Sandra DeSando's emergence as a fully mature painter after a lifetime of innovative, complex drawing, mastery of rendering skills and inventive application of color and form should not really be a surprise to anyone closely following her work, yet they are-in the best way-surprising and new. Sandra DeSando received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and a Ludwig Vogelstein and E.D. Foundation grant. She had a one-person Exhibition at the Newark Museum. Sandra is a Flintridge Foundation Fellow. She attended YADDO, Djerassi and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was also awarded a one-year residency by the Sharpe-Walentas Foundation and a three-month residency at Kommendantenhaus, Dilsberg, Germany. In 2017 She had an Eileen S, Kaminsky Family Foundation residency at Mana Contemporary. Her art was part of the Smithsonian Museum's Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz. She was a member of the Heresies Collective, a women's group that published, Heresies Magazine. She is a former Guerrilla Girl. She was on the Board of Pro Arts, Jersey City. Sandra was the Associate Director of Hibbs Gallery for Lesbian and Gay Art. She helped establish, and was the Manager of the Artist's Community Federal Credit Union at the New York Foundation for the Arts. Sandra worked as Manager, for MacArthur winning choreographer, Elizabeth Streb. She has lived and worked in New York City and New Jersey.