A graduate of SUNY New Paltz, Denise Giardullo has exhibited widely since 1981. Her work has been shown in many states in the United States, including New York, California, Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. She has also exhibited in Bath, England. Her quilt Early Spring Rain was juried into a traveling Studio Art Quilt Association exhibition in 2023 and is published in the catalog from the exhibit. Two of her quilts were also juried into a national quilt show and traveled to many venues in the U.S. They are included in the publication Fly Me to The Moon, an art quilt journey, published by Schiffer Publishing in 2017. She has curated Quilts as an Art Form at the ASK Gallery in Kingston, NY, and has also curated figurative sculpture shows at four Wiltwyck Quilt Shows in Kingston, NY. Working in many different mediums, she trained first as a painter and a collage artist. She now considers herself primarily an improvisational quilter, but also continues to make assemblages, encaustic works, and soft figurative sculptures. Exhibiting extensively, she belongs to many arts organizations, and has won many blue ribbons for her quilts. In 2019 she was inducted into the Catskill Mountain Quilters Hall of Fame.