Faculty

Oliver Kellhammer is an artist, activist, writer, and researcher who seeks to demonstrate nature’s surprising ability to recover from damage. Recent work has included developing new biomaterials protocols, researching the psychosocial effects of climate change, planting prehistorically native trees on landscapes impacted by industrial logging, and cataloging the biodiversity of brownfields. He is currently a part-time assistant professor in Sustainable Systems and Product Design Studio at Parsons in NYC, where he has been developing biomaterials fabrication techniques for use in the classroom. 

contact: kellhamo[at]newschool.edu | bluesky =>@okellhammer.bsky.social| archive: http://www.oliverk.org

University of British Columbia, (MFA  Creative Writing) 2009 Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute, (Certificate in Sustainable Business) 2003 Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada 1994-1995 Ontario College of Art, (A.O.C.A. Photo/Electric) 1985

Publications:

Upcoming:

'RUDERAL WITCHCRAFT' with Margaretha Houghwout, Goldsmiths, London, 2025

'Ruderal Witchcraft' (with Margaretha Houghwout), article, in WITCH STUDIES READER, Duke University Press , 2024

Past:

• 'Urban Autonomous Zones and the Mitigation of Climate Disasters', scholarly article in CITY PREPAREDNESS FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2022
• 'The New American Citizen', NATIONAL OBSERVER, July 22nd, 2020
• ’Ruderal-Systems', contributor, THE DISTANCE PLAN #5, April, 2019
• ’The Subjective Lives of Others', contributor, INTERALIA Magazine, September 2017
• ’Dictionary of the Possible', contributor, SHIFTER Magazine, 22nd Issue, August 2016
• 'Nodes and Networks’ contributor in SciArt Magazine, August 2016
• ’Violent Reactions’, in PETROLEUM MANGA (edited and illustrated by Marina Zurkow), Punctum Publications, NYC, May 2014
• ’Neo-Eocene’, in MAKING THE GEOLOGIC NOW (edited by Elizabeth Ellsworth + Jamie Kruse), Punctum Publications, NYC, Dec. 2012
• ’Cottonwood Gardens-Oasis in Peril’, in VANCOUVER OBSERVER, Vancouver, Sept 20th 2012
• ’Discovering Portland’s Organic Architecture’, in VANCOUVER OBSERVER, Vancouver, Dec 1st 2011