Greg Ruffing
Greg Ruffing is a doctoral student in Art History and Mellon Fellow in Environment, Culture, and Society. His research focuses on visual representations of land and landscape in relation to spatial practices and technologies, with attention to their discursive, social, political, and ecological implications. Greg’s writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Southwest Contemporary, Monday Journal, Great River Review, Lumpen Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center and other arts publications, as well as a book chapter in Why Look at Plants? The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art (Brill, 2019). He has organized exhibitions and programming at the Terrain Biennial, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago Artists Coalition, SPACES (Cleveland), and elsewhere; he was also previously a co-organizer of project spaces Public Access and The Perch, both in Chicago. Prior to coming to Northwestern, Greg most recently completed a dual degree MA (Visual Critical Studies) and MFA (Photography) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.