Christopher T. Green is a writer and art historian whose research, curating, and teaching focus on modern and contemporary art, Native North American art and material culture, primitivisms of the historic and neo-avant-garde, and the global representation and display of Indigenous art and culture. His current research focuses on contemporary Tlingit art and the interrelation of twentieth century Northwest Coast Native art and Euro-American modernism. His criticism, essays, and reviews have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, frieze, Aperture, and The Brooklyn Rail, amongst others, and he has contributed catalogue essays to the New Museum, Heard Museum, Artists Space, BRIC, the James Gallery, and the Fondation Fernet-Branca. His scholarly research has been published in ARTMargins, Winterthur Portfolio, ab-Original, and BC Studies, and in 2019 he co-edited issue 11 of SHIFT: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, “BLOOD AND EARTH AND SOIL.” He curated “Speculations on the Infrared,” January 30–March 6, 2021 at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and “Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art,” April 13-September 30, 2024, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and has a forthcoming exhibition on Woodlands Native Art at the List Gallery, Swarthmore College.

Green earned a M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Art History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and an A.B. in Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. His research has been supported by the Dedalus Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian, the International Council for Canadian Studies, the Sealaska Heritage Institute, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. He currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College.