Solo Exhibitions and Installations
2021 Set Study, Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Towards a More Infinite Field, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
2019 Measure Twice, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Barron County
Divided by the Whole, Corr Gallery, University of Montana-Western, Dillon, MT
2013 Groundspace, Whipple Fine Art Gallery, Roseburg, OR
2012 Landfall, brink gallery, Missoula, MT
2011 Cipher, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2010 Condensation of the Space Between, Ars Libri, Boston, MA
2009 Emptiful, Maxine Merlino Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2008 Stitched, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
2006 Narrative, Moon-Randolph Homestead, Missoula, MT
2003 Second Giant, Goatsilk Gallery, Missoula, MT
patched (verworn), Moon-Randolph Homestead, Missoula, MT
2002 Naming the Place, Placing the Name, traveling to:
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; Custer County Art Center, Miles City, MT; and
Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, MT
2001 Some Things That Come and Go, Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula, MT
Confidante, Eating Cake Gallery, Missoula, MT
1999 Language and Other Accumulations, University Center Gallery, Missoula, MT
Selected Two-Person & Group Exhibitions
2024 Critical Eye: Selections from the Kim and Ruth Reineking Collection, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT.
2022 Intertwined: Fiber, Process, Dialog, Heidi Marie Faessel & Jennifer Reifsneider, Refuge Gallery, Basin, MT.
Video walkthrough by Heidi Marie Faessel, Catalog with essay by Jenny Bevill, published by Refuge Gallery
spooling (with Lydia Tjioe Hall & Elise Preiss), Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA.
Virtual exhibit and recording of artists’ talk
2021 LA Made, Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 1.5
Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, Uptown Gallery, Butte, MT
2020 Entwined: Jennifer Reifsneider and Martha Tuttle, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
Exhibit catalog with essay by Yasmeen Siddiqui published by Ucross Foundation
Montana Arts Council Artist Innovation Award Recipients 2019-20, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
2018 Transpose, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA
Montana Triennial, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2017 The Cave of Forgotten Dreams: The Non-Mimetic Self Portrait, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT
2016 (Text)iles: The Text is a Fabric, Biola University, La Mirada, CA
String Awakening (performance with Ruth Katzenstein Souza & Elise Preiss), Muse/ique, Pasadena, CA
2015 Fiberlicious, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Handmade, The Maloof, Los Angeles, CA
Weft of Time: Border to Border, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Landfall (two-person exhibition with Nick Brown), La Sierra University, Riverside, CA
2014 New Directions, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Body Conscious, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA
Fluxjob (with Constellation Lab), Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2013 High Desert Test Sites (with Constellation Lab), Joshua Tree, CA to Albuquerque, NM
Newton's Third: A Karmic Reinterpretation, F+ Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2012 Trace Evidence, Bungalow Arts Building, Long Beach, CA
Re-evolution, Gatov Galley, California State University, Long Beach
2011 Visual Integrity, Coastline Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Exchange, Vortex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Materiality, Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, CA
Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, WY
LA Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Tubular!, curated by Doug Harvey, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Common Thread, Coastline Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
Exotic, Dutzi Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2009 Architecture...?, Marilyn Werby Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Insights, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2008 Torrance Annual Exhibition, juried by Gosia Wojas, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
The Audacity of Rope, Marilyn Werby Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Weights & Measures (three-person exhibit), Ceretana Studios, Missoula, MT
2007 Susan Skilling & Jennifer Reifsneider, Saranac Art Projects, Spokane, WA
Scaling Routine (two-person exhibit), Fine Arts Gallery, Pueblo, CO
From the Heart, Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, WA
spongexsponge, Fine Arts Gallery, Pueblo, CO
2006 white (with Tom Friedman, Wolfgang Laib, Sol LeWitt), Cartin Gallery, Hartford, CT
2005 Over the Divide: Missoula's New Garde, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
2003 Montana Collection: Past, Present, Future, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Expanded Horizons, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2001 Cabaret Xcen*trick, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Small Works Invitational, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
2000 The Montana Connection, The Art Gallery, Longview, WA
1997 Contained Art, CMU Gallery, Mount Pleasant, MI
1996 Artworks/Artworkers, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY
Selected Awards & residencies
2022 ARPA grant, Montana Arts Council
2020 CARES grant, Montana Arts Council
2019 Artist Innovation Award, Montana Arts Council
2018 Visiting Artist & Panelist, California State University, Long Beach
2017 Residency, Lilli Max Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Fellowship, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
2016 Visiting Artist, University of California, Los Angeles
2013 Investing in Artists Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2011 Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity Award, California State University, Long Beach
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Coastline Community College, Fountain Valley, CA
2009 Elizabeth Kenney Grant, California State University, Long Beach
2000 Fellowship, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
Selected Bibliography
Object #: A Permanent Collection Exhibition about Art Museums and the Practice of Collecting. (exhibition catalog, original essay). Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT. pp. 34-39. (2023)
Lawrence, Gabrielle. “Cliff Notes: Southern California Picks.” Variable West. (10/6/22)
Intertwined: fiber, process, dialog. (exhibition catalog). With essay by Jenny Bevill. Refuge Gallery. (2022)
Beyond Intention (exhibition catalog, original essay). Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT. (2022)
Siddiqui, Yasmeen. Entwined: Jennifer Reifsneider & Martha Tuttle. (exhibition catalogue). Ucross Foundation. (2020)
Pincus, Robert L. (exhibit commentary). Transpose, Eastside International. (2018)
Tubbs, Jaime. Humans Want Art. https://jamietubbsstudio.com. (June 17, 2019)
Dunne, Susan. "12 Artists, 12 Interpretations of Self at Joseloff Gallery." Hartford Courant. (November 5, 2017)
Montana Triennial (exhibition catalog). Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT (2018)
Senn, Evan. “Translations, Textiles, and Time Explored at Biola.” Art and Cake. (September 9, 2016)
McQuaid, Matilda. “Processing (Fiber) Art.” The Box Project, Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection. Los Angeles: The Cotsen Occasional Press. (2016) p. 31.
State of the Arts: California Handmade (exhibition catalogue). The Maloof Foundation. (2015)
New Directions (exhibition catalogue). Textile Society of America. (2014)
Hawkins, Hannah. "Reifsneider threads her non-traditional art into gallery." The Mainstream. (November 27, 2013)
Frank, Priscilla. "Fiber Art Exhibition Explores Body Image in Los Angeles.” Huffpost. (August 22, 2014)
HDTS 2013 (exhibition catalog, with Constellation Lab). High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA (2013)
Harvey, Doug. Green Room Wormhole Sideshow (exhibition essay). (2010)
Fletcher, Jaimee Lynn. "Artist inspired by Surf City encyclopedia lots." The Orange County Register. (March 19, 2010)
Miller, Michael. "Art twined together." Huntington Beach Independent. (March 11, 2010)
Durden, Bob. Jennifer Reifsneider: Stitched (exhibition essay). Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT (November 2008)
Dodd, Jeni. "Textile art lovers will warm to 'Layered Comfort,' 'Stitched' at Paris." Great Falls Tribune. (November 21, 2008)
Scozzaro, Carrie. "Doing vs. Meaning." The Pacific Northwest Inlander. (November 1, 2007)
Crane, Julianne. "Saranac Art Projects set to make splash." Spokesman-Review. (September 7, 2007)
From the Heart (exhibition catalog). Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, WA (2007)
Simmons, Todd, ed. Matter: 06 Lacunae. Fort Collins, CO: Wolverine Farms Publishing. (2005)
Faith (10,000 things), artwork commissioned for iris: a journal about women, issue 48, spring/summer. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (2004)
Brady, Barbra. "Sisyphus Unbound: Jennifer Reifsneider lets go of the reins." Missoula Independent. (May 15, 2003)
Meyers, Christene. "Artist Puts New Twist on Minimalism." Billings Gazette. (April 20, 2001)
Merriam, Ginny. "Home is where the art is." Missoulian. (December 6, 2001)
Meyers, Christene. "Re/Vision takes inventive look back, forward." Billings Gazette. (June 8, 2001)
English Journal, National Council of Teachers of English, March 2000, Vol 89. No. 4.
Glueckert, Stephen R. Naming the Place, Placing the Name (exhibition essay). Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT (2000)
Selected Collections
HDTS Archive at the Nevada Museum Center for Art + Environment
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, New York, NY
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Mickey Cartin, West Hartford, CT
Baldomero Fernandez, Los Angeles, CA
Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago, IL
Evan Hofmann, Houston, TX
John Meyer & Betsy Cowles, Spokane, WA
Wes Mills, Victor, MT
Ben Mitchell, Grand Rapids, MI
Elena Phipps, New York, NY
Katy Stone, Seattle, WA
Education
2011 MFA, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1995 BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY