Biography
Teresa Vito’s paintings reflect the beauty she sees all around her. She loves painting living energy, whether it is the outdoor landscape, berries and flowers picked for a still life, or the unending variety of the human face. Vito has been a full time oil painter since 1992. She currently lives in Pueblo, Colorado.
Vito has a BA in Fine Art from the State University of New York at Geneseo and has taught and studied at the Art Students League at Denver and the Loveland Academy of Fine Arts. She painted with Master Artist Richard Schmid for five years.
Vito has won numerous national awards including an Award of Excellence, Best Portrait and Best Still Life from Oil Painters of America. She also received the Best of Show Award from the Artists of Colorado Exhibition held at the Colorado History Museum. Southwest Art Magazine, Collector’s Edition, chose her as Collector’s Choice for Still Life. Recently Vito received the Best of Show Award from Plein Air Artists of Colorado’s National show and Art Of The West Editor’s Choice Award and Best Body Of Work at the 10th Anniversary Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painter’s National Paint Out. Vito has been granted signature membership with Knickerbocker Artists, Oil Painters of America, Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters and Plein Air Artists of Colorado. The Sangre de Cristo Art Center purchased a painting for their permanent museum collection. Recently in 2025 Vito had a Museum Retrospective at the Sangre de Cristo Art Center that contained 7 decades of drawing,paintings and sculptures.
Vito is known for her enthusiastic and knowledgeable teaching skills. She has taught numerous workshops locally in Colorado and New Mexico and internationally in Provance, Burgundy and Bordeaux France, Tuscany Italy, the island of Hydra in Greece,NYC, San Miguel de Allende Mexico and Marrakesh Morocco.
