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Denyse Thomasos (born Port of Spain, Trinidad 1964 – died New York City 2012) completed her Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History at Sheridan/University of Toronto Mississauga in 1987 and her MFA at Yale University in 1989. A selection of her solo exhibitions in public galleries include the following: Kingdom Come, Oakville Galleries (2011); Epistrophe: Wall Paintings by Denyse Thomasos, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke (2006, travelling); Hybrid Nations in Swing Space: Wallworks, Art Gallery of Ontario (2005). Group exhibitions: Bird Watching, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn (2006); Painters 15, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art North York (2003); Quiet as it’s Kept, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria (2002). Thomasos has won numerous awards and artist residencies including a New York Foundation for the Arts Award (2008), Bellagio Foundation Residency (2001), Yaddo Residency, Joan Mitchell Award (1998), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1997), and a PEW Foundation Fellowship (1995). In 2007, she was named the first recipient of the McMillan/Stewart Award, recognizing unique and outstanding contributions made by women artists. Thomasos lived in the East Village, New York City; her estate is represented by Olga Korper Gallery.