Vincent Desiderio

Vincent Desiderio
Born 1955
Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Education
Known for Realism
Website vincent-desiderio.com
Without Words, 1989 painting by Vincent Desiderio

Vincent Desiderio (born 1955) is an American realist painter.[1] In 2005 he was on the teaching staff at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts;[2] he is a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art.[3]

Biography

Desiderio was born in 1955, in Pennsylvania.[2] 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.[2] In 1984 he joined the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City.[2]

His work was shown at the Marlborough Gallery in New York in 2004,[2] and is held by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[4]

Desiderio’s painting Sleep was a source of inspiration for the video "Famous" by Kanye West.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Larson, Kay (5 October 1987). "Shrinking History". New York Magazine.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Edward Leffingwell (2005). Allegories of Painting. Art In America 93 (2): 98–103. (subscription required).
  3. 1 2 Joe Coscarelli. The Artist Providing the Canvas for Kanye West's 'Famous' Video. The New York Times. June 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ "2005 National Medal of Arts". NEA. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
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