Trinidad and Tobago’s patron saint of modern art
Denyse is coming home to the AGO this fall By Stephen Weir Early in October the Art Gallery of Ontario is presenting the first major retrospective exhibition of the late Trinidadian-Canadian artist Denyse Thomasos. She is considered one the finest painters to emerge in the 1990s. The exhibition is entitled Denyse Thomasos: just beyond and is co-organized by the AGO and the Remai Modern art gallery in Saskatoon. “Thomasos had a singular style that employed abstraction as a means to explore contemporary issues of race, the architecture of confinement and our complex relationships to space and place, and the environment” said the AGO in a recent release about the coming show. Denyse Thomasos: just beyond is co-organized by the AGO and Saskatoon’s Remai Modern contemporary art gallery. Born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Thomasos was raised in Toronto and spent most of her professional career in Philadelphia and New York City. Thomasos earned a BA in Painting and Art History from th