Julie Reiss
Independent Art Historian and Critic; Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management
Julie Reiss is a historian of modern and contemporary art with a strong focus on the role art can play in culture change. She is a pioneering scholar in the field of installation art, publishing From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art in 1999. In 2019 she edited the anthology Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene and has since conducted numerous panels and artist interviews related to ecologically themed art. She teaches courses on Art and Sustainability at Columbia University, where she has also been a visiting critic to the MFA program. Currently Julie is a consulting editor to the Harpo Foundation, where she edited a book on its founder, the artist and critic Ed Levine (Ed Levine: The Embodied Experience of Art, forthcoming 2026). She is on the advisory board of the newly formed Heidi Nitze Foundation for Art and Environment. Julie was previously director of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Market, an accredited MA program at Christie’s Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center.
