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Vincent Desiderio

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Mourningandfecundity — *Mourning and Fecundity*, 2007 Oil On Canvas H: 428.6 X W: 375.9 Cm © Marlborough Gallery

Untitled-9 — *Figure before Sleep*, 2009 Oil On Paper 11 X 12 3/4 Inches © Courtesy of the artist & Marlborough Gallery New York

20101026183859-009--10 — *The Triumph of Dysfunction*, 1988 © Courtesy of the artist and Margulies Collection at the Warehouse

20110127085825-desiderio_vincent_sink — *Sink*, 2010 Oil On Paper On Prepared Board 48 X 64 Inches © Vincent Desiderio

20110815203956-desiderio_spiegel_im_spiegel — *Spiegel im Spiegel*, 2010 Oil On Canvas 84 X 108 Inches © Courtesy of the artist & Marlborough Chelsea

20111215052359-43_vincent-desiderio — *Sumo* , 2008 - 2009 Oil On Canvas H: 106 X W: 130 In © Marlborough Gallery

20111215052519-ent-desiderio — *Laughing Woman* , 2010 Oil On Prepared Board H: 64 X W: 48 In © Marlborough Gallery

20111215052723-t-desiderio — *Mourning and Fecundity II* , 2011 Mixed Media And Oil On Canvas H: 81.2 X W: 107.2 In © Marlborough Gallery

20111215053356-window_2010 — *Window*, 2010 Oil And Mixed Media On Board 48 X 48 Inches © Marlborough Gallery

20111215053530-pigs — *Pigs*, 2006 Oil On Linen 67 1/4 X 47 Inches © Marlborough Gallery

20111215053641-lily — *Lily in a Round Chair*, 2008 Oil On Linen 45 1/2 X 57 1/8 Inches © Marlborough Gallery

20111215053824-desiderio_ — *My Father Fallen*, 2009 Oil On Paper 13 1/4 X 16 Inches © Marlborough Gallery

20111215054022-desiderio_figure_ascending_ — *Figure Ascending Staircase*, 2009 Oil On Paper Mounted On Board 17 X 12 1/2 Inches © Marlborough Gallery

20111215054327-boating_ — *Boating Party*, 2010 Oil On Paper On Prepared Board 60 X 48 Inches © Marlborough Gallery

20111215054453-michelangelo — *Study After Michelangelo's Battle of the Centaurs*, 2009 Oil On Paper Mounted On Panel 8 X 9 3/4 Inches © Marlborough Gallery

20131220021744-desiderio__the_awful_indifference__web — *The Awful Indifference*, 2013 Oil And Mixed Media On Canvas Mounted On Board 60 X 144 Inches © Courtesy of the artist & The Marlborough Gallery

Quick Facts

Birthplace

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Birth year

1955

Lives in

New York

Works in

New York

Representing galleries

Marlborough Gallery New York

Statement

The artist lives and works in Westchester County, New York.
1955 Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1977 Accademia di Bell’Arte, Florence, Italy (through 1978)
1977 BA, Fine Arts and Art History, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
1983 Four-Year Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Awards

1996 Grand Prize, S.A.S. Prince Rainier III 30th Annual Show of Contemporary Art, Monte Carlo, Monaco
1991 Painting Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, United States
1987 Painting Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, United States
1987 Painting Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, United States
1985 Purchase Prize, Drawing National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, United States
1985 Rome Grant, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
1985 Studio Award, P.S. 1, Queens, New York, United States
1984 Studio Award, P.S. 1, Queens, New York, United States
1982 Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Solo Exhibitions

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.

Group Exhibitions

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.

Public Collections

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