Wilma Fiori was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1929. She received a B.A., Fine Art, from Loretto Heights College, Denver, Colorado in 1952, and an M.A., Anthropology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado in 1979.

Trained as a representational artist, Wilma Fiori was subsequently drawn to anthropology by the abstraction of primitive art.  In the early l980’s she volunteered as a curatorial assistant to Richard Conn in the Native Arts Department of the Denver Art Museum.  Fiori has taken a Zen-like journey as she has evolved into a minimalist painter using color and texture as subjects and employing the elements of art in their purest form.  Her media are oil, encaustic and acrylic.

Fiori has been a long-time student of Dale Chisman and also studied with Bill Joseph, Quang Ho, Jerry de la Cruz, Jeffrey Keith and Mark Lunning.                                   

Publications: The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, Westword, numerous other area newspapers, and Colorado Homes and Lifestyles magazine. Exhibits: Three solo exhibitions, numerous juried group shows.

Selected collections: Regis University, ADT Security Systems, Red Peak Properties, and The Ritz Carlton Hotel.