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Jennifer West

 
Born in Topanga Canyon, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles

2004
MFA Art Center, Pasadena, California

Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2010
New Year Series,Western Bridge, Seattle
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
Art Basel: Statements
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 (selected)
2010
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)
2010
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
Celluloid: cameraless film series, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
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; Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul (dates tbd), 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
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
Video Show, Sister, Los Angeles

Selected Screenings
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
2010
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
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
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
Newer Than Ever, USELESS #5, Ventur, Conrad
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 2007 (photos)
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, .
Around the Galleries, Six journeys of imagination, Holly Myers,
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