Jenny Kendler is an interdisciplinary artist, naturalist, wild forager and environmental activist based in Chicago and various forests. Her work aims to re-enchant our relationship with the natural world by de-centering the human and making space for the radical, transformative ‘otherness’ of our biodiverse Earth. Her practice is also informed by her identities as a queer Jewish feminist and single mother.
Over the last two decades, her multi-faceted, research-driven projects—centered on climate change and biodiversity loss—have been shown at London’s Hayward Gallery, 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 and is a current fellow at the Center for Humans & Nature. She sits on Boards for 350.org and the artist residency ACRE and is a co-founder of Artists Commit, an artist-led effort to raise climate-consciousness in the art world. Her recent solo project on Governors Island was reviewed and featured on the front page of The New York Times.
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