Julie Reiss
Independent Art Historian and Critic; Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management
Julie Reiss is an art historian and critic with a focus on the role artists can play in social change. A pioneering scholar in the field of Installation art, she is the author of From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art. She is also the editor of an anthology on art and climate titled Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene. In 2019 she organized the symposium “The Role of Art in the Environmental Crisis” held at Christie’s Education, and was the guest critic on the same theme for The Brooklyn Rail. She has researched and lectured in this field for nearly a decade, and conducted related panels and interviews with artists. She recently taught a masterclass on Art and Science in the Anthropocene at the MUSE Science Museum in Trento, Italy. Dr. Reiss teaches Art and Sustainability courses at Columbia University and is a Visiting Critic to Columbia’s MFA program. She is currently Consulting Editor to the Harpo Foundation, working on a book about its founder, artist Ed Levine. Previously she was director of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Market, an MA program at Christie’s. Dr. Reiss earned a Ph.D. in art history from the CUNY Graduate Center.
