Stephanie Deshpande

Oil on Paper
5x7 Inches

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 allegories.

“Stephanie Deshpande’s art is beautiful and fearless. There is a psychological aspect to her pieces, a deceptive simplicity, and if you look deeper you can see as story in every portrait. Some will see something dark in her work, other’s will see light… how we see things is completely subjective. Her work captivates, both yells and whispers.”

                                                                                        -Cyndi MacMillan

Deshpande graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a BFA in Painting and continued her studies at the New York Academy of Art earning her MFA. She received the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 2006. Deshpande has been recognition for her paintings by the Portrait Society of America, RayMar Art, Artist’s Magazine, the Art Renewal Center, Allied Artists of America, and Oil Painters of America. In 2018, she was awarded Signature Status from the Portrait Society of America. 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 21st Century Figurative Art: The Resurrection of Art by Jan Esmann.