Los Angeles based artist, Jennifer West employs various unique processes to produce alchemical transformations in her film based practice. The artist subjects 16, 35 and 70 mm film negative and leader to an eclectic range of idiosyncratic substances including nailpolish, liquid eyeliner, “Teen Spirit” deodorant, wine, spices, Jell-O shots, body glitter, paintballs, Jack Daniels, hot springs water as well as such physical interventions as skateboarding, smearing, crushing, drawing and throwing. West is influenced by classical structuralist film, urban mythology, folklore and popular culture, combining everyday actions and materials to create hypnotic, fast paced films. Performance is as essential to West’s practice as the material composition – united to not only construct the work itself, but also provide a conceptual context. The titles are similarly important. They denote the specific components, activities and participants involved in making the respective film, decipher the enigmatic imagery for the viewer and become evidence of the event/action. Her silent films have a strong synesthetic effect, in that she causes the viewers to taste or smell the “ingredients” that led to her particular visual expression.

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

2004MFA Art Center, Pasadena, California
Bachelor of Arts, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Solo exhibitions

2017Is Film Over?, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (upcoming)
MAN_Museo d'arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy (upcoming)
Expect Even Better, Solo Project, The Culture Wall, Luton, curated by Mark Tichner

2016FILM IS DEAD . . . Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Flashlight Filmstrip Projections, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

2015One Mile Film, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Films: Jennifer West, Stark Screens, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Solo Presentation: Art Brussels Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium, Presented by Vilma Gold Gallery (London)

2014Spirals of Time Documentary Film and Salt Crystals, Focal Point Gallery, Essex, UK
One Mile Film, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Spirals of Time Documentary Film and Salt Crystals, Vdrome.org, presented by Quinn Latimer, curated by
Jens Hoffman, Andreas Lisson and Filipa Ramos

2013Spirals, Salt and The Pill, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, CA
Ivory Snow and a Shark's Tooth, Mallorca Landings, Spain

2012One Mile Film, The High Line, NYC, curated by Cecilia Alemani
Aloe Vera and Butter, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK
Jennifer West: Selected Recent Work, High Line Art, New York

2011Heavy Metals: Iron and Zinc, Vilma Gold, London
Mascara and Mussels, Franklin Arts Works, Minneapolis
Shred the Gnar Full Moon Film Noir, West Gallery, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles

2010Perspectives 171: Jennifer West, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
New Year's Series, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
Paintballs and Pickle Juice, Kunstverein Nuremberg, Germany

2009Pomegranate Juice & Pepper Spray, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles

2008Electric Kool-Aid and the Mezkal Worm, Vilma Gold, London
Statements, Art Basel 39, Basel, Switzerland (with Vilma Gold)
Lemon Juice and Lithium, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Drawing on Film, Drawing Center, New York (week long solo presentation)

2007Occamy, MARC FOXX, West Gallery, Los Angeles
The White Room, White Columns, New York
Yeah Film, Project Room, Sandroni, Rey, Los Angeles

2004Hallucination, MFA Thesis Show, Art Center College, Pasadena, California, USA

Two person exhibitions

2013Afterlife: Jacco Oliver and Jennifer West, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina

Selected Performances and Commissioned Projects + Residencies

2016Commissioned Performance and Films, Art Night, ICA London, UK
London ICA Art Night: Film Title Poem
London ICA Art Night: Film Memory Collection
Commissioned Exhibition and Performance, Flashlight Filmstrip Projections, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Instagram Residency Kadist Foundation

2015Artist in Residence, EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY
Scaife Permanet Collection Galleries, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

2014Commissioned Exhibition and Performance, Flashlight Filmstrip Projections, Portland Institute for
Contemporary Art, TBA Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, curated by Kristan Kennedy
Tramway Artists' Moving Image Festival -'Colour' curated by Steve Cairns (ICA), Tramway 4, Glasgow

2013Commissioned Performance and Film “Conversation and Beer,” Casal Solleric, Mallorca, Spain

2012Commissioned Performance, Film and Screening, “One Mile Film” High Line Art, Friends of the High Line, City of New York, curated by Cecilia Alemani

2011Commissioned Films/Residency, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Art Center, Funded in part by the Nimoy Foundation for the Arts, curated by Joao Ribas
Commissioned Performance and Film, “Drummed Rock Film”, 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium, curated by Anthony Kiendl
Commissioned Performance and Film “Just Kids (California Style) For Patti Smith”, Kaleidoscope Arena, ROMA – Road to Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy

2010Nuit Blanche, Collaboration with Musician Daniel Lanois, Toronto, Canada, curated by Anthony Kiendl
Commissioned Performance and Film, “Shred the Gnar Full Moon Film Noir” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
LAND with Calvin Klein, Los Angeles, CA

2009Commissioned Performance, Film and Screening, “Skate the Sky Film” Tate Modern, London, UK as part of UBS “Long Weekend,” curated by Stuart Comer

Screenings

2017Artist Focus: Jennifer West, Jewish Film Festival New York, NY (upcoming)
Jennifer West: Film Title Poem and Other Wonders, Redcat, Los Angeles, CA (upcoming)
The Color of Light, screening, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2017Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, Pop-Up Exhibition at LACMA
A Stratigraphic Fiction, Berman Museum, Pennsylvania

2016Dreamlands Expanded, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn as part of Whitney Museum of American’s Art’s “Dreamlands” Exhibition, Curated by Chrissie Iles
Art Night, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, UK, curated by Kathy Noble
Folkeobservatoriet (People’s Observatory), Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo, Norway
On the Verge of An Image: Reconsidering Marjorie Keller, LAND, Los Angeles, CA
Stratographic Fiction, Berman Museum, Philidelphia
Fuck Newton, KARST, Plymouth, UK
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami, FL
Active Ingredient, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, NY
First Films, Marc Foxx Gallery, LA, CA

2015AMERICANAESOTERICA, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, curated by Aaron Moulton
Artist's Proof: Jennifer West, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (curated films from Carnegie collection shown with my work)
Staging Los Angeles: Reality, Fantasy, and the Space Between, Gayle and Ed Roski MFA Gallery, USC Roski
School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship Exhibition, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA Edible Planets/Soylent Dialogues, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA

2014Eyes on the Street, Cincinnati Art Museum, curated by Brian Sholis
Songs Without Words, The Monteverdi Gallery, Tuscany, Italy, curated by Sarah McCrory
Words as Doors - in Language, Art, FIlm, Kunstlerhaus KM- Halle fur Kunst & Medien, Kunsterhaus Graz, Austria
Trouble With the Index, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Aquatopia, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; (traveling) Tate St Ives, UK
Burnt by the Sun, Mallorca Landings, Mallorca, Spain
Coral Brush Node, Fourteen Thirty Contemporary, Portland, OR

2013La Fin de la Nuit, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum
Utah Biennial, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Emmy Moore’s Journal: An Exhibition Based on a Letter in a Short Story by Jane Bowles, The Printed Room, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland, curated by Quinn Latimer Polycromies: Surface and Light, Henry Moore Foundation Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Cathy, Jean-Paul, Peg Entwistle et les autres, 8 Rue Saint Bon, Paris, France Inside and From the Ground Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Analogital, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Educational Complex Edit – Videos by the Students of Mike Kelley, The Art Gallery, University of West Florida

2012Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Polycromies: Surface and Light, Leeds City Art Gallery, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, UK
Inside and From the Ground Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Out of Focus Photography, Saatchi Collection Gallery, London, UK
The Only Rule is Work, Galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde, Netherlands
Painter's Panting, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Georgia
Quinn Latimer Book Launch, A.P. News, Zurich, Switzerland
A Useful Looking Useless Object, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, UK
Sound and Vision: Crossroads, Plugin ICA, Winnepeg, Canada
Movable Facture, Vivo Media Arts, Vancouver, Canada

2011Out of Focus Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (catalogue)
Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
“Render: New Construction in Video Art”, California Museum of Photography, University of
California,Riverside, CA
The Only Rule is Work, Galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde, Holland
Painters Painting, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA
Eslov Wide Shut Part II, Mallorca Landings, Mallorca, Spain
Movable Facture, Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (catalogue)
A Useful Looking Useless Object, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sound + Vision: Crossroads, Plug-In, ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
Effects & Affects: The Alphabet, Fumetto Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland
You Killed the Underground Film or the Real Meaning of Kunst bleibt... bleibt... & The Sisters, (Group show with Bettina Koester, Wilhelm Hein and Jennifer West), Lost Property, Amsterdam
Update no.2, White Columns, New York (catalogue)
Another Kind of Vapor, White Flag Project, St. Louis, MO
Contour 2011, 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium
Adult Contemporary, Kavi Gupta, Berlin
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (catalogue)
California Dreamin, Arte Portugal Biennial, Lisbon, Portugal
Home Show Revisited, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue)
Abstract Moving Image, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
One Person's Materialism is Another Person's Romanticism, Remap 3, Athens
Greece

2010Celluloid: the Cameraless Film, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue)
Supernature, An Exercise in Loads, AMP, Athens, Greece
Just a Matter of Time, Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, Germany
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, curated by Michael Darling
In Full Bloom, Galleria Raffaella Coretese, Milan, Italy

2009Now You See It, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, (catalogue)
ARTLV 08, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, curated by Andrew Renton
Altogether Elsewhere, Zoo Art Fair, London, UK (catalogue)
Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices, Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY, curated by Amie Scully (catalogue)
Looking Through the Other End of the Telescope, Scottsdale Museum of
Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (catalogue)
Pictural Abstraction, Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
The Act of Drawing, VIVID, Birmingham, UK
Video Art: Replay, Part 1: Asking Not Telling, ICA, Philadelphia, PA
The Source, Cubitt Art Gallery, London, UK, curated by Michelle Cotton (catalogue)
Are You With Me, Small A, New York, NY

2008Here’s Why Patterns, Misako and Rosen, Tokyo
Drawing on Film, (touring) Drawing Center, New York, NY, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA, curated by Joao Ribas
The Station, Miami, FL, curated by Shamim Momin & Nate Lowman
Angles in America, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, curated by Terry Myers
Come Forth! Eat Drink and Look… Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York, NY
25 x 25 Artists, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Artists, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA

2007If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, (touring) Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England; CAPC Musee d"Art Conteporain, Bordeaux, France, curated by Alex Farquharson (catalogue)
Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, curated by Matthew Higgs
Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
Me, You, You (A Ventriloquy), Small A Projects, Portland, OR
Viewfinder, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
In Apetura, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Between Two Deaths, ZKM Museum for New Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin (catalogue)

2006Grupe, Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York, NY
PACING, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Jim Shaw’s Army, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005Celine and Julie Go Boating, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Michael Ned Holte (catalogue, essay by Michael Ned Holte)
In Resonance, Bumbershoot and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Amplify, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Building Tradition: Selections from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection, Tacoma Art
Museum,WA

2003Wrapture: Love, Lust, Entanglement, Transcendence, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

2002LAVA 2002, Noodleworks, Seattle, WA (catalogue, essay by Rhonda Howard)

2001Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, juried by Sue Spaid
New Works Laboratory Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Juried by Elizabeth Brown, Chief Curator, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
El Camino Effect and Safe, Fuzzy Engine Gallery, Seattle, WA

Selected Screenings

2017(forthcoming) Artist Focus, New York Jewish Film Festival
(forthcoming) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
(forthcoming) Jennifer West: Film Title Poem and Other Wonders, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
The Color of Light, Dreamlands, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2016Shenzen Animation Biennial, China
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Caro Sposo, with Mario Garcia Torres, Paris, FR

20151st PARSE Biennial Research Conference on TIME, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, curated by John Hill, Flat Time House, London, UK
“Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art” with Pierre Huyghe, Lynn Marie Kirby, Lutz Becker, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Ariel Jackson, Jennifer West, John Whitney, Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik, LACE, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Mark Toscano and Gabrielle Jennings
"In the Lion's Den" James Richard and Jennifer West at KHI (Art Historic Institute in Amsterdam) Herengracht, Amsterdam
"Psychic Geographies" with Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky, Arvo Leo, Laure Prouvost, Liz Rhodes, John
Smith, Lisa Tan, Agnes Varda, Jennifer West, lothringer13florida, Munich, Germany
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA, curated by Amanda Donnan

2014Video Playlist, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, curated by Karthik Pandian
Colour, ICA London; traveling Cornerhouse, Manchester; Tramway, Glasgow; MK Gallery; Milton Keynes;
and Turner Contemporary; Margate
Artist Talk and Screening, Columbus Museum of Art,, Columbus, OH
Artist Talk and Screening, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA Artist Talk and Screening, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2013Mute Sound, South London Gallery, London, UK
One Mile Film, Casal Solleric, Mallorca, Spain
Spirals, Salt and The Pill, in conversation with scholar, David James, School of Cinematic Arts, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2012One Mile Film, High Line Art, New York, NY
On the Custom of Wearing Clothes, LUX/ICA Biennial of the Moving Images, ICA,
London, UK
On the Custom of Wearing Clothes, Tramway Festival of Artists' Moving Image in Association with Lux, Glasgow, Scotland
Micro/Macro: The World Inside Out, the Cinema Museum, London, UK
Love/Not Love, Handmade Feminist Films (with Carolee Schneeman, Naomi Uman and Jennifer Reeves), Contraband Cinema, Atlanta, curated by Gregory Zinman Selected Films by Jennifer West, High Line Art, New York, NY

2011Artist’s Film Club, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Exploring the Abstract, Tate St. Ives, UK
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Structuring Strategies, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany, curated by Marc Gloede

2010Art Basel Miami Beach: Art Video, curated by Lauri Firstenberg

2009Psychosomatic Acid Test, Royal Academy, London, curated by Mark
Titchner

2008Tomorrow is Humourless, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, curated by Marijn van Kreij

2007A Night with Mark Titchner, Tate Britain, London
Parallel Ensemble: a Momentary Companion to Various Small Fires, Royal
College of Art Curatorial Exhibition, London, UK

Museum and Public Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Kadist Public Collection, Paris, France/San Francisco, CA, USA
Saatchi Public Collection, London, UK
Rubell Public Family Collection, Miami, FL
Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
Zabludowicz Public Collection, London, UK
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington

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Muir, Gregor, “All-nighter arts festival to transform London”, Guardian.com, July 1
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Hoeber, Julian. “The Fan Club: Why enthusiasm, not scholarship inspires artists” Frieze, Issue 174, October,
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2013Latimer, Quinn, “Highlights 2013: Quinn Latimer”, Frieze.com, Dec. 13th
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2012Taras, Kania, “On the High Line, Falling Forward with a Season of Art”, Wall Street Journal, 6 August
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O’Hagan, Sean, “Saatchi Captures Confusion of Contemporary Photography”, Guardian, Wed., May 9th
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Tauches, Karen, More Than Painting: Professionals Pant at the Contemporary, burnaway.org 2 May

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Nelsen, Steffie, “Space Invaders”, NYTimes.com, April 21
Shafer, Ryan, Editor. Art in Unexpected Places, published by Aspen Art Press and The Crown Family (photos)

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Cotton, Michelle, “The Source” Psychonauten Kunst in Ekstase /Art in Ecstasy, published by Walther König (photos) September 2008
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Artists Publications / Writings / Zines

2016Remembering Tony Conrad, Artforum, September
Movie Memories Zine, Production by ICA London for Art Night 2016, July

2014West, Jennifer. “Passages: Vera Chytilova”, Artforum.com, August 2014

2013Spirals of Time Zine, 2013. Produced by Jennifer West in conjunction with solo exhibition, “Spirals, Salt and The Pill” at Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles. Two-color Risograph. Published by Golden Spike Press

2012Accordion Zine 2011. 2011. Produced by Jennifer West in conjunction with solo exhibition, “Heavy Metals: Iron and Zinc” at Vilma Gold, London, UK

2011West, Jennifer. “The AbEx Effect,” ARTFORUM, Summer Issue, 2011

2010Artist Contribution. ThisLongCentury.com September 2010
Smoke, Mirrors, Darts and Lavender Mist Zine. 2010. Produced by the
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas in conjunction with Perspectives
176: Jennifer West. Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Shred the Gnar Full Moon Film Noir Zine. 2010. Produced by the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado in conjunction with performance and exhibitions, Shred the Gnar Full Moon Noir. Curated by Matthew Thompson.

2009Wheels Ink Ho-ho's and Melon, Skate the Sky Film Production Stills Zine. 2009.
Produced by Vilma Gold and Marc Foxx in conjunction with performance and screening at Tate Modern, London, UK. Curated by Stuart Comer.

2008Pomegranate Juice and Pepper Spray Production Stills. 2009. Produced by Jennifer West and Marc Foxx in conjunction with "Pomegranate and Pepper Spray" solo exhibition at Marc Foxx, Los Angeles.
Electric Kool-Aid and the Mezcal Worm Production Stills Zine. 2008. Produced by Jennifer West in conjunction with solo exhibition, "Electric Kool-Aid and the Mezcal Worm" at Vilma Gold, London.
Jennifer West. Production Stills Zine. 2008. Produced by Vilma Gold in conjunction