
Chan, Dawn 'In Resonance', NY Arts, October,
Pfeiffer, Paul 'Stephen Vitiello: Buffalo Bass Delay', Bomb, Fall
Number 93
Kim-Cohen, Seth 'The Lost Voice', ArtReview, May
Sloan, Dena, When Sound Becomes Art: VCU teacher's
accomplishments in a relatively new field are sure to
have pleasing repercussions' Richmond Times Dispatch, April
Mueller, Stephen 'The Speed of Sound: Stephen Vitiello and
Christian Marclay lay down new aural art challenges' Gay City
News, February 3-9
Lebovici, Elisabeth 'Vitiello, son et lumiere'Liberation, January
14
2004
Toop, David. Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory, Serpent's Tail.
Lovejoy, Margot. Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age,
Routledge, 3rd edition
Boxer, Sarah. 'Sounds of a Silent Place', The New York Times,
September 11
Cox, Christoph. 'Treble', Artforum, September
Schofield, Jack. 'Art sounds', The Guardian, Thursday, August 5
Tangari, Joe. 'Melatonin:Meditations on Sound in Sleep',
Pitchfork Media, July 27th
Licht, Alan. 'Treble, New York Sculpture Center', Wire, July
Smith, Roberta. 'New Sound, New York', The New York Times,
May 21
8Schepper, Ron. 'Melatonin: Meditations on Sound in Sleep',
Stylus Magazine, May 12
'Sound of Place/ Place of Sound', Sun Valley Center For The
Arts,May
Lockwood, Alan. 'New Sound, New York Takes Manhattan', The Brooklyn Rail, May.
Gladstone, Valerie. 'Moving at the Sound of Light', The New
York Times, April 18th
Raven, Lucy. 'Surround Sound', NYFA Quarterly, Spring, p. 3-4.
Vitello, Stephen. Interview with Marina Rosenfeld. NewMusicBox
American Music Center, Monday, February 9
2003
Vitiello, Stephen. Sounds Found, One Star Press (artist book)
Muchnic, Suzanne. 'Into the mind of the shaman,' Los Angeles Times, August 3
Riding, Alan. 'Artists Touched by Amazon Tribe,' The New York Times, June 16
Finel Honigman, Ana. 'Cyber Dystopia', Contemporary, No.
47/48, February, p.70-75.
Sedofsky, Lauren. 'Ce Qui Arrive.....', Review, Artforum, February
Bousteau, Fabrice & Geoffroy-Schneiter, Berenice.
'Yanomami: Le Monde Sans Image,' Beaux Arts Magazine, May
2002
'SCI-ART: Art for the Sake of Life, Art for the Sake of Light', NY Arts, Dec.
Pugh, Clifford, 'Texas Gallery owner stretches the boundaries of Contemporary art', Houston Chronicle, October 18
Woodard, Josef. 'Experiments Take Festival to Frontier of
Sound', Los Angeles Times, August 6
Cotter, Holland. 'Never Mind the Art Police, These Six Matter',
The New York Times, May 4
Vogel, Carol. 'Inside Art', The New York Times, June 28
Caux, Jacqueline. Art Press, June
Thon, Ute. 'Neuer Blick nach Innen', Art, May
Boschmann, Hella. 'Man kann die Twin Towers noch hoeren', Die Welt, June 25
Trainor, James. 'Stephen Vitiello', Frieze, May
Rauterberg, Hanno. 'Danke, Herr, fur Video', Die Zeit, May 26
Gann, Kyle. 'Music Boxes and Photocells in a Land Beyond
Time', The Village Voice, May 1-7
Time Out New York, March 7-14
The New Yorker, March 11
Cotter, Holland. 'Spiritual America, From Ecstatic to
Transcendent', The New York Times, March 8
2001
'Stephen Vitiello, Music from the 91st floor', from the article 'TheView from Downtown', The Wire, November
Herkenhoff, Paulo. 'Stephen Vitiello, Clocktower Gallery
Exhibition', P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
2000
'Stephen Vitiello, Greater New York', CD ROM and online
catalogue, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center,
Goldsmith, Kenneth. 'Don't quit your day job', New Music Box, The American Music Center, April
1999
Cooke, Lynne. 'Interview with Tony Oursler, Stephen Vitiello and Constance De Jong', Kunstverein Hannover
Khazam, Rahma. 'Stephen Vitiello's Art of Noises are a moveable feast', The Wire, July
SELECTED TELEVISION AND RADIO
2011
Stephen Vitiello: Listening With Intent, ABC-TV, Australia, 27-minute documentary
2010
ABC Radio National, Sydney, Australia
The Bells of New York, Today Programme, BBC Radio, August 30
2008
The Front Row, Houston Public Radio, KUHF
2007
Weekend America, American Public Radio
2006
With Good Reason, Virginia-based National Public Radio The Ticket, BBC Radio
Weekend America, American Public Radio
2005
Radioactive 89fm, interview feature, New Zealand radio
2004
The World Today, BBC3, commission of audio work and interview
2003
France Culture, France National radio feature with interview
NPR, All Things Considered, interview, 18 September
NPR, The Savy Traveler, interview, 20 September
2002
SAFM (National NPR station, South Africa), Art on the Edge, August
National Public Radio, Studio 360, feature
National Public Radio, Morning Edition, 10-01, report on World Trade Center artists
2001
WKCR Radio, interview and focus on Bright and Dusty Things CD, October
WNYU Radio, interview, October
CBS-TV, feature story on Nam June Paik, Sunday Morning
WFMU Radio, interview, July
Metro TV/WNET, New York, Metro Arts, interview and focus on Dia Center for the Arts and Fantastic, Prayers, CD ROM
Prayers, CD ROM