Since the late 1980s, Renée Green has produced densely layered, knowledge-based work that combines images, objects, texts, and time-based media, adapting strategies of Minimal and Conceptual art from the 1960s and ’70s. In her uniquely recursive process, the artist circuits a range of references—archival, documentary, and literary fragments; found and personal ephemera; speculative narratives; and her own extant works—to probe the unstable boundaries between fact and fiction, public recollection and individual memory.

For her first major solo museum presentation in New York, the artist draws on her core strategies and typologies to position a selection of rarely seen paintings and multimedia installations, with an emphasis on the late 1980s and ’90s, in dialogue with newly commissioned Bichos and Space Poems, and other works reconfigured specifically for Dia Beacon. Constellating historical, reimagined, and new work in the two expansive central galleries and adjacent perpendicular corridor, this chronologically defiant exhibition aptly stages the artist’s practice in contact and context with influential figures key to Dia’s history and Green’s formation.