Jennifer West (b. Topanga, CA, 1966), a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2025-26 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow is a Los Angeles–based artist whose work continues to challenge the distinctions between analog and digital image-making while tracing the cultural and material histories embedded within media itself. For over two decades, she has transformed 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm film into installations, sculptures, and participatory works that reimagine film as a living, communal medium. 

In 2026, West presented a solo exhibition, Stitched Cosmos concurrent with the Venice Biennial 61 at Ca’Foscari University in Venice, Italy.  West’s projects have been commissioned by Tate Modern, the High Line, ICA London, Seattle Art Museum, LIAF Biennial Norway, Aspen Art Museum and Frieze Los Angeles, among others. In 2022, Radius Books published Jennifer West: Media Archaeology, launched at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on the occasion of Typofilm: Jennifer West. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Times Square Arts, Yuz Museum in Shanghai, Seattle Art Museum, S1 Artspace in Sheffield (UK), Kunstverein Nürnberg (Germany), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and St Louis, Joan Los Angeles, MAN Nuoro in Sardinia, Tramway Glasgow, White Columns in New York, and included in major group exhibitions at the Barbican in London, CAPC in Bordeaux, France, Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt, ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Whitney Museum and the Drawing Center in New York. 

Her work is held in leading public collections including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, the Getty Museum, Kadist, MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), MOCA Los Angeles, the Thoma Collection, Rubell Collection, the Saatchi Collection and others. West received an MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and is a Professor of the Practice of Fine Art at the USC Roski School of Art and Design in Los Angeles.