ArtistDenyse Thomasos

Denyse Thomasos is an abstract painter who has shown her work both nationally and internationally and is represented by the Lennon, Weinberg Gallery in New York and the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto. She graduated from Yale School of Art in the MFA painting program in 1989 before moving to New York City where she currently lives and works. She has won many awards including a Guggenheim, Pew, Joan Mitchell Award, and several other national and international awards. Her shows have been reviewed by all the main art periodicals including Art News, ArtForum, Art in America and Canadian Art. She has also attended a number of artist residencies including Bellagio and Bogliasco in Italy, Yaddo, McDowell and Ucross in the US. Denyse has recently expanded her abstract painting into a series of wall works and has been showing them at museum and university gallery venues both in Canada and the US. In 2001 she traveled around the world collecting research on vernacular architecture for her paintings and has continued a rigorous research process that has led to her most recent interest in Super Jails.  In 2008 she received a $50,000 grant by MICA (Maryland Institute College Arts in Baltimore) to complete a comprehensive body of research on the global privatized prison crisis. She brings this research to her recent wall works, exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg (December 2009) and her upcoming exhibition at the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto in February 2010.