Jennifer Steinkamp
B. 1958 Denver, Colorado
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Jennifer Steinkamp creates highly detailed, digital animations of motifs from the natural world. Projected at very large scale, her works activate the architectural spaces in which they are shown and play with the limits of perception by opening up an almost otherworldly sense of space. This summer, as a key contribution to their partnership in Converge 45, the Portland Art Museum brought together four remarkable projections in a lively presentation on the passing of time as revealed by our natural environment.
Jennifer Steinkamp’s work has been featured in exhibitions across the United States, Europe, and Asia, and is in numerous public and private collections. A professor in the department of Design Media Arts at UCLA, Steinkamp visited Portland in May 2014 for a discussion of her work in the Museum’s Critical Conversations series.