EDUCATION
2016 MFA Hunter College, New York, NY
B.Ed Fine Arts Beit Berl School of Art (Hamidrasha), Israel

SOLO & TWO-PERSON SHOWS+PROJECTS
2023 Asya Geisberg gallery + New Discretions, NYC, NY, “Epic, Heroic, Ordinary” (solo show)
2019 A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "Rendered Void" (solo show)
2018 CRUSH Curatorial gallery, NY, NY, "Science Fictions: Brittany Nelson and Gabriela Vainsencher", curated by Nicole Kaack.
BOMB Magazine issue #142, Winter 2018, End Page by Gabriela Vainsencher (site-specific commission)
2016 Hanina, Tel Aviv, Israel (two-person show with Reut Asimini)
2013 Soapbox, Brooklyn, NY "The François Vase" (collaboration with Daniel Fox, performance by the Momenta Quartet)
The Rotunda, Philadelphia, PA, "The François Vase"
2012 Musee d’Art Moderne Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France, (two-person show with Cynthia Roberts)
Recession Art gallery, New York, NY, “Gabriela Vainsencher: Don’t Have No Colleague”
Phaidon and Artis Contemporary, New York, NY, “Legends of Heartbreak and Epiphany in Tel Aviv”
2011 Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, NY, “Facetime #2- Gabriela Vainsencher and John Roach”
2009 La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada “Gabriela Vainsencher: The Unfinished Museum Tour- Quebec City”
WORK, Brooklyn, NY, “Drive In III” (Two-woman show with Sarah Walko)
2008 WORK, Brooklyn, NY, "Gabriela Vainsencher: WORKing Title"
2007 Leif Magne Tangens, Skien, Norway “Gabriela Vainsencher: I don’t care about documenta 12”

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Musee d’Art Moderne Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France

GROUP SHOWS AND SCREENINGS
2023  Marisa Newman gallery, NYC, NY, “You Go Girl”
2022 Future Fair with New Discretions, NYC, NY
Towson University galleries, Towson, MD, “Extend-Excess”, curated by Sagi Rafael and Susan Isaacs
2021 Bronx Museum Biennial, Bronx, NY, curated by Ian Cofre and Eva Mayhabal
2020 Marisa Newman gallery, NY, NY, ˈtəch *, curated by Levan Mindiashvili
Adams and Ollman gallery, Portland, OR, “Fold, Stack, Turn”
Affective Care, NY, NY, "Things on Walls" curated by Benjamin Tischer
Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, Flat Files group show
2019 PS122 Gallery, "Dynasty", curated by Sara Reisman and Christopher Ho
Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "Fur Cup", curated by Elisa Soliven
2018 The Jerusalem Cinematheque, Body. Movement. Camera - Contemporary Israeli Experimental Films, curated by Shelly Renan-Kuris (screening)
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, “Inclinations”, curated by Jae Cho
2017 NurtureArt gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Relative Matter, curated by Janna Dyke
Hunter MFA thesis show, NY, NY
SpaceHeater gallery, Brooklyn NY ("Reconstruction" screening)
Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Katy McCarthy
The Whitney Houston Biennial, NY, NY
2016 Flux Factory, NYC, and Relapse, London, 3459', curated by Emireth Herrera Valdés
Bergamo Modern and Contemporary Art, The Blank: Transit Message, curated by Olga Vanoncini and Claudia Santeroni.
2015 The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Hand, Finger, Digit. Curated by Katie Schwab
2014 Temporary Agency, Brooklyn, NY, Lip, Mouth, Neck, Shoulder, Belly, Foot., curated by Katie Schwab
Hunter College, New York, NY, curated by Alan Longino
Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway, curated by Power Ekroth, Hanne Gudrun Gulljord and Leif Magne Tangen
2013 Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York, Unhinged, curated by Joe Amrhein
Radiator, LIC, New York, A Cage Went In Search of a Bird, curated by Sarah Walko
Fresh Paint (Tzeva Tari) art fair, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Greenhouse (emerging artists pavilion)
2012 Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY, Codex Dynamic, curated by Leo Kuelbs and John Ensor Parker
Fresh Paint (Tzeva Tari) art fair, Tel Aviv, Israel
Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, NY, “WNTRSLN#2”
Concrete Utopia, Brooklyn, NY, “Dona Nobis”
2011 Artis Contemporary at NADA, Miami Beach, FL
Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY “Irrational Exuberance”
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA and Cabinet magazine, Brooklyn, NY, “An exchange with Sol LeWitt”, curated by Regine Basha
2010 Triangle Arts Association Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Flux Factory, LIC, NY, “Housebroken”
Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY, “Flat files artist of the week”
The Work Office, New York, NY, “The Work Office Two”
2009 Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany, “True Stories True Success”, curated by Alanna Lockward
The National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canada, “One after Another”, curated by Chen Tamir
Trust Me Magazine, Italy (publication)
The Russian Art Fair, London, “Doubtful Lineage”, site-specific installation
Charlie Horse, Brooklyn NY, “A Dry Run”
D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany, Circa Magazine Video Screening
2008 Circa Magazine at Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
D-21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany, “Representations of the Artist as an Intellectual”, curated by Leif Magne Tangen
E-flux, NY, NY, “PAWNSHOP”
Flux Factory, LIC, NY, “New York New York New York”, curated by Chen Tamir
Sub Octo, Philadelphia, PA, “Beyondo”
2007 Kunsthalle Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany, “Notes on Places”
Pierogi,Brooklyn NY, and Leipzig, Germany, (Flat Files artist)
Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn NY, “Vonnegut”
2005 Reading Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, “Liga”, curated by Galia Yahav

RESIDENCIES
2018 Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woodstock, NY
2012 The Institut Français and Triangle Arts Association, Le Havre, France
2011 Atlantic Center for The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2010 Triangle Arts Association International Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
2009 La Chambre Blanche, International Artist-in-Residence
2008 Yaddo artist colony, Saratoga Springs, NY

GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship
Artis Contemporary Exhibition Grant recipient
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant recipient
A.I.R. Gallery, artist fellowship 2019
2018 Byrdcliffe Coleman & Pierson Fellow for 2018, Woodstock, NY
2016 Lazarus Curatorial fellowship, Hunter College, New York, NY
Leeman Boksenbom Scholarship, Hunter College, New York, NY
2012 Institut Français and Triangle Arts Association, residency grant
2011 Atlantic Center For the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (Joan Mitchell Foundation grant)
Creative Capital and Artis Contemporary workshop
2009 La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada, artist grant
2009 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Arthur Levitt ’52 Fellow (Artist in Residence)
2008 Yaddo artist colony, materials grant
2001-5 Beit Berl College School of Art (Hamidrasha), Full Excellence Scholarship.

CURATORIAL
2019 601Artspace, NY, NY. "Install/Deinstall", featuring 58 self portraits by 58 artists in 3 hours
2017 601Artspace, NY, NY. "I Can't Tell You Because I Can't Tell You", curated by Gabriela Vainsencher, featuring the work of Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Constance DeJong, Christian Marclay, Roman Signer, and Kerry Tribe
2015 Hunter MFA studios, NYC, NY, “INstall/DEinstall” (This one-night exhibition consisted of an install-opening-deinstall event, lasting four hours.)
2012-13 “The Morning Drawing Residency” (A year-long digital artist residency featuring a new artwork per day from 51 artists)

TEACHING, TALKS, LECTURES
2020 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, winter study (upcoming)
2019 NYU Tisch, artist talk
2012 - 2018 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Winter Study "Stories and Pictures"
2017 Hunter College, Macaulay Honors seminar "The Arts of New York City"
2017 NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY, artist talk
2015 NYU, artist lecture
2009 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Arthur Levitt ’52 Fellow (Artist in Residence)
2009 Williams College, Williamstown, MA, artist talk