Contact
Studio, New York: jennawestra@gmail.com
Representation, Berlin: mail@schwarz-contemporary.com
Exhibitions
Solo
2025 Anthony Greaney, Boston (2 person w/ Josh Brand)
2024 Thread Song, Schwarz Contemporary
2023 Twinchecks, Lubov, New York
2022 Fruit of Another, Junzo Yoshimura House, Atami, JP
2021 Mellow Drama, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2020 Afternoons, Lubov, New York
2019 She’s Reading II, Fahrenheit Madrid, ES
2019 She’s Reading I, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2019 Armatures, Anthony Greaney, Boston
2018 Tethering, fourseasonsberlin, Berlin, DE
2018 Parts of Some Quartet, Fruits, Lubov, New York
Select Group
2025 Galería Gato, Lima, PE
2024 I Arrived, I Laid an Egg, I Left, L21, Mallorca, ES
2023 Apricity, curated by Brittani Lemonds, 12.26, Dallas and Los Angeles
2023 Beautiful Night, curated by Jude Broughan, Benrubi Gallery, New York
2023 The Word Camera Means Room, Hunter College 205 Hudson, New York
2023 Happy Mind: My Pose, Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, JP
2023 Unrequited Love, curated by Vera Iliatova and Sarah Peters, Nathalie Karg, New York
2022 Dover Street Market Ginza, Tokyo, JP
2022 Au-Delà, Lokal_30, Warsaw, PL
2020 Nerve, curated by Laura Hutson Hunter, Adult Contemporary, Nashville
2020 Play of the Body in Space, Studio 4 Berlin, DE
2019 Opinions of a Clown, The Court, Pescara, IT (2 person with Andrew Birk)
2019 Temporal Arrangements, curated by Tealia Ellis Ritter, Egg Collective, New York
2019 28 Days, 6 Hours, 42 Minutes, 12 Seconds, Mikro Offspace, Zürich, CH
2019 I’m Trying to Explain, L21, Mallorca, ES
2019 Thoughts on Tactility, organized by Johanna Jaeger and Anne Schwarz, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2018 Baxter Street | Camera Club of New York, curated by Matthew Leifheit, New York
2018 Static Movement Sundown, Anthology Film Archives, New York (screening)
2017 for views, Hercules, New York
2015 All Visual, curated by Trevor Powers, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (screening)
2013 War Against Magic, curated by Stephanie Dvareckas, Gallery Kayafas, Boston
Fairs
2024 Enter Art with Schwarz Contemporary
2024 ARCO Madrid with L21
2023 Art Rotterdam with Schwarz Contemporary (2 person with Lisa Tiemann)
2022 Enter Art with Schwarz Contemporary (solo booth)
2019 NADA Miami with Lubov (2 person with Shannon Cartier Lucy)
2018 NADA New York with Hassla (solo booth)
Selected Bibliography
Portfolios and Artist Books
Westra, Jenna. Afternoons, New York: Hassla, October 2020.
True Photo Journal, Issue 6, March 2019.
Westra, Jenna. Atlas, New York: Hassla, March 2018.
Weier, Sabine (ed.). “Forum”. Camera Austria, No. 137, March 2017.
Schwab, Katie. Reach Out and Touch Someone, New York: The Artist's Institute, December 2014.
Powers, Trevor (ed.). Papersafe 01: Sage, Boston: Catlabs, 2014.
Editorials
10 Magazine USA, Issue 3, Fall 2024.
Port Magazine, Issue 33, Winter 2023.
SSAW, Autumn/Winter 2021.
Manner Magazine, Issue 2, Spring 2021.
SSAW, Spring/Summer 2021.
Middleplane, Issue 2, 2020.
Periodicals/Features
Khmelnitski, Nastasia. “Thread Song”, WUL Magazine, July 2, 2024.
Schiller, Julia. “7 Questions for Jenna Westra”, Photography in Berlin, June 25, 2024.
Thread Song, Tique Art, June 14, 2024.
Knoblauch, Loring. “Jenna Westra: Twinchecks @Lubov”, Collector Daily, September 13, 2023.
Twinchecks, Tique Art, September, 2023.
Happy Mind: My Pose, Contemporary Art Daily, September 9, 2023.
Greenberger, Alex. “On the Ground”, ArtNews, September 6, 2023.
Khmelnitski, Nastasia. “Fruit of Another”, WUL Magazine, August 18, 2022.
Chira, Ioana. “Gentle is the Touch”, Glamour Romania, Spring/Summer 2022.
Feuerhelm, Brad. “Jenna Westra Afternoons”, American Suburb X, May 26, 2021.
Rosen, Miss. “The Best Photos of 2020: Portrayals of Womanhood by Female Photographers”, AnOther Magazine, December 10, 2020.
Russell, Emma. “Jenna Westra’s Nearly Naked Photos of Women are not for Male Consumption”, i-D Magazine, November 9, 2020.
Dorris, Jesse. “What It’s Like to See Photographs Again”, Aperture, October 31, 2020.
“15 Questions with Jenna Westra”, Paper Journal, October 29, 2020.
Warner, Marigold. “Jenna Westra on the Subject of the Body”, British Journal of Photography, October 22, 2020.
Knoblauch, Loring. “Jenna Westra Afternoons @Lubov”, Collector Daily, October 14, 2020.
Yerebakan, Osman. “Jenna Westra’s Photo Capture Bodies Between Chance and Dance”, AnOther Magazine, September 30, 2020.
Vukaj, Ernela. “Jenna Westra’s Female Gaze in ‘She’s Reading 1”, Berlin Art Link, October 10, 2019.
Müller, Jens. "Body as in Italy of the Past." Der Tagesspeigel, October 4, 2019.
McQuaid, Cate. “The Ticket, In Galleries.” Boston Globe, June 29, 2019.
"Goings On About Town." The New Yorker, May 14, 2018.
Farago, Jason. "10 Galleries to Visit Now Around SoHo and TriBeCa." New York Times, April 25, 2018.
Carona, Sarah. "New Photography: Jenna Westra". Wall Street International, April 16, 2018.
Graves, Cassidy Dawn. "Choreographed Photos, Experiments in Light...". Bedford + Bowery, March 19, 2018.
Heinrich, Will. “The Don’t-Misses at Independent and NADA.” New York Times, March 8, 2018.
Durón, Maximilíano, “Preview NADA New York 2018”. ArtNews, March 7, 2018.
Chaban, Matt A.V.. “Making Space for Manhattan Artists”. New York Times, May 30, 2016.
McQuaid, Cate. “Contemplating, Collaborating.” Boston Globe, August 27, 2013.
Exhibition Texts
Möhlenkamp, Maren. Thread Song. Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin. June 7 - July 13, 2024.
Brand, Josh. Twinchecks. Lubov, New York. September 5 - October 22, 2023.
Shinkle, Eugenie. The Intimacy of Common Experience. Junzo Yoshimura House, Atami. May - August, 2022.
Dooley, Tatum. Mellow Drama. Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin. June 25 - July 31, 2021.
Gat, Orit. Afternoons. Lubov, New York. September 27 - November 22, 2020.
Jaeger, Johanna. She’s Reading 1. Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin. September 6 - October 12, 2019.
Stoops, Susan L. Armatures. Anthony Greaney, Boston. April 27 - June 22, 2019.
Curatorial Projects
2018-2019 fourseasonsnewyork, Quarterly exhibition series
2018 Cue Mark, 16mm film screenings
Residencies/Awards
2019 VBKI Prize BERLINER GALERIEN with Schwarz Contemporary
2019 L21 x FUNDACIÓN CAMPER Curatorial & Artist Residency Program, Mallorca ES
2018-present Hercules Art Studios, Long Island City, New York
2016-2018 Hercules Art Studio Program, Tribeca, New York
Teaching
2024 Visiting Critic, Sarah Lawrence College
2022-Present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Baruch College
2018-2020 Part-time Faculty, The New School, Parsons School of Design
Education
2015 M.F.A., Hunter College
2010 B.A., California State University, Northridge