Jenny Kendler: Other of Pearl

Jenny Kendler is an interdisciplinary artist, naturalist and environmental activist based in Chicago and various forests. Over the last two decades, her research-driven projects—centered on climate change and biodiversity loss—have been shown at London’s Hayward Gallery, New York’s Governors Island, Storm King Art Center, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the MCA Chicago and public locations as diverse as urban riverwalks, remote deserts and tropical forests. From 2014 to 2024 she was artist-in-residence with environmental nonprofit NRDC. She sits on Boards for 350.org and the artist residency ACRE and is a founding member of Artists Commit, an artist-led effort to raise climate-consciousness in the art world.

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.