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.Currently a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome during the 2025 - 2026 year, Jennifer Bornstein has received numerous awards and grants including a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, a DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm Residency, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and the Foster Prize from the ICA in Boston. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, including 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 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 has served on the Visiting Committee for the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and she has also served as guest critic and lectured at universities internationally. When not in Rome, 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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