DENYSE THOMASOS

Born 1964, Trinidad; Canadian citizen
Lives in New York, NY

EDUCATION

1989 Master of Fine Arts in painting, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1988 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Artist in Residence Program
Instructors included: David Reed, Guy Goodwin, Martin Puryear, Al Held
1987 University of Toronto, Canada
Bachelor of Arts, Studio and Art History major

2004
s Tracking: 30 Years in Trinidad, 30 Years in Canada, Bishops University Gallery,
Lennoxville, QC; Tracking: A Journey Through the East, St. Vincent University Gallery,
Halifax, NS (This is a two-part exhibition in conjunction with St. Vincent University Gallery)
2003
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
2001
Scratch, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, ON
1999
Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY
1998
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
1997
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY
1994
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
Project Room, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
1993
Fleisher Art Memorial Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1989
New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2003
Works on Paper, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
Painters 15, MOCCA, North York, ON

2002-2003
Works on Paper, Global Art Source, Zurich, Switzerland

2002
Quiet as it's Kept, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Painters 15, Canadian Painting Exhibition, Shanghai, China
New Year New York New Work, Lennon Weinberg Inc., New York, NY

2001
Exhibition I, Global Art Source, Zurich Switzerland
Drawing Rooms: Carl Palazzolo,Denyse Thomasos, Robin Hill, Lennon Weinberg Inc., New York, NY

2000-2001
Snapshot: an exhibition of 1,000 artists, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

2000 Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON

1999-2000
Women and Geometric Abstraction, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and Brooklyn, Pratt Institute, Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, New York, NY

1999
Contingency and Continuity: Negotiating New Abstraction, Macdonald Stewart
Art Centre, Guelph, ON

1998
Lennon, Weinberg, New York, NY

1997
Basically Black and White, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College,
SUNY, New York, NY
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New York North York, Art Gallery of North York, Toronto, ON

1996
Summer Group Show, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY

1994
MUD, 20 artists, exhibition of contemporary painting, Toronto, ON
Practice Ground, Jean-Marie Delavalle, Adrian Gollner, Byron Kim, Ken Lum, Denyse Thomasos, The Ottawa Art Gallery, ON

1993
Vox Populi, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1992
A Space, Toronto, ON

1989
Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1988
Yale Art and Architectural Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibition, New Haven Connecticut

1987
Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON

Kyo Maclear, Review, Canadian Art, Winter 2001, p. 76.

McKay, Gillian, Denyse Thomasos at Olga Korper Gallery, Gallery Going, The Globe & Mail, October 3, 1998, p. C9

Goodman, Jonathan, Denyse Thomasos at Lennon,
Weinberg, Art in America, February 1998, p. 104, ill.

Ghaznavi, Corinna. Denyse Thomasos, Modern Living, Canadian Art, vol. 15, no. 4, Winter 1998, p. 72, ill.

Moody, Tom. Denyse Thomasos at Lennon Weinberg, Artforum, November 1997

Cotter, Holland. Darts and Fusillades From the Sewing Basket, The New York Times, June 28, 1996

Armstrong, John. Denyse Thomasos, C Magazine, Spring 1995

Hume, Christopher. Star of Stripes, The Toronto Star, October 13, 1994

Recollect, Parallelogramme, vol. 19, no. 4, 1994, p. 82, ill.

REVIEWS

Armstrong, John. Denyse Thomasos: Mud; Toronto, Ottawa Contemporary Gallery and Olga Korper
Gallery, Contemporary Art Quarterly, Spring 1995, p. 95.
Armstrong, John. Denyse Thomasos, C Magazine, Spring 1995
Cotter, Holland. Immediacies of the Hand- Recent Abstract Painting in New York, The New York Times,
April 9, 1999
Cotter, Holland. Darts and Fusillades from the Sewing Basket, The New York Times, June 28, 1995.
Goodman, Jonathan. Immediacies of the Hand- Recent Abstract Painting in New York. Catalogue, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College. Essays by Carter Ratcliff and Kim Sobel.
Goodman, Jonathan, Denyse Thomasos at Lennon, Weinberg, Art in America, February 1998, p. 104, ill.
Ghaznavi, Corinna. Denyse Thomasos, Modern Living, Canadian Art, vol. 15, no. 4, Winter 1998, p. 72, ill.
Hume, Christopher. Star of Stripes, The Toronto Star, October 13, 1994
Recollect, Parallelogramme, vol. 19, no. 4, 1994, p. 82, ill.
Jacques, Geoffrey, Quiet as it's Kept, Exhibition Catalogue essay for: Quiet as it's Kept, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria, 2002.
Johnson, Ken. Art in Review: Denyse Thomasos, The New York Times, October 8, 1999.
Levin, Kim. Voice Choices, Village Voice, June 11-17, 1997.
Kyo Maclear, Review, Canadian Art, Winter 2001, p. 76.
McKay, Gillian, Denyse Thomasos at Olga Korper Gallery, Gallery Going, The Globe & Mail, October 3, 1998, p. C9
Moody, Tom. Denyse Thomasos at Lennon Weinberg, Artforum, November 1997
Morales, Tina. Art Along the Lines of Emotions, Queens Life, February 23, 1997.
Morgan, Robert C. Women and Geometric Abstraction. Review, December 1999.
Nahas, Dominique. Denyse Thomasos. Review, June 15, 1997, pg.4.
Newhall, Edith. Talent-Denyse Thomasos, New York, July 7, 1997.
Reid, Calvin. How We Got To Now: 1990's in the Mix, The International Review of African American Art, v.16, No.4, 2000, p.27, reproduced black and white p.29.
Scoble, Ilka. Urban Palette, artnet.com Magazine, September 1999.
Weil, Rex. Denyse Thomasos, Artnews, January 2000.
Worth, Alexi. Denyse Thomasos, The New Yorker, October 11, 1999.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2002 Artist Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1998 New York Foundation for the Arts
Canada Council Grant
Joan Mitchell Prize
1997 Guggenheim Fellowship Prize
1995 Philadelphia City Prize
1994 National Edowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Regional Grant
American Academy in Rome, PEW Recipient
Pennsylavania Council Grant
Canada Council Grant
1990 Exploration Grant, Canada Council
1987-1989 Yale Tuition Scholarship, Yale University
1988 Skowhegan Tuition Scholarship

TEACHING

1995- Present Rutgers University, New York, NY
1990-1995 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor
1989 Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut - Teaching Assistant

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Claridge Collection, Montreal
Hart House, Toronto
Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin, Toronto
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
McMillan, Binch, Toronto
NUCAP Industries, Toronto
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto
Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto
Sunlife, Toronto
Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto
Torys, Toronto