GUZZO PINC
Artist Bio
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 solo exhibitions
include Winnetka at Devening Projects, Chicago, IL; Nomos at Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee,
WI; 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
Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI; MOWA, West Bend, 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.
Selected Exhibitions
Education
2020 MFA/MA UW-Madison, Madison, WI
1994 BA University of Richmond, Art History, Richmond, VA
Teaching
2024 Visual Artist Mentor, Billy Conway Artist Fund
2020-2022 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.
2019 Adjunct Professor, Graduate School Course Design & Instructor
School of Architecture at Taliesin, Spring Green, WI.
Advanced Generative Drawing.
2014 Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Clark Street Community School
Middleton, WI.
2008/2009 Visual Arts Director/Head Counselor, Bauen Youth Arts Camp
Parkman, Wyoming.
1999 Adjunct Faculty, Morton College, Cicero, IL,
Art Appreciation 101.
Solo/Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Lion’s Lick, ArtStart, Rhinelander, WI
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, UW 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 Pilsen, Chicago, IL
2015 Creamy Huevos en Cielito Lindo, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2014 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, 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, Phils, 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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Tory Folliard 35th Anniversary, Milwaukee, WI
2023 10 at 10, MOWA, Museum of Wisconsin Art,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 Public Art Commission Lorine Niedecker Student Poetry Wall
#4/Artist-in- Residency, Luther Elementary School, Fort Atkinson, WI
2021 Magazine Commission, “Molto Simplice”
Real Simple Magazine, Issue October 2021
Natalie Papier, Home Ec Interiors, Charlotte, NC
2021 Public Art Commission, Lorine Niedecker Poetry Wall #3,
Friends of Lorine Niedecker
Downtown Main St Mural (20ft x 20ft), Fort Atkinson, WI
2020 Album Cover Commission, “Live at the Cafe Carpe w Peter Mulvey
& Sista Strings”. Released 2020
2018 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
2017 Album Tshirt Commission, “The Wild” Kris Delmhorst
2010 Playbill Commission, Beauty’s Daughter,
Marti Gobel, Uprooted Theater, Milwaukee, WI
2009 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 Business Art Commission, The Race,
Two Rivers Bicycle & Outdoor, Fort Atkinson, WI
2007 Business Art Commission, In Honor of John
Outdoor Mural (20 x 40 ft) Cafe Carpe, Fort Atkinson, WI
Curatorial Work/Lectures
2023 Interview with Mark Mulhern
Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2022 Chroma, (Panel Discussion)
Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2017 Solitary Plover (Lecture)
Friends of Lorine Niedecker & WI Humanities Council
WI Poetry Festival, Fort Atkinson, WI
2016 Future Primitive (Curator)
Madison Public Central Library – The Bubbler, Madison, WI.
30+Artists, Films, Fashion Installation, Graffiti Lectures. Madison, WI
2014 Madison Experimental Arts Exposition-M.E.A.E. (Curator)
Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
20+ Artists, Authors, Poets & Musicians.
2008 We R Strange U R Dum Dum (Curator)
Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI.
10 Artists.
2004 Madison Experimental Arts Exposition (Curator)
Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
18 artists.
Media
2022 Ten by Ten, Museum of Wisconsin Art Video Series
2021 “2021 Real Simple Home Reveal” Real Simple Magazine,
September 2021 Social/Video, October 2021 Print Issue
2021 “Life & Legacy of Lorine Niedecker – 3rd Poetry Wall”
Michael Clish interview with F.O.L.N. Board President Ann Engelman
2021 “Niedecker Wall 3”, The Poetry Department, Washington
2020 “Pandemic can’t keep UW- Madison’s Pinc from bringing MFA Show
to public”, Todd Finkelmeyer, UW Madison News March 31
2020 “The varied, dazzling MFA shows that never were” Tone Magazine,
Madison, WI
2019 “Something There Is That Loves A Wall”, WI Fellowship of Poets,
Interview with Amy Luetzke, Friends of Lorine Niedecker
2019 “See the little houses that inspired big Wisconsin Writers,”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 14
2019 “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