Jennifer Boysen
Born 1976, Iowa
Lives and works in Ventura, CA
Education
2002 MFA, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
1998 BFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Paradise Ranch Road, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Dry Lands, Euclid Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 TORRI, Paris, France
2015 Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Transmutes, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023 This is My Community, Case Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 Looking at Architecture, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA
2019 New Faces: Mid-Career Artists LA/NY, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Dragon Polishes the Pearl, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Apocolypto, Arturo Bandini, Part of “Observatories”, Jackson Center for the Arts, WY
2016 Top Heavy, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Roman à Clef And/Or The Appetite Of The Chef, Rainbow in Spanish, Los Angeles, CA
2015 The Subjects of the Artist, Michael Thibault Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Peg to Hang It On, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
New Vibrations, BRAND NEW GALLERY, Milan, Italy
2014 Augment This (Meditations on the Image), Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Changing Table, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Heart Shaped Box, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Supports/Surfaces is Alive and Well, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2013 XOXO, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Painting in Place, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, CA
Black Rabbit, White Hole, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Knowledges, Mt. Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
The Crash of Ruin Fitfully Resounds, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Jennifer Boysen and Olivier Mosset, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Statler Waldorf Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Casa Bella, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Los Angeles Confidential, Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art Contemporain, Pougues-les Eaux, France
2006 TBA, Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Sojourn, PH Gallery, New York, NY
Bibliography
Weikel, Rebekah. “This Is My Community”, Canepa Selling, Artforum, October, 2023.
Schad, Ed. “Jennifer Boysen, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles,” Art Review,September 2015, p. 157.
Wagley, Catherine. “Jennifer Boysen at Cherry and Martin”, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA), June 2015.
Mizota, Sharon. “Jennifer Boysen’s paintings stretch the form,” Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2014.
“Augment This”, Contemporary Art Daily, September, 2014.
Knight, Christopher. “Works that push past the technical,” Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2014, p. D1, D3.
Tuck, Geoff. “Notes on Looking,” (excerpt, exhibition review of Casa Bella, Night Gallery), notes on looking (online), June 10, 2010. Ed.
“Cocotte-minute,” Playboy (France), September 2008, p. 26 Ed. “Pouges-Exposition, Los Angeles confidential au Centre d’Art,” L ‘Echo Charitois, June 26, 2008, p. 6.
Johnson, Ken. “Art Guide: Sojourn,” The New York Times, September 12, 2003, p. E36
Professional Experience
2022- Current Adjunct Instructor at University of Montana Western, Dillon, MT
2018 Adjunct Instructor at Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
2016- Present Juror for Hercules Art Studio Program, New York, NY
Award/ Grants
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 2018
Joan Mithcell Foundation, Emergency Grant, February 2018.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, March 2018.
CreativityWorks and the Ventura County Arts Council, Creative Community Thomas Fire Recovery Grant, October 2019.
Residencies
2020 Chulitna Lodge Artist Residency, Resident Artist
Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA