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 Make Believe, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
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
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
2018 Ollman, Leah. “Jennifer Bolande: Cut up the newspaper, and random connections
make for some unexpected depth.” LA Times, December 15, 2018 (pdf)
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
