Vincent Scilla

Vincent Scilla’s imagined baseball players immediately transport the viewer into a fantasy world. He starts his paintings by assembling various images sourced from classic photographs of ballplayers and found vintage advertising, which are combined together to make a constructed scene—injected with a fanciful sense of memory and the passing of time.
The settings and figures are both familiar and not, with references to classical paintings, hints of humor, wordplay, and mythical American heroes, placed in a landscape tradition both recognizable and imaginary.

A graduate of the University of Michigan’s art school, Mr. Scilla’s work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the collection of various private individuals, as well as the Butler Institute of American Art, The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, and the United States Golf Association (USGA) Gallery. Many of his works have also been acquired by such sports figures as Gary Player, the Boston Red Sox, and the Atlanta Braves ball clubs, and art collectors like Alan Flusser. He is also a recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant.

University of Michigan
Detroit Society of Arts & Crafts

MUSEUM EXHIBITON
2005 Vincent Scilla: A Tribute to Baseball’s Black Stars, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Vincent Scilla, One-Wall Exhibit, Wired Gallery, High Falls, New York
2012 Big Women, The National Arts Club, New York, New York
2012 Vincent Scilla: Baseball Paintings, Bergino Baseball Clubhouse Gallery, New York City
2005 Vincent Scilla: The Art of Baseball, ASK Gallery, Kingston, New York
2004 Baseball: An American Tradition, 4 Star Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana
1997 Turnstile Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Vincent Scilla: Field of Dreams, The Art Gallery, Center for Financial Studies at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
1991 Pitching & Fielding (No Hitting), Union Square Gallery, New York, New York
1988 Union Square Gallery, New York, New York
1977 Rizzoli Gallery, New York, New York
1977 Collective for Living Cinema, New York, New York
1975 Borders Bookshop Upstairs Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1974 Collective for Living Cinema, New York, New York