Jennifer Steinkamp

Artist’s Statement

I work with new media and video to explore artistic ideas about architectural space, motion and perception. My animated, interactive installations have been televised and exhibited internationally. Typically I work with computer animation that fits into architecture with video projection and or LED displays. I investigate perceptual effects that transform the viewers’ understanding of actual space in a synthesis of real space and virtual computer imagery. I am also interested in investigating interactive art using sensors that encourage play while sensing presence. The viewer as a participant becomes part of the work; the audience contemplates its experience of the art while performing as the art.

Website: jsteinkamp.com

Biography

Select Solo Exhibitions

2009
Soledad Lorenzo Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, N.M.
Jennifer Steinkamp: Fly to Mars, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nev.
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Ore.

2004-2008
Lehmann Maupin, New York

2008
ACME. Los Angeles
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

2007
Victory Park, Dallas
greengrassi Gallery, London
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Jennifer Steinkamp, Kemper Museum, Kansas City, Mo.

2006
Lehmann Maupin, New York
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyo.
Jennifer Steinkamp, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.

2005
Soledad Lorenzo Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Swing Space, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
ACME., Los Angeles
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Aria, New Lightscapes Project, retooled for new format, Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kan.

2004
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga.
greengrassi, London
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Lehmann Maupin, New York

2003
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kan.

2002
ACME., Los Angeles
EMP, Experience Music Project, Seattle

2001
Rice University Art Gallery, Houston

2000
Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas
ACME., Los Angeles
Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif.

Select Group Exhibitions

2009
Psychedelic, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio
Magnetic Landscape, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ga.

2008
The 11th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
The Martin Margulies Collection at the WAREhouse, Miami
Las Vegas Collects, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas

2007
Garden Eden -The Garden in Art since 1900, Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany
Mar Vista, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles
Existencies, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain

2006
Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Summit, Denver Art Museum, Denver
Second Natures, Broad Art Center, UCLA faculty exhibition, Los Angeles

2005
Decelerate, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Mo.
Drawn from Nature, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
150 Works of Art, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

2004
35 x 35, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.
In Focus: Themes in Photography, Albright-Knox, Buffalo, N.Y.
In Situ, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami

2003
Animation Impulse, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tenn.
Poetic Justice, The 8th Istanbul Biennial. The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Warped Space, Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco

2002
Collection Highlights, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.
McNay’s Collectors Gallery, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
Media City Seoul, 2nd biennial exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2001
Beau Monde, SITE Biennial, Santa Fe, N.M.
City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Skirball Center, Los Angeles
One Wall, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Calif.

2000
The 46th Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor, The Corcoran, Washington
Made in California: NOW, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Wonderland, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis

Selected Performance and Screenings

2001
Videacy, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles
Elevation Tour, U2 international concert tour

Fellowships and Awards

2008
The Fund for U.S. Artists, The 11th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt

2006
National Endowment for the Arts museum grant, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyo.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyo.

2004
The City of Savannah, Department of Cultural Affairs/Leisure Services Bureau, Savannah, Ga.

2003
The Fund for U.S. Artists, Visual Art Projects, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Aygaz, Special Project Support, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Provost’s Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology, University of California, Los Angeles
National Science Foundation, through the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering Caltech, Pasadena, Calif.

2001
COLA, City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Los Angeles

2000
City of Las Vegas Arts Commission Grant, Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas
Seattle Art Commission Grant, Seattle
National Endowment for the Arts project grant, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, Calif.

EDUCATION

M.F.A., 1991
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif.

B.F.A., 1989
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif.