Denise Treizman is a Chilean-Israeli artist, based in Miami, Florida. She creates sculptures and installations combining found objects, ready-made materials, ceramics, weavings and lights.
Treizman has had solo exhibitions at the Coral Springs Museum of Art (2024), Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago (2024), University Galleries of Illinois State University (2021), Proto Gomez Gallery
(2021 | New York, NY), Cuchifritos Gallery (2016 | New York, NY) and Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space (2016 | Bronx, NY) amongst others. She has exhibited across the US and internationally, including group exhibitions at L'SPACE Gallery (2023 | New York, NY), Mahara + Co (2023 |
Miami, FL), Praise Shadows Gallery (2022 | Brookline, MA), Hybrid Art Festival (2017 & 2018 | Madrid, Spain) and at the Bronx Museum for the Arts AIM Biennial (2015 | Bronx, NY). Her work was extensively presented at the Orlando Museum of Art for the 2023 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art.
As a fellow at the Bronx Museum AIM program, Treizman created an interactive public artwork commissioned by the NYC Parks Alliance (2016 | Randall’s Island, NY). She was awarded a studio residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York City, where she developed her work between 2015 and 2019. Treizman has completed artist residencies at Mass MOCA (2017 & 2016 | North Adams, MA), NARS Foundation International Artists Residency (2015 | Brooklyn, NY), Triangle Workshop (2015 | Salem, NY), ACRE Residency (2015 | Steuben, MI),
Ox-Bow Residency (2014 | Saugatuck, MI) and Vermont Studio Center (2013 | Johnson, VT) where she was honored with the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Fellowship. In 2024, she was awarded the Helen M. Salzberg Visiting Artist Fellowship at Palm Beach State College and the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award (Miami-Dade).
Treizman earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (2013 | New York, NY), and is currently a studio resident at Laundromat Art Space in Miami, Florida. Having lived in many densely populated cities over the years—Santiago, London, San Francisco, New York City, Haifa, and now Miami—her practice has stemmed from and benefited from throwaway culture.
Photo Credits: Dulce Lamarca