About the artist

Jenny Kendler is an interdisciplinary artist, environmental activist, naturalist, wild forager & social entrepreneur. She is the first Artist-in-Residence with environmental nonprofit NRDC. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at museums and public venues, including the Albright-Knox museum, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the Kochi Biennale in India, the Yeosu Art Festival in Korea, Exit Art in NYC, The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, La Box at ENSA in France—and in Chicago at The DePaul Art Museum, Gallery 400, the Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Elmhurst Art Museum as part of the Chicago Biennial. She is Vice President of the artist residency ACRE, and co-founded artist website service OtherPeoplesPixels, as well as The Endangered Species Print Project, which has raised over $14,000 for conservation. Recent and upcoming projects include a garden which lets viewers ‘see in butterfly vision’ for the city of Louisville, sculptures that biodegrade into prairies for the Chicago Parks District, a project for Michelle Grabner’s Poor Farm, and a site-specific commission to raise awareness about threatened tropical forest in Nosara, Costa Rica.

For more information and work by Kendler, visit jennykendler.com