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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019  Celebration of Our Enemies, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Make Believe, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
BreatheWatchListenTouch, The Work and Music of Yoko Ono, Femmebit and Makingout-LA at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
2018  Readymades Are For Everyone, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirschorn Museum, Washington, DC
Arcadias, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Art & Entertainment, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Social Photography VI, Carriage Trade, New York, NY
Naturel pas naturel, Palais Fesch Musée des beaux-arts, Ajaccio, France
Picture City, Carriage Trade, New York
2017  Desert X, Site-specific art exhibition/installation in the Coachella Valley, CA
Vernacular Environments, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles
2016  Every Future Has A Price: 30 Years After Infotainment, Elizabeth Dee, New York
Apeirophobia/Aporia, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Don’t Look Back; The 1990s at MOCA, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
2015  Artists and Architecture; Variable Dimensions, du Pavillon de l’Arsenale, Paris
Rideaux/Blinds, Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne Rhône-Alps, France
2014  Modèles modèles, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
2012  The Pathos of Things, Carriage Trade, NYC (catalogue)
Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Kunstmuseum Basel; Artists Space, New York
Skyscraper, Art and Architecture Against Gravity, MCA, Chicago
This Will Have Been, Art Love and Politics in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
(curated by Helen Molesworth), travelling to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and ICA, Boston
2010  Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to Present,
Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, curated by Lynne Cooke & Douglas Crimp
2009  Phot(o)bject, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., curated by Robert Nickas
2005  The Art of Design: The Architecture and Design Collection, San Francisco MOMA, CA
 The Forest: Politics, Poetics, Practice, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
2004  Architecture & Arts: 1900/2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, curated by Germano Celant
2003  Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, curated by Bill Arning
 Living Inside the Grid New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, curated by Dan Cameron
2002 The Photogenic: Photography Through Its Metaphors in Contemporary Art, ICA, Philadelphia
1997  Deep Storage, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf;
PSI, New York; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996  Just Past, curated by Anne Goldstein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Making Pictures:Women and Photography, 1975 – NOW, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
1993  Jennifer Bolande, Sophie Calle, Vic Muniz & Mike Scott, Wooster Gardens, New York
1992  Jennifer Bolande, Sylvia Gertsch, Marie-Therese Huber, Pippilotti Rist, Mio Shirai,
Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Constructing Images: Synapse Between Photography and Sculpture, Lieberman & Saul, NYC,
Tampa Museum of Art, FL, Ctr. for Creative Photography, AZ; curated by Ingrid Schaffner
1990  The Readymade Boomerang, Eighth Biennale of Sydney, Australia, curated by Rene Block
Status of Sculpture, L’espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; ICA, London;
Lowen-Palais, Berlin
Jennifer Bolande, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Seibu Gallery, Japan
Jennifer Bolande, Tim Ebner, Mike Kelley, Ken Lum, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
1988  Graz 1988, Stadtmuseum Graz, Austria
Made in Camera, curated by Peter Anderson, Galerie Sten Eriksson, Stockholm
Presi per Incantamento, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan,
curated by Gregorio Magnani, Giorgio Verzotti and Daniela Salvioni
1986  Cinemaobject, City Gallery, New York, curated by Dennis Adams
1985  Infotainment, Texas Gallery, Houston; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago;
Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia; Aspen Art Museum, CO; Galerie Montenay, Paris
1982  Real Life Magazine Presents, White Columns, New York
Resource Material: Appropriation in Current Photography, Bard College, Proctor Art Ctr,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Stephen Frailey

ARTIST BOOKS
2016  The Times, self published, 428 pages, hardcover book edition of 12
2016  Excavation Volumes 1-35, unique bound newsprint books, variable dimensions
2015  Short Story, self published hardcover book 20 pages, edition of 6
2010  Space Photography, ZG Press

MONOGRAPHS
2011  Jack Bankowsky, Rosetta Brooks, Ingrid Schaffner, Nicholas Frank,
Christina Valentine, Dennis Balk; Jennifer Bolande, Landmarks, published by JRP|Ringier (link)
1995  Justin Hoffmann and Phillip Ursprung; Jennifer Bolande, Kunsthalle Palazzo,
Basel, Switzerland
1992  Gertrude Sandqvist and Daniela Salvioni; Jennifer Bolande, New York,
published by Nordenstad-Skarsted

CATALOGS
2019  Elizabeth Dee, ed. with texts by Alan Belcher and Robert Nickas, Every Future Has a Price- 30 years after Infotainment; publ. by Elizabeth Dee
Andrew Roth & Neville Wakefield, ed. Desert X 2017 Catalogue, PPP Editions, NY
2018  Gianni Jetzer, Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s; Hirshhorn Museum
2016  Julie Ault, Martin Beck and Richard Birkett; Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart –
Collected by Julie Ault, Vol. 2; Hatje Cantz + Cover Illustration
2015  Ogor Gourvennec, Gregory Lang; Artists and Architecture; Variable Dimensions,
Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenale, Paris
2014  Gregory Stamatina, ed: Brian Weil 1979-1995: Being In The World, ICA, Philadelphia,
illustrations and reference to Bolande; The Porn Series, 1982
2012  Michael Darling & Joanna Szupinska, Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2011  Helen Molesworth ed., This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Yale University Press
2010  Douglas Crimp and Lynne Cooke ed., Mixed Use, Manhattan; Photography and Related Practices,
1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, MIT Press
2009  Charlotte Cotton, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd.
2005  Germano Celant, ed. Architecture & Arts: 1900/2004 A Century of Creative Projects in Building,
Design, Cinema, Painting, Sculpture, Milan: Skira Editore
Kathleen Goncharov. The Forest, Politics, Poetics, and Practice (ex. cat.), Nasher Museum of Art
2001  Geoffrey Batchen, Each Wild Idea, Cambridge: MIT Press
1998  Ingrid Schaffner, Deep Storage, PS1, New York
1990  Isabelle Graw Ed. Nachschub, The Köln Show, Cologne, Germany
1989  Robert Nickas (essay) A Climate of Site (ex. cat), Amsterdam: Galerie Barbara Farber
Robert Nickas (interviews) Works Concepts Processes Situations Information (ex. cat.)
Dusseldorf: Galerie Hans Mayer
1988  Sten Erickson, Made in Camera, VAVD Editions, Stockholm
1986  Thomas Lawson, David Robbins, George W.S. Trow, Infotainment, J. Berg Press, NY

INTERVIEWS
2018  “Scoping things on the cutting edge: A conversation between Jennifer Bolande and Marie de Brugerolle”. Mousse Magazine, issue 65 (October 2018) (pdf)
2017  “It draws attention to the transition between here and there,” We Present Series (link)
“Este Cartel Publicitario Es Arte. Verne,” Ediciones El País, Spain (link)
“Riot Material Talks with Desert X Artists Jennifer Bolande, Glenn Kaino, Philip K. Smith III
and Tavares Strachan,” Riot Material (link)
2012  “Interview with Jennifer Bolande” by J. Louise Makary,
Incite Journal of Experimental Media (link)
2010  “A Conversation: Jennifer Bolande and David Robbins,” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (link)

WRITING
2010  “Jennifer Bolande Talks About Plywood Curtains,” introduction by Sharon Lockhart,
1000 Words, Artforum, Issue XLIX, no. 3 (November  2010): 210 (pdf)
2003  “Remembering Jack Goldstein,” Afterall, (Issue 7, 2003): 116-117 (link)
1985   “***1⁄2, Picture This, Films Chosen By Artists,” Buffalo: Hallwalls Contemporary
“Art and Poetics,” ed. John Miller, LAICA Journal 5, no.41 (Spring 1985)
1981   “Elk grazed as if nothing had happened,” Real Life Magazine, no. 7 (Autumn 1981)
1980  “A Mood on the Rise,” Real Life Magazine, no. 34, (Summer film issue)

ARTICLES
2011   Balk, Dennis. “Jennifer Bolande, an Invitation.” East of Borneo (link)
2000 Siegel, Katy. “Jennifer Bolande: Appliance House.” Artforum (January 2000): 88-89 (pdf)
1992  Batchen, Geoffrey. “On Post-Photography, Constructing Images:
Synapse Between Photography and Sculpture.” Afterimage 20, no. 3 (October 1992): 17
1989  Marincola, Paula. “Something to Do with Jennifer Bolande.” Artforum (January 1989):
70-73 and Cover illustration (pdf)
Magnani, Gregorio. “This Is Not Conceptual.” Flash Art (March/April, 1989): 107
1988  “Jennifer Bolande: A Salient Point (Detail): A Conversation Between Jack Bankowsky
and Robert Nickas.” Flash Art (May-June 1988): 78-79

PRESS
2019  Berardini, Andrew. “Jennifer Bolande; Pio Pico,” Artforum, March 2019, p233 (link)
Ollman, Leah. “Critics’ Choices,” LA Times, Feb. 17 2019
Wright, Michael. “Jennifer Bolande at Pio Pico,” Carla, Feb. 13 2019 (link)
“Jennifer Bolande at Pio Pico,” Contemporary Art Daily, Feb. 11 2019 (link)
Heinrich, Will. “Make Believe,” New York Times, Feb. 8 2019 (link)
2018  Ollman, Leah. “Jennifer Bolande: Cut up the newspaper, and random connections
make for some unexpected depth.” LA Times, December 15, 2018 (pdf)
Bare, Bjarne. “Burma-Shave,” Objectiv #18, p.28-29
2017  Slocum, Amy. “Desert X.” Flaunt Magazine, April 26, 2017 (link)
Knight, Christopher. “International Art invades the suburban Coachella Valley:
the best of Desert X.”LA Times, March 6, 2017 (link)
Zara, Jenelle. “The Arid Exhibition that’s bringing land art to Coachella.” The Guardian,
February 28, 2017 (link)
“Jennifer Bolande Blends Billboards with Mountains in the middle of the Desert.”
DesignBoom, March 3, 2017 (link)
Free, Cathy. “California Artist Creates Billboards Covered with the Views
That They’re Blocking.” People Magazine, April 4, 2017 (link)
Zorthan, Julia. “Billboards that don’t block the view.” Time Magazine, March 20, 2017, p.21
2016  Schwendener, Martha. “Every Future Has a Price.” New York Times, December 1, 2016
Vogel, Wendy. “Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years After Infotainment.” Art-Agenda,
December 6, 2016 (link)
Cooter, Mike. “Spaces– The Storefront Gallery.” Art-Agenda, October 11, 2016 (pdf)
2013  Harvey, Doug. “Art of the City.” Los Angeles Magazine, April 2013: 140 & 142
 Diehl, Travis. “Jennifer Bolande.” Art Papers, March/April 2013: 57-58 (pdf)
2012  Simonson, Lily. “Looking at Los  Angeles–Landmarks.” Art:21 blog, September 27, 2012 (link)
 Vogel, Wendy. “Jennifer Bolande, ICA, Philadelphia.” Critics Picks, Artforum Online (link)
2010  Nisbet, James. “Jennifer Bolande, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles.”
Critics Picks, Artforum (link)
Grabner, Michelle. “Jennifer Bolande, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee.”
Artforum, Issue XLIX,  September 2010
Williams-Ng, Stacey. “Review: Jennifer Bolande at INOVA.” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel  (link)
2008  Maul, Tim. “Jennifer Bolande” Art in America, May 2008
2005 Stone, Katie.  “Jennifer Bolande.” frieze issue 89, March 2005: 120-123 (link)
2001  Halle, Howard. “World Up.” Time Out New York, no. 320, November 15-22, 2001: 89
2000  Princenthal, Nancy. “Jennifer Bolande” Art in America, January 2000: 113 (pdf)
1999  Arning, Bill. “Art Reviews: Jennifer Bolande.” Time Out NY, October 7-14, 1999: 84
1997  Kimmelman, Michael. “Jennifer Bolande, Forest Spirits.” The New York Times, April 18, 1997
1996  Aukeman, Anastasia. “Jennifer Bolande.” Art in America, January 1996
1995  Cotter, Holland. “Jennifer Bolande.” The New York Times, March 17, 1995
1992  Cotter, Holland. “Jennifer Bolande.” The New York Times, June 5, 1992
1987  Bankowsky, Jack. Flash Art, no. 135, Summer 1987: 94
1983  Lawson, Thomas. “Victor Alzamora and Jennifer Bolande.” Artforum, March 1983: 76