Vito Bonanno

Vito Bonanno is a CT/New York based internationally collected artist, who brings his mix of hyper-focused autism inspired aesthetic, blending street art, pop culture and dreams from his unfiltered world to come alive on the canvas. Bonanno taps into the daily emotional and social challenges of living with autism, which fuels this hybrid dream-state aesthetic, where conceptual and abstract-expressionism styles collide to form enchanting and powerful results. Image and concept driven and embedded in his personal philosophy, his art contains the essence of his life, feelings, thoughts, fears and dreams, coupled around objects or topics that "get stuck in his head", including traffic lights, graffiti, ceiling fans, pop culture, buildings, people-real and imagined, and current world events. Creating art is his therapy, love, release and emotional rescue.

Vito Bonanno lives and works in Westbrook, CT. He has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Spectrum Miami during Art Basel in Miami, FL, Umbrella Arts Gallery, NYC and Akus Gallery, Willimantic, CT. His numerous group exhibitions include a sold out exhibition at Metro Curates, NYC in 2014, Uarts & CT Places, Hartford, CT, New England ADA, Boston, Ma, The Outsider Art Fair, NY and Intuit Outsider Art Fair, Chicago. For a full list of past and forthcoming exhibitions and events, please visit www.vitobonanno.com.

In 2009, Bonanno won an Award of Excellence in a juried competition for young people with disabilities, produced by VSA Arts and sponsored by Volkswagen in 2009. He was named one of 15 emerging young artists with disabilities and was honored during the artist reception in Washington, DC. His winning pieces, “Ghost Town on Davenport Avenue” was exhibited at the S. Dillon Ripley Center of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and then was part of a traveling exhibition that went on a two year nationwide tour of university and independent galleries. Additionally, a second winning piece titled “Southhaven People”, was on exhibit at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. before al...

2022- Beauty & Chaos, Six Summit Gallery
NY Fashion Week, Six Summit Gallery
Beauty & Chaos II, New York Port Authority Bus Terminal, Six Summit Gallery
2020-Six Summit Gallery, Westbrook, CT December -February 2021
2015:
* Artblend Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FLA, Sept 28-Dec. 7

* Volkswagon Group of America, Focus Forward, Herndon, VA, Aug 5-Sept 7,.2015

* VSA Arts, Focus Forward, The Kennedy Center Hall of Nations, Washington DC June-August, 2015

* Artblend Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, June 27-Aug 30

* The Miami Art Expo, Nina Torres Fine Art Gallery, Miami, FL, June 19-26

* Art Olympia International, Toshima City Government Building, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan, June 13-28

* McCormick Place, Miami, FL, Jan-May 2015

* Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York, NY , February 1-28

* Metro Curates, The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC, January 21-25

2014:
• Metro Curates, The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC, January 22-26
• Solo Exhibition: Truckn’ With Vito!, Umbrella Arts Gallery, May-July
• Institute of Human Centered Design, New England ADA, Boston, MA, July22-August 30
• Spectrum Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, Fl, December 1-7

2013:

• Disturbing the Comfortable, Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery,...