Denise R Burge , MFA

Professor Burge holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (1991). In 2025 she took on the role of Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs in DAAP.  From 1992 until 2024, She was a faculty member in the School of Art, teaching courses that ranged from seminars on landscape to animation.  She works in a variety of media, including painting, film, installation and quiltmaking. Her quilt work has been widely commissioned and collected, and was included in two Quilt National exhibitions. For this work she has been awarded multiple Ohio Arts Council grants, a Joan Mitchell Foundation award, and residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.
Burge also works collaboratively in several creative teams.  In 2006 she formed a collaborative animation group called The Dozens. Their work premiered at the Fringe Festival in Edinboro, Scotland, and has been in several national and international film festivals. Her collaborative Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running exhibited at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati (2011) and at New Harmony Indiana (2014) in celebration of their biennial.  In 2022 they completed a year-long residency at the Summit Hotel in Cincinnati.
She is currently executing projects with the Maidens, her personal work, and on a new collaborative graphic novel about 19th century journalist Lafcadio Hearn. 

websites:
https://www.deniseburge.com
http://www.maidenprojects.com
https://www.notfromherebook.com/



 

Masters of Fine Art: Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia, 1991 (Painting and Printmaking)

Bachlor of Fine Arts: University of North Carolina Greensboro,NC, 1989 (Painting and Printmaking)

Drawing Foundations Seminar Courses

2007 -2011 Director, MFA Program, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1996 -2007 Foundations Studio Coordinator, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1998 -2011 Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1995 -1999 Freelance Illustrator, Brutal Gift Studios,

1992 -1998 Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

2011 -To Present Professor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

2024 - Associate Dean of Academic and Faculty Affairs,

Grant: #University Research Council grant Investigators:Denise Burge 07-01-2020 -06-30-2023 UC Lafcadio Hearn's Haunted Journey- Cincinnati to Japan and Back Role:PI $10,000.00 Active

2000 -2001 DAAP Outstanding Service Award

2014 -2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation award

2022 -2022 University Research Council grant Support for research about Lafcadio Hearn, including travel to Japan

2024 -2024 Award- Best Experimental Film, Berlin Kiez film festival

2024 -2024 one-month creative residency, The Studios at Key West

2022 -2022 Foto Focus Biennial grant to support year-long residency project and exhibition

2020 -2025 Professorship, Niehoff Film and Media Center

http://www.maidenprojects.com
http://www.myoriginaldirt.com
https://www.notfromherebook.com/,

SOLO  EXHIBITIONS since 2018
2024     Souvenir, Farrington-Smith gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2023     Sunstroke, Buckham Gallery, Flint, Michigan, based on juried entry
            Better Close Than Never with film premiere and benefit sale, The Well, Cincinnati, Ohio
2022     Artist-In-Residence, Summit Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio (as part of FotoFocus Biennial, with Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running)
            Better Close Than Never, Summit Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio
            Sunstroke, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
Constructed Cloth (two-person exhibition with Sherri Lynn Wood), Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio
Sunstroke, Middletown Arts Center, Middletown Ohio
2021     Denise Burge, Pelissippee State Community College, Knoxville, Tennessee
2019     Denise Burge, Ohio University South, Ironton, Ohio


GROUP EXHIBITIONS since 2018
2024  Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition, Carnegie Gallery, Columbus Ohio
            Group Hug, Farrington-Smith gallery. New Orleans, Louisiana
2023     Fotogenia International FilmPoetry and Divergent Narratives Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
2nd Annual Fiber Arts Exhibit, Arts Center East, Vernon, Connecticut
2022     Elemental, Off Ludlow Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
            Outstanding, Las Laguna Art Gallery Laguna Beach, California
Light and Shadow, Curve Gallery Maryland Federation for the Arts Annapolis Maryland
2021     Queen City Visual Narrative, exhibition of graphic novel in progress,1628 Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Collective Impact: Females Joining Forces, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
            When the Bough Breaks, Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
When The Bough Breaks, PennState Robeson Galleries, State College, Pennsylvania
            American Landscapes, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland
            Backroads, Art Less Traveled, Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2020     When The Bough Breaks, The Penn State Center for Contemporary Art, State College, Pennsylvania, The York College Galleries, York, Pennsylvania
2019     When The Bough Breaks, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
            Ohio Paint/Print/Photo, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
Hard/Soft, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash, Cincinnati, Ohio
            Materials Hard and Soft, Greater Denton Arts Center, Denton, Texas
2018     Dublin Smartphone International Film Festival (juried), screening of video, Dublin, Ireland    
            Altered Views, Louden House, Lexington, Kentucky
            Hyper School, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, Texas

SCREENINGS
2024     Screening, Better Close Than Never, Berlin Kiez Film Festival, Berlin, Germany (adjudicated Best Experimental Film)
  &nbs,

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