The artist lives and works in Westchester County, New York.
1955Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1977Accademia di Bell’Arte, Florence, Italy (through 1978)
1977BA, Fine Arts and Art History, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
1983Four-Year Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1996Grand Prize, S.A.S. Prince Rainier III 30th Annual Show of Contemporary Art, Monte Carlo, Monaco
1991Painting Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, United States
1987Painting Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, United States
1987Painting Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, United States
1985Purchase Prize, Drawing National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, United States
1985Rome Grant, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
1985Studio Award, P.S. 1, Queens, New York, United States
1984Studio Award, P.S. 1, Queens, New York, United States
1982Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2011Vincent Desiderio, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2009Vincent Desiderio: Studies and Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2008Vincent Desiderio, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.
2008Vincent Desiderio, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2006Vincent Desiderio, Pinturas Recientes, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain.
2004Vincent Desiderio: Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2002Vincent Desiderio, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States.
2002Vincent Desiderio: Oil on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1999Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1997Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1993Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1993Vincent Desiderio, Very Special Arts Gallery, Washington, DC, United States.
1991Vincent Desiderio: The Power of Allegory, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States.
1990Vincent Desiderio, Lang and O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1989Vincent Desiderio, Lang and O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1988Vincent Desiderio, Greenville Country Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, United States.
1987Vincent Desiderio, Lang and O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1986Vincent Desiderio, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
2011A Desert in the Ocean—The View From Cill Rialaig, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, New York, United States.
2011Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2011Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2010Solemn and Sublime: Contemporary American Figurative Painting, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, United States.
2009Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2009Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2009The Return of the Horse: Painting in the Ambivalent Present, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
2009The Sketchbook Project, Art House Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. 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.
2009Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2008Summer Show, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2008Urban Organic, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
2007Painting and Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2007Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2007Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Patty and Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida, United States.
2006New Old Masters, National Museum, Gdańsk, Poland.
2006Post Malcolm Modern, The Forbes Galleries, New York, New York, United States.
2006Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2005Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.
2005Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2004Realism Now, Part II: Traditions and Departures, Mentors and Protégés, Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
2004The Drawn Page, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States.
2003Art History’s Heroes: The Masters of Contemporary Realism, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.
2003Modern and Contemporary Portraits, Forum Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2003The Perception of Appearance, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, United States.
2003Transforming the Commonplace, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.
2001Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2000Déjà vu: Reworking the Past, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, United States.
1999Ex-Capillary, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1998Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.
1998Forma Y Figuración: Obras Maestras De La Colección Blake-Purnell, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain.
1997ART 1997 CHICAGO: 5th Annual Expo of International Galleries Featuring Modern and Contemporary Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
1997Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States.
1997The Unbroken Line, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1996A Child's Work, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1996Body Language, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States.
1996Contemporary Artists in New York, Edobori Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
1996Heroic Painting, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. 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.
1996Reality Bites: Realism in Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
1995Portrait of Our Times, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan, United States.
1994Contemporary Artists in New York, Edobori Gallery, Osaka, Japana.
1994The Seer, O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1993The Anxious Salon: Narrative Content in Recent Figurative Painting, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
1992On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1991Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
1991In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
1991New Generations: New York, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
1991Strange Vistas/Imagined Histories/Revising Reality, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, United States.
1990American Art Today: The City, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States.
1990Persistence of Vision, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1990Polyptyques et Paravents: Un Siècle de Creation 1890-1990, Galerie Bellier, Paris, France.
1989Kunst der Letzten 10 Jahre, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria.
1989Works on Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1988Visions/Revisions: Contemporary Representation, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1987Morality Tales: History Painting in the 1980’s, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, New York, United States. 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 at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; and Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada.
1987Summer Group Exhibition, Lang and O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1986Small Format, Lang and O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1986The Drawing National, The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, United States. 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.
1985 P.S. 1, Queens, New York, United States.
1985Mass, New Museum, New York, New York, United States.
1985University Museum Invitational Exhibition, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States.
1984 Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1984Disdain for False Authorities, Independent Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1984New Realism, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, United States.
1983Untitled, 1983, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1982 Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
198210 Philadelphia Area Artists, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States.
1981Emerging Artists, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1979 Philadelphia College of Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, United States
Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States
Indiana University Museum of Art, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
2008Jaffe-Friede Gallery. Vincent Desiderio: Selected Works. Hannover, NH: Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College.
2008Marlborough Gallery. Vincent Desiderio: Recent Paintings. New York: Marlborough Gallery.
2006Kuspit, Donald. New Old Masters. Gdańsk, Poland: National Museum.
2005Bradway, Todd, ed. Vincent Desiderio: Paintings 1975-2005. New York: Marlborough Gallery and Distributed Art Publishers, Inc..
1997Marlborough Gallery. Vincent Desiderio: Recent Paintings. New York: Marlborough Gallery.
1995Hunter, Sam. Vincent Desiderio: The Damaged Legacy. Washington, DC: Very Special Gallery.
1989Marlborough Gallery. Vincent Desiderio. New York: Lang and O'Hara Gallery.
2011Aguirre, Abby. "Asked & Answered: Lawrence Weschler." T Magazine, November 16, 2011
2011Anonymous. "Eighteen new paintings in oil and mixed media by Vincent Desiderio exhibition at Marlborough Chelsea." Art Daily, September 17, 2011
2011Anonymous. "Vincent Desiderio." Time Out New York, September 08, 2011
2011Anonymous. "Week In Review." Dear Chelsea, September 23, 2011
2011Kuspit, Donald. "Pitiless Pathology: Vincent Desiderio’s Paintings." Artnet, October 18, 2011
2011Sargeant, Anne-Maree. "ART :: Vincent Desiderio." The SNAP Assembly, July 25, 2011
2011Soy, Jason. "Modern Realist Masterpieces." Trend Hunter, July 25, 2011
2009Haggerty, Gerard. "Vincent Desiderio: Marlborough." ARTnews Vol. 108, No. 3, March, pp. 110-111
2009Kuspit, Donald. "Vincent Desiderio: Marlborough Chelsea." Artforum, February, vol. 47, no. 6, p. 194
2009Newhall, Edith. "Galleries: Irresistible search for clues linking students and teachers." The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 05, 2009
2008Frostenson, Sarah. "Resident Desiderio paints absurd, reality." The Dartmouth, January 28, 2008
2008Hinds, Katherine, ed. The Martin Margulies Collection: Painting and Sculpture. Miami: The Martin Margulies Foundation, 2008, pp. 82-83
2008Radwan, Lucasz. "Malarz Niepokoju - Nawet najbardziej uzdolniony artysta bez klasycznej edukacji jest wewnętrznie pusty – mówi Vincent Desiderio." Wprost No. 36 (1341)
2006Barbatán, Marcos-Ricardo. "La celebración de la técnica." El Mundo, October 25, 2006, p. 15
2006Berruguete, Ana. "Al Límite." El Duende de Madrid, October 15, 2006, p. 58
2006Binkowski, Kraig. "Vincent Desiderio: Paintings 1975-2005." Library Journal, Vol. 131, No. 5, March 15
2006Farthing, Stephen. 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. New York: Quintet Publishing Limited, 2006, p. 930
2006Lewis, Michael J. American Art and Architecture. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2006
2006Rubí, Amalia García. "Vincent Desiderio, la realidad hecha carne." El Punto de las Artes, November 17, 2006, p. 8
2005Anonymous. "El Inquietante Desidiero." Hoteles de Espana y del mundo, November 01, 2005
2005Ibanez, Jose Manuel. "Realidades fracturadas." Mucho Viajes, November 01, 2005
2005Leffingwell, Edward. "Allegories of Painting." Art in America, Vol. 93, No. 2, February, pp. 98-103
2005Wallace, Nathaniel. "Vincent Desiderio: Paintings 1975-2005." Modern Painters, November 01, 2005, p. 123
2005Weschler, Lawrence. "Unfinished: On Vincent Desiderio’s 'Sleep'." The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 81, No. 4, Fall, pp. 116-129
2004Anonymous. "Vincent Desiderio." The New Yorker, Vol. 79, No. 46, February 9, p. 11
2004Donohoe, Victoria. "Wilmington center overflowing with appealing offerings." The Philadelphia Enquirer, June 27, 2004
2004Fineman, Mia. "A 10-Year-Long Art History Course." The New York Times, February 01, 2004, p. 34
2004Gardner, James. "Old School Art on 57th Street." New York Post, January 17, 2004, p. 27
2004Klein, Richard. "Aldrich Museum Opens Drawn Page Exhibition." The Ridgefield Press, June 13, 2004 pp. 1, 7B, 8B
2004Kuspit, Donald. The End of Art. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004
2004Mullarkey, Maureen. "Gallery-Going." The New York Sun, February 05, 2004, p. 19
2004Nicholson, Louise. "News from New York." Apollo, November 01, 2004
2003Wattenberg, Brendan. "Vincent Desiderio ’77: Contemporary Realism, Historical Breadth." Haverford, Summer, pp. 28-29
2002Anonymous. "Art Guide: Vincent Desiderio." The New York Times, January 25, 2002
2002Anonymous. "Stitch and Pixel." Tate Magazine September/October, pp. 42-47
2002Donohoe, Victoria. "He Takes the Risk of Realism." The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 09, 2002
2002Golden, Jane et al. Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002 pp. 82, 100
2002Sozanski, Edward. "Layered Allegories and Symbolic Puzzles." The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 16, 2002
2001Wallace, Nathaniel. "Vertical Slumber, the Hypnoglyph, and the Outs and Ins of the Postmodern." Comparative Literature, Vol. 53, No. 3, Summer, pp. 233-259
2000Kuspit, Donald. The Rebirth of Painting in the Late 20th Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 139-143
1998Anonymous. "El Museo Guggenheim presenta la colección Blake-Purnell." El Punto de las Artes, May 15, 1998, p. 21
1998Grimes, Nancy. "Vincent Desiderio at Marlborough." Art in America, Vol. 86, No. 4, April, p. 119
1998Kimmelman, Mike. "Vincent Desiderio." The New York Times, January 01, 1998
1998Kuspit, Donald. "Vincent Desiderio: Postmodern Visionary Painting." Art in New England, Vol. 19, No. 3, April/May.
1997Humphrey, Jacqueline. "Exhibit of Paintings Evokes Heroism 101." Greensboro News and Record, March 01, 1997
1997King, Carol. "Realism: The New Hip." ARTnews, February 01, 1997
1997Zimmerman, David. "Heroism Reconsidered." Art and Antiques, February 01, 1998, pp. 81-82
1996Altmann, Frédéric. "L’Américain Vincent Desiderio Couronné." Nice-Matin, May 12, 1996
1996Anonymous. "Foundation Prince-Pierre: le verdict." Nice-Matin, May 08, 1996
1996Anonymous. "Remise du Prix d’art Contemporain." Nice-Matin, July 01, 1996
1996Bass, Ruth. "Realism: When a Rose is a Rose." ARTnews vol. 95, no. 2, February, pp. 93-94
1996Bouillot, Roger. "Le XXXe: Prix international d'Art contemporain de Monte-Carlo." L'Oeil no. 481, July/August, p. 33
1996Bumgardner, Ed. "Heroic Gestures." Winston-Salem Journal, February 04, 1996 pp. El, E2
1996Cruysmans, Phillipe. "Dix artistes couronnés à Monaco." Le Figaro, May 14, 1996
1996Firestone, Evan R. "The Death of Moby Dick: Vincent Desiderio’s ‘The Progress of Self Love'." American Art, June 01, 1996. illustrated, p. 1 Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer, pp. 8-27
1996Hinson, Mark. "A Quick Course in ‘Body Language’." Tallahassee Democrat, November 15, 1996 p. D23
1996Kimmelman, Michael. "History Painting: Yes, Those Enormous Canvases." The New York Times, August 30, 1996 p. C27
1996Lamonthe, Nicole. "Du côte des Galeries." Les Petites Affiches, May 31, 1996
1996Patterson, Tom. "SECCA exhibit turns heroism on its ear." The Charlotte Observer, March 17, 1996 p. F2
1996Patterson, Tom. "The Style May Be Heroic, But the Message Is Strongly Anti-." Winston-Salem Journal, February 11, 1996
1996Schjeldahl, Peter. "Heroism Addiction." The Village Voice, August 06, 1996, p. 68
1996Twardy, Chuck. "We Can Be Heroes." The News and Observer, March 22, 1996 pp. D1, D3
1996Zimmerman, David. "Review: Art Exhibit Casts a Critical Eye at Common Concepts of Heroism." USA Today, October 29, 1996
1995Pall, Ellen. "Painting Life into Sammy." The New York Times Magazine, January 29, 1995, pp. 34-39
1993Kaufman, Jason. "Realism Rising: A Look at Four Americans Who Defy Modernism." Atelier, May 01, 1993, pp. 78-80
1993Tallmer, Jerry. "Art on Life Support." The New York Post, February 19, 1993, p. 34
1993Temin, Christine. "Anxious Salon: The Naked and the Dread." The Boston Globe, October 19, 1993 pp. 61, 65
1991DeVuono, Frances. "Reviews: Vincent Desiderio." ARTnews Vol. 90, No 2, February, pp. 144-5
1991Dickinson, Carol. "Touched by Desiderio’s Allegorical Largess." Rocky Mountain News, February 24, 1991
1991Johnson, Ken. "Reviews: Vincent Desiderio at Lang and O’Hara." Art in America, March 01, 1991, pp. 138-139
1991Rosen, Steven. "Modern ‘History Painter’ Depicts Grim Views of Life." The Denver Post, February 15, 1991 pp. E1-E2
1991Shannon, Joe. "Vincent Desiderio." Arts Magazine, February 01, 1991
1990Anonymous. "Fresques Allegoriques." City, November 01, 1990
1990Anonymous. "New York: Preview." Art Now Gallery Guide, November 01, 1990, p. 3
1990Nehall, Edith. "The Fall Preview." New York Magazine, September 10, 1990, p. 56
1990Powell, Nicholas. "Screen Quest." Art + Auction, April 01, 1990
1989Anonymous. "The Triumph of Dysfunction." Harper's Magazine, Vol. 279, No. 1670, July, p. 23
1989Brenson, Michael. "Review/Art; Pieced-Together History: Hannelore Baron's Collages." The New York Times, June 02, 1989, p. 24
1989DeVuono, Frances. "Reviews." The New Art Examiner, September 01, 1989, p. 59
1989Gimelson, Deborah. "Inside Art." Seven Days, August 23, 1989
1989Hunter, Sam. "A Latter-Day Humanist." Elle, Vol. 4, No. 8, April, p. 64
1989Pearl, Jed. "In the Galleries." Art and Antiques, September 01, 1989, p. 36
1988Smith, Paul. "Vincent Desiderio at Lang and O’Hara." Art in America, June 01, 1988, pp. 163-164
1987Brenson, Michael. "Art: 1980’s History on Canvas, in ‘Morality Tales’." The New York Times, September 01, 1987
1987Brenson, Michael. "Art: Narrative Works of Vincent Desiderio." The New York Times, December 04, 1987
1987Larson, Kay. "Shrinking History." New York Magazine, October 05, 1987, pp. 101-102
1987Martin, Richard. "Mortality Tales." Arts Magazine, December 01, 1987
1986Donohoe, Victoria. "Art." The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 1986, p. 46
1985Brenson, Michael. "P.S. 1 Show of 35 Younger Painters." The New York Times, December 06, 1985
1985Chayat, Sherry. "Everson Takes a Rare Look at the Direction of Drawing." Syracuse Herald Journal, November 07, 1985
1985Chayat, Sherry. "Imagery Marks Drawing National’s Massive Works." Syracuse Herald Journal, December 01, 1985
1985Cogan, Katherine Stiles. "Review." Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Alumni Association Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall/Winter
1985Donohoe, Victoria. "The Works of U.S. Artists and their Italian Mentors." The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 01, 1985
1985Donohoe, Victoria. "Young Artists Use Traditional Media with New Methods." The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29, 1985 p. 3C