Vincent Desiderio
Vincent Desiderio (born 1955) is an American realist painter. In 2005 he was on the teaching staff at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; he is a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art.
Vincent Desiderio
- Name
- Vincent Desiderio
- Birthplace
- Pennsylvania, US
- Field
- Realism
- Training
- * Haverford College
- Born
- 1955 · Pennsylvania.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Education
- Haverford College · Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts · Academy of Fine Arts and Florence
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Vincent Desiderio (born 1955) is an American realist painter. In 2005 he was on the teaching staff at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; he is a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art.
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Vincent Desiderio (born 1955) is an illustrator and painter, of American nationality. The illustrator was born in Pennsylvania.
Vincent Desiderio was educated at Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Haverford College and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Activity centred on realism. Works are held at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.
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Vincent Desiderio studied at Haverford College, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Academy of Fine Arts, Florence. The field of work recorded is realism. Work by Vincent Desiderio is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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• Name — Vincent Desiderio • Birthplace — Pennsylvania, US • Field — Realism • Training — * Haverford College • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts • Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence, Italy • Website — vincent-desiderio.com
Biography
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Desiderio was born in 1955, in Pennsylvania. He studied at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania; at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia; and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. In 1984 he joined the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City. Vincent Desiderio is the father of four children, Sam, Oscar, Ian, and Lilly, from his first wife, Gale. He is also the stepfather of two children, Azure and Blaze, from his second wife, Roxanne. Desiderio's eldest son, Sam, was born with Hydrocephalus in 1986. He suffered a stroke as a young child, further disabling him and serving as the inspiration for much of Vincent's work thereafter. His work was shown at the Marlborough Gallery in New York in 2004, and is held by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Vincent's daughter Lilly is featured in his 2008 painting Lilly in a round chair. Desiderio's painting Sleep was a source of inspiration for the music video "Famous" by Kanye West.
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- 1.Larson, Kay. Shrinking History. New York. 5 October 1987.
- 2.Vincent Desiderio: Painting as a theoretical vanguard. 26 February 2019.
- 3.Pall, Ellen. Painting Life Into Sammy. The New York Times. 29 January 1995.
- 4.Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center. Vincent Desiderio.
- 5.NEA. 2005 National Medal of Arts.
- 6.Lilly in a round chair | Vincent Desiderio | 2008. 10 March 2011.
- 7.Edward Leffingwell (2005). Allegories of Painting. Art In America 93 (2): 98–103. .
- 8.Joe Coscarelli. The Artist Providing the Canvas for Kanye West's 'Famous' Video. The New York Times. June 29, 2016.
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