Dr. Julie Reiss

BIOGRAPHY:

Julie Reiss is an art historian with a focus on contemporary art that addresses the climate crisis, and the role artists can play in social change. She is the editor of the anthology Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene (2019). Her recent papers include “Art + Anthropocene: Culture, Climate and our Changing Planet” (University of York, 2020) and "More Art Less Carbon? Exploring Material Sustainability" (Université libre du Bruxelles, 2023).  In 2019 she organized the symposium “The Role of Art in the Environmental Crisis” held at Christie’s Education, and was the guest critic on the same theme for The Brooklyn Rail. A pioneering scholar in the field of Installation art, she is the author of From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art (1999). She was previously director of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Market, an accredited MA program at Christie’s Education. She is Consulting Editor to the Harpo Foundation, and a lecturer on modern art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Reiss lectures widely on art and environment, and teaches courses on Art and Sustainability in Columbia's Sustainability Management program. She also serves as a Visiting Critic to the MFA porgram at Columbia. Reiss holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center.