Dr. Denise Carvalho is a New York-based artist, curator, art critic and scholar who lives and works in the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies, M.A. in art history from the University of California, Davis, a Masters...
Read MoreDr. Denise Carvalho is a New York-based artist, curator, art critic and scholar who lives and works in the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies, M.A. in art history from the University of California, Davis, a Masters in anthropology from Hunter College, and a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts.
My most recent exhibitions include Latin Artists at Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City in 2021, and a solo exhibition at the Cazenovia Public Library, NY, in 2022. Since 2018 to 2021, I participated at group exhibitions at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, was included in a public projection at the Oculus building at the World Trade Center, as well as a street projection at 51 East 56 Street in New York City, organized and curated by Artsy with MvVO Art AD Art Show 2019. Earlier my paintings were featured at various cultural centers and museums, including at the Fukuyama Museum in Japan, the Museo Ricoleta in Buenos Ayres, at the Cite Universitaire in Paris, at the Kentler Institute and at the Artists Space in New York City, and at the Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence in 2001. My artwork is also shown at Agartha Art Gallery in the United Kingdom, as well as at Artnet and Artsy.
My recent paintings explore concepts of consciousness through various techniques, including catharthic expressions inspired by opera, various forms of meditation and dance, exploration of psychological or intuitive knowledge and research. My research in art history, philosophy, and psychoanalysis are also major influences in the way I practice my artwork, distilling from ancient languages such as early summerian pictographs and Egyptian hieroglyphs, the knowledge of various surrealist experiments, such as that of exploring the left side of the brain, Miro's surrealism, Art Brut and the artwork of children utilized by various artists from Surrealits to COBRA, but also recent research I took when my mother who at the time suffered with Alzheimer's came to live with me. As I began teaching her to draw and paint as a form of expansion of her perception of the new apartment and outdoor environment. The content of my research while caring for my mother became the major steppingstone to understand earlier historical knowledges and how they all gear toward shifting notions of consciousness in today's technologized world.
