Stephanie Deshpande

Acquired directly from the artist

In the collection of the Art Renewal Center, 2023

Artist Focus: Stephanie Deshpande, American Art Collector, August 2020, illustrated p. 63

Max Gillies, A Time for Twosomes, Fine Art Connoisseur, Boca Rotan, May 2021, illustrated p.101

Samuel Peralta, Lunar Codex: The Polaris Collection, enclosed in cultural time capsule on the Griffin lunar lander, launched by SpaceX, and placed on the Moon in perpetuity, launch scheduled November 2024, illustrated

Various authors, International Realism: 16th International ARC Salon, ACC Art Books, Woodbridge, Suffolk 2023, (Honorable Mention Figurative), illustrated p. 77

Birmingham, AL, Beverly McNeil Gallery, Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Exhibition, Silver Medal, October 10th - November 11, 2019

New York, NY, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, 1st Associates/Non-Member Online Show, First Place Oil and Acrylic Category, 2020

New York, NY, Salmagundi Club, Allied Artists of America 108th Annual Exhibition, The Len G. Everett Memorial Award, August 31st - September 18, 2021

 San Antonio, TX, AnArte Gallery, The Human Condition, November 9th - December 31, 2021

New York, Sotheby’s, 16th International ARC Salon Exhibition, Honorable Mention Figurative, July 14 – 24, 2023

Stephanie Deshpande is a representational painter living in northern New Jersey. She is best known for her psychological portraits and narrative paintings. Her work combines her love of realism with personal observations. She creates paintings that unearth hidden emotions and capture the quiet drama of the world around her.

Deshpande completed a BFA with honors in painting at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was awarded the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 2006, and continued her studies at the New York Academy of Art earning her MFA. She enjoys teaching, and offers online classes and workshops.

Deshpande has received recognition for her paintings by, RayMar Art, Artist’s Magazine, the Art Renewal Center, Allied Artists of America, and Oil Painters of America and the Portrait Society of America where she is considered a Signature member. Her work has been written about in the book Contemporary Great Masters of Portrait Painting by the editorial staff of The Art of Watercolour and in 21st Century Figurative Art: The Resurrection of Art by Jan Esmann. In 2014, the New Britain Museum of American Art acquired her painting “Assembling the Pieces” for their Post Contemporary collection. She is represented by Arundel Contemporary in West Sussex, England.