Guzzo Pinc (b. 1972) received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Richmond in 1994 and his Master of Fine Arts from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Mash Up at the Roberta Avonn Fiskum Gallery, Whitewater, WI; Fantasia at Devening Projects, Chicago, IL. Other recent projects include Farfalla at Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; Creamy Huevos En Cielito Lindo at Var Gallery in Milwaukee, WI; and Select Paintings at Diane Endres Ballweg Gallery in Madison, WI. His work has been curated into group shows at Galerie DYS, Brussels, BE; Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI; Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI; and the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL. He is the founder and lead curator of the Madison Experimental Arts Exhibition series in Madison, WI. Guzzo Pinc currently lives and creates in Fort Atkinson, WI, and teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Education
2020 MFA/MA UW-Madison, Madison, WI
1994 BA University of Richmond, Art History, Richmond, VA
Teaching Experience
2020-2023 Assistant Professor, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
Introduction to Painting, Introduction to Color Theory
2019-2020 Teaching Assistant, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
Undergraduate Instructor of Record - Art 212-Drawing. Teaching Rating: 3.95/4 (class composite).
2019 Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture at Taliesin,
Spring Green, WI. Designed and instructed graduate school course - Advanced Generative Drawing.
2014 Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Clark Street Community School Middleton, WI. Weekly individual mentor/small group projects.
2008/2009 Visual Arts Director/Head Counselor, Bauen Youth Arts Camp Parkman, Wyoming. Designed and instructed arts courses.
1999 Adjunct Faculty, Morton College, Cicero, IL,
Undergraduate Instructor of Record - Art Appreciation 101.
Selected Solo/Two Person Exhibitions & Residencies
2023 Winnetka, Devening Projects, Chicago, IL
2023 Nomos, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2022 Room, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2021 Fantasia, Devening Projects, Chicago, IL
2021 Mash Up, Roberta Avonn Fiskum Gallery, Whitewater, WI
2021 Farfalla, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2020 Eggs, 7th Floor Gallery, M.F.A. Show Madison, WI
(Canceled due to Covid. Documented Outdoors - Virtually Presented)
2019 Graffuturism, M.A. Show, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2018 Select Paintings 2015-2018, Diane Endres Ballweg Gallery, Madison, WI
2016 Speech Balloon, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI
2015 Olympians, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2015 Select Paintings, Solid State Gallery in Pilsen, Chicago, IL
2015 Creamy Huevos en Cielito Lindo, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2015 Lamplighter Residency, Club Passim, Cambridge, MA
2013 Solo, Earth, Wood & Fire Tour, Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson, WI
2010 Wisconsin Blues, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2009 Landscape Republics, 10th Street Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2009 Suns on Jute, Cambridge Art Gallery, Cambridge, WI
2008 Jute Series, The Flying Pig Gallery & Greenspace, Algoma WI
2007 Archaic Series, 2007 Cambridge Art Gallery, Cambridge WI
2006 Landscapes Black & White, Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson, WI
2005 Bananas, Plan B Gallery, Forest Park, IL
2003 Home Cooking, Phil’s House, Fort Atkinson, WI
2001 Father Son, with photographer Frank Pinc Living Room Gallery, Oak Park
2000 Stereo Studio Finale with KRad, Stereo Studio, Chicago, IL
1999 A First, Whatever Comes To Mind Studio, Oak Park, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Tory Folliard 35th Anniversary, Milwaukee, WI 2023 10 at 10, MOWA, West Bend, WI
2022 Chroma, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2021 American Strangers, Galerie Dys, Brussels, B.E.
Group show with Fred Stonehouse, Michael McGrath, Kibiki Miyazaki, Scott Daniel Ellison
2021 Wallflowers, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2021 A Space of One’s Own, 100 State, Madison, WI
2021 Summer In Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee WI
2020 UW Madison MFA Cohort, Social Distance Gallery, Instagram
2020 The Horizon Just Laughed, MATC, Madison, WI
2020 Untitled, Communication Gallery, Madison, WI
2019 With a Capital P - Selections By Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL. Jose Lerma Curated Room
2019 MMOCA Gallery Night, American Feral Gallery, Madison, WI 2019 The Endless Summer, Kohler Art Library, Madison, WI
2019 Lay of the Land, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2019 Nature Morte, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Room For Cream, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI 2017 Semiology, Kohler Art Library, Madison, WI
2016 Municipal, Municipal Building, Madison, WI
2016 Luck of the Draw, Madison Central Library - The Bubbler, Madison, WI 2016 It Can Happen Here, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI
2016 Future Primitive, Madison Public Library - The Bubbler, Madison, WI 2014 Madison Experimental Arts Exposition, Commonwealth Gallery,
Madison, WI
2009 Streetwise, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2008 We R Strange U R Dum Dum, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI 2004 Madison Experimental Arts Exposition, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2003 Firecracker Pop Up, Firecracker Studios, Madison WI
2002 Firecracker Studio Annual Show, Firecracker Studios, Madison, WI
Grants/Scholarship Awards
2018 Phyllis Zeimen Family Scholarship, Fort Atkinson Community Foundation, Fort Atkinson, WI
2018 Walter and Louise Buell Scholarship, Fort Atkinson Community Foundation, Fort Atkinson, WI
2018-2019 School of Education Scholarship, UW-Madison, Madison, WI 2017-2018 Lois G. Roberts Scholarship, UW-Madison, Madison, WI
2017 WI Humanities Council, Madison, WI (Lorine Poetry Wall #2) 2017 Fort Atkinson Community Foundation (Lorine Poetry Wall #2) 2009 WI Arts Board, Madison, WI (Lorine Poetry Wall #1)
2009 Fort Atkinson Community Foundation (Lorine Poetry Wall #1) 1999 Lassalian Art and Culture Center Scholarship, Vicchio, Italy
Commissions
2022
2022 2021
2021
2021 2020 2019 2018
2017 2013 2010 2009
Public Art Commission/School Artist District Residency Lorine Niedecker Student Poetry Wall
Luther Elementary School, Fort Atkinson, WI
Private Art Commission, Collector, Susan Whiting, Chicago, IL Magazine Commission, “Molto Simplice”
Real Simple Magazine, Issue October 2021
Natalie Papier, Home Ec Interiors, Charlotte, NC
Public Art Commission, Lorine Niedecker Poetry Wall #3,
Friends of Lorine Niedecker
Downtown Main St Mural (20ft x 20ft), Fort Atkinson, WI
Private Art Commission, Verso De Lago,
William and Margaret Ring, Lake Geneva, WI
Album Cover Commission, “Live at the Cafe Carpe w Peter Mulvey
& Sista Strings”. Released 2020
Private Art Commission, Two Large Scale Tapestries,
St. Jerome Episcopal Church, Fort Atkinson, WI
Public Art Commission, Lorine Niedecker Poetry Wall #2,
Friends of Lorine Niedecker & WI Humanities Council Downtown Main St Mural (40 x 200ft.), Fort Atkinson, WI Album Tshirt Commission, “The Wild” Kris Delmhorst
Artwork used for album release t-shirt
Private Art Commission, Interior Fresco (4 walls),
Jerome Van Epps, Madison, WI
Playbill Commission, Beauty’s Daughter,
Marti Gobel, Uprooted Theater, Milwaukee, WI
Public Art Commission, Lorine Niedecker Poetry Wall #1,
Friends of Lorine Niedecker & WI Arts Board
Downtown Main St Mural (40 x 185ft.), Fort Atkinson, WI Inaugural Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival
2008 Logo Commission, Uprooted Theater, Milwaukee, WI 2008 Private Art Commission, The Race,
Two Rivers Bicycle & Outdoor, Fort Atkinson, WI 2007 Private Art Commission, In Honor of John
Outdoor Mural (20 x 40 ft) Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson, WI 2006 Private Art Commission, Our Town,
Paddy Coughlin’s Pub, Fort Atkinson, WI
Curatorial Work/Lectures
2016 2014 2008 2004
Media
2021
2021
2021 2020
2020 2019 2019 2019
Chroma, (Panel Discussion)
Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Solitary Plover (Lecture)
Friends of Lorine Niedecker & WI Humanities Council
WI Poetry Festival, Fort Atkinson, WI
Future Primitive (Curator)
Madison Public Central Library - The Bubbler, Madison, WI. 30+Artists, Films, Fashion Installation, Graffiti Lectures. Madison, WI
Madison Experimental Arts Exposition-M.E.A.E. (Curator) Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
20+ Artists, Authors, Poets & Musicians.
We R Strange U R Dum Dum (Curator)
Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI. 10 Artists.
Madison Experimental Arts Exposition (Curator)
Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI 18 artists.
“2021 Real Simple Home Reveal” Real Simple Magazine, September 2021 Social/Video, October 2021 Print Issue “Life & Legacy of Lorine Niedecker - 3rd Poetry Wall”
Michael Clish interview with F.O.L.N. Board President Ann Engelman “Niedecker Wall 3”, The Poetry Department, Washington
“Pandemic can’t keep UW- Madison’s Pinc from bringing MFA Show
to public”, Todd Finkelmeyer, UW Madison News March 31
“The varied, dazzling MFA shows that never were” Tone Magazine, Madison, WI
“Something There Is That Loves A Wall”, WI Fellowship of Poets, Interview with Amy Luetzke, Friends of Lorine Niedecker
“See the little houses that inspired big Wisconsin Writers,”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 14
“The Endless Summer”, The Isthmus, September 10.
2019 , “An Experiment in Curation: A Review of ‘With a Capital P’”, Christ Miller, Newcity Art, June 10
2018 “Second Niedecker Poetry Wall Dedicated”, Jennifer Eisenbart,UW Art, July 29. 1-2.
2017 “Murals by the community, for the community” Wisconsin Humanities Magazine
2016 “Q&A: Jeremy Pinc joins graffiti, tattoo and comic
book artists to make art fun again”, Lindsay Christians, The Cap Times, April 17.
2016 “ Paint, Metal mix” Ryan Whisner, APNews November 30
2016 Sarah Hauer, “‘It Can Happen Here’ images life after election”,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct 14.
2014 “Lamplighter Sessions” Boston Event Guide, Boston, MA
2009 “Gallery Night Pick: Streetwise Tory Folliard”, Mary Lousie Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 16
2009 Chris Spangler, “Niedecker Poem on Downtown Fort Wall”,
Daily Jefferson County Union, July 14.
2008 “2008 Back Gallery Series Begins with Jeremy Pinc”,
Door County Pulse, May 16