For the last ten years, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer West has gain critical praise and recognition for her unique explorations into the process and materiality of filmmaking Subjecting the celluloid in her films to a series of unorthodox, and at times bizarre, procedures West has sprayed them with perfume, skateboarded over them, doused them with makeup, pepper spray, household chemicals and even dragged them through tar pits. Through this physical manipulation of her film negatives, the artist underlines the performative aspect to her work—simultaneously highlighting the unintentional visual results of her interventions.

West has exhibited widely in museums and art institutions internationally including Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Kunstlerhaus KM- Halle fur Kunst & Medien, Kunsterhaus Graz, Austria and Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Nottingham Contemporary, England, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, UK, MOCA, Cleveland, OH, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, White Columns, New York, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Tate Modern, London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Drawing Center, New York, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, and the Contemporary Art Museum, Detroit.

She was included in the 2012 LUX/ICA Biennial of the Moving Image, London and the 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium in 2011 and has screened her work at the Oberhausen Film Festival, Tate Modern, Tate St Ives, ICA London and the Cinema Museum, London. West was shortlisted for the 2012 3rd Annual Nam June Paik Center Award in Korea. She is the recipient of the 2015 Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship.