Jennifer Bolande

Jennifer Bolande is an American artist whose work employs various media—primarily photography, sculpture, film and site-specific installations to explore the affinities between particular sets of objects and images and the mercurial meanings they manufacture.

Bolande emerged as an artist in the late 1970s, working initially in dance, choreography and drawing. In the early 1980s, she advanced the ideas and strategies proposed by the Pictures Generation Movement and began working with found images, re-photography, appropriation, film and installation, taking her place among those artists who have helped to redefine photography. She takes an intuitive approach to creating conceptual works in the construction of a coherent visual language.  A retrospective exhibition of her work was organized in 2010 by the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and traveled to the ICA in Philadelphia, and the Luckman Gallery at California State University in Los Angeles. A monograph on her work was published by JRP|Ringier in conjunction with the show.Her award winning site-specific project “Visible Distance/Second Sight” was featured in the inaugural Desert Exhibition of Art, in 2017.Her recent exhibition at Pio Pico Gallery, Los Angeles, titled "The Composition of Decomposition," included a new body of works taking the newspaper as a point of departure for photographs, film and sculptural works .

Bolande earned a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1979. She is a Professor in New Genres in the Department of Art at UCLA. She lives and works in LA and Joshua Tree, California.

• The Composition of Decomposition, Magenta Plains, New York (2020)
• The Composition of Decomposition, Pio Pico, Los Angeles (2018)
• Measured Against What, Green Gallery, Chicago (2014)
• Landmarks, a Survey Exhibition, Luckman Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles (2012)
• Landmarks, a Survey Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Landmarks, a Survey Exhibition, Institute of Visual Arts, INOVA, Wisconsin, MI (2010)
• Mathematics and Myths of Yesterday and Today, Thomas Solomon & Cottage Home, Los Angeles
• Plywood Curtains, West of Rome Public Art, citywide installation, Los Angeles
• Smoke Screens, Alexander and Bonin, New York (2008)
• Earthquake, Alexander and Bonin, New York (2004)
• Globe Sightings,Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria (2003)
• Globe Sightings, Alexander and Bonin, New York (2001)
• The City at Night, Alexander and Bonin, New York (1999)
• MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
• Road Movie, John Gibson Gallery, New York (1995)
• Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
• Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
• Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles (1994)
• Metro Pictures, New York (1992)
• Urbi et Orbi, Paris France (1990)
• Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
• Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (1989)
• Metro Pictures, New York (1988)
• Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany (1987)
• Nature Morte, New York (1986)
• Artists Space, New York (1983)
• The Kitchen, New York (1982)

• Celebration of Our Enemies, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA;
• Readymades Are For Everyone, Swiss Institute, New York, NY;
• Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirschorn Museum, Washington, DC;
• Make Believe, Magenta Plains, New York, NY;
• Arcadias, Magenta Plains, New York, NY;
• Skyscraper, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;
• The Pathos of Things, Carriage Trade, New York;
• Artists and Architecture; Variable Dimensions, du Pavillon de l’Arsenale, Paris
• Private Investigations, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC;
• Mixed Use Manhattan, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid;
• This Will Have Been, Art Love and Politics in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and ICA, Boston, MA
• Phot(o)bject, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC
• Deep Storage, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; PSI, New York; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
• The Readymade Boomerang, Eighth Biennale of Sydney, Australia;
• Status of Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

Bolande is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Tesuque Foundation, the Canadian Council on the Arts, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Bolande has published several artist books including The Times, 2016, Excavation Volumes 1-35, 2016, Short Story, 2015, and Space Photography, 2010, published by ZG Press.

Bolande has work in several collections of public museums and institutions including

• MOCA, Los Angeles
• MAMCO, Geneva
• Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
• Miami Art Museum
• LACMA, Los Angeles
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs