The differences that at one time separated figuration from abstraction and conceptual painting are no longer relevant. Painting is always and everywhere representational, conceptual, ironic and abstract.
Vincent Desiderio


Solo Exhibitions
2009 Kid Disco South Street Gallery, Greenport, New York
2016 Open Space Gallery, Greenport, New York


Group Exhibitions
2002 Of Sky and Water Watermark Gallery, Greenport, New York
2011 Wendt Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2012 Imagine Gallery, Nashville, TN
2014 Summer season, Kenise Barnes Gallery, Larchmont, NY
2019 Members Show, Washington Art Association, Washington CT
2020 Members Show, Washington Art Association, Washington CT
2021 Members Show, Washington Art Association, Washington CT

Juried Exhibitions
2005 Small Works Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, New York
2007 Annual Women’s Show National Arts Club, New York, NY
2007 Summer Salon Juried exhibition New York Academy of Art, New York
2009 Summer Salon Juried exhibition New York Academy of Art, New York\
2010 Summer Exhibition, Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT
2012 Summer Salon Juried exhibition New York Academy of Art, New York
2016 Annual Show, Washington Art Association, Washington, CT
2018 Painters in NWCT, Valley Spirit, Washington, CT
2020 People in Places, WAA, Washington CT
2020 New Blooms, WAA, Washington CT
2021 New Growth” Washington Art Association, Washington CT
2021 Creative Connections, WAA, Washington CT
2021 120th Annual Exhibition, New Haven Clay & Paint Club, New Haven, CT Juror, Hollis Dunlap
2021 Five Points Gallery 2021 Juried Exhibition. Juror, Joseph Fucigna
2022 Salon de Litchfield Juried Show. Silo Art Gallery, New Milford, CT

Collection of Senator Richard and Cynthia Blumenthal, Greenwich, CT
Paris Forino Interior Design, Manhattan, Judith and John Honey, Southport, CT.

Publications:
The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture
Edited by Margaret McCann, Foreword by Bob Colacello, Preface by David Kratz, Rizoli 2014


Awards
2001-02 Merit Scholarship Award, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

MFA, Painting, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2002
Anatomical studies, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, Oxford, England 2002
AB English, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA cum laude
MSed Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Currently living on the tribal land of the Schaghticoke Nation of Northwest Connecticut.