Vincent J. Cacace was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, about twenty minutes west of Boston. Raised in neighboring Weston, Vincent spent much of his youth exploring a favorite pond in the woods and developing his great love of nature.

This love of nature took shape early in the form of academics. Vincent studied General Agriculture at Alfred State College. He later transferred to Cornell University where, in his senior year, he enrolled in a class that would change his life forever. That class was not about agriculture, it was about painting. And that art instructor figuratively taught the agricultural student "how to see". For the graduate it meant the culmination, the source of expression for his true loves; nature and art.

In 1977, Vincent moved to Harvard Square in Cambridge and accepted conventional work in the wine industry. He collected paintings and became a voracious painting student. For 12 years he traveled throughout New England to paint it's magnificent landscape.

In January 1989, Vincent moved to Boca Raton, Florida. He painted local scenes and participated in numerous art festivals and critically acclaimed exhibitions. His work has appeared on four art festival posters and he has completed over 100 commissions including paintings for the Boca Raton Resort, the Breakers, the Biltmore Hotel, Loew's Miami Beach Hotel, the St. Moritz in South Beach, the Sailfish Marina, PGA National, Turnberry Isle Resort and the Doral Golf Resort and Spa.

In March 1999, the Wally Findlay Gallery in Palm Beach gave Vincent a one-man show of 30 of his black and white paintings of historic Palm Beach and Coconut Grove. These B&W paintings offer a unique visual perspective evoking a suspended sense of time.

In May 2000, Vincent and American Impressionist painter Sam Barber spent the month in Paris. They painted along the Seine, in the parks and Monet's Garden. Vincent started 22 small paintings in Paris and has since completed over 40 large studio paintings.

In January 2002, Vincent moved his studio/gallery from Boca Raton to 135 East Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. He hass been painting the beach and the cottages of Delray in the winter months and Cape Cod, Marblehead and the rugged coast of Maine in the summer.


Vincent is now finishing a group of new black and white paintings of early Delray Beach for an opening in January 2007.

The fifty-three-year-old artist is still drawn to the natural attraction of light on water. It is not surprising to see it in many of Vincent's paintings. No doubt the discoveries of his youth and that pond are there too.