Ghost of a Dream: I know a place where they perform miracles

Ghost of a Dream is the collaborative project of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom founded in 2008. Ghost of a Dream’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the MassArt Art Museum (Boston, MA), Ackland Art Museum (Chapel Hill, NC), Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ), and at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center (Colorado Springs, CO), as well as various group exhibitions. Ghost of a Dream has received support from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and others. They received the first annual Young Masters Art Prize in London and have participated in artist residencies in Berlin, Basel, Beijing, France, and venues throughout the US. They will attend the Rauschenberg Foundation AIR in 2025.

Julie Reiss is an independent scholar with a focus on contemporary art that addresses the climate crisis and the role artists play in social change. She is the editor of Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene. 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. She is also the author of From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art. Julie teaches courses on Art and Sustainability and is a Visiting Critic at Columbia University.