Renée Green is an artist, writer, and filmmaker, and a professor in MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. She studied at Wesleyan University and completed the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she later directed its studio program. Prior to her position at MIT, Green was a professor at Vienna’s Akademie der bildenden Künste, a Distinguished Artist/Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a professor and dean of graduate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her essays and fiction have been published widely, including in Transition, October, Frieze, Texte zur Kunst, Spex, Multitudes, Sarai Reader, and Collapse. Her books include Other Planes of There (Duke, 2014), Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams (YBCA/D.A.P., 2010), Ongoing Becomings (JRP/Ringier, 2009), Negotiations in the Contact Zone (Assírio & Alvim, 2003), and Between and Including (Dumont, 2001).
Green’s art has been featured in international exhibitions, museums, biennales, and festivals. In 2009, the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Lausanne) organized Ongoing Becomings, a survey of her work. In 2010, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) focused on her time-based art in the exhibition Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams. In 2008, Le rêve de l’artiste et du spectateur, a retrospective of Green’s films, took place at the Jeu de Paume (Paris). Other solo exhibitions include the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), Centro Cultural de Bélem (Lisbon), Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona), Vienna Secession, Stichting de Appel (Amsterdam), and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Green’s work has also been in group exhibitions, including at the Museum Ludwig (Cologne), Centre Georges Pompidou, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and UCLA Hammer Museum. Her work has also been shown at the biennials of the Whitney, Venice, Johannesburg, Kwangju, Berlin, Sevilla, Manifesta, and Istanbul, as well as at Documenta 11 (2002).
Meet Renée Green
A short portrait filmed at the Hans Arnhold Center, introducing the work and ideas behind fellows’ projects in Berlin.
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Pacing
Renée Green discusses “Pacing,” her two-year project at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts
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Essays, interviews, and creative work published in the Academy’s annual magazine.
Books
Books written by fellows of the Academy, many begun during a semester in Berlin.
Videos
Lectures, readings, and conversations filmed at the Hans Arnhold Center.
Pacing
Artist Renée Green discusses and shows images from her project “Pacing,” at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
Fellow Spotlight: Renée Green
Artist, writer, and filmmaker Renée Green discusses Pacing, her two-year project at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, which focuses on the building’s iconic design by Le Corbusier.
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