VICENZO AMATO

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Palermo, Sicily in 1966.

A self taught artist and sculptor, he moved to nyc in 1993 where he worked as an apprentice to sculptor and blacksmith Norman Campbell for a year. In 1994 Vincenzo finds a space in the Clemente Soto Velez renovating the abandoned girls’ lavatories that had been closed for thirty years and turning it into a very busy sculpture studio. In 1995 he collaborates with Michael Romanishyn of Bread and Puppet and stages Homer’s Iliad as a 20 minutes puppet show in the Caballito theatre on Suffolk street. Since then he has exhibited his sculptures regularly at the Gabbiano Gallery in Rome and at the Earl Mc Grath Gallery in NYC and Los Angeles. His work is part of the collections of the City University of NY, Carnegie Mellon of Pittsburgh and many others.His favorite medium are steel, wood, and drawing.