Jenny Kendler is an interdisciplinary artist, environmental activist and wild forager whose work asks us to de-center the human, making space for the radical, transformative otherness found on our biodiverse Earth. She received her BFA from MICA (2002) and her MFA from SAIC (2006). Kendler has exhibited at Storm King Art Center, MCA Chicago, The Eden Project, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Albright-Knox, MSU Broad Museum, California Academy of Sciences, the Chicago Biennial, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and has created public projects for locations from urban conservatories to remote deserts to tropical forests. Parallel to her art practice, she is an organizer for Extinction Rebellion Chicago, Board co-chair of artist residency ACRE, a member of artist collective Deep Time Chicago—and since 2014 has been the first Artist-in-Residence with environmental non-profit NRDC. Alongside an interdisciplinary team she was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for her community project Garden for a Changing Climate, and continues her work focused on climate change and extinction with an upcoming exhibition for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.