Greg Lock: Vulnerable Earth at Tremaine Gallery, Connecticut, USA.
Tremaine Gallery Exhibit Vulnerable Earth Explores Climate Change in the High Arctic
On View April 21 – June 14, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 25, 4 – 6 p.m. Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT
Vulnerable Earth, curated by Greg Lock, Director of the Photography, Film, and Related Media program at The Hotchkiss School, examines the Arctic as a region undergoing irrevocable transformation in the face of global climate change. The exhibition will be on view April 21 through June 14, 2026, at the Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, April 25 from 4 to 6 p.m.
The Arctic Circle is an artist and scientist-led residency established in 2009. The exhibition features participating artists who traveled to the High Arctic aboard a dedicated expedition vessel to explore the Svalbard Archipelago and surrounding waters, working immersively in one of the most environmentally sensitive regions on the planet. When artists participate in the residency, the landscape of Svalbard and its surrounding oceans serve as both a material site and a conceptual lens to examine time and space during the current epoch, which some scientists call the Anthropocene.
Drawing on participants from The Arctic Circle residency, the exhibition brings together video, photographs, performance, and digital media artworks shaped by direct engagement with the High Arctic, reflecting on ecological instability and human limitations in a warming world. The works encourage careful observation, critical reflection, and sustained attention. The Vulnerable Earth exhibit functions as a space for learning, dialogue, and inquiry, asking how contemporary artistic practice can articulate climate change as an embodied, lived experience shaped through perception, material engagement, and responsibility.
Featured artists in the exhibition include Charlie Binns, France Dubois, Karl Erickson, Julie Forgues, Matt Frieburghaus, Adam Fung, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Risa Horowitz, Ingrid Koenig, Kaisu Koivisto, Eva La Cour, Bonnie Levinthal, Greg Lock, Anastasia Loginova, Ella Morton, Pat Naldi, Alma Noor, Zelda Zinn, and Amber Zora.
View a full 3-D tour of the exhibition by following the link to the Hotchkiss School website. You can navigate the artwork and find links to all the artists involved in the exhibition.