Denyse Thomasos
Denyse Thomasos  In progress |
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| Born | October 10, 1964 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Died | July 19, 2012 New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Known for | Painting |
Denyse Thomasos (October 10, 1964 – July 19, 2012) was a Trinidadian-Canadian painter known for her abstract-style wall murals that convey themes of slavery, confinement and the story of African and Asian diaspora. "Hybrid Nations" (2005) is one of her most notable pieces that features Thomasos' signature use of dense thatchwork patterning and architectural influence to portray images of American superjails and traditional African weavework.
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Denyse Thomasos and her family immigrated to Canada in 1970, settling in Toronto, Ontario. Her father obtained a master's degree in physics from the University of Waterloo and was a high school teacher.
In 2010, Thomasos married filmmaker Samein Priester at St. Basil's Church in Toronto, Ontario a year after the couple were married at City Hall in New York. The couple adopted their child, Syann, in June 2010.
Thomasos died suddenly at age forty-seven, due to an allergic reaction during a diagnostic medical procedure.
She received her MFA in painting and sculpture 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 Mississauga where she studied painting and art history.
Thomasos 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 a Millennium Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, to the first McMillan/Stewart award from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2009. She was a professor at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, and then (beginning in 1995), Associate Professor of Art at Rutgers University's Arts, Culture and Media Department.
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