VINCENT DESIDERIO
I really can not talk about the idea of figurative painting as something separate from abstract painting or conceptual painting. It would be nice if I could, but I really do not think in terms that involve a significant distinction between these approaches. I shudder when they call me a figurative painter. I am a painter
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VINCENT DESIDERIO
Vincent Desiderio was born in 1955. He graduated from Haverford College in 1977 and subsequently attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he is a key critic. He is also a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art and has been a visiting professor at numerous universities both in the US and abroad, and most recently at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China. Live and work in New York.
Desiderio has received numerous recognitions and prizes of painting between which it is possible to mention the concession of the foundation of Pollock-Krasner; Two National Awards for the Arts (1987 and 1991 and the Grand Prix of SAS Prince Raniero III, thirtieth annual exhibition of contemporary art in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 1996. He was the first American to receive this prize.) In 1984 and 1986 he was awarded a prize Studied at MoMA PS1, he received an honorary doctorate from the New York Academy of Art and the Lyme Academy, and in 2007 Desiderio was invited as a resident artist at Dartmouth College, and Desiderio has also received a scholarship from the Chinese government through the Mil Talents Program and is an adjunct professor at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin, China.
His work can be found in many important public collections, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; The Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, MA; The Academy of Fine Arts of the Museum of American Art of Philadelphia, PA; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; the Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany; and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
In 2005, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers published an important monograph dedicated to his work, Vincent Desiderio: Paintings 1975-2005, with texts by Mia Fineman, Donald Kuspit, Barry Schwabsky and Lawrence Weschler.
