Lecture
Location
Cornell in Rome
Palazzo Santacroce
Piazza Benedetto Cairoli 6, 00186 Rome, Italy
Contact
Cornell in Rome
+39 06 689 7070
Abstract
Jennifer Bornstein’s multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of photography, performance, and narrative, examining how images shape memory, identity, and fiction. Working across photography, printmaking, video, and 16mm film, Bornstein employs photographic processes not only as a means of documentation but as a conceptual framework for storytelling and performative inquiry. Her lecture will offer an overview of recent and past projects that merge autobiography and constructed narrative, revealing the material and psychological dimensions of image-making in contemporary art.
Biography
Jennifer Bornstein
Jennifer Bornstein is an artist and current Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2025–26). Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including solo presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Färgfabriken Center for Contemporary Art, Stockholm; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Saint Louis Art Museum. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Foster Prize from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship; a DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm grant; and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Publications on her work include Jennifer Bornstein (Sternberg Press and Harvard Radcliffe Institute, 2018), Jennifer Bornstein: 1994–2014 (Walther König, 2016), and Jennifer Bornstein (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2005), as well as five artist’s books.
