Jenny Kendler Explained

Jenny Kendler
Birth Date:1980
Birth Place:New York, New York
Nationality:American
Education:BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art (2002)

MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006)

Occupation:Interdisciplinary Artist and Environmental Activist
Yearsactive:2002–present
Organization:Artists Commit
Website:https://jennykendler.com

Jenny Kendler (born 1980, New York City) is an American interdisciplinary environmental artist, activist, naturalist & wild forager who lives and works in Chicago. For the past 15 years her work has attempted to "re-story" the relationship between humanity and the natural world through projects on climate change, the biodiversity crisis, and de-centering the human in order to re-enchant our relationship to the natural world. She often collaborates with scientists and, in her work, bridges the gap between art, activism and ecology. Since 2014, Kendler has been the first Artist-in-Residence with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).[1] Some notable projects include Music For Elephants,[2] Tell it to the Birds[3] [4] ', Sculpture---> Garden,[5] One Hour of Birds[6] and Milkweed Dispersal Balloons.[7] In 2018, Kendler was part of a cross-disciplinary team that was awarded a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Humanities Without Walls[8] initiative to present her public art and community-engagement project Garden for a Changing Climate.[9] [10] [11] Kendler is a co-founder of the artist website platform OtherPeoplesPixels,[12] has served as a board member for several grass roots art organizations in Chicago, and was named one of Chicago's Top 50 Artists by Newcity in their biennial list in 2018[13] and 2020.[14] She is also a founding member of Artists Commit,[15] a successful artist-led initiative to raise climate-consciousness in the artworld.

Education

Kendler's formal art studies began at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (summa cum laude) in 2002.[16] Kendler continued her art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in 2006.[17] Upon completing her graduate studies, she remained in Chicago to build her studio practice.

Career

Exhibitions

Kendler's work often takes the form of large-scale, often interactive, outdoor works or community co-created projects in 'unconventional' locations such as a Costa Rican tropical forest, an Arizona desert, a series of Chicago community gardens or in the fern room at the Lincoln Park Conservatory.[18] She also presents exhibitions, projects and workshops at cultural venues including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,[19] the Pulitzer Arts Foundation,[20] the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,[21] the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art,[22] the DePaul Art Museum,[23] the Kochi-Muziris Biennale,[24] the Chicago Biennial at the Elmhurst Art Museum,[25] the Terrain Biennial[26] Exit Art, the Arts Club of Chicago and at Storm King Art Center for their 2018 exhibition Indicators: Artists on Climate Change.[27]

Residencies

Kendler has completed numerous artist residencies nationally including ACRE Residency in Steuben, Wisconsin in 2010, BOLT Residency at Chicago Artists' Coalition (CAC) in 2011–2012. Internationally she has completed residencies through the Pacific Foundation in Nosara, Costa Rica in 2016 and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada in 2018.

Museum exhibitions

Kendler opened her first solo museum exhibition, Jenny Kendler: The Long Goodbye[28] , in January 2021 at the MSU Broad Museum. This exhibition includes works such as the Amber Archive[29] and Forget Me Not[30] that center on the notion of value and how we assign it, proposing that we move from capitalism's extractive modalities, towards valuing biodiversity itself. The curatorial statement included the following: "In creating the different “heirlooms and archives” on display, Kendler upends our expectations and invites us to reflect on our own values, and how they impact the health of the planet."[28]

Kendler's work was included in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's exhibition Water After All [31] in 2019.

In 2023, Kendler participated in the climate-focused museum exhibition, Dear Earth: Art & Hope in a Time of Crisis [32] at London's Hayward Gallery alongside artists such as Hito Steyerl, Otobong Nkanga and Cornelia Parker.

Awards

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Public and significant collections

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: June 4, 2014. Acclaimed Chicago Artist Jenny Kendler is NRDC's First Artist-in-Residence. 2021-03-27. NRDC. en.
  2. Web site: Played on Ivory Keys, This Is What Elephant Extinction Sounds Like. 2021-03-27. NRDC. February 2017 . en.
  3. Web site: Tell it to the Birds, an interactive sculptural work by NRDC artist-in-residence Jenny Kendler at 2014 EXPO Chicago - Comer Family Foundation. 2021-03-27. www.comerfamilyfoundation.org.
  4. Web site: August 11, 2014. Tell It To The Birds: NRDC's Resident Artist Jenny Kendler Brings Immersive Art Installation to EXPO Chicago. 2021-03-27. NRDC. en.
  5. Web site: Sculpture--->Garden. 2021-03-27. www.chicagoparkdistrict.com.
  6. Web site: 2016 Exhibitions. 2021-03-27. Indianapolis Contemporary. en-US.
  7. Web site: Marfa Dialogues Monarch Food Cart Debuts in St. Louis. 2021-03-27. en.
  8. Web site: Changing Climate 2017 Projects - Humanities Without Walls - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2021-03-27. www.humanitieswithoutwalls.illinois.edu.
  9. Web site: Li. Anne. 2018-06-05. Considering Changing Climates and Growing Neighborhoods. 2021-03-27. South Side Weekly. en-US.
  10. Web site: Garden for a Changing Climate UW-Madison Center for the Humanities. 2021-03-27. humanities.wisc.edu.
  11. Web site: Garden for a Changing Climate. Gallery 400. April 2018 . 2021-03-27. en-US.
  12. Web site: Portfolio websites for fine artists - OtherPeoplesPixels. 2021-03-06. otherpeoplespixels.com.
  13. Web site: 2018-08-30. Art 50 2018: Chicago's Artists' Artists Newcity Art - Part 5. 2021-03-06. art.newcity.com. en-US.
  14. Web site: 2020-09-03. Art 50 2020: Chicago's Artists' Artists Newcity Art - Part 3. 2021-03-06. art.newcity.com. en-US.
  15. https://www.artistscommit.com/
  16. Web site: Alumni US The Maryland Institute College of Art (2001-2002). 2021-03-27. alumnius.net.
  17. Web site: Jenny Kendler (MFA 2006) Merges Activisim and Art for Nonprofit work. 2021-03-27. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. en.
  18. Web site: FLORASONIC: Kendler & Kirkbride: 'A Confounding Mimicry' . 24 August 2016 .
  19. https://www.albrightknox.org/person/jenny-kendler Jenny Kendler Albright Knox
  20. http://pulitzerarts.org/program/marfa-dialogues-st-louis Marfa Dialogues/St. Louis Pulitzer Arts Foundation
  21. https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2016/11/MCA-Studio-Music-For-Elephants MCA Studio: Music for Elephants
  22. http://indymoca.org/exhibitions/2016/01/jenny-kendler-and-molly-schafer-animal-umwelt-3/ Jenny Kendler and Molly Schafer: Animal Unwelt
  23. Web site: DePaul Art Museum | DePaul University, Chicago .
  24. http://rootingindia.blogspot.com/
  25. Web site: Elmhurst Art Museum Biennial: Chicago Statements .
  26. https://www.terrainexhibitions.com/
  27. Web site: Jenny Kendler .
  28. Web site: MSU Broad. 2021-03-06. msu broad. en.
  29. Web site: Amber Archive. 2021-03-06. jennykendler.com.
  30. Web site: Shell Game (Forget Me Not). 2021-03-06. jennykendler.com.
  31. Web site: Water After All.
  32. Web site: Dear Earth: Art & Hope in a Time of Crisis.
  33. Web site: Jenny Kendler. 2021-03-27. jennykendler.com.

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