Grace Gloria Denis’ work converges agricultural research with interactive installation, braiding together edible matter and sound to propose a convivial and comestible approach to critical inquiry. Implementing the meal as both a medium and a pedagogical tool, her work refers to participatory action research models, engaging in collaborations with actors in local food systems utilizing agroecological techniques. Her work considers the quotidien interaction with the esculent realm as a political and poetic tool of transmission, inviting a reframing of sensorial relations to consumption practices.

Denis received her BFA from Cal Arts and her MFA from TRANS— at HEAD Genève, with a focus on critical pedagogy. Her post-graduate studies include ETH’s  World Food Systems Center in Switzerland as well as agroecology at Las Cañadas in Mexico. She has taught and developed non-profit arts education programs for various institutions, currently working on an ecopedagogy project linked with HEAD Genève. She recently published the book In, From, and With: Exploring Collaborative Survival and is a member of the Food Art Research Network.

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EDUCATION
2022 Agroecology and Biointensive Agriculture Course - Las Cañadas - Veracruz, MEX
2021 ETH Zurich - World Food Systems Center: Food Systems in Transition -Zurich, CH
2020 Haute École d'Art et de Design (HEAD) - Master TRANS - Master of Fine Arts - Geneva, CH
2019 École Nationale Supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy - Exchange in Masters - Paris, FR
2016 California Institute of the Arts - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Los Angeles, US
2015 École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux Arts - Exchange in Bachelor of Fine Arts - Paris, FR

SELECT PROJECTS
2025 Expanded Fields - Froh Ussicht - Zurich, CH
2025 Follow the Plants - Food Art Research Network - Melbourne, AU
2025 Archives Esculentes - Vu CH, L’art à l’hôpital - CHUV - Lausanne, CH
2025 An Ecology of Encounters - Foodculture Days - Vevey, CH
2025 Holding Breath: A Dying Poem Act III - Fluent Santander, ES
2024 Digesting Degrowth - with The Preserve Journal - Salone del Mobile - Milano, IT
2024 Sensorial Ingestions - with Kita Rancaño Ward - Reference Point, 180 Strand - London, UK 
2024 Faire Éco - ecopedagogy programme with microsillons - Geneva, CH
2024 Aural Oral: Tracing Binkel - BAU - Bolzano, IT
2024 Histoires Botaniques Enclosée - La Musée de la Faïence et Centre d’art Parc St leger - Nevers, FR
2024(Re)Nouer Conference - Terrains Communs - Nevers, FR
2024 Dégustation du Territoire: Histoires du blé en Franche-Comté - Fort Mont Bart - Le 19, CRAC -  Montbéliard, FR
2024 Tamalanguages - Foodculture Days - Vevey, CH
2024 Aural Oral at Food Tuesdays - Les Complices - Zurich, CH
2024 Cum Panis: Bread and its Ecologies - co curator with Adeline Lepine - Le 19, CRAC -  Montbéliard, FR
2023 Mediating the Ecological Imperative - Online performance and Lecture - University of Bern - Bern, CH
2023 Fertilising Dialogues: Art & Culture as Catalysts for Food System Transformation - Consolato Svizzero - Venice, IT
2023 Making Effervescent Encounters Workshop - Food Art Research Network x State of Concept - Athens, GR
2023 +/- 1632m: Disturbing the Swiss/African Commons organized by Hannah Le Roux - ETH Zurich - Zurich, CH
2023 Il n’existe aucune chose telle qu’une chose, il n’y a que des systèmes - Sarzeau, FR
2023 Common Dreams: Flotation School - least [laboratoire art et écologie pour une société en transition] - Geneva, CH
2023 Aural Oral: Listening as a Precursor to Response-Ability Workshop - Transart Institute  - Mexico City, MX
2023 Visualizing Foodways Field School - Mexico City, MX
2023 In, From, and With Book Activation Series - Murmurs - Los Angeles, US
2022 What to Keep? Preservations in Pierre Benite - Biennale de Lyon and Veduta with Adeline Lepine - Lyon, FR
2022 Milano Green Forum Museum - Milano, IT
2022 Mobile Soils - SAE Greenhouse - Teti Press and foodculture days - Zurich, CH
2022 Imaginaries Vibrants - Espace Arlaud - Lausanne, CH
2022 In, From, and With Book Launch - Casa Bosques - Mexico City, MX
2022 Gouter Au Soleil with Field Meridians and Mold Magazine - Afterhours - Paris, FR
2022 Aural Oral IV - Material Art Fair - Museo El Eco  - Mexico City, MX
2022 Listening to Chinampas - with Cocina Colaboratorio - Archivo Biocultural Vivo - Mexico City, MX
2022 Fungal Group Show - Sade Gallery - Los Angeles, US
2021 Digesting Proximity - Zeppelin University -  Friedrichshafen, DE
2021 United Nation’s FAO and World Food Forum presents Better Food Futures - Rome, IT
2021 Life during Covid - Studio Weil - Port Andratx,ES
2021 Aural Oral V - Foodculture Days Biennale - Vevey, CH
2021 After the Egg, the War - Mascot Studio - Los Angeles, US
2020 Ce Qui Peut Être Montré Ne Peut Être Dit - Centre D’art Plastiques de St Fons - St. Fons, FR
2020 Je Suis Avant, Je Suis Presque, Je Suis Jamais - Centre D’art Parc Saint Léger - Pougues, FR
2019 La Mue De L’arc - Atelier Berger Milà - Paris, FR
2019 Componere - All The Best - Paris, FR
2019 Terrapolis II - Boa Lab - Lisbon, PT
2019 Carta Infinita - The Window - Paris, FR
2019 Aural Oral III - La Conserverie - - Marrakech, MA
2019 Robert Walser Sculpture - Dandelion Collective with Thomas Hirschhorn - Bienne, CH
2019 Entrelacs - with Dandelion Collective - Live In Your Head - Geneva, CH
2019 Sada - La Conserverie -Marrakech, MA
2018 Plantemporal - Ionion Center - Kefalonia, GR
2018 Making Kin- Navel - Los Angeles, US 
2018 Aural Oral II - Navel - Los Angeles, US 

PUBLICATIONS
2025 Tastes of Future Landscapes - BAU - Bolzano, IT
2025 Decolonising Breadfruit - Denominations and the Discourse of Sustenance - Taiwan, TW
2024 Alliums: A Lexicon of Love - All About Alliums - The Land - Amsterdam, NE
2024 Fermenting Hospitality: Reconsidering the Role of the Host - Nya Nya Norrland - Stockholm, SE
2022  What Will We Eat? - Featured in Purple Magazine’s The Future Issue - Paris, FR
2021 In, From, and With: Exploring Collaborative Survival - Published by Circadian Books - Berlin, DE
2021 Sonic Cartographies of Aural Oral & Listening as a Precursor to Response-Ability - Arts of the Working Class - Berlin, DE
2020 86 Jours a la Robert Walser Sculpture - with collectif dandelion at Thomas Hirshhorn’s Robert Walser Sculpture - Geneve, CH

CONFERENCES, TALKS, AND WORKSHOPS
2025 Untabled: La Milpa La Escuela & Ecopedagogies - Colectivo Amasijo, Calpulli Telcalco, Food Art Research Network 
2024 Aural Oral and Sonic Cartographies - World Biodiversity Forum - Davos, CH
2023 City as a Resource: Urban Food & Design Symposium - Preserve Journal - Vienna Design Week - Vienna, AU
2023 Remediations: Ecologies, Encounters, Engagements - University of Bern -  Bern, CH
2022 Intersections in Art and Food Studies Panel - Universities Art Association of Canada - online
2021 Apprendre du Champ - Days of Agroecology - Agroecology Works - online
2021 In, From, and With Book Presentation - De-Growth and Post City - Inland - online
2021 Metabolic Thinking - foodculture days - online
2021 Allies with Earth - Dialogues One - online
2021 Master TRANS - Portes Ouvertes - HEAD Geneve - online
2020 Sympoietic Solutions for Coexistence on a Damaged Earth: Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Art and Science 
2020 Eco-Acoustic: Listening to Swiss Landscapes - foodculture days - online
2020 Consumption: Food in the New Era - Dialogues One - online

RESIDENCIES
2025 VU CH - Lausanne, CH
2024 BAU - Bolzano, IT
2024 IASPIS - Umeå, SE
2023 Afield Network - online
2023 Aptus - Sarzeau, FR
2021 Foodculture Days - Vevey, CH
2019 La Pause - Marrakech, MO 
2018 Ionion Center - Kefalonia, GR 
2016 Waaw - St Louis, SE

GUEST ARTIST AND PEDAGOGICAL WORK
2020 Zeppelin University - Friedrichshafen, DE 
2018 Notre Dame Du Lac - Geneva, CH 
2017 The Untitled Project - Navel - Los Angeles, US 
2016 Center For The Arts Eagle Rock - Los Angeles, US 
2016 Wilding Cran Gallery - Los Angeles, US
2016 Community Arts Partnership - Los Angeles, US
2016 Hauser & Wirth - Los Angeles, US
2015 Venice Arts - Los Angeles, US

PRESS
2024 La Republicca -  Il Cibo? Sempre Meno Gola Sempre Piu Politica e Poesia -print -  IT
2024 La Libération - Cum Panis, La mie prodigeuse - FR
2024 Le Journal du Centre -  Les installations ondulantes de Grace Gloria Denis - FR
2024 In Style - Recommended by Grace Gloria Denis - AU
2023 Passerby Magazine - Dinner Party Tips - FR
2023 The Common Table - Neurogastronomic Polyphony: An interview with Grace Denis - UK