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Lives and works in Los Angeles
2004
MFA Art Center, Pasadena, California
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2011
Vilma Gold,Heavy Metals: Iron and Zinc
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Franklin Arts Center, Minneapolis
2010
New Year Series, Western Bridge, Seattle
Perspectives 171: Jennifer West's, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Paintballs and Pickle Juice, Kunstverein Nurnmberg, Nurnberg, Germany
2009
Pomegranate Juice & Pepper Spray, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles
2008
Electric Kool-Aid and the Mezkal Worm, Vilma Gold, London
Statements, Art Basel 39
Lemon Juice and Lithium & New Work, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Drawing on Film, Drawing Center, New York (week long solo presentation)
2007
Occamy, MARC FOXX, West Gallery, Los Angeles
The White Room, White Columns, New York
Yeah Film, Project Room, Sandroni, Rey, Los Angeles
2004
Hallucination, MFA Thesis Show, Art Center College, Pasadena, California, USA
Performances and Special Projects (selected)
2011
Performance, Mechelen Belgium for the 5th Biennial of the Moving Image
Performance. Just Kids (California Style) - For Patti Smith, Kaleidoscope Pavillion at ROMA
Residency Project, MIT with List Visual Arts Center, curated by Joao Ribas
2010
Nuit Blanche, collaboration with musician Daniel Lanois, Toronto, Canada, curated by Anthony Kiendl
Aspen Art Museum, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson and Matthew Thompson
2009
Skate The Sky Film, at UBS Openings: The Long Weekend, Tate Modern, Curated by Stuart Comer
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2012
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London
2011
Art Film, Art Basel 42, curated by Marc Gloede
Contour 2011, 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium
3-P Plot, Point, Position, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Update no.2, White Columns, New York
Home Show RevisitedContemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Another Kind of VapourWhite Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri
How Soon is NowRubell Family Collection Museum, MIami, FL
2010
Celluloid: Cameraless Film Series, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Art Video, Art Basel Miami Beach, curated by Lauri Firstenberg
Abstract Moving Images, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
PortugalArt10, Portugal
In Full Bloom, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Just a Matter of Time, Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe
LAND,In conjunction with Calvin klein, Los Angeles
Supernature: An Exercise in Loads, AMP, Athens
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Curated by Michael Darling
2009
Pictural Abstraction, Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, curated by Ariel Roger Paris
Video Art: Replay, Part 1: Asking Not Telling, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philidelphia
Altogether Elsewhere (touring) Zoo Art Fair 2009, London, Istanbul, curated by Rob Tufnell
The Act of Drawing , VIVID, Birmingham, UK
The Source, Cubitt Art Gallery, London, curated by Michelle Cotton
Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, curated by Amie Scally
Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
SouthwestNET: film and video, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, August 29, 2009-January 10, 2010
Drawing on Film, the Drawing Center, New York
Sandroni Re, Los Angeles
Are You With Me?, Small A Projects, New York
2008
The Station, Miami, curated by Shamim Momin & Nate Lowman
Now You See It, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
ARTLV 08, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Angles of America, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois curated by Terry Myers
here's why patterns, Misako and Rosen, Toyko
Drawing on Film, The Drawing Centre, New York, curated by Joao Ribas, traveling to The Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts
Come Forth! Eat, Drink, and Look.., Gavin Brown at Passerby, New York, curated by Jesse Willenbring
Video Show, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
2007
When Words Fail, MOCAD, Contemporary Art Museum, Detroit, Michigan, curated by Matthew Higgs
Me, You, You (A Ventriloquy), Small A Projects, Portland, Oregon, USA
Viewfinder, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, (touring) Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England; CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (cat)
Between Two Deaths, ZKM Museum for New Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat)
In Apetura, Vilma Gold Gallery, London
2006
Pacing, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles
Grupe, Mandrake, Los Angeles; GBE/Passerby, New York
Jim Shaw's Army, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Celine and Julie Go Boating, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Michael Ned Holte
Building Tradition: Selections from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection, Tacoma, WA
In Resonance, Bumbershoot & The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Amplify, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles
2003
Wrapture: Love, Lust, Entanglement, Transcendence, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
2002
LAVA 2002, Noodleworks, Seattle, WA (catalogue essay by Rhonda Howard)
2001
Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
New Works Laboratory Exhibition, Seattle, WA
El Camino Effect and Safe, Fuzzy Engine Gallery, Seattle, WA
Selected Screenings
2009
Supportico Lopez, Berlin
Jimson Weed, Jack Daniels and Jam, Cinematheque, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, California
Psychosomatic Acid Test, Royal Academy, London, curated by Mark Titchner
2008
Museum Night: Fifi Hengsten & more spectacle in SMBA, SMBA, Amsterdam
Tomorrow is Humourless, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, curated by Marijn van Kreij
Evolution / Compendium festival Leeds
An Evening with Mark Titchner, Tate Britain, London
2007
Parallel Ensemble: a momentary companion to Various Small Fires, Royal College of Art Curatorial Exhibition, London
Museum Collections
Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Selected Bibliography
2011
Artists On AbEx, Artforum, Summer 2011
Latimer, Quinn, The Film Looks Like a Licked Sunset: A Conversation with Jennifer West, East of Borneo.org, March 03, 2011
Rooney, Kara L., The Slow Ascent: Death and Resurrection of the Art Fair, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2011
2010
In Full Bloom, Galleria Raffaella Corteset, Kalidescope Press, 2010
Houston Museum District, www.002mag.com, September 10, 2010
Britt, Douglas, Art, advocacy come together at CAMH, Houston Chronicle G3, Sunday, July 25
Billeaud, Virginia, ‘Perspectives 171’ exhibit at Contemporary Arts Museum, Greater Houston weekly, Wednesday, September 15, 2010, p.2AA
'Jennifer West: Perspectives 171', exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Texas eds.Schlicht, Esther and Hollein, Max, 'Celluloid: Cameraless Film', exhibition cat. Schirn Kunsthall, Frankfurt
Vogel, Wendy, Critics’ pick, Houston- Jennifer West, artforum.com, April
eds. Jason Evans and Stefan Pietsch, 'This Long Century', http://www.thislongcentury.com/
Iversen, Margaret, 'Chance', Whitechapel Gallery, London, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusettes, 2010, p.219
2009
Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope: SouthwestNET: Film & Video, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Publication
Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices, Hunter College, Ny, published by Colophon
Holte, Michael Ned. Pop Right Now. Jennifer West in Twenty-four Frames, Kaleidoscope, Summer Issue, pgs 30-33
Holte, Michael, Best of 2009, Artforum, December 2009, p 192
Schenderer, Martha, Contemporary Art Photographers Mess With the Medium, Village Voice, October 2009
Momim, Shamim, The Moment: Studio Visit/Group Show, New York Times, 24th August 2009
Pop Right Now: Jennifer West in Twenty-four Frames, Keleidoscope, Issue 02/ Summer
‘Skate The Sky Film’ Jennifet West, UBS Openings: The Long Week End, Tate Modern, 22-25 May, 2009
Willis, Holly, Jennifer West’s Long Weekend, Blur and Sharpen, KCET.com
UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009, Time Out London, May 21-27
O'Neil Butler, Lauren. Jennifer West 500 Words, Artforum.com, May
Bedford, Christopher. Jennifer West at Marc Foxx, Artforum, May
Shaw, Cameron, Critics Pick, “Are You With Me?”, Artforum.com, January
Bones Beat, “Are You With Me?”, Small A Projects, Village Voice, January
2008
Electric Kool-Aid Fountain Swimming Film, ARTLV_08: Prologue, September 27 - October 18
Now You See It, catalogue, Aspen Art Museum, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
Cotton, Michelle, “The Source” Psychonauten Kunst in Ekstase /Art in Ecstasy, Published by Walther König (photos) September 2008
Lack, Jessica, ‘A crush on film: the fine art of smearing your subject’, The Guardian online, Tuesday 23 September
Allsop, Laura, ‘Jennifer West: Electric Kool-Aid and the Mezcal Worm’, artreview.com, 10 September
‘Pick of the week’, The Guardian Guide, 6 September
Cotton, Michelle, ‘The Source’, Psychonauten Kunst in Ekstase /Art in Ecstasy, Walter Koenig, Jahresring Series
Latimer, Quinn ‘Working Practice’, Modern Painters, May
Valdez, Sarah ‘Substance Abuse: The films of Jennifer West’, Art on Paper, May/June (photo)
Kleinberg, Joanna ‘ Jennifer West’ Frieze Issue 113 March
Campagnola, Sonia Studio’ Visit: Jennifer West’, Flashart.com February
2007 Holte, Michael. ‘On the Ground: Los Angeles’, Artforum December
Ventur, Conrad, Newer Than Ever, USELESS #5
Dan Fox, If Everybody Had An Ocean, Frieze, August
Jones, Jonathan, Still Waters Run Deep, Guardian UK Unlimited, May 29 (photo)
Farquharson, Alex, Sixteen Takes, If Everybody Had An Ocean Exhibition Catalogue, May
Ensslin, Felix, Jennifer West, Between Two Deaths Catalogue May, pgs. 309-10 (photos)
2005
Celine and Julie Go Boating, Exhibition Catalogue, ed. Michael Ned Holte,
Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, .
Myers, Holly,Around the Galleries, Six journeys of imagination, Los Angeles Times
Chan, Dawn, In Resonance, NY Arts Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005, Vol. 10, No. 11/12
Cassidy, Laura, Surround Sound, Seattle Weekly, August 31, pg. 35 (photo)
Lippens, Nate, Resonating, The Stranger, September 1, pg. 45
2003
Hackett, Regina, West and Macdonald Videos Are Terrific, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 12, F1
Hall, Emily, Mating Airplanes, The Stranger, June 12, Pg. 41 (photo)
2002
Hackett, Regina, Jennifer West at James Harris, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 27, pg. D4
Fefer, Mark, Jennifer West, Seattle Weekly, August 7-14, Pg. 46.
Hall, Emily, Farewell Jennifer West, The Stranger, August 8-14, pg. 54 (photo)
Howard, Rhonda, Jennifer West, LAVA Catalogue Essay, pg. 150-3 (photos)
Hall, Emily, Pay Attention, Please Artists Before Eruption, The Stranger, May 30-June 5, pg. 45
2001
Hall, Emily, Murky/Beautiful, The Stranger, Dec. 6-12, pg. 55
Fahey, Anna, Painting's Dead. We Think, The Seattle Weekly, Nov. 22, pgs. 73-74
Kangas, Matthew Works in BAM's Annual Resist Traditional Categories, The Seattle Times, October 19, pg. 44
Hackett, Regina, Annual strikes chord in new digs, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 23, pg. E1