Vincent Falsetta

Texas-based artist Vincent Falsetta was born in Philadelphia, where his parents had emigrated from Italy in the 1940s. He earned his BA in art from Temple University, Philadelphia, an MFA in painting and drawing from Temple's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, which included study in Rome, Italy.

After teaching at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 1974 to 1975 and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, from 1975 to 1977, Falsetta moved to Denton to teach at the University of North Texas from 1977 to 2017.

Falsetta’s work is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia; El Paso Museum of Art, TX; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; Tyler Museum of Art, TX; and Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN.

Falsetta’s work has been featured in more than 50 solo and 350 group exhibitions at, among other institutions, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK; Art Museum of Southeast Texas; El Paso Museum of Art; Austin Museum of Art, TX; The Contemporary Austin-Laguna Gloria, TX; Galveston Arts Center, TX; Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA; and Dallas Museum of Art, TX; and in the Texas Biennial 2013, Austin. He has had four solo shows at Ivan Karp’s OK Harris Gallery, New York City, and nine solo shows at the Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX.

Falsetta is professor emeritus at the University of North Texas and lives and works in Denton as a full-time artist.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1949

Philadelphia, PA

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Heritage

European American