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Vincent Desiderio Biography
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1955 |
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Born Philadelphia, PA
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1977 |
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BFA, Art History, Haverford College
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1977 - 1978 |
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Academia di Belle Arti Florence, Italy
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1982 |
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Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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1979 - 1983 |
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4 Year Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of F.A. Philadelphia, PA
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1984 |
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Studio Award, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, P.S. 1, The Clocktower,
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1985 |
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Purchase Prize, Drawing National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Studio Award, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, P.S. 1, The Clocktower, Long Island City, NY
Rome Grant, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA
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1987 |
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Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Painting
National Endowment for the Arts; Painting
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1991 |
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National Endowment for the Arts; Painting
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1996 |
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Grand Prize of S.A.S. Prince Rainier III, Thirtieth Annual Show of Contemporary Art in Monte-Carlo, Monaco
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Vincent Desiderio, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY (solo)
A Desert in the Ocean—The View From Cill Rialaig, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
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2010
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Solemn and Sublime: Contemporary American Figurative Painting, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
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2009
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incent Desiderio: Studies and Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Return of the Horse: Painting in the Ambivalent Present, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
The Sketchbook Project, Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
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2008
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Vincent Desiderio, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, NH (solo)
Vincent Desiderio, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York (solo)
Urban Organic, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2007
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Great Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Poland , Nowi Dawni Mistrzowie/New Old Masters by Donald Kuspit, National Museum in Gdañsk, Gdañsk, Poland
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, Patty and Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
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2006
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Post Malcolm Modern, The Forbes Galleries, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Vincent Desiderio, Pinturas Recientes, Marlborough Madrid, Spain (solo)
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2005
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Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
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The Drawn Page, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Realism Now, Part II: Traditions and Departures, Mentors and Protégés, Vose Galleries, Boston, MA
Vincent Desiderio: Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
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2003
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Modern & Contemporary Portraits, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Art History’s Heroes: The Masters of Contemporary Realism, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
The Perception of Appearance, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Transforming the Commonplace, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
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2002
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Vincent Desiderio: Oil on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Vincent Desiderio, The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA (solo)
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2001
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Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York
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2000
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Dejà vu: Reworking the Past, Katonah Museum Katonah, NY
Marlborough Gallery New York, NY
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1999
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Ex-Capillary, Allen Sheppard Gallery New York, NY
Marlborough Gallery New York, NY
Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1998
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Forma Y Figuración: Obras Maetras de la Colección Blake-Purnell, Guggenheim Bilbao Bilbao, Spain
Collector's Show, The Arkansas Arts Center Little Rock, AR (solo)
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1997
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ART 1997 CHICAGO: 5th Annual Expo of Internat'l Galleries Featuring Modern and Contemporary Art, Navy Pier Chicago, IL
Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art New York, NY
Marlborough Gallery New York, NY
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1996
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A Child's Work, Dru Arstark Gallery New York, NY
Contemporary Artists in New York, Edobori Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Body Language, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Heroic Painting, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Reality Bites: Realism in Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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1995
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Portrait of Our Times, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI
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1994
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The Seer, O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Artists in New York, Edobori Gallery, Osaka, Japana
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1993
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Marlborough Gallery New York, NY
Vaery Special Arts Gallery Washington, DC
The Anxious Salon: Narrative Content in Recent Figurative Painting, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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1992
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On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
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1991
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The Queens Museum New York, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
New Generations: New York, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Strange Vistas/Imagined Histories/Revising Reality, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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1990
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Lang & O'Hara Gallery New York, NY
American Art Today: The City, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Persistence of Vision, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Polyptyques et Paravents: Un Siècle de Creation 1890-1990, Galerie Bellier, Paris, France
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1989
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Kunst der Letzten 10 Jahre, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Works on Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
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1988
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Visions/Revisions: Contemporary Representation, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
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1987
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Morality Tales: History Painting in the 1980’s, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, Lang and O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY
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1986
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Small Format, Lang and O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY
The Drawing National, The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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1985
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P.S. 1, Queens, NY
Mass, New Museum, New York, NY
University Museum Invitational Exhibition, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
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1984
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Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA
Disdain for False Authorities, Independent Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
New Realism, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
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1983
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Untitled, 1983, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1982
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10 Philadelphia Area Artists, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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1981
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Emerging Artists, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
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Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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