Denyse Thomasos

Denyse Thomasos
Born October 10, 1964
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Died July 19, 2012
New York City, New York, United States
Nationality Canadian
Education
Known for Painting

Denyse Thomasos (October 10, 1964 - July 19, 2012) was a Trinidadian-Canadian painter known primarily for large-scale, abstract works.[1]

Life

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Denyse Thomasos and her family immigrated to Canada in 1970, settling in Mississauga, Ontario. She won more than twenty awards over the course of her career, ranging from the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 1995, to a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997, to the first McMillan/Stewart award from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2009. She was an associate professor of art at Rutgers University.[2]

She received her MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art in 1989, after attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, in 1988. She received her BFA from the University of Toronto. [3]

She died suddenly at age forty-seven, due to an allergic reaction during a diagnostic medical procedure.[4]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "Artist: Denyse Thomasos". canadianart.ca. Canadian Art. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Painter Denyse Thomasos, 47, Dies Unexpectedly"
  3. ↑ Artist CV
  4. ↑ "Painter Denyse Thomasos, 47, Dies Unexpectedly"
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