MFA | Faculty

Jennifer Bolande Sculpture. B.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. For the past 25 years Bolande been engaged in a conceptually-based practice that has included performance, installation, photography, sculpture, film, video, animation and digital media. Bolande is a connoisseur of visual anomalies, of unlikely but evocative details, fragmentary images and events of a kind that ordinarily loiter along the edges of perception while calling into question the fixity of meaning itself. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at Alexander and Bonin Gallery in New York; Fotohof Gallery, Salzburg, Austria; PS1, New York; Metro Pictures Gallery, New York; Kunstraum, Munich; Kunsthalle Palazzo, Basel; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles; Gallerie Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm; Urbi & Orbi Gallery, Paris; Galerie 121, Antwerp; Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne; and Nature Morte Gallery, New York. Group exhibitions include Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Photogenic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; A Celebration of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Private Investigations, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Big Nothing, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Insites, Whitney Museum of American Art; Trippy World, Baron/Boisanté Gallery, New York; The Anagrammatical Body, Kunsthaus Muerz, Muerzzuschlag, Austria; Deep Storage, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf; PS1, New York; Just Past, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Consortium, Dijon, France; The Readymade Boomerang, Eighth Biennale of Sydney, Australia; Status of Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; L’Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; Lowen-Palais, Berlin; and Viewpoints Towards the 90s: Bolande, Kelley, Miller, Seibu Contemporary Art Gallery, Japan. Bolande has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Tesuque Foundation, and the Canadian Council on the Arts. She currently teaches in the Art Department at UCLA.