Renée Green (b. 1959 in Cleveland, OH, lives in Somerville, MA, and New York, NY) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker known for her highly layered and formally complex multimedia installations in which ideas, perception, and experience are examined from myriad perspectives. Via films, essays and writings, installations, digital media, architecture, sound-related works, film series and events her work engages with investigations into circuits of relation and exchange over time, the gaps and shifts in what survives in public and private memories as well as what has been imagined and invented.
Green’s exhibitions, videos and films have been seen throughout the world in museums and art institutions. In the last decade, her work has been featured in solo or group exhibitions at moCa Cleveland; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; KW Institute for Contemporary Art and daadgalerie, Berlin; Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; MAK Center for Art + Architecture at the Schindler House, West Hollywood; the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum, all in New York.
Exhibitions

Come Closer: Percepts
14 Sep – 30 Nov 2024
auroras, São Paulo

For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960
9 Feb – 29 Jun 2024
The Warehouse

Wordplay
30 Jan 2024 – 5 Jan 2025
ICA Boston

This Machine Creates Opacities
6 Oct – 22 Dec 2023
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University

No Title: Relays and Relations—Works by Renée Green and Sol LeWitt
26 Sep – 3 Dec 2023
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University

The Last of Animal Builders
2 Apr – 26 Nov 2023
Edith Farnsworth House

Space Poems
24 Mar 2023
Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning, Barnard College

Inevitable Distances
24 Sep 2022 – 8 Jan 2023
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Contact
16 Jul – 31 Dec 2022
MoCa Cleveland

The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900
10 Jul – 31 Oct 2022
The National Gallery of Art, Washington

Color As Program
8 Apr – 7 Jul 2022
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It's Kept
6 Apr – 5 Sep 2022
Whitney Museum of American Art

Renée Green
4 Nov 2021 – 27 Feb 2022
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

Inevitable Distances
23 Oct 2021 – 9 Jan 2022
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Excerpts A.1
18 Jun – 30 Jul 2021
The Upstairs at 39 Walker

TITAN
12 Oct 2020 – 3 Jan 2021
Kurimanzutto presents TITAN, an outdoor exhibition in a series of phone booths located in New York City

Excerpts
12 Sep – 31 Oct 2020
39 Walker

It's Urgent - Part II
31 Jul – 10 Nov 2019
Luma Foundation, Zurich

The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery And American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004)
23 Jun – 4 Dec 2018
Hessel Museum of Art, CSS Bard

Pacing: Within Living Memory
1 Feb – 15 Apr 2018
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University

Arte y cultura en torno a 1992
14 Mar – 24 Aug 2017
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla

Pacing: Code Survey
23 Feb – 24 Sep 2017
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University

Pacing: FAM Case (1994-2016)
26 Jan – 16 Apr 2017
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University

Facing
25 Jan – 16 Jan 2017
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art

Anti:Modern. Salzburg in the Heart of Europe between Tradition and Renewal
23 Jul – 6 Nov 2016
Museum der Moderner, Salzburg

Tracing
15 Jul – 10 Sep 2016
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Ex Chiesa San Francesco

Less Than One
7 Apr – 31 Dec 2016
Walker Art Center

Spacing
30 Jan – 20 Mar 2016
Lumiar Cité - Maumaus

To expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: Artistic Practices around 1990
10 Oct 2015 – 14 Feb 2016
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Wien

Begin Again, Begin Again
21 Jan – 29 Mar 2015
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House

Media Bichos & Space Poem #3 (Media Bichos)
29 Feb 2012 – 8 Jun 2013
MoMA Media Lounge
Press
Zoë Hopkins Charting Renée Green’s Unfolding Art Histories Frieze Magazine 8 Jan 2025Maximilíano Durón The Best Booths at Art Basel Paris, From Enigmatic Paintings to a Foreboding Scent Wall ARTnews 18 Oct 2024Claire Bishop Information Overload Artforum Apr 2023Geraldine Tedder Renée Green “Inevitable Distances” Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zurich Flash Art Dec 2022Alex Greenberger 13 Standouts at Cleveland’s Front Triennial, From a Healing Fountain to a Functional Barricade Made of Artworks Artnews Jul 2022— While Individual Artworks Sing, the Whitney Biennial Falls Quiet Cultured Magazine Apr 2022Benjamin Sutton The 2022 Whitney Biennial in five key themes The Art Newspaper Apr 2022Genevieve Lipinski de Orlov REVIEWS: Here and Now: Genevieve Lipinski de Orlov on Renée Green at daadgalerie and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Texte Zur Kunst Mar 2022Siddhartha Mitter Whitney Biennial Picks 63 Artists to Take Stock of Now The New York Times Jan 2022Isabel Parkes RENÉE GREEN Renée Green on making space for unknowability Artforum Dec 2021Jess Chen Don’t Look Back: Renée Green’s Present Tense Momus Dec 2021Chloe Stead The Top 10 Shows in the EU of 2021 Frieze Dec 2021Pablo Larios Renée Green Drills into the Calculus of Culture Frieze Dec 2021Gloria Sutton Renée Green BOMB, Issue 88 Dec 2021— Renée Green and Kandis Williams Share an Artistic Frequency Cultured Magazine Oct 2021Paul Stephens Renée Green’s Colourful Semiotics Frieze Oct 2020Jacobs Urist Despite New Normal, Downtown New York Galleries Open Fall Programming Cultured Magazine Sept 2020Nicole Schweizer Renée Green: ED/HF (2017) – Extraterritorial Durations/Harun Farocki Crosscuts Jan 2019Iman Issa Iman Issa on the Violence of Renée Green’s Upholstery Fabrics Frieze Sept 2018Cate McQuaid Renée Green makes past present at Harvard’s Carpenter Center The Boston Globe Mar 2018Kareem Estenfan Inhabiting Modernism: Renée Green at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Art in America Mar 2018Martine Syms Artists’ Artist: Martine Syms Frieze Oct 2017Ana Balona de Oliveira Begin Again… Closer… in NYL: Planes and Paradoxes of Here and There and Other Writing, Walking and Water Spacings by Renée Green Third Text (London), vol. 30, no. 1-2 Dec 2016André Rottmann The Collected Writings of Renée Green Artforum Feb 2015Dan Adler On Site: Renée Green Artforum May 2010Colline Milliard Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Water Between Art Monthly (London), no. 325 Apr 2009Jennifer Allen Renée Green, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin Artforum May 2007C. Carr Only Connect The Village Voice Jan 2001Roberta Smith ART IN REVIEW; Renée Green The New York Times Mar 2000Andreas Spiegl Reviews / Renée Green Frieze Jun 1999Brian Wallis Excavating the 1970s Art in America (New York), vol. 85, no. Sept 1997Pia Viewing Renée Green, Rikrit Tiravanija Blocnotes (Paris), no. 8 Dec 1995Jan Avgikos Renée Green, Pat Hearn Gallery Artforum Jun 1992G. Roger Denson A Genealogy of Desire FlashArt Oct 1991Michael Brenson Show at Studio Museum Of Its Artists in Residence The New York Times Dec 1989Writings
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“Seekers Swimming Worlds”
OEI, no. 84–85 (2019): 418-25. Special issue: våtmarker & experiment, ed. Jonas (J) Magnusson and Cecilia Grönberg
2019 -
“Looking Back on a Contemporary in the Global Mix: Okwui Enwezor”
Texte zur Kunst (Berlin)
1 Jul 2019 -
“Certain Obliquenesses”
Essays on the Essay Film. Ed. by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan. New York: Columbia University Press
2017 -
“Experience Process: Space Poems.”
Experience: Culture, Cognition and the Common Sense. Ed. by Caroline Jones, David Mather, and Rebecca Uchill. Cambridge, MA: Center for Art, Science & Technology
2016 -
“Howie Chen, “Renée Green.” In: Empire State: New York Art Now! Milan: Skira, 2013: 96-101. [Exhibition catalogue]Howie Chen, “Renée Green.” In: Empire State: New York Art Now! Milan: Skira, 2013: 96-101. [Exhibition catalogue]”
2013 -
“Paradoxes Experienced by Artist-Thinkers”
Intellectual Birdhouse: Artistic Practice as Research
2012 -
“Dreaming of Islands”
Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams
1 Jan 2010 -
“Endless Dreams and Water Between”
Collapse
2010 -
“From One Island to Another: Conversation between Julianne Rebentisch and Renée Green”
Renée Green: Ongoing Becomings. Retrospective
1989-2009 -
“Reflections: Seven Years Plus”
e-flux journal
January-February 2011 -
“Place”
Sarai Reader 06. Turbulence
2006 -
“Beyond”
Institutional Critique and After
2006 -
“Partially Buried”
October
1997 -
“Trading on the Margin”
Transition
1991
Publications

Contact
Cleveland, OH; FRONT International; moCa Cleveland; Free Agent Media
2022

Inevitable Distances
Berlin: Hatje Kantz; KW Institute for Contemporary Art; daadgalerie; Zurich: Migros Museum für Gegentwarstskunst; Somerville, MA: Free Agent Media
2021

Pacing
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2021

Hubert Fichte, Tour-isms, Negotiating in Contact Zones, and Contact
Free Agent Media, Somerville, Massachusetts; Berlin, Germany
2019

Pacing: Within Living Memory
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2018

Pacing: Code: Survey
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2017

Pacing
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2016

Other Planes of There: Selected Writings
Duke University Press, Durham, NC
2014

Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010

Ongoing Becomings: Retrospective 1989-2009
JRP|Ringier
2009

Negotiations in the Contact Zone
Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, Portugal
2003

Between and Including
Secession, Vienna, Austria
2001

Shadows and Signals
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
2000

Artist/Author: Contemporary Artists’ Books
American Federation for the Arts, New York, NY
1998

Certain Miscellanies: Some Documents
De Appel Foundation; DAAD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Berlin, Germany
1996

After the Ten Thousand Things
Stroom, The Hague, The Netherlands
1994

Camino Road
MNCARS; Free Agent Media, Madrid, Spain; New York, NY
1994

World Tour
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MoCA)
1993
