Cole Vacek

This is a commission I am currently working on for a new hotel in Kansas City

I am working with a team of 15+ assistants to produce this 8ft x 46ft cross-stitched mural

The project should be finished within the next few months.

Flags for World Cup Watch Parties

Commissioned by the Johnson County Parks and Rec Department

made with the material from a retired hot air balloon and ripstop nylon

2026

photo series of my grandmother playing with my pink slide in my pink jumpsuit

also documentation of the slide through the seasons as it weathers

2025-ongoing

a pile of pink rocks stuffed with rocks

ripstop nylon
zipper
rocks

this garden’s song has turned into a garden meditation

1 - 9

wood
paint
linen
walnut dye
indigo

made for the 2025 Flat Files Exhibition

Earned? Trust? You?? Aight.

collaboration with Kevin Hopkins

show @ Vulpes Bastille

February 2025

think pink; feel pink

undergraduate thesis exhibition

show @ haw contemporary

May 2025

poems from the last 4 years (2020-2024)

hand-made pink paper

June 2024

pink from mom

2024 BFA Exhibition

wood, dirt, grass, hand-dyed, and embroidered fabric, steel, paint, lightbulb

this is where I go to be a boy, at the park, in my pink jumpsuit

2023

colevacekart@gmail.com

@coco107