Dennis Aufiery received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied with Neil Welliver, Alex Katz, Alfred Leslie, Rackstraw Downes, Yvonne Jacquette, Rudy Burckhardt among a number of New York figurative painters influenced by New York Abstract Painting.  He received the Josef Albers Fellowship to the Skowhegan School. He also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

 Dennis Aufiery’s exhibition history includes The Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Harn Museum of Art, The Portland Museum of Art, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Museum of Art DeLand. Aufiery has exhibited Leo Castelli Gallery and Bowery Galleries in New York, Lockes Gallery in Philadelphia and Zero One in Los Angeles and Midtown Payson in Hobe Sound Florida.

Mr. Aufiery has received numerous awards for his paintings, including the Josef Albers Fellowship to the Skowhegan School, a Heliker Foundation Residency, and the Thomas Eakins Prize at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Mr. Aufiery has received numerous awards for his paintings, including the Josef Albers Fellowship to the Skowhegan School, a Heliker Foundation Residency, and the Thomas Eakins Prize at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His awards include a number of BEST IN SHOWS; recently at the Rosen Museum,  2014 in Boca Raton, FL  and the Elliott Museum 2013 in Stuart Florida, the Award of Merit, at FLORIDA BIENNIEL 6, 2011, at the Museum of Florida Art. His work is represented in public and private collections.  In 1985, his collaboration with the architectural firm of Ventura, Scott Brown on the Treehouse project received Time Magazine’s best designs of 1985 and won an AIA medal. Dennis Aufiery lived in Jupiter, Florida