VINCENT DESIDERIO
1955 Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1977 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art and Art History, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
1977 Accademia di Bell’Arte, Florence, Italy (through 1978)
1979 Four-Year Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(through 1983)
The artist lives and works in Connecticut
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 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (Painting), The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York, New York
Painting Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C
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
2018. Awarded Faculty appointment at Tianjin Academy of Art, China through the Thousand Talent Program by the Peoples Republic of China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
2020 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
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
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
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
Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
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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DEAD WHITE, BEAUTY AND TERROR IN THE ART OF VINCENT DESIDERIO, NEW VIDEO BY JOHN THORNTON ABOUT VINCENT DESIDERIO, January 7, 2020
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