Jen Delos Reyes

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Only Birds Sing the Music of Heaven in this World, March 23–July 7, 2012

Opening Reception
Thursday, March 22, 6-8pm
51 Yerba Buena Lane
San Francisco, CA 94103
(@ Mission between Third & Fourth)

Lecture at Concordia University, March 8, 2012

Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
March 8, 2012
6:00pm

Social Practice Art: A History

I am pleased to announce that the Social Practice Art: A History box sets created by my fall 2011 History of Art and Social Practice students are now available at Nationale and Reading Frenzy in Portland, OR. Some great zines on socially engaged art!

Manitoba Folkways Collection Now Available!

I am pleased to announce the release of the Manitoba Folkways Collection!

All three volumes are available for digital download are available here: http://www.canadianfolkways.com

Utopia, OH

Opening Saturday, Sept. 24th from 7-10 PM
Through Saturday, October 15th

Open gallery hours Sundays from 1-4 PM

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDE:

-Randall Szott in conversation with Shannon Stratton, Nancy Zastudil and Duncan MacKenzie

-The Order of the Third Bird (Sal Randolph and D. Graham Burnett)

-Cheon Lee and Arthur Brum

-Jen Delos Reyes

-Mark Harris

-Wyatt Niehaus

-Kelly Frigard

Ditch Projects-Jon Cohrs, Jen Delos Reyes, Sara Rabinowitz

September 3, 2011- October 1, 2011 at DITCH
Hours: 12 noon – 5 PM Saturday
Opening Reception: September 3, 2011 – 7PM

YA5 #2 Release Party, June 17, 2011

YA5 #2 Release Party
Galaxy Restaurant & Lounge
909 East Burnside Street
7p – FREE!

Open Engagement, May 13-15, 2011

The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes.

Art Criticism & Other Stories, Thursday, May 19

Art Criticism & Other Stories A collection of fan fiction about contemporary art by six artists.

Thursday, May 19 from 7-9pm @ Monograph Bookworks 5005 NE 27th AVENUE at ALBERTA PORTLAND, OREGON 97211 USA

Getting To Know You(Tube), April 19th, 2011

featuring short YouTube presentations by
Jen Delos Reyes
Caleb Dechant
Tate Breswick
Krystal South
+ more

FREE–TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
Happening at Field Work
1101 SW Jefferson, Portland OR

check out previous GTKYT events at
http://gettingtoknowyoutube.tumblr.com

The Conference of Conferences, Saturday February 26, 2011

CONFERENCE OF CONFERENCES Listening in & talking back to art discourse Saturday February 26, 2011 Conference of Conferences is a day long symposium of curated selections from recent art & theory conferences around the world. Recordings of lectures, podcasts & panels will be re-presented to conference participants, and will be followed by local respondents and [...]

Conference on Conferences, SFU, March 4-5, 2011

I will be presenting on Open Engagement at THE CONFERENCE ON THE CONFERENCE March 4th and 5th, 2011 Simon Fraser University A School for the Contemporary Arts Graduate Candidate’s Symposium/Exhibition Vancouver, BC. Canada http://theconferenceontheconference.ca/

Kindness is Contagious

As part of a public art project initiated by Jessica Gath where artists create work with the words “Kindness is Contagious” I made this hand painted sign.

The Open Day Book, November 2, 2010

I have work that will be featured in The Open Day Book, edited by David Earle.

The Open Day Book serves as a perpetual calendar that can be used in a traditional manner, but also lets you interact with the work of more than 300 of today’s most captivating artists, all of whom have visually responded to a day of the year.

Mildred’s Lane Fundraiser October 30, 2010

I will be contributing work to a fundraiser for Mildred’s Lane. The auction is scheduled to take place October 30th 2010. For more information visit www.mildredslane.com

Shine A Light, Portland Art Museum, Oct 15, 2010

Shine a Light presents a different kind of museum experience by re-imagining the galleries, lobbies, courtyard, and other spaces in unexpected ways and challenging traditional notions of art-making. This year’s event will let Museum-goers touch—and even tie the knot with—works of art, enjoy break dancing and music in the galleries, and see nude wrestling performances.

Mildred’s Lane June 24-28, 2010

I will be traveling out to Mildred’s Lane to give a seminar titled “Land, Music, People: People’s Songs, Alan Lomax, and “folk” in Contemporary Art.”

Mildred’s Lane is collaboration between artists Mark Dion, J. Morgan Puett and their associates. This Project is a long-term experiment in large-scale project , research and event based practices with a living museum and an educational institution attached. This active site is a 92+-acre compound in the upper Delaware River Valley region of Pennsylvania near New York City.

127 Prince: On the art of social practice and the social practice of art.

127 Prince is a new journal named after the location of artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1971 restaurant FOOD.
Like FOOD, 127 Prince hopes to function as a site for conversation.
The journal will present and examine ideas on the art of social practice,
and the social practice of art.

Condensations of the Social, Smack Mellon, NY, June 19-August 1, 2010

Curated by Sara Reisman

Pablo Helguera, Portland State University’s Social Practice MFA Program, Mary Mattingly, Mladen Miljanovic, Tim Rollins + K.O.S., and Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Exhibition dates:
June 19 – August 1, 2010

Artists’ reception:
Saturday, June 19, 5 – 8 pm

Lateral Learning curated by Paul Butler, published by Vantage

A book about pedagogy, community, disaster and art.

www.vantageartprojects.com

Arts Engage! Symposium, Halifax, NS, June 18-20, 2010

The Arts Engage! Symposium and Training Intensive will take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia from June 14 to June 20, 2010 inclusive. Speaker http://www.artsengage.com/

EARCOS 2010, Manila, Philippines

Date: March 25-28, 2010
Venue: International School Manila, Philippines

Presenter

PORTRAIT PROJECTS, Los Angeles

PORTRAIT PROJECTS
FEBRUARY 13, 2010 – MARCH 6, 2010
A group exhibition consisting of video, photography, sculpture, and installation. The show examines intimate and historical relationships with subjects such as friends, strangers, and animals.

People Never Notice Anything Reading, apexart

Thursday, February 18, 2010

4-5pm: Volunteer public reading of People Don’t Notice Anything notebooks, a project by Jen Delos Reyes.

www.apexart.org

Open Engagement Conference 2010

May 14-17, 2010
Portland, Oregon

The Incidental Person at apexart

Curated by Antony Hudek, the show runs from January 6 to February 20, 2010.

Parties Prenantes at Bétonsalon

A proposal of Mélanie Bouteloup (Bétonsalon), Julien Lanchet & Sara Martinetti (students at Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7)

November 30, We Need To Know Where We Have Been To Know Where We Are Going: A History of Socially Engaged Art Practice

In the spring of 2009 I taught a course on the history of socially engaged art practice at Portland State University. The outcome of this course is a mass written collaboration between over 20 art and social practice students along with contributions by artists and writers including Paul Butler, Harrell Fletcher, Ted Purves, Helena Keefe, Joseph del Pesco and more.

October 23, Ampersand International Arts, 7:00pm, “See How They Shine”

As part of Lori Gordon’s upcoming solo exhibition “Snippets” I will be organizing a choral performance titled “See How They Shine.”

Jessica James Lansdon’s Party Animal!

As part of the current exhibition at the Sherwood Village Dunlop Gallery, Block Party, Jessica James Lansdon’s “Party Animal” was just completed.

October 3, Nuit Blanche

I will be participating in a billboard project organized for Nuit Blanche by Paul Butler. The exhibition will take place in dozens of 4 x 6 ft advertising poster-frames throughout downtown Toronto for one night only in October, 2009.

September 19, The Portland Art Museum Reveals Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum

For one night only, on Saturday, September 19 from 6 p.m. to midnight, the Portland Art Museum hosts Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum. The event consists of six hours of performances, installations, tours, workshops, and games by 15 artists drawn from the PSU MFA Art and Social Practice concentration.

August 10, S.A.S.E presented by ASDF

S.A.S.E. uses the idea of the self addressed stamped envelope as its foundation (a method of distribution within the postal mail system that is always initiated by the one who wants to receive the information).

This method of distribution was (futilely) translated into a digital communication system, e-mail.

Eleven people were asked to organize an exhibition of images that would be contained within the space of an e-mail.

Ten e-mail exhibitions were created (each includes a selection of images, a statement, and a works list).

To receive the e-mail exhibition one would initiate the process by sending a request e-mail.

Block Party at the Dunlop Art Gallery August 1-October 11, 2009

Block Party is a playful experiment in community formation through the socially-engaged art practices of three artists. Jen Delos Reyes has invited collaborators Jessica James Lansdon and Lori Gordon to take part in an exhibition that will develop out of the encounters between the artists, the Sherwood Village Branch Library, and its neighbourhood.

August 1, Artist Talk at the Dunlop Art Gallery

Artist Talk with Jen Delos Reyes
Saturday, August 1, 2:00 pm

Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK.

June 14, It’s Possible

Graduate exhibition catalogue for the upcoming PSU MFA Social Practice show at Disjecta is back from the press.

Features an essay I wrote for the catalogue titled “The Quirky Ones”

June 5, PDF: Public Document Files at PSOne

30 artists/artist groups were invited by me to produce a PDF file on their own work as well as 10 files on artists or subjects they think are related to ideas surrounding public and social art work.

PDF opens June 1st, 2009, at Public Space One in Iwowa City

May 21, Guest Lecture at the University of Cincinnati

Noon hour lecture at the University of Cincinnati, “You Can Have It All: Social Practice 1993-”

Art Talk AM Box Set

I am featured in a beautiful box set of transcripts from Art Talk AM on the Radio.

The set features Cyrus W. Smith in conversation with contemporary artists on KPSU Radio from 2008-2009.

Including: Regine Basha, Dan Attoe, Patrick Rock, Courtney Fink, Chris Johanson, Calvin johnson, Lucky Dragons, Daniel Bozhkov, Harrell Fletcher and Jen Delos Reyes

April 30, No Gallery Left Behind

Opening of group show No Gallery Left Behind at Reed Gallery, DAAP, Cincinnati

Show includes some of the following artists: Ryan Mulligan, Harrell Fletcher, Miranda July, Annie Schorgl and many more

April 23, Guest Lecture, Willamette University

April 23, 12:30 pm. Guest lecture, Willamette University. Salem, OR

February 7, Social Practice West

Saturday February 7, 2:00 pm. Social Practice West at the SF MoMA. Ted Purves, chair and assistant professor, Graduate Program in Fine Arts, California College of the Arts Jen Delos Reyes, adjunct Assistant Professor, Portland State University Randall Szott, writer. Panel discussions as part of The Art of Participation 1950- Phyllis Wattis Theater 2:00 p.m.