Jennifer Bolande is an American artist born in 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio. She works across various mediums including photography, sculpture, and video. Bolande is a professor at UCLA where she teaches in the department of art's New Genres program. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions and in 2012 she had a 30 year retrospective that traveled to several museums. She has received fellowships from organizations like the Guggenheim Foundation and Andy Warhol Foundation.