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.
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