On the occasion of Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved, the artist joins Dia curator and co–department head Jordan Carter in conversation.

The program takes place in the Gerhard Richter gallery at Dia Beacon.

Renée Green was born in Cleveland in 1959. In her multidisciplinary practice, she draws on Minimal and Conceptual traditions as well as myriad literary, philosophical, and historical sources to examine perception and memory with consideration of site and time. She graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1981, and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in New York in 1989–90. Surveys of her work have been held at Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland (2009–10); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2010); and KW Institute for Contemporary Art with daadgalerie, Berlin (2021–22). Extensive solo presentations include those at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1993); Secession, Vienna (1999); and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2016–18). In 2008, a retrospective of her films took place at Jeu de Paume, Paris. Her work has been included in numerous biennials, including those at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1993 and 2022), Venice (1993), Gwangju (1997), and Berlin (2001), as well as in Documenta 11, Kassel (2002). A prolific writer, Green has written essays and fiction for magazines and journals such as Collapse, October, Texte zur Kunst, and Transition. She is the author of Other Planes of There: Selected Writings (2014) and the editor of Negotiations in the Contact Zone (2003). Green is a professor at the Art, Culture, and Technology program, School of Architecture and Planning, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and New York.