Julie Reiss, Art Historian

Welcome to my author page

Watch a recent discussion with Artist Jenny Kendler

Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment: Jenny Kendler and Julie Reiss

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Art and Science in the Anthropocene

About

I am a Ph.D. art historian with experience ranging from teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, designing academic programs, museum education, writing and curating. A pioneering scholar in installation art, I’m the author of From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art (1999). For the past decade my focus in teaching and writing has been on the role art can play in shifting paradigms and raising awareness of the climate crisis. I’m the editor of Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene (2019). I teach courses on Art & Sustainability at Columbia University where I’m also a Visiting Critic to the MFA program. I’m a consulting editor for the Harpo Foundation. For a number of years I directed a Masters program in Modern and Contemporary Art at Christie’s Education, New York.


Phong Bui, Portrait of Julie Reiss, 2019. Pencil on paper, 15 x 11:. Courtesy of the artist.