Monograph
Jennifer West: Media Archaeology Published by Radius Books, 2022
Funded by the Thoma Foundation, Chicago, IL/Santa Fe, NM, USA Artwork by Jennifer West; Interview with Stuart Comer; Essays by Norman Klein, Andy Campbell, and Chelsea Weathers; Edited by Chelsea Weathers
Jennifer West (b.Topanga, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist who has explored materialism in film for over twenty years. Her works in film, installation, sculpture, film quilts, photo, performance and artist books are based in the archaeology of media, memory, place and recuperation. Significant commissions include works for Frieze Projects Los Angeles (2023); LIAF Biennial (2022); Seattle Art Museum (2016-2017); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2016); The High Line, New York, NY (2012); MIT List Visual Arts Center (2011); Aspen Art Museum (2010); and Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London (2009).
West has had solo exhibitions and presentations at institutions including Pompidou Center, Paris (2022); Times Square Arts, New York (2021); JOAN Los Angeles (2020); Contemporary Art Museum St Louis (2018); Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (2017); Seattle Art Museum (2016-2017); Museo d’Arte Nuoro, Sardinia (2017); Tramway, Glasgow (2016); S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK (2012); Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany (2010); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (2010); Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2008); White Columns, New York, NY (2007). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Whitney Museum, New York, NY; Drawing Center, New York, NY; Barbican, London; Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt; CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, among others.
Her work is in museum and public collections such as and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Joint Collection of the Yuz Museum, Shanghai, Qatar Museums and Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles | Saatchi Collection, London | Kadist 101 Collection Paris/San Francisco | Thoma Foundation Collection Chicago /Santa Fe | Rubell Collection Miami/Washington DC| Henry Art Gallery, Seattle | Getty Museum, Los Angeles | Museum of New and Old Art, Tasmania | Depart Foundation, Rome |Columbus Museum of Art | among others.
She has been an artist in residence at the SOMA México, Mexico City (2019); Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York (2014-15) and the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA (2011-12). She has curated exhibitions and programs from the collections of the Thoma Foundation (2023); LACMA (2017) and the Carnegie Museum of Art (2015) and curated moving image programs for Times Square Arts (2021) and MOCA Los Angeles (2019).
Her feature “Film Title Poem” was featured on MUBI worldwide (2020-2021). She was included in the Shenzen Animation Biennial (2016), the LUX/ICA Biennial of the Moving Image, London (2012) and the 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium (2011) and has screened her work at the Whitney Museum, Oberhausen Film Festival, Tate Modern, Barbican London, Tate St Ives, ICA London and the Cinema Museum, London.
West received an MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, Frieze, Mousse Magazine, and Mubi Notebook. West has produced nineteen zine artist books, eleven of which are in the Getty Museum collection. She has lectured widely on her ideas of the “Analogital” and is an Professor of the Practice of Art at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design in California. In 2022, a monograph on her work, Media Archaeology was published by Radius Books, funded by a grant from the Thoma Foundation.
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