The Spring 2026 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jack Bankowsky and Jason Smith.

Jordan Carter presents Renée Green

This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are not required.

Renée Green (b. 1959, Cleveland, OH) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker known for her layered, formally complex multimedia installations in which ideas, perception, and experience are examined from myriad perspectives. Employing film, writing, installation, digital media, architecture, sound, and events, her art investigates 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. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Equator Has Moved, Dia Beacon, New York, NY; Inevitable Distances, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and daadgalerie, both Berlin, Germany and at Migros Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zurich, Switzerland; and Contact, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.

Green is the author of The Equator Has Moved (Dia Art Foundation, 2025); Come Closer: Percepts (auroras, 2025); Inevitable Distances (Hatje Cantz, 2022); Pacing (Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts & Free Agent Media, 2020); and she edited the collection, Negotiations in the Contact Zone (Assírio & Alvim, 2003). Her Other Planes of There: Selected Writings appeared from Duke University Press in 2014.

A professor at the Art, Culture and Technology program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture & Planning, Green lives in Somerville, MA, and New York, NY.

Jordan Carter joined Dia Art Foundation as curator and co-head of the curatorial department in 2021, where he has curated exhibitions including Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved (2025), Amy Sillman: Alternate Side (Permutations #1–32) (2025), Keith Sonnier (2024), Lucas Samaras (2024), Mary Heilmann: Starry Night (2024), stanley brouwn (2023), Tony Cokes (2023), and Jo Baer (2022). Last year also saw the opening of Carter’s Cameron Rowland: Properties, following the 2023 announcement of Dia’s stewardship of the artist’s Depreciation (2018) as one of its twelve sites and locations. His forthcoming projects include presentations of the work of Agnes Martin and Howardena Pindell, and major new commissions by D Harding, Fujiko Nakaya, and Haegue Yang. Carter oversees Dia’s permanent collection and works closely on the preservation of and programming around its permanent installations, including Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973-76), both located in Utah. He is part of the curatorial ensemble for the 2026 edition of the Counterpublic art triennial in St. Louis.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, BLUM, Hannah Hoffman, Alan Hergott, David Kordansky, and Jeffrey Deitch.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.