Born in West Virginia, New York-based artist Vincent Tiley received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Tiley is an adjunct faculty member and curriculum advisor at the Kentucky College of Art and Design in Louisville. The artist has participated in many residencies, including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency in 2024, Villa Lena Residency and Vermont Studio Center Residency in 2023, and the Fire Island Artist Residency in 2017.
Tiley's 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. In June 2024, Vincent Tiley and Jerry Torre (aka the Marble Fawn of Grey Gardens) created a duo exhibition at New Discretions/Situations NYC titled Flesh Becomes Stone. Tiley's zine publication with Raw Meat Collective, The Origins of Color, has been collected by the Whitney Library, the Leather Archives and Museum Chicago, Yale University Library, and the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Visiting Artist lectures are free and open to the public on a space-available basis.