Jennifer Bolande

Jennifer Bolande
Born 1957
Cleveland, Ohio
Alma mater NSCAD University
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship

Jennifer Bolande (born 1957, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American artist known for work that spans a variety of different media, from photography to sculpture and includes filmic elements. The wide range of her work shares a conceptually based methodology.[1]

Bolande earned a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1979.[2] She is currently Professor in New Genres in the Department of Art at UCLA.[3]

In 2012, a thirty year retrospective of her work was organized by INOVA in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and later traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and the Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles [4] The exhibition catalogue with texts by Dennis Balk, Jack Bankowsky, Ingrid Schaffner, Rosetta Brooks, Christina Valentine, and Nicholas Frank was published by JRP.[5]

Group Exhibitions

Bolande has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout her career. Some of these include: Skyscraper, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Pathos of Things, Carriage Trade, New York; Private Investigations, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Mixed Use Manhattan, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Deep Storage, Haus der Kunst, Munich; The Consortium, Dijon, France; The Readymade Boomerang, Eighth Biennale of Sydney, Australia; Status of Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.[6]

Fellowships

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.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Marincola, Paula (January 1989). "Something to do with Jennifer Bolande". Artforum International: 70–73.
  2. ↑ "About". Jennifer Bolande. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ Lockhart, Sharon (November 2010). "Jennifer Bolande". Artforum International: 210–213.
  4. ↑ Jennifer Bolande and David Robbins (25 May 2010). "A Conversation: Jennifer Bolande and David Robbins".
  5. ↑ "Jennifer Bolande: Landmarks". JRP|Ringier. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Jennifer Bolande - Professor, New Genres". UCLA. Retrieved 10 March 2014.

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