Denise Ryner

CFEVA Artistic Advisor

Andrea B. Laporte Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

Denise Ryner's career in academic and non-profit arts organizations includes the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery/Hart House Art Collection and Art Metropole in Toronto. Recent independently curated projects include Sediment: the archive as a fragmentary base (2023-2024) at Concordia University’s Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) (2022) co-curated with Anselm Franke, Elisa Giuliano, Claire Tancons and Zairong Xiang at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, and Common Cause: before and beyond the global (2018) at Mercer Union, Toronto. From 2017 to 2022 she was Director/Curator at Or Gallery, Vancouver. In 2023 she joined the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania as Curator.