Renée Green
Photo: Annette Hornischer

Artist, Writer, and Filmmaker; Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow - Class of Fall 2019

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).

Project Description

Pacing

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).

Academy Activities

24 Sep 19
Pacing Architecture

Ellen Maria Gorrissen Lecture

Pacing

Renée Green discusses "Pacing," her two-year project at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts

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11 Sep 19

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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24 Sep 19

Pacing

Artist, writer, and filmmaker Renée Green discusses her work “Pacing,” which considers architect Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, at Harvard University, and his building La Plata, in Argentina. ...

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