Renée Green

Green is an artist, filmmaker and writer. 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. She also focuses on the effects of a changing transcultural sphere on what can now be made and thought.

Her exhibitions, videos and films have been seen throughout the world in museums, biennales and festivals.

Ongoing Becomings, a survey exhibition of 20 years of her work was organized in 2009 by the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; in 2010, Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, a survey exhibition highlighting her time-based work was produced in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. In 2008, Le rêve de l’artiste et du spectateur, a retrospective of Green’s films took place at the Jeu de Paume, in Paris.

Other selected solo exhibitions venues include the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Portikus, Frankfurt; Centro Cultural de Bélem, Lisbon; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Vienna Secession; Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam & the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Green’s work has been included in many group exhibitions; selected venues include Museum Ludwig, Cologne; MACBA, Barcelona; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; International Center of Photography, New York & Louisiana Museum of Art, Copenhagen; her work has also been present at the Whitney, Venice, Johannesburg, Kwangju, Berlin, Sevilla, Manifesta & Istanbul Biennials, as well as in Documenta 11.

Green has published essays and fictions in Transition, October, Frieze,Texte zur Kunst, Spex, Multitudes, Sarai Reader, and Collapse, among other magazines and journals. Her essays, as well as essays about her work, have also appeared in an assortment of international cultural and scholarly books.

Green has been a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1997-2002); a Distinguished Artist/Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara (2003-2005), and Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute (2005-2011). She is also a guest faculty at the Maumaus School of Visual Arts in Lisbon since 2000, as well as of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of Art since 1991, where she was Director of its Studio program in 1996-1997.

SELECTED BOOKS
Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, USA 2010
Ongoing Becomings: Retrospective 1989-2009
JRP | Ringier, Switzerland 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; USA 2001
Artist/Author: Contemporary Artists' Books
American Federation for the Arts; Distributed Art Publishers, New York, USA 1997
Certain Miscellanies: Some Documents
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam; DAAD, Berlin, Netherlands; Germany 1996
After the Ten Thousand Things
Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands 1994
Camino Road
MNCARS, Madrid; Free Agent Media, New York, Spain; USA 1994
World Tour
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA 1993