• Openings Collective "addition/subtraction" curator

    Curating exhibition to be held in St. Paul the Apostles Church, NYC with co-curator/ photographer Keena Gonzalez.
    28 Artists Opening January 11, 2024

  • Graduate: Harvard Divinity School 8/2021-5/2023 Directed Research: Religious transformations as seen through the Arts Ancient and Contemporary

    Graduate: Harvard Divinity School 8/2021-5/2023 Directed Research: Religious transformations as seen through the Arts Ancient and Contemporary

    "Scene and Unseen" (94" x 52") Oil on canvas, filament wire, colored paper.
    Combining Harvard Divinity School research with my studio practice culminated into an open studio event of new work at the Harvard Carpenter Center . 05/2023

  • Women in the Heights NoMAA

    Women in the Heights NoMAA

    In celebration of Women’s History Month, The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance presents the exhibition:
    Women in the Heights – Up Close and Personal Curated by Andrea Arroyo. My piece, "Birds of Extinction" was a featured work on the announcement postcard.

  • Mellon Foundation Public Humanities project 2020-2021

    Mellon Foundation Public Humanities project 2020-2021

    Denise Penizzotto
    The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Art in Sacred Places in exploration of contemporary art programs hosted by religious institutions, Penizzotto focuses on the intersections between artistic intent, viewer perspectives, environment and curatorial intent. What do we identify as sacred?
    See Denise’s project:www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA3MK9NyfKc

  • NoMAA NYC group show 2021

    I started the year 2021 with an online group show due to COVID meeting in person complications : www.nomaanyc.org/virtual/women-in-the-h…
    Hierophany 1/ hierophany 2

  • Back at the MET!

    Back at the MET!

    Accepted in the MET copyist program, this year I am painting in the Greek and Roman wing for the next 8 weeks. Just getting started..

  • Denise Bibro Fine Arts Artists of the Five Boros VII exhibition

    Denise Bibro Fine Arts Artists of the Five Boros VII exhibition

    Please join me opening evening, January 9, 2020 from 5-8 at the Denise Bibro Gallery 529 West 20th Street 4W, for the annual show "Artists of the Five Boros VII"
    Or please let me know if you can make it another time during the show's run from January 9 - February 8, 2020. I'd be pleased to hear from you - and perhaps we can match schedules to meet there together.

  • BAM Harvey Theater Restore and Renovate

    BAM Harvey Theater Restore and Renovate

    Returning to the BAM Harvey Theater for this year's 3rd phase of the Harvey Theater's renovation project. My focus this season is on the restoration of the proscenium, proscenium medallion and the backstage wall.

  • MET Copyist Program

    MET Copyist Program

    Admitted into the MET Copyist Program you can find me at the MET Museum every Wednesday from 12 - 4 March through April 10, 2019 in the American Wing top balcony.
    "Magnolia Vase" Tiffany & Co. 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

  • Penizzotto in "Best of the Boros!"
    6th Annual Show of Important, Underrepresented Artists in NYC

  • Denise Bibro Gallery "Art from the Boros VI"

    Denise Bibro Gallery "Art from the Boros VI"

    Pleased to announce my participation in:

    Art From the Boros VI

    Denise Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea, NYC is pleased to announce,
    Art From the Boros VI, on view December 20, 2018 - February 2, 2019. The exhibition opens December 20, 2018, from 5:30 - 8:30pm.

    From numerous submissions and studio visits, diverse artists were selected to participate in this group show highlighting talent from New York City's five boroughs.

    Art From the Boros VI exemplifies the eclectic artistic community of New York City, showing a variety of genres and mediums. The exhibition seeks to find the pulse of talent in the city that is often overlooked and underexposed.

    Featuring Artists: Cecilia André, Hector Andujar, Margery Appelbaum, Claudia Doring Baez, Beth Bailis, Fran Beallor, Kenneth Burris, Ai Campbell, Elizabeth Myers Castonguay, Carol Chave, Elaine Clayman, Bob Clyatt, Janet Cook, Stephen Cox, Jennifer Croson, Sarah Dineen, Vita Eruhimovitz, Laura Fantini, Michael Filan, Sharon Florin, Eileen Hoffman, Iliyan Ivanov, Sandrine Kern, Barbara Korman, Kendrick Mar, Stephanie Marcus, Kathleen Migliore-Newton, Harvey Milman, Maria Morabito, Cynthia O'Connor, Vittorio Ottaviani, Alfred Nadel, Zahra Nazari, Douglas Newton, Denise Penizzotto, Michael Poast, Ben Ponte, Aleksandar Popovic, Gail Postal, Chelsea Ramirez, Toni Ann Serratelli, Sasha Silverstein, Sheila Smith, Geoffrey Stein, Jeff Sundheim, Paul Antonio Szabo, Carlos Torres-Machado, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Lucy Wilner, and Steve Zolin.

  • NYC "not to miss" by Artnet "Dec. 7 Endless Editions"

  • Endless Editions with Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

    Endless Editions with Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

    Endless Editions with Elizabeth Street Foundation have compiled their 2018 publication Optimism Artist Catalogue including a painting by Denise Penizzotto "All of the Above"

  • Arnold Belkin Mural Re-creation

    Arnold Belkin Mural Re-creation



    “Against Domestic Colonialsim” by late artist Arnold Belkin, painted in NYC 1973 in the community park of Mathews-Palmer Playground, Hells Kitchen NYC.

    This historical mural, as you can see by the picture taken summer 2018, is in a state of disrepair. Denise Gieseke-Penizzotto will lead a team of muralist to repaint as soon as the wall repair can take place.

    We are in a holding pattern until the NYC Parks and Rec Department, Department of Buildings and other NYC city officials can make a clear determination of who is the responsible party to repair the wall surface. This situation has been in a holding pattern for a number of years now and, true to the message of the mural, “We the people demand control of our communities”. We are in fear of losing the oldest extant mural in the United States due to the delay of the parties involved. This is the only remaining mural of Arnold Belkin, student of the “Three Mexican Muralists” Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose’ Clemente Orozco.

    We the People, with the generous support of Golden Paints (who has donated all the paint for this 60’ h x 65’ wide mural) and the efforts of our community and grassroots folks, friends and family, are poised and ready to get on the wall and paint as soon as the NYC officials do the right thing!

    For more information:
    www.mathews-palmer-playground-mural-art…

    and if you’d like to contribute:
    www.crowdrise.com/mathewspalmerplaygro1

  • Exhibition: White Box/Agora Gallery August 28 - Sept 1, 2018

    Exhibition: White Box/Agora Gallery August 28 - Sept 1, 2018

    Group Exhibition hosted by Artsy.com and Bombay Sapphire
    Emerging Artists Series 2018

    Selected painting: "Me, Sargent and Mrs Carl Meyers with her Children"

    August 26 - Sept 1, 2018 11-6
    Opening evening August 28 6:30 - 9 p.m.

  • A Vulture's Feast

    A Vulture's Feast

    A Collection of Works by Denise Gieseke Penizzotto
    Solo exhibition at
    Studio Anise
    21 Greene Street
    NYC
    Exhibition summer - fall 2016