Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2019
The Negative Approach Operating System (For Intermediate to Advanced Practitioners); MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY
2017
I Desire...; Covert Operations Gallery, via Instagram: @covert_operations_gallery
Vincent Como | into memory; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY curated by Annie Wischmeyer, Claire Bergeal, and Sarah Guittar
2016
No Hope. Not Now, Not Ever.; Guest Spot at the Reinstitute, Baltimore, MD
2013
Paradise Lost; MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Correlation of Space: Vincent Como and Gehry Kohler, City Ice Arts, Kansas City, MO
2011
Toward Singularity; Sommerkampf, Piermont, NY
2010
Haunting Modernity; House Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Black Mass; Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
2009
Vincent Como and Joseph Sabatino; PS 122, New York, NY
2008
The Blackening; Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
2007
In Praise of Darkness; Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Black: Theories and Ongoing Research; VONZWECK, Chicago, IL
2006
As Defined By Our Surroundings; Presented by Dogmatic at ArtLA, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Object (Subject); Standard, Chicago, IL
2002
Untitled (Dogmatic Exhibition); Dogmatic, Chicago, IL
1998
Untitled (Inflated Space); Southside Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Group Exhibitions
2018
Subvert City; Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
Beyond Black and White; Westbeth Galleries, New York, NY curated by Henry Brown and Li Trincere
2017
Painting Black; Raum Schroth in Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany curated by Ivo Ringe
Linear Anagram; Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL curated by Christopher Stout
Thinking Sequentially; Key Projects, Long Island City, NY
Weight of Light; DEMO Project, Springfield, IL, curated by Melissa Oresky
2016
Open Range; Woskob Family Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v2; Corridor Projects (divisible), Dayton, OH, and Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany, curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones
Fabulous You; TSA New York, Brooklyn, NY
Death: A Summer Show; Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Melissa Staiger
On Paper; MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY
After; Curious Matter, Jersey City NJ, curated by Arthur Bruso
2015
The Violent Study Club; Stout Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Dreams Were Made For Mortals VI; St. Vitus, Brooklyn, NY curated by Karlynn Holland
10 Part Invention; JAUS Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Matters of the Jugular; SUGAR, Brooklyn, NY
Improvised Showboat #12; Curated by Lauren Britton and Zachary Keeting, Gary Stephan Studio, New York, NY
Nothing = Everything; c2c/wc Project Space, San Francisco, CA
Elements; MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Triangles; Ventanna 244, Brooklyn, NY curated by Melissa Staiger
Painting Black; Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Foundation Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Ivo Ringe and Joe Barnes
About a Mountain; Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Holly Jarrett
Reductions; City Ice Arts, Kansas City, MO
To TSA, With Love; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
Keyed up in Bushwick; 56 Bogart, Brooklyn, NY curated by Key Projects, hosted by Carol Salmanson
The Heroic Object; Parallel Art Space, Ridgewood, NY
Make/Shift; Folioleaf, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Half Life; The Prayzner Residence, Brooklyn, NY
Paint it Black; Guest Spot, Baltimore, MD
Meta Vista; 16 Wilson (formerly Storefront Bushwick), Brooklyn, NY curated by Matthew Neil Gehring, hosted by Deborah Brown
Makers Manual; The Institute Library, New Haven, CT organized by Melanie Carr
That Summer Feeling; Sweatshop Studios, Brooklyn, NY curated by George Terry
Baracca: Ritual and Practice; BuroRotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, curated by Yvo van der Vat and Ibrahim R. Ineke
Correspondence I; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Neither Here Nor There But Anywhere and Everywhere; MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY
We Have Relocated To Our New Location; Picture Farm, Brooklyn, NY organized by Karl LaRocca and Kayrock Screenprinting
MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca; Multiple Cultural Venues, Oaxaca, Mexico, curated by Matthew Deleget and Emi Winter
Possibly the Last Postcard Show; Gallery Wolfy Part II, Cleveland, OH
Brucennial 2012; 159 Bleeker St, NYC, organized by the Bruce High Quality Foundation
(No) Vacancy; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Black Thorns in the White Cube; Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO and Western Exhibitions, Chicago IL, curated by Amelia Ishmael
Dreams Were Made For Mortals III; St Vitus, Brooklyn, NY curated by Karlynn Holland
Lineup; SUGAR, Brooklyn, NY (Rounds 3 and 4 of a season-long rotating exhibition)
2011
Ritual Aesthetics; Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Progress Report
Lineup; SUGAR, Brooklyn, NY (Rounds 1 and 2 of a season-long rotating exhibition)
We Still See The Black; New Art Center, Newtonville, MA, curated by Alexander DeMaria and Owen Rundquist
Brandt 21; Brandt Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Chain Letter; Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Salt Lake City Biennial; House Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Chinese Take Out; Art in General, New York, NY, organized by Jason Bailer Losh
Heads on Poles; Western Exhibitions, Chicago IL, curated by Paul Nudd and Scott Wolniak
2010
Ace of Spades: Alexander Binder, Vincent Como, and Hilda Shen; SUGAR, Brooklyn, NY
Ah Wilderness!; Ebersmoore, Chicago, IL
Psychopomp; Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Black Lab; The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Drawing on Drawing; Deep Space New York, curated by Rory Donaldson and Erica Mercado
Art/Value/Currency; the Pigeon Wing, London, England and Eastern District, Brooklyn, NY curated by Isobel Shirley
The Artists Guide to the L.A.Galaxy; West Los Angeles College Art Gallery, Culver City, CA curated by Michael Arata and qi peng
2009
Artist Books and Prints; Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY
A Book About Death; Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
Human Craters; BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY curated by Andrea Horisaki-Christens
Infinite Possibilities; MomentaArt, Brooklyn, NY
Alchemy; Hudson Guild Galleries. New York, NY
2008
Black; G Fine Art, Washington DC
VIENNABiennale2; Vienna, Austria
VONZWECK at the Barn; Chicago, IL
Hocus Pocus; Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
New American Paintings; Exhibition in Print, Issue #74 Northeastern edition
2007
New York, NY 2007; McCormack Gallery, New York, NY
If Then, As If; One Night Stand, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Contemporary Works on Paper; Barrow and Juarez Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Under Cover; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
Evanston+Vicinity Biennial; Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Group Exhibition; Drawing and Book Art gallery of Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Fresh A.I.R.; Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
Perfect, a Group Exhibition; through the Illinois State Museum: Southern Illinois Art Gallery, Whittington, IL; Illinois State Museum, Lockport, IL
2005
Drawn Out; Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Perfect, the Petite Selection; Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory Art Gallery, Batavia, IL
Perfect, a Group Exhibition; traveling exhibition shown at: Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Artists in Residence; Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
2004
Varied Marks: Contemporary Drawings and Works on Paper; Moser Performing Arts Center Gallery, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
Perfect, a Group Exhibition; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Art Miami; with Schopf Galley on Lake, Miami, FL
2003
Pyramid Scheme (a curatorial project and exhibition); Schopf Gallery on Lake, Chicago, IL
Art Boat; with Dogmatic, Chicago, IL
Stray Show; with Dogmatic, Chicago, IL
2002
Selections I; SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2001
Traumaspace3; Traumaspace, Chicago, IL
2000
Multiples4; NFA Space, Chicago, IL
48 Hours of Making Art; B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Painsville, OH
1999
Hot Beats and Renditions; Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL
Squirrels on Parade; Suitable, Chicago, IL
1998
The Artist Book II; FACET, Taos, NM
Education
BFA; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Professional Activities
2016
Weight Over Time: Joy Curtis and Terence Hannum, curated for TSA New York
Visiting Artist for Fine Art Reviews; MICA, Baltimore MD
2015
Visiting Artist; Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
Visiting Artist; School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
“Devotion Has a Price” essay presented (via skype) at Coloring the Black a Black Metal Theory Symposium, Dublin, Ireland organized by Michael O’Rourke and Daniel Lukes
2014
Vince Contarino: For Your Eyes Only, curated for TSA New York, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Angular Seduction, curated for TSA New York, Brooklyn, NY
2012
“The Black Singularity” Essay featured in Drain Magazine
Founding Member TSA Brooklyn, an artist run gallery space in Brooklyn, NY
2011
“Tune in, Turn on, Curse Out” essay presented at P.E.S.T. a Black Metal Theory Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, organized by Nicola Masciandaro, Michael O'Rourke and Karin Sellberg
2010
Pecha Kucha presenter, Contemporary Artist Books Conference, NY Art Book Fair, PS1, Long Island City, NY organized by Tony White
Visiting Speaker, Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York, NY
Curator Psychopomp, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Catalog Essay for Black Lab, the Lab, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist; Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
2009
Co-Director of Horse Trader Gallery a Domestic Art Space, Brooklyn, NY (closed in 2011)
2005
Artist in Residence (2005-06); Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist; University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Panel Discussion; Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2004
Olfactory Judge; Salmonella in September, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
A More Perfect Union; (Organized by Downtown for Democracy at Max Fish) New York, NY
Artist Project; Interreview online magazine, summer 2004 edition, www.interreview.org
Panel Discussion; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Guest Lecturer; University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
Curatorial Discussion; Schopf Gallery on Lake, Chicago, IL
2001
Artist in Residence; Anchor Graphics Fine Art Printshop, Chicago, IL
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