Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator. 

She has been giving readings & talks & presenting performances around the world since 2007. For bookings please contact the shipman agency.

Ariana’s books include A SAND BOOK, winner of the  2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize & longlisted for the National Book Award, THE COW, winner of the Alberta Prize, COEUR DE LION, MERCURY, and The Origin of the World.

Her Obie-winning  play TELEPHONE was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre & has been performed & published in Norwegian translation (2017) and at KW Berlin (2018) among others.  

Ariana is also an accomplished educator, having taught poetry & art as the Mary Routt chair at Scripps College, roberta c. Holloway Lecturer at uc berkeley, visiting professor of the practice of poetry at tufts, distinguished visiting poet at the university of wichita, visiting critic at yale sculpture, & many others.

In 2012 she created ancient evenings, an innovative platform generating creative writing through ancient texts, as well as lazy eye haver, an astrology practice through which she pioneered new forms of arts and consciousness pedagogy, which she spoke about at harvard in 2015.

in march 2020, while a divinity student at harvard, she created invisible college, a hub for poetry, art, & sacred study online.

Recent performance & teaching projects include DIVINE JUSTICE (2022), A 25-HOUR DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE INSPIRED BY MEDEA AT PERFORMANCE SPACE NY, and gnostic poetics, a unique seminar/workshop on the nag hammadi library held at Scripps College in 2022.

performances & theatrical works by Ariana Reines include: MORTAL KOMBAT (2015),  commissioned by Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne & performed at The Whitney Museum, New  York, NY, USA, & Gallery TPW, Toronto, CA, and LORNA (2013) at Martin E. Segal Theatre, New York, USA, both in collaboration with Jim Fletcher, The Origin of the World (2013) at Modern Art, London UK, & many others.

GROUP AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE MARS RETURNS (2022), in Kaunas, Lithuania, curated by Raimundas Malašauskas, SPERM CULT (2019) at LAXART, curated by Hamza Walker, PUBIC SPACE  (2016), A COLLABORATION WITH OSCAR TUAZON AT MODERN ART IN LONDON, UK, EXHAUST  (2016) curated by Erin Sickler AT CONTEMPORARY ART TASMANIA, AU, and JANE DARK (2014) curated by Jesse Birch AT WESTERN FRONT, VANCOUVER, CANADA, & more.

ARIANA IS THE TRANSLATOR OF BAUDELAIRE’S MY HEART LAID BARE (MAL-O-MAR, 2009); JEAN-LUC  HENNIG’S THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF GRISÉLIDIS RÉAL: DAYS AND NIGHTS OF AN ANARCHIST WHORE  (SEMIOTEXT(E) 2009); AND TIQQUN’S PRELIMINARY MATERIALS TOWARD A THEORY OF THE YOUNG GIRL (SEMIOTEXT(E) 2012). 

HER POETRY, ESSAYS, & INTERVIEWS  HAVE APPEARED IN ARTFORUM, ART IN AMERICA, THE BELIEVER,  THE BOSTON REVIEW, BOMB, GRANTA, HARPERS, THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS, POETRY,  & MORE. 

SHE HAS COMPOSED TEXTS FOR & INTERVIEWED MANY ARTISTS, INCLUDING NICOLE EISENMAN, NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, K8 HARDY, SETH PRICE, OSCAR TUAZON, JUSTINE KURLAND, LIZ LARNER, ANNA SEW HOY, CAROL RAMA, MONDONGO, IZHAR PATKIN, SANYA  KANTAROVSKY, & MORE, 

& has partnered with brands, artists, & foundations including YSL, Levis, Yoko Snoopy, Bug, and Thanks For Nothing on limited-edition objects & collectibles.

REINES HAS BEEN A MACDOWELL FELLOW, A RESIDENT AT THE TS ELIOT HOUSE, A FELLOW AT THE  CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AT TUFTS, A BROWN FOUNDATION FELLOW AT THE DORA MAAR HOUSE,  THE POETRY FELLOW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, HAS JUDGED THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES,  THE WHITE REVIEW POETRY PRIZE & BEEN A NOMINATOR FOR THE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY  ART.  

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