Background
Desiderio was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Desiderio was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He subsequently studied for one year at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy (1977-1978), and for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1979 and 1983.
He is currently a senior critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the New York Academy of Artist He lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and works in Sleepy Hollow. Desiderio received a Bachelor in fine art and art history from Haverford College in 1977.
His paintings and drawings have been exhibited widely, most recently in solo exhibitions at the Marlborough Gallery in New New York
He is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, the Everson Museum of Art Purchase Prize, a Rome Grant from the Creative Artists Network and a Cresson Traveling Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1996, he became the first American artist to receive the International Contemporary Art Prize awarded by the Prince Ranier Foundation of the Principality of Monaco.
