DENYSE THOMASOS
1964 Born in Trinidad
Lives and works in New York
Education
1989 MFA in Painting and Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1988 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1987 BA in Painting and Art History, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010 Flight, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Life, Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, New York
2008 Excavations, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Denyse Thomasos, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Tracking: Thirty Years in Canada, Thirty Years in Trinidad, Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Lennoxville,
Quebec
Tracking: A Journey Through the East, St. Vincent University Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2003 Denyse Thomasos, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Scratch, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Ontario
1999 Denyse Thomasos, Lennon, Weinberg, New York
1998 Denyse Thomasos, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Denyse Thomasos, Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Corporate Center, New York
1997 Paintings 1995-1997, Lennon, Weinberg , New York
1995 Project Room, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
Denyse Thomasos: New Paintings, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1994 Challenge Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Curated by Lanny Bergner
1989 New Talent Show, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Group Exhibitions
2009 Before Again, Lennon Weinberg, New York
via Farini 32, 20159 Milano www.brandnew-gallery.com [email protected] 2008 Transformation: AGO- Frank Gehry’s Reconceived and Resigned Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of
Ontario Toronto, Ontario. Curated by David Moos. Museum acquisition of ‘Metropolis’ painting presented at
AGO opening.
2006 Bird Watching, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Patrick Grenier.
2005 Swing Space: Wallworks / Sol LeWitt, C.A. Swintak,Lawrence Weiner, Raymond Pettibon and Denyse
Thomasos, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Group Exhibition: Gallery Artists, Lennon, Weinberg , New York
2003 Group Show, Lennon, Weinberg, New York
Works on Paper, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Painters 15, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art , North York, Ontario
2002 Works on Paper , Global Art Source, Zurich, Switzerland
Quiet as it’s Kept, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria. Curated by David Hammons.
New Year New York New Work, Lennon, Weinberg , New York
Painters 15, Canadian Painting Exhibition, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China
2001 Exhibition 1, Global Art Source, Zurich, Switzerland
Drawing Rooms: Carl Palazzolo, Denyse Thomasos, Robin Hill, Lennon, Weinberg , New York
Snapshot: an exhibition of 1,000 artists, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
2000 Women and Geometric Abstraction, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and Brooklyn, Pratt Institute, Rubelle and
Norman Schafler Gallery, New York. Curated by Kit White.
1999 Immediacies of the Hand – RecentAbstract Painting in New York, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery.
New York. Curated by Carter Ratcliff and Kim Sobel
Unlocking theGrid: concerning the grid in recent painting, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode
Island Kingston, Rhode Island
1998 Paintings, Lennon, Weinberg , New York
UTZ: A Collected Exhibition, Lennon, Weinberg, New York. Curated by Stephanie Theodore.
Basically Black and White, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York. Curated by Judith
Collishan.
New York - North York: Canadian Artists in theBig Apple, Art Gallery of North York, Ontario, Canada
Really, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Donald Odita.
Honors and Awards
2008 Canada Council Travel Grant, Ottawa, ON
New York Foundation for the Arts Award (NYFA), New York, NY
via Farini 32, 20159 Milano www.brandnew-gallery.com [email protected] Genevieve McMillan/Reba Stewart Chair in Painting, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2006 Brooklyn College, Artist in Residence, Brooklyn, NY
Canada Council, Project Grant, Ottawa, ON
2002 Artist Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2001 Bellagio Foundation (Artist Residency), Bellagio Italy
2000 Ucross Foundation (Artist Residency), Ucross, Wyoming
Yaddo (Artist Residency), Saratoga, New York
Mac Dowell (Artist Residency), Peterborough, New Hampshire
1998 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, New York
New York Foundation for the Arts
Canada Council, "B" Grant (Painting), Ottawa, ON
1997 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award
Studio Program, P.S.122, New York, Permanent Member
1996 Studio Program, P.S.122, New York, Project Space
1995 Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Marie Walsh Sharpe, Studio Space Program, New York, New York
American Academy in Rome, Pew Recipient, New York, New York
1994 NEA, Mid-Atlantic Regional Grant (Painting), Baltimore, Maryland
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia, Visual Arts Fellowship in Painting
Canada Council, "B" National Grant (Painting), Ottawa, Ontario
1990 Canada Council, "Exploration Grant," Ottawa, Ontario
via Farini 32, 20159 Milano www.brandnew-gallery.com [email protected]