A third generation Californian, Dennis Doheny won in spring, 1998 the plein-air painting competition held in Carmel, California. He spent his youth in Los Angeles but later lived in the Big Sur area and then settled near Santa Barbara.

For fifteen years, he was a commercial artist, creating everything from billboards to aerospace drawings, but changed to fine art and plein-air painting to combine his love of the outdoors with painting.

In 2000, he received the $10,000 Granville Redmond Memorial Purchase Prize for his landscape "New Dawn," which is the inaugural purchase for the California Art Academy and Museum in Pasadena, California, a facility that opened in 2002. In 2003, he received the Purchase Prize at the "Masters of the American West" exhibition at the Autry Museum.

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California Art Club newsletter
Art and Antiques, "Coming of Age", Nancy Moure, June 2003

Upon his first showing at the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in June 2006, Doheny won the Frederic Remington Award, given in recognition for exceptional artistic merit for a painting.

A third generation Californian, Dennis Doheny was born and raised in the Los Angeles area and currently resides in Santa Barbara. Growing up with an innate love of art, he spent much of his childhood drawing and painting. Although he studied some art in school, Doheny is largely self-taught. After graduating from Pacific Palisades High School in 1974, he exhibited with Petersen Gallery of Beverly Hills. From 1986 until 1996, Doheny supported his family with a steady career in commercial art until his passion for fine art painting prevailed.

Since 1996, his fine art career has developed a strong following both locally and nationally. Collectors are drawn to his beautiful, heroic renderings of the western landscape. Taking the best from the great California and Hudson River School artists of the past, Dennis has fused and reinterpreted the genres, combining dramatic light, rich color and specifically selected and finely crafted detail to create a unique and distinctive vision of the American West.

Doheny is the recipient of numerous awards. Most recently, he received “The Irvine Museum Prize” (the only award presented) at the California Art Club’s 105th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition. Previously, he was awarded the Irvine Museum Gold Medal at the California Art Club's 2013 Exhibition. At the same show, he also received the American Art Collector Award of Excellence. In 2009, Doheny was honored to be chosen for the Edgar Payne Award for best landscape at the California Art Club's 2009 Gold Medal Juried Exhibition. Dennis is proud to be featured in the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition. In both 2006 and 2008 at the Prix de West, he received the Frederic Remington Award given in recognition of “exceptional artistic merit”.

Also in 2006, he was honored with the Inaugural Purchase Prize at the Eiteljorg Museum’s “Quest for the West” Exhibition and is proud to be a part of their permanent collection. In 2003, he was recognized by the Autry National Center and awarded the Master’s of the American West Award. His painting was acquired by the Autry for its permanent collection as well. He received the Grandville Redmond Memorial Purchase Prize in 2000 for his painting “New Dawn” at the California Art Club’s Spring Salon and upon his return to fine art in 1998, he received First Place in the Carmel Plein Air Competition.
Doheny is a proud to be a Signature Member of the California Art Club.