VINCENT DESIDERIO
BIO
Vincent Desiderio was born in 1955. He graduated from Harverford College in 1977 and later attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy followed by four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He is a Senior Critic at the New York Academy of Art and has been a visiting professor at numerous universities both within the US and abroad. He has been granted a three year appointment at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China through the country’s “Thousand Talent Program.”
Desiderio has received several grants and painting awards among which are the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1987, 1991); The Grand Prize of S.A.S. Prince Rainer III, Thirtieth Annual Show of Contemporary Art in Monte-Carlo, Monaco in 1996. He was the first American to receive that award. In both 1984 and 1986 he was awarded studios by the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from both the New York Academy of Art and the Lyme Academy. In 2007, Desiderio was invited to be Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College.
His work can be found in many important public collections, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; The Albright Knox Museum, New York; Museo Botero, Bogota, Columbia, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Numerous articles about Vincent Desiderio have appeared in periodicals and magazines including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, The Village Voice, The New York Post, The New York Sun, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquire, Le Figaro, American Art (Smithsonian Publication), Comparative Literature (University of Oregon) and others.
In 2005, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers published a major monograph devoted to his oeuvre, Vincent Desiderio: Paintings 1975-2005, with significant texts by Donald Kuspit, Barry Schwabsky, Lawrence Weschler and Mia Fineman.
Theseus Vincent Desiderio on Art (interviewed by Danial Maidman) was published by Griffith Moon in 2018.
In 2016, Desiderio’s painting SLEEP was used as the basis for Kanye West’s video, FAMOUS.
CV
1955
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1977
Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art and Art History, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
Accademia di Bell’Arte, Florence, Italy (through 1978)
1979
Four-Year Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (through 1983)
present
The artist lives and works in New York, New York.
Awards
1982
Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1984
Studio Award, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, MoMA P.S. 1, The Clocktower, Long Island City, New York
1985
Purchase Prize, Drawing National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Studio Award, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, MoMA P.S. 1, The Clocktower, Long Island City, New York
Rome Grant, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1987
Painting Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (Painting), The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York, New York.
1991
Painting Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1996
Grand Prize, S.A.S. Prince Rainier III - Thirtieth Annual Show of Contemporary Art, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
2008
Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2014
Guest of Honor, JSS in Civita Summer Art School & Residency, Civita Castellana, Italy
Solo Exhibit
1986
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1986
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1987
Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York
1988
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
1989
Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York
1990
Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York
1991
Vincent Desiderio: The Power of Allegory, Center for the Visual Arts, The Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
1993
Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Very Special Arts (VSA) Gallery, Washington, D.C
1997
Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
1999
Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2002
Vincent Desiderio: Oil on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Vincent Desiderio, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
2004
Vincent Desiderio: Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2006
Vincent Desiderio, Pinturas Recientes, Marlborough Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2008
Vincent Desiderio, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Vincent Desiderio: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York (through 2009)
2009
Vincent Desiderio: Studies and Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2011
Vincent Desiderio: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York
2014
Vincent Desiderio: Reification, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2018
Vincent Desiderio: Theseus, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2019
Vincent Desiderio: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Group Exhibitions
1979
Philadelphia College of Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1981
Emerging Artists, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1982
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10 Philadelphia Area Artists, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania
1983
Untitled, 1983, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1984
Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Disdain for False Authorities, Independent Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Realism, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1985
Mass, The New Museum, New York, New York
University Museum Invitational Exhibition, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania
MoMA P.S. 1, Queens, New York
1986
Small Format, Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York
The Drawing National, The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; traveled to Sarah Moody Art Gallery, University of Alabama,Tuscaloosa, Alabama; The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, Staten Island, New York; and New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
1987
Summer Group Exhibition, Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York
Morality Tales: History Painting in the 1980’s, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, New York; traveled to Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Coral Gables,Florida; Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; and Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada
1988
Visions/Revisions: Contemporary Representation, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
1989
Kunst der Letzten 10 Jahre, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Works on Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, New York
1990
Persistence of Vision, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York
American Art Today: The City, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Polyptyques et Paravents: Un Siècle de Creation 1890-1990, Galerie Bellier, Paris, France
1991
In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
New Generations: New York, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Strange Vistas/Imagined Histories/Revising Reality, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
1992
On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
1993
The Anxious Salon: Narrative Content in Recent Figurative Painting, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1994
The Seer, Jonathan O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York
Contemporary Artists in New York, Edobori Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1995
Portrait of Our Times, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
1996
A Child’s Work, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, New York
Heroic Painting, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; traveled to Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee; Contemporary Arts Center,Cincinnati, Ohio; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi; University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts; and 30th Annual Show of Contemporary Art in Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Reality Bites: Realism in Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Body Language, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Contemporary Artists in New York, Edobori Gallery, Osaka Japan
1997
Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
The Unbroken Line, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ART 1997 CHICAGO, 5th Annual Expo of International Galleries Featuring Modern and Contemporary Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1998
Forma y Figuración: Obras Maestras De La Colección Blake-Purnell, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
1999
Ex-Capillary, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, New York
2000
Déjà vu: Reworking the Past, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
2001
Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2003
Modern and Contemporary Portraits, Forum Gallery, New York
Transforming the Commonplace, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
The Perception of Appearance, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Art History’s Heroes: The Masters of Contemporary Realism, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
2004
The Drawn Page, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Realism Now, Part II: Traditions and Departures, Mentors and Protégés, Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
2005
Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2006
New Old Masters, National Museum, Gdańsk, Poland
Post Malcolm Modern, The Forbes Galleries, New York, New York
Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2008
Summer Show, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York
Urban Organic, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009
The Sketchbook Project, Art House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; traveled to 303 Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York; Art and Shelter Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Soulard Art Market, Saint Louis, Missouri; and Home Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York
The Return of the Horse: Painting in the Ambivalent Present, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2010
Solemn and Sublime: Contemporary American Figurative Painting, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic,
Connecticut
2011
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York
A Desert in the Ocean—The View From Cill Rialaig, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, New York
PUT UP or SHUT UP, The New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
2007
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Painting and Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Patty and Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida
2012
Lufonauts, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Four Visions/ Four Painters: Murray Dessner, Bruce Samuelson, Elizabeth Osborne, and Vincent Desiderio, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania (through 2013)
2013
The Philadelphia Story, Asheville Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2014
THE BIG PICTURE: Desideriom Fischl, Saville, Tansey, Wilkinson Gallery, The New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
2016
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2018
Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Indiana University Museum of Art, Indiana, Pennsylvania
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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1985
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1987
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1988
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1989
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1990
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1991
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1993
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1995
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1996
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1997
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1998
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2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2008
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2009
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2011
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2012
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2014
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2016
McShane Wulfhart, Nell. “36 Hours in Philadephia.”, The New York Times, May 26.
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2017
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2018
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