Denise Ryner
Denise Ryner is a Canadian curator and writer. She was director and curator at Or Gallery, Vancouver. Ryner has worked as an independent curator, writer and educator at several galleries, artist-run centres and institutions, in Toronto, Vancouver and Berlin. Ryner has contributed to publications like FUSE magazine and Canadian Art magazine.
Education
In 2002, Ryner obtained her diploma from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Ryner received her BA in Art History from the University of Toronto in 2011 and her MA in Art History from the University of British Columbia in 2014.Career
Ryner was the Director/Curator at the Or Gallery. She is a visiting researcher and curator at the Visual Art and Film department at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany.From 2010 to 2012, Ryner worked as an archivist at Art Metropole, Toronto where she oversaw donations, loans, public and research inquiries, related to the AM Collection and Institutional Archive as well as curated annual Gifts by Artists exhibitions. Ryner curated the exhibition, Location/Dislocation at the Jackman Humanities Institute in Toronto from September 2011 to July 2012. Welcoming the contributions of contemporary artists for the first time, the arts program exhibition focused on hybridity, displacement within diasporic communities through photo and installation work. Ryner worked as the writer and researcher for exhibition interpretative texts for the project Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.As the curatorial assistant and intern at SFU Galleries in the same year, she curated Walk: Through a Window: RAIN OR SHINE SATURDAYS consisting of sound walks that observed the soundscape of British Columbia’s coastal communities in Vancouver. The project brought together a variety of art practitioners and researchers. Ryner has also taught curatorial practice as a sessional faculty at Emily Carr [University of Art and Design|Emily Carr University]. She was an editorial board member and contributing editor to Fuse Magazine from 2011 to 2014. In 2015, Ryner curated Public Objects, Private Frames for the Canadian Heritage Regional Office in Toronto She has also worked on curatorial projects at 8eleven Project Space, as the curator for the exhibition Interim Measures, at Roundhouse Community Arts Centre and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. In April 2016, in collaboration with Jayce Salloum, VIVO [Media Arts Centre], Vancouver, Ryner co-curated the thirstDays no. 3: Harbour/Haven exhibition which showed the works of Beau Dick and aka collective.