Jennifer Bornstein

Jennifer Bornstein is an artist producing work in a variety of media that are both materially and conceptually connected to photographic processes. She received a BA in English and Art from UC Berkeley, an MFA in photography from UCLA, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program.

A member of the UC Irvine faculty since 2017, she has also taught at Otis College of Art, Loyola Marymount University, Art Center College, The School of Visual Arts, Yale University, Columbia University, and Harvard University. She has served as guest critic and lectured at universities internationally.

She has received numerous awards and grants including the Harold M. English Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm residency, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and the Foster Prize from the ICA in Boston. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, including solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Fargfabriken Center for Contemporary Art, Stockholm; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis. A monograph on her work was published by Sternberg Press in 2018 and additional monographs have been published by Walter König Books (2016) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005), as well as five artist's books.