Renée Green
Renée Green (b. 1959, United States) is an artist, writer, filmmaker, and faculty member at MITs Art, Culture and Technology program, which she directed from 2011 to 2015. Green studied art at Wesleyan University and the School of Visual Arts, New York. She participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1989. In 2010 she won a United States Artists Fellowship. She is the founder and director of the production company Free Agent Media. Her books include Other Planes of There: Selected Writings (2014), Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams (2010), and Shadows and Signals (2001). Green has published texts in Transition, October, Frieze, Texte zur Kunst, Spex, Multitudes, Sarai Reader, and Collapse. Her work has been exhibited widely, including in retrospective exhibitions at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (2009) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2010). A retrospective of Greens films took place at Jeu de Paume, Paris, in 2008. Most recently her work has appeared at Lumiar Cité, Lisbon (2016). Renée Green lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
involved in:
The Ocean After Nature
The Ocean After Nature considers the ocean as a site reflecting the ecological, cultural, political, and economic realities of a globalized world through the work of twenty artists and collectives.
read more »Embedded Metaphor
The bed, site of some of our most psychologically charged experiences, is also a quintessential symbol of intimacy and sexuality. In Embedded Metaphor, artists explore both the poetry and anxiety inherent in this emblematic object.
read more »