DENYSE THOMASOS

1964 Born in Trinidad

Lives and works in

Education

1989 MFA in Painting and Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1988 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan,

1987 BA in Painting and Art History, University of , , 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]