Denise Ryner is a writer and curator, working between Toronto and Philadelphia, where she is the Andrea B. Laporte Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Recent independently curated projects include Sediment: The Archive as a Fragmentary Base (2023–24) at Concordia University’s Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto; and Ceremony: Burial of an Undead World (2022), co-curated with Anselm Franke, Elisa Giuliano, Claire Tancons, and Zairong Xiang at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Until 2022 she was director/curator at Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia. She’s published critical essays and reviews in CMagazine, Blackflash and Canadian Art as well as in various exhibition catalogues. She was also co-editor of the Canadian Art (Fall 2020) ‘Chroma’ issue.
