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Denise, a seated brown-skinned person with shoulder-length black hair staring directly at the camera, is partly obscured by a green plant in the foreground.
Photo by Sarah Bodri

Denise Ryner

(she/her)Philadelphia, PA
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Denise Ryner's fifteen-year 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 bBase (2023–2024) at Concordia University’s Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in Montreal and the Art Museum at the University, 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 and Curator at Or Gallery in Vancouver. In 2023, Ryner joined the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania as a Curator.