Stephanie Deshpande is a realist 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. She creates paintings that unearth hidden emotions and capture the quiet drama of the world around her.

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 was awarded the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend the Yale Summer School of Music and Art and has received 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. Her paintings have appeared in several issues of Poets Artists Magazine and in the book 21st Century Figurative Art: The Resurrection of Art by Jan Esmann. She enjoys teaching classes and workshops at the Teaching Studios of Art, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Scottsdale Artists’ School, and other venues in the New York City area.

Her work has been on display at the European Museum of Modern Art, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, National Arts Club, Sotheby’s, Salmagundi Club, Belenky Gallery, Arcadia Contemporary, Principle Gallery Charleston, Haynes Galleries, Abend Gallery, Waterhouse Gallery, and Richard J. Demato Fine Arts Gallery. Her painting “Assembling the Pieces” was acquired by the New Britain Museum of American Art for their Post Contemporary room.