Jennifer Steinkamp
Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958, Denver, CO; lives and works in Los Angeles) uses 3-D computer animation and new media to create video installations that activate architectural space and alter phenomenological perception. She designs and digitally simulates movement of organic and abstract forms such as trees, flowers, and floating fabrics. Her works are displayed as site-specific projections that amplify their architectural setting by blurring the boundary between real and illusionistic space. These animated environments, while visually alluring, often carry subtle ominous references such as Daisy Bell, which features an array of beautiful yet poisonous flowers. Time plays a significant role in Steinkamp’s work, often depicting cyclical occurrences such as changing seasons and life cycles. These cycles do not typically have a beginning, middle, or end, but rather work with non-narrative concepts of change. In this sense, her work is more aligned with artists who prioritized sensorial experience, like James Turrell, Mary Corse, and other members of the Light and Space movement of the 1960s, than with film or other such time/media-based art.
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Selected Exhibitions
2019 Sculpture in the City, London, United Kingdom Silence Dogood, Wynn Hotel, Macau, China
Impeach, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2018 Jennifer Steinkamp: Blind Eye, the Clark, Williamstown, MA
Jennifer Steinkamp: The Seasons, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Digital Nature, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Fuencarral, Madrid
2017 Winter Fountains for the Parkway, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PAW
Jennifer Steinkamp: Judy Crook, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO Jennifer Steinkamp, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Judy Crook 5, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas, AR
2016 Madame Curie, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA Still-Life, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer Steinkamp: Botanic 3, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, New York, NY
2014 Jennifer Steinkamp: Mike Kelley Projections, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Judy Crook, 4, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH In the Box: Jennifer Steinkamp, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Loop, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Diaspore, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
2013 Street Views: Jennifer Steinkamp, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Shimmering Tree: A Projection by Jennifer Steinkamp, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Orbit 12, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Madame Curie, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Jennifer Steinkamp: Windows on Fifth, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 6eQUJ5, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Jennifer Steinkamp: Madame Curie, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Steinkamp / Greenbaum, greengrassi, London, United Kingdom
2012 Jennifer Steinkamp Mike Kelley, USC Brain & Creativity Institute, Los Angeles, CA Soledad Sevilla Jennifer Steinkamp, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain Jennifer Steinkamp, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Vanquished, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA
The Death of the Moth, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA Moth, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer Steinkamp: Mike Kelley, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Spalding House, Honolulu, HI
Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2011 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Spalding House, Honolulu, HI
Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer Steinkamp: Madame Curie, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2010 Jennifer Steinkamp, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Jennifer Steinkamp, LeeAhn Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Jennifer Steinkamp, LeeAhn Gallery, Daegu, South Korea North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2009 ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer Steinkamp, CAC Málaga. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood, CA
Jennifer Steinkamp: Fly to Mars, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2008 Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, OR Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer Steinkamp: Miss Znerold, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN Career Survey, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007 Jennifer Steinkamp, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Victory Park, Dallas, TX
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
greengrassi, London, United Kingdom 2006 Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Swing Space, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Career Survey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2005 ACME, Los Angeles, CA Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 2004 Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
greengrassi, London, United Kingdom
Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2003 Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS 2002 ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA., soundtrack by Jimmy Johnson, Holly Lovecat 2001 Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX, soundtrack by Jimmy Johnson
2000 Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas, NV
ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, soundtrack by Jimmy Johnson
Featured Artwork
Jimmy CarterArchival: hard drive computer, flash drive
Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Provenance: Acme Gallery, Los Angeles