Education
2019 M.A., Critical Theory and the Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2016 B.F.A., Studio Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Exhibitions
SOLO
2026 Knowing Good and Evil (forthcoming), CASP, Lubbock, TX
2025 Bad Form, Albuquerque Press Club, Albuquerque, NM
2025 Bunny’s Dreamland , Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, NM
2019 Brooke Denton, Desty’s Haven, Ridgewood, NY
2016 Garage Sale , 99¢ Store, Albuquerque, NM
2013 Desolation Dance, Eula Mae Edwards Museum & Gallery, Clovis, NM
GROUP
2027 Encompass (forthcoming), Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2026 Interiors (forthcoming), SFCC Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2026 This Place Is Strange, Midwest Nice Gallery, Aberdeen, SD
2025 New Mexico Painters Exhibition, Kennedy Gallery, Las Vegas, NM
2024 Ten Gallon Hat, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Pardon Our Dust, Wholesale Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Ranch Residency Artists Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
2023 One’s Right Mind, Title Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Working Through Lunch, Title Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2021 Chrysalis*Metamorphosis, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Juried Show, Red Dot Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Curation
2025 A Space Between Two Movements, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Illumination, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2024 I Say With My Full Essence, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Field of Vision, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2023 One’s Right Mind, Title Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Hudson Heil: Fear of Flying, Title Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Working Through Lunch, Title Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Liminal Realms, Title Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Chromatic Aberrations, Title Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Higinio Martinez: MAGIC I, Title Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2021 As the World Turns, Geary, Millerton, NY
Residencies
2023 The Ranch Residency, La Madera, NM
Public Presentations
2026 Loud and Soft Society: Salon, Presenting Artist, Taos, NM
2025 Bunny’s Dreamland: Artist Talk, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, NM
2025 A Space Between Two Movements: Curator Talk, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Field of Vision: Curator Talk, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2022 In Discussion with Destiny Trujillo, Swinging Party, Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe, NM
Publications
2016 Art Preview: Save Your Pennies, Weekly Alibi
2014 Brooke Denton: Womanhood, SeeMag Blog
Statement
I create work that explores memory, identity, and the lives of everyday people through unconventional depictions of figures and familiar, often mundane settings. Obsession is a driving force in my life and work. It’s a longstanding part of how I move through the world, and in the studio, I channel it into texture, precision, and repetition.
I am a collage artist both physically and narratively. I cut up and deconstruct old paintings and images, layering them until they create a unified composition. I know the maker of the paintings I rework, I know her well. I know her fears, her elations, her desires, her downfalls and disgraces. I embrace her wildness while I add what the past fifteen years has taught me.
I also collage imagery, creating disjointed narratives deriving from my own and those of others. I often draw from photographs taken during adolescence: I am interested in how time overlaps - how a childhood image can exist beside an adult understanding, how memory stalls, repeats, and distorts. My work explores youthful joy, grief, spirituality, healing, and the quiet intensity of rural life.
Color and pattern are central to my practice. I’m drawn to unexpected and sometimes jarring palettes, and I find meditative focus in detailed, repetitive patterns. Oil paint is my primary medium for its immediacy and tactile quality, but I also work across materials, assembling scraps and discarded works into irregularly shaped collages, and making ceramics and sculptural objects that often inform my painting process.