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Born 1970 in Seattle, Washington

Lives in Los Angeles, California




Solo Exhibitions


2024 
Music Swims Back to Me, greengrassi, London

2021  
Ghosts, greengrassi, London 

2018
Currents 115: Jennifer Bornstein, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

2017
Feminist Archaeology, Johnson-Kulukundis Gallery, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
 
2016
New Rubbing, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

2015
New Rubbings and Psychological Tests, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
 
Two Videos, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2014
Experimental Print Project, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

Lansdowne Rise, Rise Projects, London

2013
New Waves, greengrassi, London

New Waves, Kunstverein Lüneburg and Kunstraum Tosterglope, Germany

2012
New Waves, DAAD Gallerie, Berlin
 
2011
Frauenkörperbewegungsbilder, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Frauenkörperbewegungsbilder, greengrassi, London

2009
Evergreen and Phantom Limb, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

Fargfabriken Center for Contemporary Art, Stockholm

2006
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
 
greengrassi, London

2005
MOCA Focus: Jennifer Bornstein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)

2003
greengrassi, London 

2002
Celestial Spectacular, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

1999
Untitled Sculpture, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

1998
Public Libraries and Basketball Courts, greengrassi, London

Public Libraries and Basketball Courts, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York

1997
Projector Stand #3, Studio Guenzani, Milan


Group Exhibitions 


2024
Fragments of Memory, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas

Out of the Ordinary: Uncommon Materials, Marks, and Matrices, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

When Image Processing Became Painting, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY

2023
The last thing you see is the first, greengrassi, London, UK

That They Are There, MassArt Brant Gallery, Boston, MA

Lapsus Calami, Marlborough, London, UK

2022  
Where Words Falter, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY

2021
Houseguest: Shadows Fall Down, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, organized by Monica Majoli

Paris International, Paris, France, October 20-24, 2021: two-person exhibition with Moyra Dayvey; presented by greengrassi

2020
Je me souviens, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Alien vs. Citizen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2019
Words, Converso Gallery, Milan


Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Section II- Department of Carving and Modeling: Form and Volume, Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal


Condo, greengrassi, London (three-person exhibition with Jennifer Pastor, Moyra Davey, and Jennifer Bornstein)

2018
Klassentreffen, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

2017
Foster Prize Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston


99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; cat.


Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York


Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago


Placed Someplace with Intent, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

2016
On Exactitude in Science, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; brochure


Routine Pleasures, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; cat.


Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Carpenter Center for Visual Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; brochure


Art from Los Angeles 1990-2010, Studio Guenzani, Milan

2015
Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Menil Collection, Houston; cat. (cover)


Shibboleth, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv


Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Carpenter Center for Visual Art, Harvard University; brochure

2014
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; cat.


Sleuthing the Mind, Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery, New York


Everyone Has a Name, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv


A Guest Without A Host is A Ghost, Kadist Art Foundation, Cairo, Egypt


Autodeconstruccion, organized by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

2013
Encore, Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden


Artists’ Film Club, ICA, London

2012
Autoconßtrukschön, organized by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Arriata Beer, Berlin


Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis


La Galeria de Comercio, Mexico City

2011
The Air We Breathe, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; cat.


Recent Acquisitions from The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (October 15, 2011 - January 15, 2012)


FAX, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University


The Joy of Pleasure, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin; brochure


You Don’t Love Me Anymore, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster


Art Film, Art Basel


The Object of Observation (Changes by Being Observed), Johnen Gallery, Berlin


Celestial Spectacular, Night Gallery, Los Angeles


Ten Women Who Use Film, organized by Jennifer Higgie, www.ubu.com

2010
How Many Billboards? MAK Center, Los Angeles; cat.


R is for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; cat.


At Home, Not at Home, Hessel Museum, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; cat.


Artists’ Cinema, Nottingham Contemporary

Home and Away, Residence of the Ambassador of the United States to Germany, Berlin

 
Light, Camera, Action: ABC (Film and Stage Program), Berlin (curated by Marc Glöde)

Etwas Viele..., Galerie Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin

2009
Pulling from History: The Old Masters, Print Center, Philadelphia

Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

2008
Biennale d’art contemporain le Havre, Le Havre, France; cat.

Amateurs,CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; cat.

Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

50 Moons of Saturn, 2nd Torino Triennial, Italy; cat.

La Petite Histoire, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Oct. 2-Nov. 29, 2008; cat.

2007
USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium, 2nd Moscow Biennale; cat..

La Petite Histoire, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Oct. 2-Nov. 29, 2008; cat.

Uncertain States of America, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; La Musée de Sérignon, Serignan, France; cat.

Radio Daniele, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna and Kunsthalle Zürich, organized by Christopher Williams and John Kelsey

Personne ne veut mourir, Arquebuse, Geneva

LA Desire (Part 1), Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, curated by Wilhelm Schürmann

Mobile Museum, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia

Now Your See It, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2006
Too Much Love, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Uncertain States of America, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,   Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Reykjavik   Art Museum, Iceland; cat.

the backroom: San Francisco, hosted by New Langton Arts/SF Camerawork, curated by Renaud Proch

2005
General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987–2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; cat.

Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

A Walk to Remember, LACE, Los Angeles; brochure

Finkish Dispositions, Rachmoninoff’s, London

2004
Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York

2003
Faking Real, Columbia University, New York

Inaugural Group Show, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles

Works for Giovanni, China Art Objects, Los Angeles

2002
A Show That Shows That A Show Is Not Only A Show, The Project, Los Angeles; cat.

Artists to Artists, Ace Gallery, New York; cat.

I Just Can't Pretend, curated by Dan Torop, Derek Eller Gallery, New York

2001
Pandaemonium Biennial of Moving Images, Lux Gallery, Centre for Electronic Arts, London

Face On, Site Gallery, Sheffield; Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes; Photographic and Media Arts, Liverpool; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; cat.

A Passion for Art: The Disaronno Originale Photography Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Miami; UC Berkeley Art Museum; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; cat.

Jennifer Bornstein, Mark Grotjahn, Florian Maier-Aichen, Dave Muller, Blum and Poe, Santa Monica

2000
An Intelligent Pleasure, Site Gallery, London

Exit: International Artist-made Film and Video, Chisenhale, London

Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, PS1, Long Island City, NY; cat.

Quiet, 359 Broadway, New York

Works on Paper from Los Angeles, Studio Guenzani, Milan

Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; traveled to Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 2002

Collectors' Choice, Exit Art, New York, 2000

As I Love You, You Become More Pretty, Los Angeles

Drawings and Photographs: An Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Matthew Marks, New York

1999
Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California; cat.

Etcetera, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK, 1999

1998
Remix: Images Photographiques, Nantes Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France; cat.

L.A. Times, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’Arte, Guarene, Italy; cat.

Sightings: New Photographic Art, ICA, London; cat.

Charles Ray, Steve Doughton, Jennifer Bornstein, greengrassi, London

Fictional Biographies, Rio Hondo Art Gallery, Los Angeles

1997
Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles, Malmø, Sweden, three-day exhibition curated by Dave Muller; brochure

Fictional Biographies, Rio Hondo Art Gallery, Los Angeles

Exposition de Jeunes Photographers Femmes, Anne de Villepoix, Paris

Vanessa Beecroft, Jennifer Bornstein, Martin Kersels, Gillian Wearing, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto

The Name of the Place, Casey Kaplan, New York

1996
Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975–Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York

Hits Series, Teststrip, Auckland

LACE Annuale, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

Three Day Weekend, P-House, Tokyo

Blum & Poe, Santa Monica

1996
MFA Thesis Exhibition, UCLA Wight Art Gallery; cat.



Group Exhibition Catalogs and Book Publications


Becker, Hilary, ed. The Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies: Twenty-Five Years of Collaborative Print Projects. West Haven, CT: Columbia University, 2021.


Birnbaum, Daniel, ed. Fifty Moons of Saturn: T2 Torino Triennale. Milan: Skira 2008.


Birnbaum, Daniel, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds. Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium. Exh. cat. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley museet for moderne kunst, 2005.


Birnbaum, Daniel, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds. USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium. Exh. cat. Moscow: Moscow Biennale, 2007.


Bonami, Francesco. L.A. Times: Arte da Los Angeles nella collezione Re Rebaudengo Sandretto. Exh. cat. Rivoli, Italy: Neos, 1998.


Bonvicini, Gianni. La Petite Histoire. Exh. cat. Vienna: Kunstraum Niederösterreich, 2008.


Catalog, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, published by the Moscow Biennale, Russia, 2007, ills.


Comer, Stuart, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner. Whitney Biennial 2014.  Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014. Distributed by Yale University Press.


Cruz, Amada, ed. Calendar 2000. New York: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, 2000.


Dawson, Tim and Simon Morrissey. Sightings: New Photographic Art.Exh. cat. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1998.


DiQuinzo, Aspara, Eileen Myles, Martha Craven Nussbaum, and Frank Rich. The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality.Exh. cat. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011.


Durden, Mark, Ian Hunt, Joanna Lowry, and Craig Richardson. Face On: Photography as Social Exchange. Exh. cat. Milton Keynes, England: Milton Keynes Gallery; Liverpool, Photographic and Media Arts: and Edinburgh: Stills Gallery, 2001.


Gioni, Massimiliano, ed.Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York. Newspaper. New York: New Museum, 2007.


Greater New York: New Art in New York Now. Exh. cat. Long Island City, New York: PS1 Contemporary Art Center, 2000.


Higgs, Matthew. General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987–2005. Exh. pamphlet. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2005.                                                                                                      

Higgs, Matthew, and Bob Nickas. At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg. Exh. cat. New York: Center for Curatorial Studies, 2010.


Hoffmann, Jens. Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Section II


Department of Carving and Modeling: Form and Volume.Exh. brochure. Group show at Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019.


Hoffmann, Jens. A Show That Shows That A Show Is Not Only A Show. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: The Project, 2002.


Hoffman, Jens, and Joan Jonas. Perform (Art Works). New York: Thames and Hudson, 2005.


Hoffmann, Jens. A Walk to Remember. Exh. cat. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Revolver, 2006. Distributed by Thames and Hudson.


Hoffmann, Jens. A Walk to Remember. Exh. brochure. Los Angeles: LACE, 2005.


Hoffmann, Jens. Golden Gate: A Portfolio of 10 Photographs Curated by Jens Hoffmann. Pamphlet. Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions, 2008.


Hoffmann, Jens, ed. 99 Cents or Less. Exh. Cat. Detroit: The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2018.


Hoffmann, Jens. Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Section II


Department of Carving and Modeling: Form and Volume. Exh. cat. Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019.


Keegan, Matt and Greenberger Rafferty, Sarah. Conversation with Jennifer Bornstein and Jonathan Horowitz, North Drive Press #4, Nov. 2007
     

Kiendl, Anthony, ed. Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture, and Interpretation. Banff Centre: 2004.


Mir, Aleksandra, ed. Happy Birthday!  Newspaper. New York: Sept. 11, 2002.


Myers, Terry R. Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles. Exh. cat. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 1999.


Morrisey, Simon, and Arielle Pelenc. Remix: Images photographiques. Exh. cat. Nantes, France: Musée Des Beaux Art De Nantes, 1998.


Morrissey, Simon (ed.)Sightings: New Photographic Art. Exh. cat. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom.


Muller, Dave. Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles. Exh. pamphlet. Los Angeles: 1997.


Myers, Terry R. Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles.Exh. cat. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 1999.


Ned Holte, Michael, ed. Routine Pleasures. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 2016.


Noever, Peter, and Kimberli Meyer, eds. How Many Billboards? Art in Stead. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 2010.


Pesenti, Allegra. Apparitions. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Menil Collection, Houston, 2015. (Cover.)


Roberts, Jennifer. Contact: The Art of the Print. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 


Rugoff, Ralph. Amateurs. Exh. cat. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2008.


Saltz, Jerry. An Ideal Syllabus. London: Frieze, 1998.


Subotnik, Ali, and Cattelan, Maurizio, eds. Charley #1, Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 2002, p. 225.


Van Elk, Ger, ed. Biennale d´art contemporain le Havre. Exh. cat. Le Havre, France: Petite Presse, 2008.


Selected Press Coverage


2024
Brooks, Jacob Patrick. An Instructive Ouroboros at Miguel Abreu, Two Coats of Paint, February 25, 2024.

2022
LaBarge, Emily. Jennifer Bornstein at greengrassi, LondonArtforum, January 2022.

2020
Di Marino, Vincenzo. Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Section II Department of Carving and Modeling: Form and Volume, Contemporânea   Magazine, Lisbon. Ed. 10-11-12, 2019. 

2017
Hampton, Chris. In Detroit, Artists Explore the Riches of the 99-Cent Store, New York Times, June 29, 2017, p. C1.



Harrington, Leah. A Whole Culture: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston's 2017 Foster Prize, The Brooklyn Rail, April 1, 2017.

Martinique, Elena. 99c or Less - MOCAD Detroit Gathers 99 Artists Tackling Consumerism. Widewalls, May 16, 2017.             

Mayo, Hugh A. Three New Exhibitions at the ICA Balance Loss and New BeginningsHarvard Crimson, Feb. 21, 2017

McQuaid, Cate. At the ICA, Two Shows that Embrace the Body in Many Forms, Boston Globe, Feb. 24, 2017.

Eine einmalige Bedrohung, Monopol Magazine, March 2017. (Cover project)

Watlington, Emily. The 2017 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition, Art Papers, July 2017, pp. 68-69.

2016
Baker, Sarah. 'On Exactitude in Science' at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art New England, March/April 2016, ill.

Campanaro, Pam. Review: On Exactitude in Science, Big Red and Shiny, 2016, ill.

Everling, Connie. Four Artists Explore “On Exactitude in Science,” Huntington News, 2016, ill.

McQuaid, Cate. 'On Exactitude in Science’ Traces History, Loss, Conflict, Boston Globe, February 9, 2016, ill.

Shanahan, Mark. ICA Names Foster Prize Winners, Boston Globe, July 29, 2016.

2015
Carell, Anais. Jennifer Bornstein’s “Two Videos” Presents An Artistic Evolution, Harvard Crimson, March 10, 2015, ill.

Glentzer, Molly. Drawing's Ghosts Emerge in Surprising Ways, Houston Chronicle, October 2, 2015, ill.

Knight, Christopher. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer Explores Low-Tech Art in a High-Tech World', LA Times, Feb. 23, 2015, ill.

McCloud, Grace, Space Invaders: Rise Projects Uses Colour and Creativity to Take Over Notting Hill,” Wallpaper, May 20, 2015, ills.

Sanders, Mark, Reeves, Emma, and Wakefield, Neville.Another Magazine Another Dollar Bill Project, Rizzoli, 2015, ill. (Reprint.)

Wang, Rae. Jennifer Bornstein “New Rubbing and Psychological Tests” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Art Observed, November 29, 2015, ills.

2014
Carrier, David. Jennifer Bornstein, Judith Bernstein, and Frances Stark. The Brooklyn Rail, May 6, 2014, ill..

Scott, Jill, “Sleuthing The Mind,” Leonardo, vol. 47, No. 5, 2014.
Gardner, Ralph Jr. A Moving Ode to the Whitney. The Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2014.

Maine, Stephen. The Party Rolls Along: Whitney Biennial. Artillery, May 6, 2014.

Malick, Courtney. Review: The Whitney Biennial, 2014, SFAQ International Arts and Culture, March 20, 2014, ill.
     
Viveros-Faune, Christian. Why This Year's Whitney Biennial Should Be See Through a (Slightly) Rose-Colored Lens. The Village Voice, March 19, 2014.

Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen. The Stories They Need, Frieze no. 166, October 2014, pp. 204-211, ill.

2013
Actual Size (Organized by Jonathan Monk). Annual Magazine, p. 99, 2013, ill.

Vasey, George. Jennifer Bornstein, New Waves at greengrassi, 2013, ill, https:// georgegvasey.wordpress.com.

2012
Fischer, Berit. The Potential of Imagination,BE #19, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, pp. 26-27, ill.

Rieger, Birgit. Ausstellung: Jennifer Bornstein, Der Tagesspiegel, p. 8, April 19-25, 2012, ill.

2010
Grant, Catherine. The Performance Space of the Photograph: From "The Anti-Photographers" to "The Directorial Mode," Rebus, Spring 2010, Issue 5, ills.

2009
O’Neil-Butler, Lauren,Critic’s Picks: Jennifer Bornstein, Artforum.com, April 14, 2009, ill.

Bornstein, Jennifer. The Artists’ Artists, Artforum, December 2009, p. 88.

Lappalainen, Lars Erik Hjertstrom. Fargfabriken, Stockholm: Jennifer Bornstein. March 11, 2009, Konsten.net, ill.

2008
Ybarra, Michael. Queen for a Day at the Hammer, LA Times, June 11, 2008, p. E4.

Baker, Kenneth, A Bunch of Amateurs, The San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2008, p. E8.

Myers, Jullian. Amateurs, Frieze, September 2008, p. 78.
Vogel, Traci, My Kid Could Make That, SF Weekly, May 14-20, 2008, p. 33.

2007
Baum, Rachel. Jennifer Bornstein: Affinity Aesthetics.  Afterall #15, Spring/Summer 2007, pp. 53-61, ills.

Steiner, Shep. Jennifer Bornstein: Prohibitions…Props…Performatives: Surefire (and Other) Ways to Do Away with Property.  Afterall #15, Spring/Summer 2007, pp. 63-70, ills.

Banai, Nuit.  Jennifer Bornstein, Gavin Brown's Enterprise. Modern Painters, February 2007, p. 93, ill.

Kleinberg, Joanna.  Jennifer Bornstein, Gavin Brown's Enterprise. frieze, March 2007, p. 197, ill.

2006
Campagnola, Sonia.  Focus on Los AngelesFlash Art, January/February 2006, p. 68, ill.

Leventis, Andreas, “Jennifer Bornstein,” Modern Painters, June 2006, pp 117-118, ill.

Coggins, David, “Jennifer Bornstein,” Art in America, p. 221, November 2006, ill.

Smith, Roberta. Jennifer Bornstein at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York Times, November 10, 2006, p. B36.

Speers-Meers, Emily.  Jennifer Bornstein, Artforum, October 2006, pp. 280-281, ill.

Artists' Picks: Jennifer Bornstein, Best of 2006, Artforum December 2006, p. 76.

Reynolds, Christopher. Collectors' Additions, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 24, 2006, p. F1, ill.

Smith, Roberta. Endgame Rules: Borrow, Sample, Multiply, Repeat, New York Times, July 7, 2006, pp. B23-B27.

Smith, Roberta. Chelsea is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups, New York Times, July 28, 2006, pp. B25-B31.

Saltz, Jerry, A Two-Headed Butterfly Flaps its Wings, Village Voice, July 6, 2006, p. 72

Schmerler, Sarah, Two Friends and So On, Time Out New York, July 20-26, 2006, p. 65

Smith, Roberta, Endgame Rules: Borrow, Sample, Multiply, Repeat, New York Times, July 7, 2006, p. B2.

2005
Kushner, Rachel.  Talent ShowC Magazine, November 2005, pp. 115-117, ill.

Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe. Etch A Sketch. ArtReview, November/December 2005, pp. 26-27, ill.

Greene, Josh and Lovvorn Jen. General Ideas at Wattis Institute at CCA, Shotgun Review, Nov. 22, 2005.

Wong, Genevieve, The Art of the Fall, Los Angeles Downtown News, Sept. 12, 2005, pp. 14-15.

2003
Thomson, Mungo. Viva Baja, Afterall #7, 2003, pp. 36-39, ill.

Sanders, Mark, Reeves, Emma, and Wakefield, Neville. The American Dollar Bill, Another Magazine, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 4-21, ill.

2002
Knight, Christopher. Where Imagination Is the Special Effect, Los Angeles Times, May 17 2002, pg. F26, ill.

Hainley, Bruce. Jennifer Bornstein. Artforum, Summer 2002, p. 187, ill.

Smith, Roberta. "Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program," New York Times, May 4, 2002, p. E37.

2000
Corris, Michael. Face On, Art Monthly, October 2000, pp. 29-31.

Hoffman, Jens. Aperto Performance, Flash Art, October 2000, pp. 49-51, ill.

Hoffberg, Judith. Documentation of Events That May Not Have Taken Place, Umbrella Magazine, May 2000, p. 20.

Saltz, Jerry. Greater Expectations: Greater New York, Village Voice, March 14, 2000, p. 67.

1999
Cohen, Sande, and Gingeras, Alison. The Problems of Historiographie, Artpress, May 1999, pp. 36-42.

Hainley, Bruce. Legend of the Fall, Artforum, March 1999, pp. 56-63.

Morrissey, Simon. What's in a Lie?, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 22, May 1999, pp. 34-39, ills.

Slyce, John. Women Photographing Women, Creative Camera #359, Aug./Sept. 1999, pp. 18-25

1998
Ayerza, Josephina. To Resume Again…., Lacanian Ink #13, pp. 10-11 (ills.)

Brittain, David. Jennifer Bornstein, Creative Camera, February/March 1998, pp. 20 - 27 & cover.

Durden, Mark. Sightings: New Photographic Art, Art Monthly, March 1998, pp. 30-32.

Halle, Howard. Next Wave: Four Emerging Photographers, On Paper, March/April 1998, pp. 32-37, ills.

Herbert, Martin. Jennifer Bornstein, Time Out/London, February 16, 1998, p. 47, ill.
       
McKenna, Max. NY Diary: Jennifer Bornstein, The Art Newspaper, March 1998, p. 59.

Morrissey, Simon. Jennifer Bornstein, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 18, 1998, p. 79, ill.

Saltz, Jerry. Jennifer Bornstein, Time Out New York, March 5-12, 1998, p. 45, ill.

Volk, Gregory. Jennifer Bornstein, Art in America, November 1998, p. 82, ill.

1997
Cotter, Holland. The Name of the Place, The New York Times, January 31, 1997, p. C28.

Ferguson, Russell. Project: Jennifer Bornstein, Art/Text, May-July 1997, pp. 46-51.  
         
Frankel, David. The Name of the Place, Artforum, May 1997, pp. 104.

Knight, Christopher. Right Here, Right Now: The Case for LA Art, Los Angeles Times, Sunday Calendar, May 18, 1997, pg. 1, 4-5, 52, ills.

Ollier, Brigitte. Flash: Photo A Cahors, La Liberation, June 12, 1997, pp. 29-30.

Rodney, Lee. Vanessa Beecroft, Jennifer Bornstein, Martin Kersels, Gillian Wearing, Eye Magazine, September-November 1997, pp. 54. *Not available for file

Schorr, Collier. A Pose is a Pose is a Pose: Fashion and Art and Fashion, Frieze, May 1997, pp. 60-65.

Saltz, Jerry. The Name of the Place, Time Out New York, February 6, 1997, pp. 42.  

Cooper, Dennis. On Tots and Toys, Artforum, January 1997, pp. 12-14.

1996
Kandel, Susan. LACE Annuale Rises Above Its History, Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1996, pg. F13.  


Public Collections


Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

Israel Museum, Tel Aviv

Menil Collection, Houston

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

New School University, New York

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Tang Museum Collection, Saratoga Springs, New York


Awards, Fellowships, Artist Residencies and Studio Grants


2023
Harvard Radcliffe Summer Residency (July)

2021
Artist Relief Unrestricted Covid-19 Grant. Issued jointly by the Academy of American Poets, Artadia, Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MAP Fund, YoungArts, United States Artists, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,  and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

2017-18
Artist Residency, LeRoy Neiman Print Center, Columbia University, New York

2017
Freund Fellowship, Washington University, St. Louis

2017
Foster Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

2017
Hammer Museum Residency, Los Angeles

2014-17
Film Study Center Fellow, Harvard University

2014-15
Radcliffe Fellowship, Harvard University

2011-13
Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Bethanien

2010-11
DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm

2008
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award

2007
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant

2000
Elizabeth Foundation Subsidized Studio Assistance Grant, New York

1999
Marie Walshe Sharp Space Foundation, New York

1999
Delfina Trust Residency, London

1997
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award, New York

1996
Art Council Award, University of California, Los Angeles

1995
Hortense Fishbaugh Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles

1993-4
Regents Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles

1992
Tooms Art Award, University of California, Berkeley
 

Curatorial Projects and Research Collaborations


2019
Printmaking Roundtable, Accelerator Workshop. Sept. 25-27, 2019 at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (co-organized with Matt Saunders)

2017
The Material Echo: Expanded Printmaking, Exploratory Seminar. April 13-14, 2017 at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (co-organized with Matt Saunders)
 
2015
Feminist Ephemera Collection (single reading room vitrine). Schlesinger Library, Harvard University

2008
Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; brochure


Invited Lectures, Public Conversations and Visiting Critic Presentations 


2024
California State University, Department of Art & Art History Visiting Artist Lecture Series

2023
Brant Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany, Conversation with Christopher Williams

2021
UC Riverside Art Department, Invited Lecture and Studio Visits

X-TRA Art Journal Winter Launch Event, Conversation with Neha Choksi, Nic Kay, Georgia Lassner, and Jennifer Bornstein

2020
Lewis and Clark College, Invited Lecture and Studio Visits, Art Department, Portland, Oregon
            
UCLA Art Department of Art, Visiting Artist in Drawing 1A, Art Department, Los Angeles

Harvard University, Invited lecture in HAA179P, History of Art and Architecture, Cambridge

2019
Harvard University, Visiting artist in AFVS 215, Art Film and Visual Studies, Cambridge

2018
Book release and public conversation for "Prints," Oct. 16, 2018, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

Bard College, Department of Art, Visiting Critic in Undergraduate Art Program

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (Book release and public conversation with Yukio Lippit, Jennifer Roberts, and Meg Rotzel)

2017
Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, public conversation with Yukio Lippit and Jennifer Roberts

UCLA Department of Art, Visiting Artist in Art / Drawing 1A, Los Angeles

Bard College Curatorial Studies Program, Annandale on Hudson, NY

Washington University, St. Louis

Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies

Boston University, Boston, MA

University of Washington, Seattle

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Conversation with Rhea Anastas)
 
SUNY Purchase, New York

29th Harvard-Radcliffe Women’s Leadership Conference;  panelist
       
2016
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Printmaking Department, Boston

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, MFA Program, Boston

Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm

Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
 
DAAD, Berlin, Book launch and conversation with Ariane Beyn

2015
Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies

2013   
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

2012
Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies

Kunstakademie Stuttgart, Germany
 
IDFA Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (Conversation with Bart Rutten)

2010
Yale University, Connecticut

2009
Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm

Konstfack/University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm

2007
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
 
2006
Otis College, Los Angeles

University of California, Riverside

2004
Columbia University, New York City

2003
Otis College, Los Angeles

CalArts, Los Angeles

2002
LACE, Los Angeles, Panel discussion with Morgan Fisher and Jens Hoffmann
 
2000
School of Visual Arts, New York City

1999
CalArts, Los Angeles

1998
Otis College, Los Angeles

1997
University of Connecticut, Stamford

Yale University, Connecticut - Photo Department

Yale University, Connecticut - Sculpture Department
          

Education


1997
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York

1996
University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A.

1992
University of California, Berkeley, B.A. in English and Art, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

1990  
École nationale supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris, class of Christian Boltanski


Current


Professor, University of California, Irvine, Department of Art – Photography