East Hudson Valley News

The Dia Art Foundation is set to present "Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved," marking the first major solo museum exhibition of the multimedia artist in New York. Scheduled to open on March 7, 2025, at Dia Beacon, the exhibition will showcase Green's rarely seen paintings and installations from the late 1980s and early '90s, alongside newly commissioned works specifically for this event.

Jessica Morgan, Dia’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director, expressed enthusiasm about hosting Green's work: “We are honored to be the first New York museum to host a comprehensive presentation of Renée Green’s work. This exhibition underscores the ways in which Green both converses with and expands the aesthetic and intellectual histories that define Dia’s program and are key to her artistic formation."

Renée Green has developed a practice over four decades that blends images, texts, objects, and time-based media. Her work explores boundaries between fact and fiction while focusing on site-specificity and cultural circulation. At Dia Beacon, foundational works like her Color series (1990) will be displayed along with new creations such as Space Poems—vibrant text-based banners suspended from ceilings—and hybrid configurations of Bichos.

Jordan Carter, Dia’s curator and co–department head said: “Renée Green’s practice is one of accretive, generative returns—to books, places, cultural figures...This capacious exhibition demonstrates how Green’s multidisciplinary work continues to critically engage fundamental formal and cultural concerns.”

The exhibition includes pivotal installations like Pigskin Library and Peak (both 1991), critiquing colonial histories intertwined with art-historical genres. A monograph accompanying the exhibition will provide insights into Green's practice through contributions from various scholars.

Major support for "Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved" comes from Teiger Foundation and Terra Foundation for American Art among others. All exhibitions at Dia are supported by the Economou Exhibition Fund.

Green was born in Cleveland in 1959. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1981 and participated in Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. Her extensive career includes exhibitions worldwide. Currently a professor at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, she resides in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Dia Art Foundation was established in 1974 aiming to enable artists' ambitious projects without traditional limitations. It operates multiple sites including Dia Beacon where this upcoming exhibition will take place.