Dennis W. Cheaney is a contemporary classical artist, writer and teacher. Dennis received his BA in Mathematics from the University of Southern California (1995) and MFA from the New York Academy of Art (1998), where he was an Andy Warhol Foundation Scholar studying under the renowned artist Edward Schmidt. Additionally, he studied with at the Water Street Atelier (1996-98, 2000) with Jacob Collins and Michael Grimaldi.
Dennis continued his studies at the Ecole Albert Defois (1999, 2001, 2004) in the Loire Valley, France with the eminent artist and portraitist Ted Seth Jacobs. He received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2001) for figure painting.
From 2003-2009 he was director of his own art school , New England Realist Art Center, in Fort Point, Boston. Dennis has given intensive still life painting, figure drawing and figure painting workshops at the Copley Society of Boston (coso), Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier (BACAA), Long Island Academy of Fine Arts (LIAFA), and the New York Academy of Art (NYAA).
Currently, he teaches a popular class on Fundamentals of Oil Painting at the New York Academy of Art.
Since 2018, Dennis has been a contributing writer about contemporary art and theory for COCOA: The Journal of Cornwall Contemporary Art (www.cocoa.foundation)
You may contact him at dwcheaney@hotmail.com