MAGENTA PLAINS JENNIFER BOLANDE Born in 1957 in Cleveland, OH Lives and works in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA Education 1979 BFA Nova Scotia College of Art & Design Solo Exhibitions 2020 The Composition of Decomposition, Magenta Plains, New York 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 magentaplains.com 94 Allen Street New York, NY 10002 917-388-2464 1982 The Kitchen, New York Select Group Exhibitions 2020 After the Plaster Foundation, Queens Museum, New York, NY 2019 Celebration of Our Enemies, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Make Believe, Magenta Plains, New York, NY BreatheWatchListenTouch, The Work and Music of Yoko Ono, Femmebit and Makingout-LA at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA 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 magentaplains.com 94 Allen Street New York, NY 10002 917-388-2464 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 2019 Elizabeth Dee, ed. with texts by Alan Belcher and Robert Nickas, Every Future Has a Price- 30 years after Infotainment; publ. by Elizabeth Dee Andrew Roth & Neville Wakefield, ed. Desert X 2017 Catalogue, PPP Editions, NY 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 magentaplains.com 94 Allen Street New York, NY 10002 917-388-2464 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) 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 2003 “Remembering Jack Goldstein,” Afterall, (Issue 7, 2003): 116-117 1985 “***1⁄2, Picture This, Films Chosen By Artists,” Buffalo: Hallwalls Contemporary “Art and Poetics,” ed. John Miller,