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american installation art , media art 22 december 1958 jennifer steinkamp
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jennifer steinkamp

jennifer steinkamp -lrb- born 1958 -rrb- is an american installation artist who works with video and new media in order to explore ideas about architectural space , motion , and perception .
born in denver , colorado in 1958 , steinkamp is the eldest of five children , three girls and two boys .
her family lived in a number of areas before settling in edina , minnesota .
in 1979 , steinkamp moved to los angeles to attend art center college of design in pasadena , studying with mike kelley , gene youngblood , and jeremy gilbert-rolfe .
she then transferred to the california institute of the arts , where she studied experimental animation .
steinkamp returned to art center to earn her bfa in 1989 and her mfa in 1991 .
in 2011 , art center recognized steinkamp with an honorary doctorate .
she is currently a professor in the department of design media arts at ucla .
steinkamp uses digital projection to transform architectural space , providing the viewer with a synaesthetic experience , often working in collaboration with musicians jimmy johnson and andrew bucksbarg to integrate sound into her work .
while her career began with brightly colored abstract projections , since 2003 she has increasingly incorporated nature-based imagery into her work -- gnarled trees that twist , turn , and change seasons ; rooms filled with undulating strands of flowers .
in doing so she has brought digital art into the mainstream of contemporary art .
her use of vernacular imagery and embrace of beauty result in environments that reference the sublime , as did the hudson river school painters .
like her art historical precedents , steinkamp conveys the magnitude and power of nature -- a nature that is not always benign .
`` premature '' , a series first displayed in 2010 , shifts the focus of steinkamp 's subject to life and death .
she explores this topic with projections of slithering veins and arteries that evoke the eerie inspiration of her work .
her work has the power to communicate to a broader public , to `` convert '' a more traditional art audience , familiar with the use of computer graphics for video games but unaware of other creative applications .
steinkamp has exhibited her work internationally in a variety of venues and contexts , but her work is still difficult to categorize .
she is often described as a video artist although her work is not photo or video-based ; her recent inclusion in the california video exhibition at the getty museum suggests that her connection to the genre is unlikely to change .
interestingly , the media art world has never embraced steinkamp as one of their own , since her work is not technically interactive and she uses the computer not as a tool to comment on technology , but rather one to create imagery .
in 2008 , steinkamp was selected as the united states representative in the 11th international cairo biennale .
in 2009 , she was commissioned to make `` hollywood and vine '' , a permanent outdoor installation in hollywood , california .
the valentino 2010 spring/summer couture show featured projections of steinkamp 's trees against the walls of the runway .
in 2011 , jennifer steinkamp exhibited at `` prospect .
2 new orleans '' , the second biennial of prospect new orleans curated by dan cameron .
stephanie hanor and lucia sanromán also curated a solo show of her work at the museum of contemporary art , san diego the same year .
in 2013 , steinkamp projected her work `` 6equj5 '' on the central dome of the minneapolis institute of arts , in minneapolis , minnesota .
her work was also installed at the american consulate in guangzhou , china as part of `` art in embassies '' , curated by virginia l.shore .
steinkamp has been in countless other exhibitions and her work is in the permanent public collections of : the los angeles county museum of art ; the denver art museum ; the san jose museum of art ; museum of contemporary art los angeles ; staples center ; henry art gallery , seattle ; albright-knox art gallery , buffalo ; the fremont street experience , las vegas ; the experience music project , seattle ; the corcoran gallery of art , washington dc ; museum of contemporary art , north miami , florida ; musac , museo de arte contemporáneo de castilla y león , leon , spain ; istanbul modern , istanbul , turkey ; progressive corporation , cleveland , ohio ; autostadt collection , wolfsburg , germany ; phoenix art museum , phoenix , arizona ; hammer museum , los angeles , california ; towada center , towada , japan ; cac museum of malaga , malaga , spain ; vero beach museum of art , vero beach , florida ; the west collection , pennsylvania ; weatherspoon art museum , north carolina .
steinkamp is represented by acme in los angeles , greengrassi in london and lehmann maupin gallery in new york .
