Gabriela Vainsencher

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, raised in Israel. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Philadelphia, PA

 

Education

2010Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY, Intaglio Printmaking
2005 Beit Berl College School of Art (Hamidrasha), B.Ed Fine Arts, Israel, Full Excellence Scholarship, Israeli ministry of Education

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Recession Art gallery, New York, NY, “Don’t Have No Colleague”
2009 La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada “The Unfinished Museum Tour- Quebec City”
2008 WORK Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Leif Magne Tangens gallery, Skien, Norway “I don’t care about documenta 12”

Group Exhibitions, publications and Screenings

2012

Gabriela Vainsencher and Cynthia Roberts, Musee d’Art Moderne Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France
Codex Dynamic, curated by Leo Kuelbs and John Ensor Parker, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Fresh Paint (Tzeva Tari) art fair, The Greenhouse (emerging artists pavilion), Tel Aviv, Israel
Phaidon Publishing and Artis Contemporary, New York, NY, “Legends of Heartbreak and Epiphany in Tel Aviv” (a commissioned map, performance and online archive)
Parker’s Box Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “WNTRSLN#2”
Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, NY, “Dona Nobis”

2011
NADA art fair, Miami Beach, FL, Artis Contemporary
Parker’s Box gallery, “Facetime #2- Gabriela Vainsencher and John Roach” (Two-person exhibition)
Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY “Irrational Exuberance” (a Recession Art exhibition)
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA and Cabinet magazine, Brooklyn, NY, “An exchange with Sol LeWitt”

2010
Triangle Arts Association Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Pierogi gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Flat files artist of the week”
2River View, The Summer Issue (publication)
The Work Office, New York, NY, “The Work Office Two”
Flux Factory, LIC, NY, “Housebroken”

2009
Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany, “True Stories True Success”
The National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canada, “One after Another”
Trust Me Magazine, Italy (publication)
The Russian Art Fair, London, “Doubtful Lineage”, site-specific installation
WORK gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Drive In III” (Two-woman show with Sarah Walko)
Charlie Horse gallery, Brooklyn NY, “A Dry Run”
D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany, Circa Magazine Video Screening

2008
Temple Bar gallery and studios Dublin, Ireland, Circa Magazine Video Screening
FUKT Magazine #7 (publication)
D-21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany, “Representations of the Artist as an Intellectual”
E-flux, NY, NY, “PAWNSHOP”
Flux Factory, LIC, NY, “New York New York New York”
Sub Octo gallery, Philadelphia, PA, “Beyondo”

2007
Kunsthalle Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany, “Notes on Places”
Pierogi gallery, Brooklyn NY, Leipzig, Germany, The Flat Files
Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn NY, “Vonnegut”

2005
Reading Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, “Liga”

Residencies
2012 Le Havre/New York: Criss Cross Views, Le Havre, France, The Institut Français and Triangle Arts Association (October-January)
2011 Atlantic Center for The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2010 Triangle Arts Association International Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Arthur Levitt ’52 Artist in Residence (visiting faculty)
La Chambre Blanche, International Artist-in-Residence
2008 Yaddo artist colony, Saratoga Springs, NY

Scholarships and stipends
2012 Institut Français and Triangle Arts Association, residency grant
2011 Joan Mitchell Foundation, full support for residency at the Atlantic Center For the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2011 Creative Capital and Artis Contemporary- full support for professional development workshop
2009 La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada, artist stipend for travel and installation of solo show
2008 Yaddo artist colony, materials stipend
2001-5 Beit Berl College School of Art (Hamidrasha), Full Excellence Scholarship from Israel’s Ministry of Education.

Teaching, Artist Talks and Lectures
2013 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, “Stories and Pictures (Studio- Interdisciplinary response to short fiction)”, Winter-Study course
2012 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, “Stories and Pictures (Studio- Interdisciplinary response to short fiction)”, Winter-Study course
2010 New York University, guest speaker, artist talk with undergraduate students
2009 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Artist-in-residence Levitt Fellow. Taught two cross-listed courses: “What Are You Laughing At? (Lectures-Humor in contemporary visual art)”, and “Stories and Pictures (Studio- Interdisciplinary response to short fiction)”
2009 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, “The Problems That Lead To Making Art” (artist talk)
Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada, lecture in conjunction with the solo exhibition “The Unfinished Museum Tour”