“New York Stories” (8 films), Film Fest Knox, Knoxville, TN, 2023
“Time Mechanicals: 16mm Cityscapes,” LA Film Forum, 2022
“Jim Jennings: Early Films, 1972-1984,” Zumzeig Cinema Coopertiva, Barcelona, Spain, Cineinfinito, 2020
Cineinfinito, one-person show, Santander, Spain, 2019
“Burckhardt/Jennings,” Anthology Film Archives, 2018
“City Symphonies: San Francisco,” Anthology Film Archives, 2018
San Francisco International Film Festival, 2018, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1998
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Havana, Cuba), 2017
“Jim Jennings & Friends,” a show in which 6 other filmmakers (Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, Nathaniel Dorsky, Vincent Grenier, Abigail Child and Henry Hills) each selected their favorite Jim Jennings’ film to screen, Anthology Film Archives, 2017
“Jennings/Matturi,” photography exhibition, The Phatory Gallery, NYC, 2017
“Grains of Sand and Other Worldly Truths,” UWM’s Experimental Tuesdays Program, 2016
Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium, included in “Ken Jacobs: 01,” 2014
“Jim Jennings: From Afar,” photography exhibition, the Phatory Gallery, NYC, 2014
San Francisco Cinemateque, Shorts 5, 2014
Anthology Film Archives, “Subway Series,” group show 2013
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, 2013
Media City, Ontario, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
New York Film Festival (“Views from the Avant Garde”) 2013, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1998
Toronto International Film Festival 2012, 2009, 2003, 2005, 2003
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 2010
Xcentric, Barcelona, Spain 2010
Rotterdam International Film Festival, solo show, 2010
Ann Arbor Film Festival 2010
Red Hook Cine Soiree, 2010
Impakt Festival, the Netherlands 2009
Woven Spaces Inc at Transmitter Park 2009
Lower Manhattan Community Council River-to-River Festival 2007
Ann Arbor in Los Altos Hills, CA 2007
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 2006
FAMU, Prague 2006
Pomrepo, Prague 2006
Images Festival, Toronto 2006
Goethe Institute, Toronto 2006
Anthology Film Archives, Walking Picture Palace 2005
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, group show 2005
MoMA group show 2005
Onion City Festival (Chicago) 2004, 2003
Portland Film Festival 2004
Cinema Project (Portland) 2004
Composer’s Collaborative, Non-Sequitur Festival (NYC) 2004
“Silvercup” used in “Thresholds,” a dance performance choreographed by Netta Yerushalmy at the Kitchen and Joyce Soho 2003
Viennale 2003, 2001, 1999
Black Maria 2002
Millennium, solo shows 2002, 1999, 1983
San Francisco Cinemateque, solo shows 2000, 1983, 1978
University of Colorado, Boulder 1999
Whitney Museum of American Art 1999
Ocularis, group shows 2000, 1999
PBS Reel New York 1999
Binghamton, solo show 1999
PS1, group show 1999
Wand 5 (Stuttgart, Germany), solo show 1998
Oberhausen (Germany), solo show and juror 1998
MoMA Cineprobe 1998
Head Lines (with Chris Piazza), Space Digest Today, Eye Magazine, artist publication, edition of 151, NYC, 1985
University of California, Berkeley Art. Museum and Pacific Film Archives, (3 Films), “Films by Stan Brakhage, Ernie Gehr, Peter Hutton and Jim Jennings,” 1984
Film Forum (Los Angeles), solo show 1984
Collective for Living Cinema, solo show 1983
SUNY Buffalo, solo show 1981
Collective for Living Cinema, group show with John Matturi 1980
Whitney Museum, group show 1978
San Francisco Cinemateque, solo show 1978
“Air of Consequence,” (actor) Ken Jacobs’ Apparition Theatre 1977
Collective for Living Cinema, group show 1977
“Vertical Mobility,” (actor) Richard Foreman’s Ontological Hysteric Theatre 1974
Millennium Film Workshop, group show 1974
Collective for Living Cinema, group show 1973
Permanent Collections
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
SUNY Binghamton
Grants
Guggenheim Fellowship 2006
CAPPS grant 1980
Education
Bard College, BA
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