Dominick Di Meo

Dominick Di Meo is an American artist, born in Niagara Falls, New York. He was one of the original members of the Monster Rosters in Chicago. The group was founded in the 1950s and focused on existentialist art. Being founded shortly after World War II, the artwork Di Meo and fellow Monster Roster members created were often dramatic and filled with terror, agony and angst. Di Meo drew further inspiration from various events in his own life including the time he spent in a polio ward as a child, and from the array of bones he saw in Mexican and Roman catacombs. As he aged, his work began to take on lighter tones, but still retains a sense of dark humor.

Di Meo was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in 1972. He's had many solo exhibitions in both galleries and museums across the U.S., especially in the Mid-West. His work can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; and the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.