Vittorio Colaizzi holds an MFA in painting and a PhD in art history from VCU. He has held one-person exhibitions at the Eric Schindler Gallery in Richmond and Stump Town Gallery in Alma, Wisconsin, and has participated in group exhibitions in Richmond, Norfolk, Courtland, Minneapolis, and Brooklyn. He received a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship in 2006. His monograph on Robert Ryman was published by Phaidon in 2017, and he has also published essays on Trudy Benson, Joan Thorne, and Thornton Willis. Colaizzi is an associate professor of art history at Old Dominion University.