Artist CV

DENISE SOUZA FINNEY

dsfpaintings.com · denise@dsfpaintings.com

More than twenty years of original acrylic paintings made in my studio in Ashland, Oregon — the figure in motion and the poppy flower.

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EDUCATION

2018 Creative Visionary Program (CVP)
Sausalito, California

1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington

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AWARDS & GRANTS

2018 Haines and Friends Fund Grant Award
2019 Haines and Friends Fund Grant Award
2023 Haines and Friends Fund Grant Award
Ashland, Oregon

2003 Taste of Ashland Poster — Juried Featured Artist
Ashland, Oregon

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 Rogue Valley Manor [Upcoming]
Medford, Oregon · September 2026

2025 The Garden Studio Sale
Ashland, Oregon · June 7

2024 Second Annual Glorious Garden Party & Art Show
Ashland, Oregon

2024 Haines Awardees Haines Exhibition — 2023 Grant Recipients
Ashland, Oregon · June

2024 AGA Member Exhibition
Ashland Art Center, Ashland, Oregon · March 1–24

2024 8x8 at 88 [Group]
Ashland Gallery Association · 88 N. Main, Ashland, Oregon · April 26

2024 Project Space [3-Person]
With Sarah F. Burns & Julian Bell · Talent, Oregon · May 4–5

2023 Rogue Valley Biennial
Rogue Gallery, Medford, Oregon · May 5–June 16

2019 Ashland Gallery Association Exhibition
Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Ashland, Oregon

2019 Haines Award Exhibition
Ashland Springs Hotel, Ashland, Oregon

2018 Ashland Gallery Association Exhibition
Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Ashland, Oregon

2017 Ashland Gallery Association Group Exhibit
The Thorndike Gallery, Ashland, Oregon

2016 ANM Group Show — Goodbye, Hello
Oregon


2015 Solo Show
Skye Salon, Talent, Oregon · October

2013 Figuratively Speaking [Group]
Rogue Gallery, Medford, Oregon · January

2012 REVIVE [Solo]
Ashland, Oregon

2012 The Figure Undressed [Group]
Rogue Gallery, Medford, Oregon · March

2012 Art for SART — Featured Artist
Jacksonville, Oregon

2011 Salon de Refusé [Group]
Medford, Oregon

2009 Two-Person Show
Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon

2009 Who Does She Think She Is? [Group]
HEC Building, Southern Oregon University, Medford, Oregon · September–October

2007 Movement in Paint [Solo]
The Thorndike Gallery, Ashland, Oregon · March 5–30

2007 Taste of Ashland Gala Event
Ashland, Oregon

2006 On Being Human [Group]
Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon · October

2006 Rogue Gallery Art Studio Tour
The Garden Studio, Ashland, Oregon · September 23–24

2006 Women's History Month Group Show
Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, Oregon · March

2002 Women with Attitude [Group]
JEGA Gallery, Ashland, Oregon · March

2001 Unveiled, Naked, Nude, Bare
Studio A.B., Ashland, Oregon · January 5–31

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COLLECTIONS

Works held in private collections throughout Oregon, California, and nationally.

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