HONORS & AWARDS

  • Winner, Art Unleashed, Art Mozaik, Santa Fe, NM 2024
  • Underdog Award for Michigan: The Great Divide in The Art Prize, Grand Rapids, MI, 2022
  • Honorable Mention for Georgia: On My Mind in Dynamic: d’Art’s First Annual Contemporary Artist Exhibition, a National Juried Exhibition, Norfolk, VA, 2021
  • Finalist, The New Mexico & Arizona Book Coop Awards for House of Cards: The Whole Deck (art category), 2021
  • Finalist, The New Mexico & Arizona Book Coop Awards for Letters to the Deceased and Other Missives (memoir category), 2021
  • Local Treasure, Albuquerque Art Business Association, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
  • Poster Artist, !Globalquerque!, Albuquerque, NM, 2017
  • Best in Show for Jacks of Jupiter in Las Vegas International Juried Art Competition, Jana’s RedRoom, Las Vegas, NV, 2016

MURALS

  • Courtyard Mural, Private Residence, Northeast Heights, Albuquerque, NM, 2024
  • Sea of Life, The Next Best Thing To Being There, 1315 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 2023
  • Secret Garden, Marble and 15th Street, Albuquerque, 2023
  • Tree of Life, The Next Best Thing To Being There, 1315 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, 2022
  • Orpheum Community Hub Mural, Second Street & Coal Ave, Albuquerque, NM 2019
  • Tortuga’s Bosque Mural, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
  • We The People Mural, Tapia Road, Albuquerque, NM, 2017
  • The Garden of Muses Mural, The Source Forest, Albuquerque, NM, 2015

COLLECTIONS

  • City of Albuquerque Public Art (2 pieces)
  • Public Art of New Mexico (8 pieces)
  • Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists
  • Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • University of New Mexico Foundation, Albuquerque, NM
  • Wolverhampton College, Wolverhampton, U.K.

MUSEUM SHOWS

  • Masur Museum of Art’s 60th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum, Monroe, Louisiana, 2023
  • VIVID: A Sampling of Today’s Albuquerque Art Scene, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2022
  • Arts Thrive, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, 2020
  • Three–A National Juried Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2018

SOLO SHOWS

  • Postcards, The Next Best Thing to Being There, Albuquerque, NM, 2023
  • Hexagrams, The Next Best Thing to Being There, Albuquerque, NM, 2021
  • House of Cards: Revisited, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2020
  • Denise Weaver Ross, Studio 508, Belen, NM, 2019
  • 64 Hexagrams, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
  • DEALT, Slice Parlor NE Heights, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
  • From the Heart, ProgressNow, NM, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
  • Selection from the House of Cards, Jana’s RedRoom, Las Vegas, NV, 2017
  • Among the Trees, New Grounds Print Workshop and Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2017
  • House of Cards: The Whole Deck, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2015
  • Stars in My Eyes, Hearts in My Trees,The Source Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2014
  • My Heart is in the Trees, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2014
  • MW by NE by SW, New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2013
  • Mangames, Soho Gallery, New York, NY, 1994
  • Mangames, R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1992
  • Bound and Gagged, McHenry County College Art Gallery, Crystal Lake, Illinois, 1992
  • Mangames, Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Illinois, 1989
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors, Bridgewater State College, Rondileau Art Gallery, MA, 1989
  • To be continued…, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, 1986
  • Wish You Were Here! (MFA Thesis Solo), Herter Gallery, Amherst MA, 1982

JURIED SHOWS

  • On Edge 2024, Edge Gallery, Lakewood, CO, 2024
  • The Art of Tarot, Electra Gallery, Early Street, Santa Fe, NM, 2024
  • Art Unleashed!, Art Mozaik, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM, 2024
  • Women’s Work 2024, Ghostwolf Gallery, Old Town, Albuquerque, NM, 2024
  • What’s Love Got To Do With It?, 3017 Gallery, Albuquerque,NM, 2024
  • Exuberance, Art Mozaik, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 2024
  • Arts International North 29, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN, 2024
  • Enigma, Ghostwolf Gallery, Old Town, Albuquerque, NM, 2023
  • Superfunkadelic 2023, Ghostwolf Gallery, Old Town, Albuquerque, NM, 2023
  • Reimagining History, Sandow Birk, Juror, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA, 2023
  • Masur Museum of Art’s 60th Annual Juried Competition,  Masur Museum, Monroe, LA, 2023
  • Valdosta National 2023 Change of Weather, 35th Annual, Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta State University, GA, 2023
  • The Art Prize, Grand Rapids, MI, 2022
  • Dynamic: d’Art’s First Annual Contemporary Artist Exhibition, a National Juried Exhibition, D’Art Center, Norfolk, VA, 2021
  • Unprecedented: Art Responds to 2020, a National Juried Exhibition, View Center for the Arts, Old Forge, NY, 2021
  • Canvas of Hope, Rio Grande Borderland Ministries, Online Auction, 2021
  • Arts Thrive, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, 2020
  • Finding Your Voice in America Today, a National Juried Exhibition, Kelwood Contemporary Art, Baton Rouge, LA, 2020
  • Three–A National Juried Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2018
  • Las Vegas International Juried Art Competition, Jana’s RedRoom, Las Vegas, NV, 2016
  • The Contemporary Figure in Painting, Matrix Fine Arts, Albuquerque, NM, 2016
  • Cupid’s Arrow, Wheelhouse Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2015
  • PRINT: Albuquerque, William Platz Gallery at SUVA, Albuquerque, NM, 2013
  • Walk on the Wild Side, The Wooden Cow Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2010
  • WordPlay, The Wooden Cow Gallery & Art Space, Albuquerque, NM, 2010
  • National Highlights ’93, Limner Gallery, New York, NY, 1993
  • Corporate Ninjas, No Turtles, Bridgewater State, Rondileau Art Gallery, MA, 1992
  • Innocence Show, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA, 1986
  • In the Pink, Tweed Gallery, New Jersey, 1985

SELECTED GROUP/INVITATIONAL SHOWS

  • Year of the Dragon, The Next Best Thing to Being There, Mountain Road, Albuquerque, NM, 2024
  • Circles, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2023
  • Tarot, Memento Mori Art Gallery, Lakewood, CO, 2023
  • VIVID: A Sampling of Today’s Albuquerque Art Scene, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2022
  • Water is Life, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2022
  • The Art of Quarantine, Gallery with a Cause at New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2021
  • Put a Bird on It, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2021
  • Hindsight is 2020, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2020
  • Haiti: After the Earthquake, African American Performing Arts Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2020
  • Architecture of Beauty, Gallery with a Cause at New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2019
  • Take Notice Luanem Gallery. Menaul School, Albuquerque, NM, 2019
  • FacePalm Patriots, KD Neely Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2017
  • Whimsical Show, Unitarian Church, Albuquerque, NM, 2017
  • Artists on the Rise, Gallery with a Cause at New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2017
  • Politico, Downtown Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM, 2017
  • The Flame Show, Downtown Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM, 2017
  • The Turtle Show, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2017
  • Grand Opening Show, Vibrance, Albuquerque, NM, 2016
  • Legends & Monsters, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2016
  • Forms of Life, Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2016
  • Heart Attack, Downtown Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM, 2016
  • Fresh Paint, Luanem Gallery, Menaul School, Albuquerque, NM, 2015
  • Selections, The “New” Old School House Gallery, San Antonito, NM, 2014
  • From Without and Within, Back Street Bistro, Santa Fe, NM, 2014
  • Becoming: One Thing Leads to Another, Luanem Gallery. Menaul School, Albuquerque, NM, 2014
  • School House: Rock, Paper, Scissors, The Old School House Gallery, San Antonito, NM, 2014
  • Gravure – The Chameleon of Printmaking, The New Grounds Print Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2012
  • New Work by New Artists, New Grounds Print Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2007
  • Kingston Gallery: Ten Years, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, 1992
  • On the Wall, Off the Wall, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA, 1984

TRAVELING GROUP SHOW
Made in NM, Work by New Grounds Print Workshop Artists, 2008-2010

  • Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists, Northern Alberta, Canada
  • Sarala’s Art Centre, Chennai, India
  • Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
  • University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Gallery Laurent Schkolnyk, Nantes, France
  • Wolverhampton College, Wolverhampton, England
  • Proyecto Ace Dirrección, Buenos Aires, Argentina

ART REVIEWS

  • Tucker, Elizabeth, 7 Murals We Love in Downtown Albuquerque, Albuquerque Journal,Tuesday, February 14, 2024
  • AAM will pay a ‘VIVID’ visit to Albuquerque, Sun Chronicle, Attleboro, MA, Thursday, April 7, 2022
  • Martinez, Rozanna M, Transforming the deck: Artist Denise Weaver Ross revisits playing cards suits while invoking mythology,
    nature and the dead,     Albuquerque Journal, Sunday, September 6, 2020
  • Roberts, Kathaleen, Postcard Views: Denise Weaver Ross’ work unveils an edgy turn rooted in politics, national tragedies,
    Albuquerque Journal, Sunday, April 24, 2020
  • Clarke, Condé, Denise Weaver Ross’s Hexagram 6: Sung (Creative Tension), Alibi, No.28, July 11-17, 2019
  • Hood, Taylor, Creatives: Denise Weaver Ross, Albuquerque The Magazine, June 2019
  • Alibi, Event Horizon, Cha-Ching, 27 No.41, October 11-17, 2018
  • Roberts, Kathaleen, Losses inspire project of 56 vibrantly colored works based on a deck of playing cards,
    Albuquerque Journal, Sunday, October 4th, 2015
  • Pulkka, Wesley, Playing cards carry symbolism, by Wesley Pulkka, Albuquerque Journal Arts review, Sunday, February 16, 2014
  • Guengerich, Gail, My Heart Is in the Trees and under a giant sea bird, Alibi Arts Feature, V.23 No.6, February 6-12, 2014
  • Lathrop, Chuck, Opening One’s Heart, NM Art Review, February, 2014
  • English, Mike, My Heart is in the Trees: Denise Weaver Ross, Local IQ: Smart Arts Feature, Sunday, 26 January 2014

ART IN MAGAZINES, BOOKS & MOVIES

  • Fixed and Free Quarterly Poetry Anthologies, Covers 2023
  • Oddball Magazine, “Michigan: The Great Divide” appeared with a poem by Navah The Buddaphliii, February 28, 2022
  • Teen Spirit (2018), 1h 32min | Drama, Music | 5 April 2019 (USA), “Matagot”
  • Poets Speak: Hers (volume 2), Beatlick Press, 2017
  • Poets Speak: Water (volume 3), Beatlick Press, 2017
  • Value, Beatlick Press, 2017
  • Colours of Refuge, Poets, Artists Unplugged anthology, Published by Authorpress India, 2016
  • Legends & Monsters: Ekphrastic Poetry, A Jules Poetry Playhouse Project, 2016
  • House of Cards: Ekphrastic Poetry, A Jules Poetry Playhouse Project, 2015
  • Blue Mesa Review, Issue No. 32 (December 2015), “The Queen’s Fire”
  • Resonance स्पंदन Poets, Artists Unplugged 2014 bilingual International Anthology.
    Anthology includes Poetry in English & Hindi( & Urdu translated), 2015
  • Malpais Review, Vol. 5 No. 2 (Fall 2014), Front and Back Cover Art
  • The Artist Weekly, Black Cat Publications Featured in Volume 2, Issue 10, May 26, 2013
  • The Artist Catalogue: A Quarterly Publication for Emerging Artists, Spring 2013: Volume 2 Issue 1

ART & POETRY BOOKS*

  • Letters to the Deceased and Other Missives, Poetry by Denise Weaver Ross, 2020
  • House of Cards: The Whole Deck, Art and Poetry by Denise Weaver Ross, 2020
  • House of Cards: The Bone Suit, Art and Poetry by Denise Weaver Ross, 2017
  • House of Cards: The Star Suit, Art and Poetry by Denise Weaver Ross, 2015
  • House of Cards: The Tree Suit, Art and Poetry by Denise Weaver Ross, 2014
  • House of Cards: The Heart Suit, Art and Poetry by Denise Weaver Ross, 2014
  • Midwest by Northeast by Southwest, Art and Poetry by Denise Weaver Ross, 2013

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MA, AMHERST, MA
M.F.A. – VISUAL ART, PRINTMAKING

WHEATON COLLEGE, WHEATON, IL
B.A. – ART AND ENGLISH LITERATURE