Denise Burge received her MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1991, and since has taught at the New York State College of Ceramics and the University of Cincinnati, where she is a Professor of Art.  In 2004 she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Visual Art. She has received multiple Ohio Arts Council Awards for Individual Artists and has been awarded competitive, funded residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito California, and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans,and the Studios of Key West.  Burge combines solo work in the quilt and paint media with multiple collaborative projects.  In 2022, her collaborative video and mixed-media installation group Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running conducted a funded year-long residency at Cincinnati’s Summit Hotel as a part of the FotoFocus Biennial. A short film from that residency entitled Better Close Than Never will hae its world premiere at the Fotogenia Festival of FilmPoetry in Mexico City in November of 2023, and won Best Experimental Film at the Berln Kiez festival. Burge is also currently working on a collaborative graphic novel about the 19th century journalist Lafcadio Hearn.