Jennifer Bornstein
Jennifer Bornstein is an artist producing work in a blend of media associated in ways both materially and conceptually with photographic processes. In her artwork, printmaking, video, 16mm film and photography are a means of telling stories, incorporating performative histories, and weaving autobiography together with fiction.A recipient of the Harold M. English Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome for the 2025 - 26 year, she has received numerous fellowships and awards including from Harvard Radcliffe and the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, as well as a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and the Foster Prize from the ICA in Boston. She has served on the Visiting Committee for the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and served as guest critic and lectured at universities internationally. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Fargfabriken Center for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis. A monograph on her work was published by Sternberg Press in 2018 and two additional monographs have been published by Walter König Books (2016) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005) as well as five artist's books. She lives in Los Angeles and is a professor of photography at the University of California, Irvine.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles / M.F.A. in Photography
University of California, Berkeley / B.A. in English and Art, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
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