Vito Acconci (American, born 1940)

Vito Acconci was born in the Bronx in 1940. He received a B.A. from Holy Cross College, Worcester, Maine in 1962 and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1964. He has had one-person exhibitions at: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions including: the Venice Biennale in 1976; the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Documenta V in 1972, Documenta VI in 1977, and Documenta VII in 1982, Kassel, Germany; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.