RESUME

2024

I only found you when I stopped looking, Solo show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 
A Shapeshifter with a Heavenly Secret, Film Screening, Gravitational Lensing, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA (forthcoming)
Buy What You Love, Benefit Auction, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Storage, New York, NY
A Shapeshifter with a Heavenly Secret, Film Screening, Bodega Film Festival, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
Did you have a hard time finding me?, Solo show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Donde Come Uno, Comen Dos, Rulay Magazine, MECA Art Fair, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Film Diary III: The Coldest Winter, Film screening, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY

2023

A.I.R. Gallery Fellow, Brooklyn, NY
What a Fool Believes, Subtitled NYC, curated by Elzie Williams III, Brooklyn, NY
A Shapeshifter with a Heavenly Secret, White Columns Online, curated by Tamara Khasanova, New York, NY
Adónde irá mi vida, In Response: The Sassoons, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

2022

Emerging Artist Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
Griselda, NoBudge, Brooklyn, NY
Water Lillies, Editor for David Humphrey, Roulette Intermedium: Brooklyn, NY
CURRENTS: Identity Politics, A.I.R. Gallery, curated by Christian Camacho-Light and Roxana Fabius, Brooklyn, NY

2021

Hot Films in the Making: Cry with Me, Roy W. Dean Film Grant, CA
Artist Relief Grant, United States Artists, New York, NY
Cry with Me, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, curated by Amy Sadao, New York, NY
The (better late than never) Summer Show, ChaShaMa, New York, NY
First Year Exhibition, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

2019-2020

Audition #4/39 for ‘Cry with Me,’ Artforum MFA Spotlight, Online
Artist in Residence, Institut für Alles Mögliche: Berlin, Germany
Grant for German Language Study, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY
Artist in Residence Traveling Grant, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY
Traveling Grant for NAIS POC Conference, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY

2018

Griselda (Episode 1), Premiere at TAKT Gallery, Group Show, Berlin, Germany
Come Watch Me! at The Institut für Alles Mögliche, Solo Exhibition, Institut Zentrale, Berlin, Germany
Überflüssig, Unverweslich, Geheim, Performance with Frank Maucieri, Berlin, Germany
Grant for German Language Study, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY
Artist in Residence Traveling Grant, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY
Traveling Grant for NAIS POC Conference, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY

2017

Another Space, TAKT Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany
Artist in Residence, TAKT Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany
Grant for German Language Study, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY
Artist in Residence Traveling Grant, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY
Traveling Grant for NAIS POC Conference, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY

2016

Leche, Thesis Project, Buenos Aires, Argentina
We Forgot to Be Lonely, Key Animator, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2015

Acts 1-5, Solo Performance, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Renditions of Form, Curator, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Experiences//Messages of Support, Curator, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Women I’ve Disappointed, Book Illustrator, Middletown, CT
Lodia, Set Design, Middletown, CT

2014

Drilled, Nailed, and Hung, Founder of curating collective, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
The Monument Quilt, Curator, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
The Interactive Art Gallery II, The Doping Agency, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
Tema: Sculpture, Zilkha Gallery, Group Exhibition, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
24 Hour Vibrations, Solo Performance, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

2013

Unstable Territory: Borders and Identity, CCC Strozzina Gallery, Student Feature: Florence, Italy
The Interactive Art Gallery I, The Doping Agency, Group Exhibition: New York, NY
Best in Class: Batik, Painting, Drawing, Syracuse University in Florence, Studio Art Program, Florence, Italy

ARTICLES, PUBLICATIONS, AND CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

2024
Kiara Cristina Ventura Shares Intimate Streams of Consciousness from the Dominican Republic’s Lively Art World, Elephant Magazine, April 23, 2024.

2023
Denisse Griselda Reyes and Tamara Khasanova in conversation, White Columns, New York, NY

2022
Visual Artist Spotlight: Denisse Griselda Reyes, VelvetPark Media

2021
Open Studio: Conversation with Amy Sadao
"Why Would Anyone Need to be a Different Person?” MODA Critical Review, Ellipses #2.
Johnson, Emily. “Students Present MFA Thesis Exhibition.” Columbia SoA

2020
Stadic, Stipan. “Noga Cohen and Denisse Griselda Reyes.” WCKR FM 89.9

2015
Guest Lecturer. “On Griselda.” TAKT Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany
“Reclaiming My Clitoris: Locating the (G)od Spot of Institutionalized Experiences.” Hermes Magazine.

EDUCATION :

2019-2021 Columbia University, MFA in Visual Arts, New Genres: New York, NY
2011-2015 Wesleyan University, BA in Art History: Middletown, CT

MENTORSHIPS AND TEACHING:

Teaching Assistant, Making Without Objects (Sculpture), Rirkrit Tiravanija: Columbia University
Teaching Assistant, Video 1, Shelly Silver: Columbia University
Mark Dion, 1 year mentorship
Pamela Sneed, 2 year mentorship
David Humphrey, 2 year mentorship