Jenny Kendler (born 1980, New York City) is an American interdisciplinary environmental artist, activist, naturalist & wild forager who lives and works in Chicago.

[7] In 2018, Kendler was part of a cross-disciplinary team that was awarded a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Humanities Without Walls[8] initiative to present her public art and community-engagement project Garden for a Changing Climate.

Kendler's work often takes the form of large-scale, often interactive, outdoor works or community co-created projects in 'unconventional' locations such as a Costa Rican tropical forest, an Arizona desert, a series of Chicago community gardens or in the fern room at the Lincoln Park Conservatory.

The curatorial statement included the following: "In creating the different “heirlooms and archives” on display, Kendler upends our expectations and invites us to reflect on our own values, and how they impact the health of the planet.

In 2023, Kendler participated in the climate-focused museum exhibition, Dear Earth: Art & Hope in a Time of Crisis [32] at London's Hayward Gallery alongside artists such as Hito Steyerl, Otobong Nkanga and Cornelia Parker.