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Denise Green (b. 1946, Melbourne) is an Australian-American artist and writer. Her work first gained attention in 1978 when her paintings were included in the New Image Painting exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Young American Artists exhibition at the the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. She has since gone on to establish a 40-year career as a practicing artist in New York. Her work is featured in numerous prestigious public and private collections worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Green is also writes about art. Her First book, Metonymy in Contemporary Art: A New Paradigm, explores art from an Eastern perspective and was published in 2006. Her second book, Denise Green: An Artist's Odyssey, is a multi-authored account of her career as an international artist.

Early Life and Education
Green was born in 1946 in Melbourne, Australia and grew up in Brisbane. As a teenager, she left Australia for France, where she studied fine art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and at the Sorbonne in Paris. After receiving her BFA, she arrived in New York in 1969 and began her MFA studies at Hunter College under the instruction of Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Ralph Humphrey, among other accomplished artists.

Writings
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/metonymy-in-contemporary-art https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/denise-green