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

UPCOMING
Follow the Plants - Food Art Research Network - Publication and Exhibition - September 2023 to February 2025
Faire éco - Eco-pedagogy program with TRANS– Master at Head Genève - Professor - Geneva, Switzerland -  January to October 2024
BAU - Residency - South Tyrol, Italy - February 2024 to December 2024
IASPIS - Residency - Umeå, Sweden - Spring 2024
Digesting Degrowth – Care, Commons, Frugal Abundance, and Conviality - Preserve Journal and Salone del Mobile - Milan, Italy - April 2024
(Re)Nouer Conference - Terrains Communs - in partnership with Centre d’Art Parc St Leger - Nevers, France - September 2024
Histoires botaniques enclosée - Exhibition - Le musée de la Faïence - in partnership with Centre d’Art Parc St Leger - Nevers, France - September 2024

SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Dégustation du Territoire: Histoires du blé en Franche-Comté - Fort du Mont Bart - with Le 19, CRAC -  Montbéliard, France - March 2024
Tamalanguages - Foodculture Days - Vevey, Switzerland - March 2024
Aural Oral at Food Tuesdays - Les Complices - Zurich, Switzerland - March 2024
Cum Panis: Bread and its Ecologies - co curator with Adeline Lepine - Le 19, CRAC -  Montbéliard, France -  February to May 2024
Mediating the Ecological Imperative - Online performance and Lecture - University of Bern - November 2023
Digital Residency - AFIELD Network - November 2023
Fertilising Dialogues: Art and Culture as Catalysts for Food System Transformation - Consolato Svizzero - Venice, Italy - September 2023
Making Effervescent Encounters Workshop - Food Art Research Network x State of Concept - Athens, Greece - September 2023
The City as a Resource: Urban Food & Design Symposium - Kompost Studio by Preserve Journal - Vienna Design Week - Vienna, Austria - September 2023
+/- 1632m: Disturbing the Swiss/African Commons organized by Hannah Le Roux - ETH Zurich - Zurich, Switzerland - June 2023
Il n’existe aucune chose telle qu’une chose, il n’y a que des systèmes - Sarzeau, France - June 2023
A Collective Digestion: Inland Academy - foodculture days - Vevey, Switzerland - May 2023
Food and Sound - Common Dreams: Flotation School - least [laboratoire art et écologie pour une société en transition] - Geneva, Switzerland - May 2023
Aural Oral: Listening as a Precursor to Response-Ability Workshop - Transart Institute  - Mexico City, Mexico - February 2023
Visualizing Foodways Field School - Mexico City, Mexico - February 2023
In, From, and With Book Activation Series - Murmurs - Los Angeles, US - November 2022
Milano Green Forum Museum - Online exhibition - October 2022
Aural Oral V - Foodculture Days - Praz Bonjour - Vevey, Switzerland - September 2022
Mobile Soils - SAE Greenhouse - Teti Press and foodculture days - Zurich, Switzerland - September 2022
Imaginaries Vibrants - Espace Arlaud - Lausanne, Switzerland - September 2022
In, From, and With Book Launch - Casa Bosques - Mexico City - August 2022
Gouter Au Soleil with Field Meridians and Mold Magazine - Afterhours - Paris, France - July 2022
What to Keep? Preservations in Pierre-Bénite - La Biennale de Lyon and Veduta - Lyon, France - June 2022
Aural Oral IV - Material Art Fair - Museo El Eco  - Mexico City, Mexico - April 2022
Listening to Chinampas - with Cocina Colaboratorio - Archivo Biocultural Vivo - March 2022
Fungal Group Show - Sade Gallery - Los Angeles, US - January 2022
Digesting Proximity - Zeppelin University -  Friedrichshafen, Germany-  December 2021
United Nation’s FAO and World Food Forum presents Better Food Futures - Rome, Italy - October 2021
Life during Covid - Studio Weil - Port Andratx, Mallorca - September 2021
Aural Oral V - Foodculture Days Biennale - Vevey, Switzerland - May 2021
After the Egg, the War - Mascot Studio - Los Angeles, US - January 2021
Ce Qui Peut Être Montré Ne Peut Être Dit - Centre D’art Plastiques de St Fons - St. Fons, France - December 2020
Je Suis Avant, Je Suis Presque, Je Suis Jamais - Centre D’art Parc Saint Léger - Pougues, France – September 2020
La Mue De L’arc - Atelier Berger Milà - Paris, France - December 2019
Componere - All The Best - Paris, France - December 2019
Terrapolis II - Boa Lab - Lisbon, Portugal - November 2019
Carta Infinita - The Window - Paris, France - October 2019
Aural Oral III - La Conserverie - - Marrakech, Morocco - February 2019
Robert Walser Sculpture - Dandelion Collective with Thomas Hirschhorn - Bienne, Switzerland - June to September 2019
Entrelacs - with Dandelion Collective - Live In Your Head - Geneva, Switzerland - March 2019
Sada - La Conserverie -Marrakech, Morocco - February 2019
Plantemporal - Ionion Center - Kefalonia, Greece - August 2018
Making Kin- Navel - Los Angeles, US - August 2018
Aural Oral II - Navel - Los Angeles, US - March 2018
SEA(S) - Ionion Center - Kefalonia, Greece - August 2018
All Visual - Navel - Los Angeles, US - January 2016

PUBLICATIONS
28.04.2021 -30.04.2021 Description - Featured in Leefwerk’s upcoming book - September 2022
What Will We Eat? - Featured in Purple Magazine’s The Future Issue - March 2022
In, From, and With: Exploring Collaborative Survival - Published by Circadian Books - June 2021
Sonic Cartographies of Aural Oral & Listening as a Precursor to Response-Ability - Arts of the Working Class - May 2021
Cooking With: On the Meal as a Pedagogical Tool - Published as part of Head Geneve’s TRANS Master - May 2020
Cahier de Bord: 86 Jours a la Robert Walser Sculpture - Written with collectif dandelion during Thomas Hirshhorn’s Robert Walser Sculpture - March 2020

DISCUSSIONS AND LECTURES
Remediations: Ecologies, Encounters, Engagements - Conference - University of Bern -  Bern, Switzerland - September 2023
Intersections in Art and Food Studies Panel - Universities Art Association of Canada - Online - October 2022
Apprendre du Champ/Learning from the Field - Days of Agroecology: From Vision to System Change: Agroecology Works - November 2021
In, From, and With Book Presentation - De-Growth and Post City - Inland - September 2021
Metabolic Thinking - foodculture days - May 2021
Allies with Earth - Dialogues One - February 2021
Master TRANS - Portes Ouvertes - HEAD Geneve - January 2021
Sympoietic Solutions for Coexistence on a Damaged Earth: Case Studies of Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Art, Design, and Science - Organized by Gal Sherizly - December 2020
Eco-Acoustic: Listening to Swiss Landscapes - foodculture days - November 2020
Consumption: Food in the New Era - Dialogues One - June 2020

RESIDENCIES
Aptus - Sarzeau, France - April to June 2023
Foodculture Days - Vevey, Switzerland - May 2021
La Pause - Marrakech, Morocco - February 2019
Ionion Center - Kefalonia, Greece - July 2018
Waaw - St Louis, Senegal - August 2016

COLLECTIVES
Navel - Los Angeles, USA - 2018 to 2020

GUEST ARTIST AND PEDAGOGICAL WORK
Zeppelin University - Friedrichshafen Germany
Notre Dame Du Lac - Geneva, Switzerland
The Untitled Project -Navel - Los Angeles, USA
Center For The Arts Eagle Rock - Los Angeles, USA
Wilding Cran Gallery - Los Angeles, USA
Cal Arts with Community Arts Partnership - Los Angeles, USA
Hauser & Wirth with Community Arts Partnership - Los Angeles, USA
Venice Arts - Los Angeles, USA
Interview, features, etc
Neurogastronomic Polyphony: An interview with Grace Denis - The Common Table
Dinner Party Tips - Passerby Magazine
 
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Neurogastronomic Polyphony: An interview with Grace Denis - The Common Table→