Jennifer Bolande emerged as an artist in the late 1970s working initially in dance, choreography and drawing. In the early 1980s, influenced by Pop, Conceptualism, Arte Povera, and the ‘Pictures’ artists, she began working with found material from the urban and media landscape which she remixed and invested with idiosyncratic narratives. Exhibiting in New York at Nature Morte Gallery, Metro Pictures, Artists Space and The Kitchen, Bolande was noted early on for her works exploring the materiality of photographs. She uses various media including photography, film, sculpture and installation to explore affinities and relationships and to convey embodied experience.

Solo exhibitions of her work have appeared at institutions and galleries around the world including Kunstraum, Munich, DE; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, CH; Margo Leavin, Los Angeles, CA; Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, DE; Urbi & Orbi, Paris, FR; and Nordanstad- Skarstedt, Stockholm, SE, among others. In 2010, a thirty-year retrospective of Bolande’s work was presented by INOVA in Milwaukee, WI which also travelled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA and the Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA. Her site- specific project, Visible Distance/Second Sight, was featured in the inaugural Desert X 2017 in Coachella Valley, CA. Bolande was recently included in museum exhibitions such as Pictures and After, MAMCO, Geneva; Drawing Down the Moon, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Readymades Are For Everyone, Swiss Institute, New York, NY; Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Mixed Use Manhattan, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES; Don’t Look Back; The 1990s at MOCA, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; and This Will Have Been, Art Love and Politics in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, which travelled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and ICA, Boston, MA. Additionally her work was included in Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY and The Photogenic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Bolande has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Tesuque Foundation, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Bolande’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Ashti Foundation, Beirut, LB; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR; FRAC Corsica, Hause-Corte, FR; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; MAMCO, Geneva, CH; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. She is professor emerita of New Genres in the Department of Art at UCLA. She is professor emerita of New Genres in the Department of Art at UCLA.

Born in 1957 in Cleveland, OH.
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA.