PUBLIC COMMISSIONS  selected

EXHIBITIONS  selected   [ individual = * ]

PRESS / INTERVIEWS selected

• Jan Garden Castro, "Collective Effort: A Conversation with Risa Puno", Sculpture Magazine, July 02, 2024.
• Martina Merlo, "Risa Puno’s ‘Group Hug,’ whack-a-mole with purpose at the Fabric Workshop and Museum", Artblog, May 24, 2024.
• Clare Gemima, "GROUP HUG: Interview with Risa Puno at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia", White Hot Magazine, April 25, 2024.
• Steph Walton, "Risa Puno: Group Hug on view at The Fabric Workshop and Museum through July 21", 6ABC Action News, April 15, 2024.
• Laura Swartz, "This New Art Exhibit Is Low-Key the Best Free Self-Care in Philly Right Now", Philadelphia Magazine, March 14, 2024.
• Noah Nelson, "Of Group Hugs And Unresolved Rage w/ Risa Puno", The No Proscenium Podcast, February 23, 2024.
• Brian Droitcour, "Conversations: Calum Bowden & Risa Puno", Outland, February 13, 2024.
• April Wallace, "Famous Hardware building tells stories of NWA people", Arkansas Democrat Gazette, January 12, 2023.
• Lori Goldstein, "The Power of Play: A Conversational Dialogue with Risa Puno", Public Art Dialogue, May 17, 2022.
• "The Art and Design of Privilege and Oppression | Risa Puno," podcast interview on LLAG Radio, Feb 23, 2022.
• Maxwell L. Anderson, "Risa Puno," podcast interview on Art Scoping, March 29, 2020.
• Nathaniel Sky, "Privilege, Play, and Starting conversations with Risa Puno of The Privilege of Escape," podcast interview on Immersion Nation, October 11, 2019.
• Tony Huffman, "Pause > System > Settings: Reconfiguring the Rules in Risa Puno’s Escape Room," Arcade Project, August 14, 2019.
• Jan Garden Castro, "Analogies For Life: A Conversation with Risa Puno," Sculpture Magazine, August 2, 2019.
• Jillian Steinhauer, "An Escape Room Where You Can’t Escape Your Privilege," The New York Times, July 23, 2019.
• Kathryn Yu, "‘The Privilege of Escape’ Subverts the Escape Room Form," No Proscenium, July 22, 2019.
• Sarah Cascone, "Creative Time’s Latest Public Art Project Is an Escape Room Designed to Teach You About White Privilege," artnet News, July 18, 2019.
• Scott Lynch, "Artist Risa Puno's Escape Room In Midtown Focuses On Privilege & Inequity," Gothamist, July 18, 2019.
• Lisa Spira, "The Privilege of Escape: Interview with Artist & Game Designer Risa Puno," Room Escape Artist, May 24, 2019.
• Taylor Dafoe, "600 Artists Submitted Ideas for Creative Time’s Latest Commission. The Winner? A High-Concept ‘Escape Room’," artnet News, March 14, 2019.
• Glenn Adamson, "Literally a melting pot," Letter from America, Crafts Magazine, November/December 2018.
• Mark Feeney, "‘Year of the Dog’ installation comes to Chinatown Park," Boston Globe, February 20, 2018.
• Diane Daniel, "Game Theory," American Craft Magazine, June/July 2017.
• Christina Wallace and Cate Scott Campbell, "Risa Puno And The Art Of Play," podcast interview on The Limit Does Not Exist, Forbes, August 2, 2016.
• Dee Perry, radio interview on The Sound of Applause, 90.3 WCPN, August 19, 2015.
• Andrea Denhoed, “Give Yourself Away,” The New Yorker, October 15, 2014.
• Conor Gillies, “Risa Puno: Please Enable Cookies,” Radio Open Source, October 9, 2014.
• Lois Beckett, “How Much of Your Data Would You Trade for a Free Cookie?,” ProPublica, October 1, 2014.
• AM DeBrincat, “fair game: Risa Puno in conversion with AM DeBrincat,” ArtFile Magazine, September 22, 2014.
• Tina Ramnarine, “The Course of Emotions: Installation Artist Risa Puno on Her Mini Golf Course at Summer Streets,” StageBuddy, August 06, 2014.
• Betsy Armour, “The Art of Collaboration,” Fine Art America blog, August 05, 2014.
• Jennifer M. Wood, “Park Avenue goes car-free for Summer Streets 2013,” Time Out New York, July 31, 2013.
• Jan G. Castro, “Innovative Low Cost Museum-Quality Art by Risa Puno and Soo Sunny Park,” International Sculpture Center blog, June 19, 2013.
• Roz Baron, “Preview: Three Emerging Artists Featured in El Museo del Barrio’s 7th Biennial Exhibition,” Remezcla, April 2, 2013.
• Jordan Galloway, “Culture and Cocktails at Brooklyn Art Night,” Brooklyn Based, March 16, 2012.
• Brendan S. Carroll, “Risky Business,” Hyperallergic, February 24, 2012.
• Michael Wilson, “Brooklyn Bridge,” artforum.com, February 21, 2012.
• La Shawn Pagan, “Absence -- Framing AIDS 2011,” The Queens Courier, December 8, 2010.
• Briana Vannozzi, “The Art Of Mini-Golf,” NJN News, aired July 9, 2010.
• Tammy La Gorce, “Come for Art, Stay for the Golf,” The New York Times, July 2, 2010.
• Dylan Schenker, “The Jersey City Mini-Golf Experiment: The Golden Door Is Now Open,” Hyperallergic, July 1, 2010.
• Don Ciandella, “A Mini-Golf Tribute to Jersey City’s Immigrants,” The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2010.
• Nicole Caruth, “Gastro-Vision: Whack! Contemporary Artists and Piñatas,” Art21 blog, May 21, 2010.

RESIDENCIES/PROGRAMS selected

2024-2025	NEW INC Y11 Member, Cooperative Studies track, New Museum, NYC
2024	Workplace Residency, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2022-2024	Artist-in-Residence, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2022-2023	Writer/Director Lab, Soho Repertory Theater, NYC
2019	Artist-in-Residence, Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, Enosburg, VT
2018	Arts/Industry Residency, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2017	Game making workshop with Carsten Höller, Fundación Botín, Spain
2014	Open Studio Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2015	R&D Program, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2011	Art & Law Residency Program, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, NYC
2007	Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

 

AWARDS/HONORS selected

2025	Brookfield Place New York Annual Arts Commission, Arts Brookfield, NYC
2023	Golden Lock Award, Room Escape Artist
	proposal finalist, ARCH Project, Bryn Mawr College x Monument Lab
	proposal finalist, AUS Playscapes, Austin Bergstrom International Airport
2019	Most Innovative Immersive Experience, 2019 Immersion Awards
	Interactive Artist of the Year Award, FIGMENT, NYC
	Open Call Award, Creative Time, NYC
2017	Art in the Parks: UNIQLO Park Expressions Grant, NYC Parks
2015	project grant, FIGMENT NYC, Governor's Island, NYC
2012	proposal finalist, New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA
2010	project grant, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2009	proposal finalist, Public Art Fund, NYC
	project grant, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2006	Emerging Artist Grant, Scope New York, NYC

 

ARTIST TALKS selected

2025	DEMO2025 Cooperative Studies MainStage Talk, NEW INC, New Museum, NYC (upcoming)
2024	keynote speaker, Art Educators of New Jersey, Princeton, NJ
	artist talk, American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York, Civic Leadership Program, NYC
	keynote speaker, Playable Theatre Symposium, Boston, MA
2023	artist talk, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, NYC
	panel, Arts in Action festival, NYC
	panel: “What is Immersive?”, BroadwayCon, NYC
2022	artist talk, Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, WV
	panel: immersive art, No Proscenium, Booklyn, NY
	virtual panel: " FAIR IS FAIR... ISN'T IT?", Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2021	virtual panel: "Space for play: How can makers bring joy back to cities? | Assemble Play, Create London & Risa Puno", CraftsCouncil, London, UK
	virtual artist talk, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington DC
	virtual artist talk: "Reimagining Emotion with Risa Puno", New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA
	virtual panel: "Risa Puno and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton: Freedom and Choice in Art and Literature", Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

 

SERVICE

2020 - present	board member, Black Immersive Creators Grant
2016 - present	NYC DOT Art Advisory Committee
2011	teaching artist, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY

 

EDUCATION

2006	New York University, Master of Fine Arts, New York, NY
2004	Brown University, BA in The Visual Arts + Program in Liberal Medical Education, Providence, RI