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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 together both autobiography and 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 Künstlerprogramm / Artists-in-Berlin grant, 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.

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles / M.F.A. in Photography

University of California, Berkeley / B.A. in English and Art. Phi Beta Kappa, with honors



News



Harold M. English Rome Prize in Visual Arts
American Academy in Rome Announces Winners of the 2025 - 2026 Rome Prize 
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Art + 1
Group exhibition at Temple University, Rome
Rome, Italy
March 2026


Lecture at John Cabot University
Rome, Italy
March 2026
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Open Dialogue Series: In the Making, A Roundtable Discussion
Panel Discussion organized by Tameka Baba, Assistant Professor at OSU, at the American Academy in Rome
February 2026


Lecture at Cornell Art and Architecture Program in Rome
Rome, Italy
October 2025 
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Invitation for Summer 2025 Visiting Fellowship
Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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The National Arts Club
Solo exhibition organized by Spencer Sweeney
15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003
March 10 - April 25, 2025
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Residency at Headlands Center for the Arts
Marin County, CA
Winter 2025
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Out of the Ordinary: Uncommon Materials, Marks, and Matrices
Group exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
December - April 2024
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Lecture at California State University Department of Art & Art History
Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Bakersfield, CA
October 2024
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Fragments of Memory
Group exhibition at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
September - December 2024
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