1970 Born in Milan, Italy

EDUCATION

1990-93 Fh Trier Kommunikationsdesign
1994-96 MFA School of Visual Arts, NYC

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2009-1995 Regular contributions to the following publications:

The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Op-Ed page
The New Yorker
New York Magazine
Pelican Penguin
Atlantic Monthly
Capital, Germany
Esquire
GQ (U.S & Europe)
Il Corriere della Sera, Italy
Il Diario della Settimana, Italy
L’Espresso, Italy 2002
Limn of International Design
Los Angeles Times
Newsweek (U.S & International)
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
The Boston Book Review
The Boston Globe
The National Post, Canada
The New Republic
The Progressive
The Wall Street Journal
Time Magazine
Vibe
Washington Post
Wired magazine
Harper’s

SELECTED WORKS

2008-09 Criterion Collection DVD covers

2008 Federal Express: commissioned portraits

2007 American Express: commissioned paintings

2006-09 Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Annual reports, drawings and portraits.

2007-08 SpotCo: Poster Design for Broadway plays.

1999-2000 Pelican Putnam: cover redesign of the entire Shakespeare works.

1999 Rolling Stone: portrait commission of “Beck”. A retrospective of the Best portraits in the past 40 years.

1998 The New Yorker: paintings for the Frederick Wiseman documentary entitled "Belfast, Maine."

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

2009 “Smallery” Pulk Berlin, Germany

2008 Astor Row Unlimited

2006-2007 December January " Evocation of Memory” Visual Arts Gallery, New York (Solo)

2006 American Illustration, New York

2005 Villa Reale, Monza, Italy

2002 Society of Publication Designers, New York

2001  Museo Giuseppe Pellizza Da Volpedo. "The Fourth State", Alessandria Italy

2000 National Dance Theater of Mozambique, National Gallery

1996  Wesersagenmuseum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

1995 The Art Director’s Club, New York
Trier Tuchfabrik, Kunsthalle, Germany

1994 Museum Dillingen, Germany
Mainz Kunstahalle and Landestag Museum, Germany

 

 

AWARDS AND MERITS

2009 D&AD Awards 2009. Riccardo Vecchio; Photographer Dan Winters; Photo Director Jody Quon; Editor in Chief Adam Moss; Client New York Magazine

2008 Yearly awards and publication of my work in AI (Since 1996).

2003-05 Communication Arts Awards of Excellence

2001 American Illustration Awards: Best 20 Images of the year

1999 Print Magazine: one of the twenty "Best Young Visual Artists under 30".

Black Book "Risk Award" for Best Drawings

1996  The Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for my thesis project

1994-96 Fulbright Scholarship

 

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Faculty, Drawing Undergraduate School of Visual Arts, since 1998