Renée Green

(born 1959)

Renée Green is an artist, writer, and filmmaker known for her multimedia installations in which cultures, histories, memories, and ideas are examined from many perspectives. Her complex and layered sculptural installations often involve film, digital media, sound, and writing with photography, textiles, printmaking, and other mediums.

Green was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and studied art at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Working as an educator has been an important part of Green's career. She has taught at many institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP), the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as universities in Europe. Green is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) School of Architecture.