Vince Vozzo was born in Sydney in 1954 and studied art at Liverpool TAFE, East Sydney College and Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education.
In a career spanning three decades, Vozzo has exhibited in 41 solo exhibitions and produced thousands of artworks in different mediums. He has featured in numerous group exhibitions, most notably Sydney’s Sculpture by the Sea, where his magnificent sculpture has loomed large over the coastal horizon more 13 times to date. His work has been included in 36 prize exhibitions and with eight selections in the prestigious Wynne Prize, Vozzo holds the record for a sculptor in that competition. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and commissions most notably the Ligurian Society Art Travel Scholarship to Pietrasanta, Italy and the Norton Sculpture Award.
Vozzo’s work is represented in private and public collections in Australia, Europe, USA and Asia. His work has received widespread media coverage, including in McCulloch’s Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, the Australian Mildura Sculpture Triennial and the Australian Art Review. Vince’s work has also been seen on the small screen, including a sand scuplture that he created for Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore which aired on SBS and the BBC.
BORN 1954 Sydney Australia
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
1975-77 Studied Art @ East Sydney College, Art Certificate
1978-81 Studied Art at Alexander College of Adv.Edu. Art Diploma
1981-85 Art teaching at Charlton Boys Home Liverpool, Sydney University
1986-89 Illustrator for Arts Alive Magazine, Artist in residence at Busby High School, sand sculpture workshop at Bondi Beach.
1990-92 Sculpture Workshops, Sydney Opera House, Bronze Foundry.
1993-96 Art Teacher at Bankstown Art Society, Sydney Community College, WEA and North Sydney Leisure Centre.
1997-99 Illustrator for The Hub & Wellbeing magazines, Lecturer at Meadowbank Technical College and St. George Technical College.
2000 Commission for NSW Parks and Wildlife Service Commission
Olympic Games 2000 Homebush
2000-2006 Sculpture workshops, Curator for Sculptors that draw exhibition at Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Private studio lessons, Lecturer at various Technical Colleges, Sculpture and stone carving workshops at Ingleside and Tom Bass Sculpture School,
2006 Travel to Italy Pietrasanta, Carrara, Milan, Venice, Florence, La Spezia, Rome, Assisi, Calabria, Sicily
2009 Travel to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco – USA
2010 Judged Hunters Hill Art Prize
2011 Travel to Seattle, Los Angeles, New York – USA
2013 Travel to London, Berlin, Leipzig, Paris -Europe
2014 Artist in Residence – Sturt, Contemporary Craft & Design – Mittagong, NSW
2015 Winter Workshop – Sturt Gallery Mittagong NSW – Pulp Fiction
2016 Redgate Artist Residency –Beijing, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Siren, Demons & Wowsers – Harvey Galleries, Sydney
2018 Testa Dura II – Mildura Arts Centre, VIC
2016 Manly Art Gallery and Museum – Dreaming of Galileo
2016 Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2015 Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2014 Neram, Armidale Regional Gallery, NSW
2013 Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney
2012 Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
2011 Newington College, Sydney – Carrara Caresses and Kisses
2011 Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney
2010 Eva Breuer Gallery, Sydney
2009 Harrison Gallery, Sydney – God of the gaps goes to Hollywood
2008 Casula Powerhouse, Sydney-Testa Dura-Mule Head
2005 Richard Martin Gallery, Sydney
2003 Phillip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
2003 Gomboc Gallery, Swan, Western Australia
2002 Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney
2002 Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Sir Hermann Black Gallery at Sydney University
2000 Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Bathurst Regional Gallery
1998 Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1995 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1995 Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1994 Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1993 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1991 Artarmon Galleries, Sydney
1989 Breewood Galleries, Katoomba
1988 Artarmon Galleries, Sydney
1986 Woolloomooloo Galleries, Sydney
1984 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1983 Sculpture Centre, the Rocks, Sydney
1983 Lewers Regional Gallery, Penrith
1982 Allegro Gallery, Kenthurst, Sydney
1981 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
1979 Fairfield City Council Central Library, Cabramatta
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Sculpture at Hillview, Sutton Forest
2016 Scenic World, Katoomba Cultural Centre
2016 Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Wombat Hollow, Robertson
2016 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong – Drawn to Clay
2015 Kangaroo Visit, Rome, Italy
2015 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Beach
2015 Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sculpture 2015
2015 Sculpture by the Sea, Macquarie Decade Club
2014 Art and Architecture at Tempe House, Tempe
2014 Pieces of Eight, Art Month, Erskineville, NSW
2013 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Beach
2013 Bradman Centre Art Gallery, Bowral NSW
2011 54th Venice Biennale, State of the Arts, Italian Cultural Institutes in the World
2011 Italian Forum Cultural Centre, Leichhardt – Merge
2011 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Beach
2011 Sculpture by the Sea, Orange Regional Gallery
2010 Welch Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
2010 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Beach
2010 James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Welch Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, USA
2009 Ivan Dougherty Gallery “Curating the COFA Collection”, Sydney
2009 Carriage Works Gallery, “Windows of Pain”, Sydney
2008 Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
2008 United Galleries, Perth
2008 Harrison Gallery Sculpture in 2008 Group show
2006 Sculpture by the Sea
2004 Sheer Diversity “Sculptors Who Draw” Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, NSW
2004 Sculptures by the Sea, Oct-Nov
2004 Sculpture by the Sea, Sculpture Inside at Bondi Pavilion
2003 20th Sculpture Survey 03, Middle Swan, W.A., Gamboc Gallery
2002 New Gallery – Michael Nagy Gallery, Woollahra
2002 “Take it Outside”, Wombarra Sculpture garden
2002 Sculpture by the Sea, October – November
2002 Sculpture by the Sea, Sculpture Inside at Bondi Pavillion
2002 Melbourne Art Fair 2-6 October
2002 Bush Fire Appeal, Michael Nagy Fine Art, Potts Point
2001 Art on Paper Award, Hazlehurst Gallery
2001 McClelland Gallery Melbourne, The Joseph Brown Collection,
2001 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Campbelltown, Hazlehurst and Wollongong
2001 Salon des Refuse, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2000-97 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
2000-99 Ansett Golden Wing Lounge, Domestic Airport, Sydney
2000-99 Dante Australia 2000, Atrium Gallery, Ultimo
2000-99 Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney University
2000-99 Still life Sculpture, King Street Gallery Miniatures 99, Defiance Gallery, Newtown
1998-97 Sculpture 9 & 10, Robin Gibson Gallery
1998-97 Figure in the Landscape, Defiance Gallery, and Newtown
1997 The Box Show 11, Defiance Gallery
1997 Sculpture 8, Robin Gibson Gallery
1997 Salon des Refuses
1997 Ardt Gallery, Leichhardt
1997 Collectors Show, Wentworth Falls School of Arts
1997 Size does not Matter, Defiance Gallery
1995 Sculpture 7, Robin Gibson Gallery
1995 Dante in Australia, Westpac Gallery
1994 Sculpture 6, Robin Gibson, Mary Reiby Gallery, Enmore
1993 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1993 Contemporary Art Fair, ANU, Canberra
1992 Sculpture 4, Robin Gibson Gallery, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Invited Artists Exhibition, Camden
1990 Working up to Yellow, Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery
1989 Individual Views of Eroticism, Breewood Galleries, Katoomba
1988 St Gregory’s College, Wollongong
1988 University Gallery, The Italian Community in Australia: First 200 years
1988 Tenth Mildura Sculpture Triennial
1987 Mosman Gallery Bondi 3-d Exhibition, Bondi Gallery,
1987 Amnesty International Craft Gallery, The Rocks
1986 The Great Rail Art & Sculpture Exhibition, Central Railway, Sydney
1985 Woolloomooloo Gallery
1983 The Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney
1980 The Modern Art Gallery, Casula, The Sculpture Centre, Sydney
PRIZE EXHIBITIONS
2016 Watercolour Society Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery
2015 Hidden, Sculpture Exhibition, Rookwood
2013 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award
2013 Manning Regional Art Gallery Sculpture Prize-Taree NSW
2012 & 2014 McClelland Sculpture Survey Award – Melbourne VIC
2012 Sunshine Coast Art Prize – 3D – Noosa
2011 Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, “Italians in the World”
2010 & 2014 Sawmillers Reserve Sculpture Prize, McMahons Point
2009 Liverpool City Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse
2008 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2007 The Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize.
2006 UWS Acquisitive Sculpture Award and Exhibition, Landcom Awards, Campbelltown
2006 The Inaugural Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2006, Croydon, Sydney
2006 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2005 Montalto Sculpture Prize, Victoria
2004 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2002 Woollahra Sculpture
1992 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1991 Blake Prize, Sydney
1990 & 1992 International Dante Bronze Biennale, Italy
1985 & 1986 Blake Prize, Sydney
1983/84/85/86 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
AWARDS
Represent in private and Institutional collections in Australia, U.K., Europe, USA and Asia
2014 Sturt Gallery, Mittagong Collection
2013 Orange Regional Gallery Collection
2009 Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2009 Liverpool City Art Prize – Casula Powerhouse – Sculpture Prize
2009 ResMed collection – San Diego USA and Sydney Australia
2006 Liguria Society Art Grant for Travel to Pietrasanta, Italy
2004 Alexander Mackie College collection
2004 McClelland Gallery, Victoria
2001 Sculpture Prize, Hunters Hill Art Prize
2001 The Joseph Brown Collection
2000 NSW Parks and Wildlife Service, Sandstone Animal Sculptures
1993 Steve Vizard Collection
1986 Mildura Art Centre Collection
BIBLIOGRPAHY/CATALOGUES/MEDIA
1984 Artist and Galleries of Australia by Max Germaine
1988 Australian Mildura Sculpture Triennial
1990 Max Germaine – Artist and Galleries of Australia
2000 Sand Sculpture for “the Fatal Shore” Robert Hughes
2001 Italy Down Under – Vozzo’s Rotund idols defy art trendies”.
2004 Tarbs – World T.V. Vince Vozzo Artista “La Finestra sul Cotille”
2005 Daily Telegraph – Art attack as exhibits hit Sydney shores – Elizabeth Fortescue
2005 SMH – Staying in Touch, Losing his marble by David Dale
2006 McCulloch’s Encyclopaedia of Australian Art
2008 Testa Dura/Mule Head – (27th Sept 2008 – 26th October 2008) – A 2008 Casula Powerhouse Project, curated by Nicholas Tsoutas and published by Casula Powerhouse, October 2008. Opened – executive director, Kon Gouriotis.
2008 Dare to Dream Magazine – Issue 4, Success Story – The Sculptures of Vince Vozzo by Anthony Frater
2010 Sculpture + the enemies, Issue 2 Quarterly No. 1. Katherine Harrington.
2011 Venice Biennale – State of the Arts – Italian Cultural Institutes in the World, by Vittorio Sgarbi
2011 The ResMed Art Collection (selected works) 21 Years in the Making, Peter Farell.
2011 Sculpture by the Sea – the first fifteen years 1997 – 2011.
2011 Documentary – “Chipping away” by Phillip Myers (in progress)
2012 Artist Profile- Preview
2012 Art Monthly- Leah Haynes-Vince Vozzo Survey
2012 McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award- Catalogue
2013 Art Almanac- Exhibition Brief
2013 World Sculpture News- Humanity and Nature
2015 Published book -“The Life and Works of Vince Vozzo”–published by Captain Honey
2016 Manly Daily – “Dreaming of Galileo” Rod Bennett
2016 Inner-West Courier – “Master of form and Figure in spotlight” Steve Stickney
2016 Art Edit – “The Philosopher’s Stone” Camilla Wagstaff
2016 Street Smart with Ben Southwell – Cobden & Hayson “Romancing the Stone”