EDUCATION
2009 Master of Fine Art, Print Media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 Bachelor of Art, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 An Appeal to Heaven; SPACE; Portland, ME
2020 Spectral Evidence; Haus Witch; Salem, MA
2016 Sing a Funeral Song; Roman Susan; Chicago, IL
2015 Settle Down; Lease Agreement; Baltimore, MD
2014 Wait for Now; Comfort Station; Chicago, IL
2013 Black Damp; Johalla Projects; Chicago, IL
2011 But the Dust Came in; Happy Collaborationists; Chicago, IL
2011 Bad Luck to Your Mother; Anchor Graphics, Columbia College of Chicago; Chicago, IL
2010 Looks Like A Place I Came In; The Hills Esthetic Center; Chicago, IL
2009 Telling Us Stuff We Already Know; Thrones Gallery; Chicago, IL
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Apparition; 10b Projects, with veronique d’entremont; Boston, MA
2016 Holding Out for the Post Apocalypse, with Zachary Hobbs; Demo Project Space; Springfield, IL
2016 Island Life; with Kristina Paabus University of Kentucky; Bolivar Art Gallery; Lexington, KY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Finding & Feeling: Encounters in the Archive; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2022 Unfinished; International Print Center New York (IPCNY); New York, NY
2021 For the Living, To the Dead; Parlour and Ramp; Chicago, IL
2020 Collective Actions; Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, NY (exhibition canceled)
2019 Word Art; Spaceus DTX; Boston, MA
2019 The Joy of Enjoying; Temple Contemporary; Philadelphia, PA
2019 CARE; Spaceus; Cambridge, MA
2018 CSA: Community Supported Art; Cambridge Arts Association; Cambridge, MA
2018 Eminent Domain; ART511, Robert Miller Gallery; New York City, NY
2018 Altarations; Dorchester Art Project; Boston, MA
2018 Fire in the Woods; Holiday Forever; Jackson Hole, WY
2018 DemoDEMO; Demo Project Space; Springfield, IL
2018 Representing Feminism(s); Lamont Gallery; Exeter, NH
2017 Beyond Ink; Northern Illinois University; DeKalb, IL
2016 Bad Habits (Remember Me); Beverly Art Center; St. Louis, MI
2016 How Much Land; Tom McCormick Gallery; Chicago, IL
2016 You Are Looking Good, A Real Good Looker; Chicago Artists Coalition; Chicago, IL
2015 Mutual Dealings; Bert Green Fine Art; Chicago, IL
2015 Gold; Terrain Biennial, Denmark
2015 Finocchio; The Franklin; Chicago, IL (Catalogue)
2015 Rough Idle; Chicago Artists Coalition; Chicago, IL
2014 Midwest Multiples; Nemeth Art Center; Park Rapids, MN
2014 Here Lies Space; Heaven Gallery; Chicago, IL
2013 Being a Woman in an All Women Show; Heaven Gallery; Chicago, IL
2013 Let’s Build a Home; Salon; Milwaukee, WI
2013 CMYK; Chicago Artists Coalition; Chicago, IL
2013 Faculty Biennial; Harold Washington College; Chicago, IL
2013 Wild Life; Jean Albano Gallery; Chicago, IL
2012 Objets Extraordinaire; Highland Park Art Center; Highland Park, IL
2012 Circa 1970; Heaven Gallery; Chicago, IL
2012 Nostalgia; Happy Collaborationists; Chicago, IL
2012 Wow-house; Johalla Projects; Chicago, IL
2011 Re-Source; Jean Albano Gallery; Chicago, IL
2011 Dominion; Eel Space; Chicago, IL
2011 Territories; Untitled Gallery; Chicago, IL (Catalog)
2011 Faculty Biennial; Harold Washington College; Chicago, IL
2010 Girl, Please!; Woman Made Gallery; Chicago, IL
2010 Chicago Printer’s Guild; Chicago Urban Arts Society; Chicago, IL
2010 Nomadic Studio; DePaul University Art Museum; Chicago, IL (Catalog)
2010 Printer’s Ball; Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College; Chicago, IL
2010 The Humboldt Park Moving Picture Show; Richmond Manor; Chicago, IL
2010 Printervention; Chicago Cultural Center; Chicago, IL
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
2024 Malleus Malificarum Members; Fine Print; RISD; Providence, RI
2023 Triskele & The Monster’s Tools: A Solstice Invocation of Medusa Consciousness; collaboration with Maria Molteni, Laura Campagna, Ash Capachione; Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy; Boston, MA
2019 Flower Procession; Spaceus; Cambridge, MA
2018 Reunification Ritual; Boston Common; Boston, MA
2017 A Ritual Performance for the Fundamental Right of Education (WITCH Chicago); Open Engagement; University of Chicago; Chicago, IL
2016 A Ritual Performance for Housing Rights (WITCH Chicago); Second Floor Rear; Chicago, IL
LECTURES AND PANELS
2024 Artist Talk; Rhode Island School of Design; Providence RI
2022 Print Now: Rethinking Post-Pandemic Print Curriculum, Impact, Bristol UK
2022 Cheap and Easy: Zines, Posters, and Alternative Histories; Mid America Print Council; Kent State, OH
2022 Sell Your Work: Books and Prints in Collections, Fairs, and More, hosted by Women’s Studio Workshop and Mid America Print Council
2019 Artist Talk; Zygote Press; Cleveland, OH
2019 The Power of Independent Printing + Archiving Alternate Histories; Emerson College; Boston, MA
2018 Witches in Print; Spaceus; Cambridge, MA
2018 Unpanel; Cincinnati Art Book Fair
2018 A Brief History of Print and Feminism; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
2018 Printmaking as Protest: Harnessing the Power of the Multiple; Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Las Vegas, NV 2018 2017 Kitchen Witch: An Introduction to Harnessing the Magical Properties of Sandwiches, Sides, and Condiments; Sandwich Club; Wassaic, NY
2016 Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda (moderator); School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016 Artist Talk, University of Kentucky, Lexington
2016 Artist Talk, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2016 Site As Matter, Mid American Print Council; Louisville, KY
2016 Artist Talk, Chicago Artists Coalition
2015 The Subtly Radical Tradition of the Multiple, Artist Talk; Oberlin College
2015 Considering the Radical Handmade; Woman Made Gallery; Chicago, IL
2015 Feminist Parking Lot, New York University, Florence, Italy
2014 Artist Talk, Comfort Station
2011 Nostalgia, Happy Collaborationsists
2009 Young Alumni, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
RESIDENCIES
2024 Art Center Padula; Padula, Italy (Stregheria Fellowship)
2023 Queer Family Orphanage; Bradford, NH
2022 Officina Stamperia del Notaio; Tusa, Sicily
2022 International Print Center New York; remote residency
2019 Women’s Studio Workshop; Kingston, NY
2019 Officina Stamperia del Notaio; Tusa, Sicily
2019 Zygote Press; Cleveland, OH
2018 The Future; Minneapolis, MN
2017 The Wassaic Project; Wassaic, NY
2017 Lacawac Artist Residency; Lacawac Sanctuary Biological Field Station and Environmental Education Center, Lake Wallenpaupack, PA
2016 A.I. Kunstitalu, Estonian Artists Union: Muhu, Estonia
2014 Hatch Projects, Chicago Artists Coalition
2014 Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE)
2012 Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE)
2010 Spudnik Press, Summer Artist in Residence
2010 Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE)
WORKSHOPS
2024 Introduction to Risography, Snake Hair
2024 Digital Risography, Snake Hair
2024 Making Radical Zines, studioELL
2021 Relief Printing on your Kitchen Table or any other Flat Surface in your Home; online
2020 Introduction to Magical Risography; online
2019 Flower Procession; Spaceus; Cambridge, MA
2018 Lavender, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
2015 Feminist Parking Lot; Oberlin College, New York University, Florence, Italy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2014 Feminist Parking Lot, Free Art School, University of Illinois at Chicago
2010 Monoprint workshop, DePaul University Art Museum
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jolie, Raechel Anne. “The Magic of What Gets Left Behind: Vin Caponigro in the Studio.” Women’s Studio Workshop. 11 July 2019.
Volkening, Laura. “Singing Songs of Loss, A Review of Vin Caponigro at Roman Susan.” New City. 21 March 2016.
Anastos, Elizabeth. “Vin Caponigro, Sing a Funeral Song at Roman Susan.” Third Coast Review. 10 April 2016.
Daignault, Kristina. “Vin Caponigro.” Inside the Artists Kitchen. 20 October 2014.
Mayo, Amanda Roscoe. "Here Lies Space Group Exhibition." SFAQ Online.
Molek, Clare. “The Fog, Black Damp, and Vin Caponigro at Johalla Projects.” 17 May 2013.
Hendrickson, Julia. “Notes on a Conversation.” Bad At Sports. 22 February 2011
Furnari, Rachel. “Art School Unconfidential: What the city’s burgeoning MFA programs mean for the future of artists in Chicago.” New City. 26, May 2009.
COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, Special Collections; New York, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
California State University; Long Beach, CA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
2012 Scholarship, Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE)
2009 Fred A. Hilbruner Artists’ Book Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009 Excellence in Leadership Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 Odyssey Travel Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007 Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
WRITING
The Estuary Projects, an Installation for Healing and Remembrance through the Apocalypse. Boston Art Review, Issue 03 Tracing Movement, Spring 2019.
Historical Amnesia, "Patriotism," and the Boston Tea Party Museum. Boston Art Review, Issue 02 Field Work, Fall 2018
Witches in Print, Or How the Patriarchy Weaponized the Printing Press to Silence Independent Women, Women’s Museum of California. October 2017
Why I No Longer Need Feminism; How Breitbart Taught Me that the Patriarchy is a Figment of my Imagination, American Flytrap No.1, Rotland Press. 2017
Feminist Advice from the City of Broad Shoulders, editor. 2016
Advice From a Feminist Killjoy on the Precipice of Losing Her Shit. Finocchio Catalog, 2015
A Very Condensed History of Women Printmakers in America, Mid America Print Council Journal, Volume 24: Printing Social Justice, Past, Present, and Future, Spring / Summer 2016.