JENNIFER BORNSTEIN

Born
Seattle, Washington, 1970

Education
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
UCLA, M.F.A.
UC Berkeley, B.A.                                                  
Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin

One-Person Exhibitions

2013                       
New Waves, Greengrassi, London 

2012
New Waves, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany

2011
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
greengrassi, London, UK

2009
Färgfabriken Norr, Stockholm, Sweden (brochure)
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY

2006
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
greengrassi, London, UK

2005
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat.)

2003
greengrassi, London, UK

2002
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA

1999
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA

1998
greengrassi, London, UK
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY

1997
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012
Stedelijk@IDFA, 25th International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
AutoconßtrukSchön; Arratia, Beer, Berlin, Germany
Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

2011
The Joy of Pleasure, Veneklasen Werner, Berlin, Germany
Celestial Spectacular, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Object of Observation (Changes By Being Observed), Johnen Galerie, Berlin
On Forgery: Is One Thing Better Than Another?, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
FAX, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
You Don’t Love Me Anymore, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (exh. cat.)
Recent Acquisitions from The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Ten Women Who Use Film, www.ubu.com

2010
Artists’ Cinema, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
HOW MANY BILLBOARDS?: Art In Stead, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
Endless Bummer, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Home and Away, Residence of the United States Ambassador to Germany, Berlin
Etwas Viele… Galerie Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin, Germany
Light, Camera, Action: ABC (Film and Stage Program), Berlin, Germany
At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
R is for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA

2009
Pulling from History: The Old Masters, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Das Gespinst: Die Sammlung Schürmann zu Gast im Museum Abteiberg, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2008
La Petite Histoire, Kustraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat.)
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
T2- 50 Moons of Saturn, Torino Triennale, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (exh. cat.)
Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (exh. cat.)
Biennale d’art contemporain le Havre, Le Havre, France
Houseguest: Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Wizard of Oz, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (exh. cat.)

2007
2nd Moscow Biennale, USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium, Shopping centre TSUM, Moscow, Russia
Personne ne veut mourir, Arquebuse, Geneva, Switzerland
LA Desire (Part 1), Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, Germany
Radio Daniele, MAMbo Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy; traveled to Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
Mobile Museum, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
Now You See It, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2006
the backroom: San Francisco, hosted by New Langton Arts/SF Camerawork
Too Much Love, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY

2005
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, Astrup Fearnley, Oslo, Norway; traveled to Bard College, New York, NY; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; La Musée de Sérignon, Serignan, France; Beijing, China (exh. cat.)
General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987-2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (exh. cat.)
Finkish Dispositions, Rachmoninoff’s, London, UK
A Walk to Remember, LACE, Los Angeles, CA (exh. cat.)

2004
Let The Bullshit Run a Marathon, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY

2003
Faking Real, Columbia University, New York, NY

2002
A Show That Shows That A Show Is Not Only A Show, The Project, Los Angeles, CA  (exh. cat.)

2001
Pandaemonium Biennial of Moving Images, Lux Gallery, Centre for Electronic Arts, London, UK
A Passion for Art: The Disaronno Originale Photography Collection, MOCA, Chicago, IL Jennifer Bornstein, Mark Grotjahn, Florian Maier-Aichen, Dave Muller, Blum and Poe, Santa Monica, CA

2000
Face On, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK; traveled to Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK; Photographic and Media Arts, Liverpool; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (exh. cat.)
An Intelligent Pleasure, Site Gallery, London, UK
Can (Remix), Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Exit: International Artist-made Film and Video, Chisenhale, London, UK
Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, NY (exh. cat.)
Quiet, 359 Broadway, New York, NY
Works on Paper from Los Angeles, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

1999
Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (exh. cat.)

1998
Remix: Images Photographiques, Nantes Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France (exh. cat.)
L.A. Times, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Guarene, Italy (exh. cat.)
Sightings: New Photographic Art, ICA, London, UK (exh. cat.)
Charles Ray, Steve Doughton, Jennifer Bornstein, greengrassi, London, UK

1997
Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles, Malmø, Sweden
Exposition de Jeunes Photographers Femmes, Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Vanessa Beecroft, Jennifer Bornstein, Martin Kersels, Gillian Wearing, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Name of the Place, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

1996
Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975 - Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
Teststrip, Auckland, New Zealand
Three Day Weekend, P-House, Tokyo, Japan
LACE Annuale, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wight Art Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, CA

Curatorial Projects

2008                 
Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (brochure)

Catalogues and Publications

2011
diQuinzo, Apsara. The Air We Breathe. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011.

2009
Haitto Ahren, Elisabeth. Jennifer Bornstein. Stockholm: Färgfabriken, 2009.

2008
Birnbaum, Daniel.  50 Moons of Saturn: the Second Torino Triennale. Milan: Skira; London: Thames & Hudson, 2008, 192-197.
Bonvicini, Gyonata. La Petite Histoire. Vienna: Kustraum Niederoesterreich, 2008, 10-14.
Bornstein, Jennifer. Houseguest: Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2008.
Hoffmann, Jens. The Wizard of Oz. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, 2008, 20-21.
Rugoff, Ralph. Amateurs. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2008, 30-33.

2007
Abdul, Lida. 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Moscow: ArtChronika, 2007.
Gioni, Massimiliano. Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.

2005
Birnbaum, Daniel, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds. Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2005.
Goldstein, Ann. Jennifer Bornstein: MOCA Focus. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005.
Higgs, Matthew. General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987-2005. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, 2005.
Hoffmann, Jens and Joan Jonas. Perform. London: Thames & Hudson, 2005.

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

1999
Myers, Terry R. Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Gagosian Gallery, 1999, 8-9.

1998
Morrissey, Simon. “The End is the Beginning is the End.” In Sightings: New Photographic Art. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1998.

Writing and Artists’ Books

2012
“Disappearing Act.” Getty Research Journal, no. 4 (April 2012).

2011
“The Other Eye of Sam Wagstaff: the Little-Known Photographs of a Pioneering Photography Collector; an Artist’s Project.” Frieze  no. 137 (March 2001): 128-131.

2009
Evergreen. Los Angeles: Blum and Poe; New York: Gavin Brown’s enterprise; London: greengrassi, 2009.
“Perception of Vision.” Frieze no. 126 (October 2009): 208-211.

2008
Houseguest: Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2008.

2007
How to Ride the Bus. London: Four Corners Books, 2007.

1999
Documentation of Events That May Not Have Taken Place. Gent: Imschoot, 1999.

Selected Articles and Reviews

2010                 
Grant, Catherine. “The Performance Space of the Photograph: From ‘The Anti-Photographers’ to ‘The Directorial’.” Re-bus, no. 5 (Summer 2010): 1-29.

2009                                   
O’Neil-Butler, Lauren. “Jennifer Bornstein.” Artforum.com, April 14, 2009.

2008                 
Baker, Kenneth. “A Bunch of Amateurs.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2008.
Myers, Julian. “Amatuers.” Frieze, no. 117 (September 2008): 204.
Vogel, Traci. “My Kid Could Make That,” SF Weekly, May 14-20, 2008: 33.
Ybarra, Michael J. “Artist Jennifer Bornstein Curates a Show at the Hammer Museum.” Los Angeles Times, June 11, 2008.

2007                 
Banai, Nuit. “Jennifer Bornstein: Gavin Brown's Enterprise.” Modern Painters (February 2007): 93.
Baum, Rachel. “Jennifer Bornstein: Affinity Aesthetics.” Afterall, no. 15 (2006): 53-61.
Kleinberg, Joanna. “Jennifer Bornstein: Gavin Brown's Enterprise.” Frieze, no. 105 (March 2007): 197.
Steiner, Shep.  “Jennifer Bornstein: Prohibitions…Props…Performatives: Surefire (and Other) Ways to Do Away with Property.” Afterall, no. 15 (2006): 63-70. 

2006                 
Bornstein, Jennifer. “The Artist’s Artists.” Artforum 45, no. 4 (December 2006): 111.
Campagnola, Sonia. “Focus on Los Angeles.” Flash Art 38, no. 246 (January-February 2006): 68.
Coggins, David. “Jennifer Bornstein.” Art in America 94, no. 10 (November 2006): 221.
Leventis, Andreas. “Jennifer Bornstein.” Modern Painters (June 2006): 117-18.
Saltz, Jerry. “A Two-Headed Butterfly Flaps its Wings.” Village Voice, July 6, 2006.
Schmerler, Sarah. “Two Friends and So On.” Time Out (New York), July 20-26, 2006: 65.
Smith, Roberta. “Endgame Rules: Borrow, Sample, Multiply, Repeat.” New York Times, July 7, 2006.
Smith, Roberta. “Jennifer Bornstein at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.” New York Times, November 10, 2006.
Speers-Meers, Emily. “Jennifer Bornstein.” Artforum 45, no. 2 (October 2006): 280-81.

2005                       
Kushner, Rachel. “Talent Show.” C Magazine 1, no. 3 (November 2005): 115-17.
Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe. “Etch a Sketch.” ArtReview (International) 3, no. 11  (November-December 2005): 26-27.  

2003                                   
Thomson, Mungo. “Viva Baja.” Afterall, no. 7 (2003): 36-39.

2002                                   
Hainley, Bruce. “Jennifer Bornstein.” Artforum 40, no. 10 (Summer 2002): 187.
Knight, Christopher. “Where Imagination Is the Special Effect.” Los Angeles Times, May 17, 2002.

2001                                   
Knight, Christopher. “Art in L.A.” Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2001.

2000                 
Brittain, David. “Zeitgeist: Three Unmissable Exhibitions about the Face.” DPICT/Creative Camera, no. 5 (December 2000-January 2001): 16-17.
Corris, Michael. “Face On.” Art Monthly (October 2000): 29-31.
Hoffberg, Judith. “Documentation of Events That May Not Have Taken Place.”
Umbrella Magazine (May 2000): 20.
Hoffman, Jens. “Aperto Performance.” Flash Art 33, no. 214 (October 2000): 49-51.

1999                                   
Cohen, Sande. “Art From Los Angeles.” ArtPress, no. 246 (May 1999): 57-59.
Hainley, Bruce. “Legend of the Fall.” Artforum 37, no. 7 (March 1999): 56-63.
Morrissey, Simon. ‘What’s In a Lie.” Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 22 (May 1999): 34-39.
Slyce, John. “Women Photographing Women.” Creative Camera, no. 359 (August-September 1999): 18-25.

1998                                   
Ayerza, Josephina. “To Resume Again….” Lacanian Ink, no. 13 (1998): 10-11.
Brittain, David. “Q+A Jennifer Bornstein.” Creative Camera, no. 350 (February-March 1998): 20-27.
Durden, Mark. “Sightings: New Photographic Art.” Art Monthly (March 1998): 30-32.
Halle, Howard. “Next Wave: Four Emerging Photographers.” On Paper (March-April 1998): 32-37.
Herbert, Martin. “Jennifer Bornstein.” Time Out (London), February 16, 1998: 47.
McKenna, Max. “NY Diary: Jennifer Bornstein.” Art Newspaper (March 1998): 59.
Morrissey, Simon. “Jennifer Bornstein.” Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 18 (1998): 79.
Saltz, Jerry. “Jennifer Bornstein.” Time Out (New York), March 5-12, 1998: 45.
Volk, Gregory. “Jennifer Bornstein.” Art in America 86, no. 11 (November 1998): 82.

1997                 
Cotter, Holland. “The Name of the Place.” New York Times, January 31, 1997.
Ferguson, Russell. “Project: Jennifer Bornstein.” Art/Text, no. 57 (May-July 1997): 46-51.
Frankel, David. “The Name of the Place.” Artforum 35, no. 9 (May 1997): 104.
Knight, Christopher. “Right Here, Right Now.” Los Angeles Times, May 18, 1997.
Ollier, Brigitte. “Flash: Photo A Cahors.” La Liberation, June 12, 1997.
Rodney, Lee. “Vanessa Beecroft, Jennifer Bornstein, Martin Kersels, Gillian Wearing.” Eye Magazine (September-November 1997): 54.
Schorr, Collier. “A Pose is a Pose is a Pose: Fashion and Art and Fashion.” Frieze, no. 33 (March-April 1997): 60-65.                
Saltz, Jerry. “The Name of the Place.” Time Out (New York), February 6, 1997: 42.

1996                                   
Cooper, Dennis. “On Tots and Toys.” Artforum (December 1996): 13.
Kandel, Susan. “LACE Annuale Rises Above Its History.” Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1996.

Teaching

Spring 2010: Lecturer, Yale University: Sculpture 346b/446b (Intermediate/Advanced Sculpture); Art 630- (Graduate Sculpture Studio Seminar); Art 645 (Graduate Individual Critics Sculpture)

Fall 2004, Spring 2005, & Spring 2006: Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University: Art 280 (Photography 1)

Fall 2004: Lecturer, Otis College of Art and Design: Photo 315 (Photo Genres: Photography and Political Activism)

Spring 2004: Visiting Professor, Art Center College of Design: Art 112 (Performance Art, with Meg Cranston)

Fall 2003: Visiting Professor, Art Center College of Design: Art 117 (Workshop with Visiting Artists, with Christopher Williams)

Spring 2003: Lecturer, Yale University: Sculpture 120b (Introductory Sculpture)

Fall 2001: Adjunct Professor, School of Visual Arts: Photo 105 (Contemporary Photography Since 1960)

Fall 2000: Adjunct Professor, Columbia University: Art R1315X (Sculpture Fundamentals)

Invited Lectures

2012                 
Kunstakademie, Stuttgart

2010                 
Yale University, Sculpture Department, New Haven, CT

2009                 
Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
Konstfack/University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, CA

2007                 
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2006                 
Otis College, Los Angeles, CA
UC Riverside, Riverside, CA

2004                 
Columbia University, New York, NY

2003                 
Otis College, Los Angeles, CA 
CalArts, Valencia, CA

2000                 
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1999                 
CalArts, Valencia, CA

1998                 
Otis College, Los Angeles, CA

1997                 
University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT

Awards

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Artist in Residence, 2011-2012
DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, 2010-2011
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, 2008
Elizabeth Foundation Studio Grant, New York, 2000
Marie Walshe Sharp Foundation Studio Grant, New York, 1999-2000
Delfina Trust, London, 1999
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award, New York, 1997
UCLA Art Council Award, 1996
Hortense Fishbaugh Scholarship, UCLA, 1995
UCLA Regents Scholarship, 1993-1994
Maybelle Tooms Award, UC Berkeley, 1992
UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, 1992

Public Collections

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
New School University, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Grunwald Center, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands