Vincent Tiley

Lecturer

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Vincent Tiley’s paintings, performances, and video works take the visual and material cultures of queer desire and survival as primary sources. Influenced by fashion, fetish, medicine, protest, and science fiction, the work combines these vernaculars with the methodologies of abstraction and durational performance. Tiley’s garment-based durational performances queer clothing’s myriad uses–often combining multiple performers into one sculptural and painted form–the garments no longer function as outward signifiers adorned by an interior self but fully disguise, restrain, and extend their wearers irreverent of the corporeal boundaries of individual selves.

Tiley received a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2023 He was accepted to the Vermont Studio Center Residency program, In 2017 he participated in the Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) and was a 2013 participant at Artist Cooperative Residency and Exhibition (ACRE) program. His work has been featured and reviewed in Paper Magazine, Art in America, the Chicago Tribune, Performa, and the New York Times. The artist has been widely exhibited internationally including the Museum of Art and Design, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, AxeNeo7, CFHILL, and the International Museum of Surgical Science. His works have been collected by the Whitney Library, the Leather Archives and Museum, Yale University Library, and the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.