About the artist

BIO

Denise Cormier Mahoney is an experienced mid-career visual artist who exhibits her work across the United States and Canada. Raised in the French Acadian village of Memramcook, New Brunswick, Denise’s illustrative and surfaced designed compositions are infused with memories, stories and concepts told from personal experiences or dreams and heavily influenced by nature.  

 Denise earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking in 1983 at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She then obtained a Masters in Art Education in 2011 at Texas Tech University to share her passion for art with her students. She currently works as an artist/educator.

 She received an ARTS NB Creation Grant in 2021 for her ECHOES proposal and was accepted to the Kingsbrae International Artists Residency program in New Brunswick, Canada to begin work on that series. Living the dream, she now works in two studios, one in St Petersburg, Florida and the other in Memramcook, New Brunswick.

 She is the current President of the National Association of Women Artists, Florida Chapter. Her work focuses on expanding the memberships’ participation in professional level exhibitions, encouraging professional development opportunities and developing a scholarship & mentorship program for the next generation of women artists.

 Denise is an active member of several art organizations including the Warehouse Arts District in St. Petersburg, Florida, the National Association of Women Artists in NYC, the Tampa Bay Surface Design Guild, Artslink New Brunswick, the Association of Professional French Acadian Artists of Nouveau Brunswick & CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation).