Denise Stewart-Sanabria

Knoxville, TN

Denise Stewart-Sanabria was born in Massachusetts and received her BFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She has lived in Knoxville, TN since 1986.



Sanabria paints both hyper-realist “portraits” of everything from produce to subversive jelly donuts. The anthropomorphic narratives often are reflections on human behavior. She is also known for her life size charcoal portrait drawings on plywood, which are cut out, mounted on wood bases, and staged in conceptual installations. She is a recipient of the 2019 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant for her work on wood.



Recent solo and group exhibits include: Coined in the South: The Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, Denise Stewart-Sanabria: Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, Virtual Reality: John P. Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, IN, and Quantum Continuum: Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC.

Artist Website

www.stewart-sanabria.com