SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
2025
Artists for LOSS Angeles
Charity exhibition, Arcane Space, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Morleigh Steinberg
2024
The Gaia Hypothesis
Photo installation, The Elemental, Palm Springs, CA
Curated by Christopher YggdreThe Arcade of Hypermodernity
Ghosts of the Future (WIP) & Circuit Board Species film installation, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Curated by Jason Jenn and Vojislav RadovanovićEnvironmental Impact II
California on Fire prints, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, WY
2023
MIT School of Engineering
Lateral Duality digital art display, Cambridge, MABy Degrees: Art and Our Changing Ecology
California on Fire film installation, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Curated by Luciana Abait and Lawrence Gipe
2022
Scope, Art Basel Miami
The Way Out is Through digital art on Monolith display, Miami, FLEnvironmental Impact II
California on Fire prints, Bateman Gallery of Nature, British ColumbiaBombay Beach Biennale
Transmutation House painting installation, Bombay Beach, CA
2021
Implied Scale: Confronting the Enormity of Climate Change
California on Fire prints and film installation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Curated by Kele McComsey
2020
Rewilding Structures
Ghosts of the Future prints, Torrance Art Museum (TAM), Torrance, CA
Curated by Hope Ezcurra (catalog)Light of Space
GO HOME film installation, Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA
Curated by Andi Campognone (catalog)Facing Fire
California on Fire film installation, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Curated by Douglas McCullough (catalog)Landscape: Awe to Activism
GO HOME film installation, Circle of Abstract Ritual prints, Museum of Sonoma County exhibition, Santa Rosa, CA
Curated by Jeff Nathanson
2019
Desert X Independent Installation
California on Fire film installation, Converted Camel Stable, Palm Desert, CA (solo)University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Centennial Event Exhibition
GO HOME prints, ROW DTLA, Los Angeles, CAWild Blue Yonder
California on Fire print, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Kōan Jeff Baysa (KJB)
2018
Art Responds
California on Fire prints & found sculpture, First Street Gallery, Napa, CA
Curated by Rina Faletti, PhDCERN European Organization for Nuclear Research
Circuit Board Species print, Data Center (on-site permanent display)
2017
DESERT ISLAND
Circle of Abstract Ritual film installation, Coachella Valley Arts Center
Curated by Cristopher Cichocki for Epicenter Projects (catalog)
2015
Open Show
Circle of Abstract Ritual film installation, Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA)
Curated by Leslie Jones (LACMA)
MAC Creteil for COP21
UN Climate Change Conference, Paris, FrancePhoto Center Northwest (PCNW) Benefit
Seattle, WA
Curated by Michelle Dunn Marsh
2014
20/20 Nature Nurture
U.S. Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
Curated by Hossein Farmani
2013
Snap! Orlando Photography Festival
War Paint for Trees prints, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Curated by Patrick Kahn & Holly Kahn
SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES
2024
Film Night at the Elemental Featuring Selected Works by Jeff Frost
Screening event with Q&A, The Elemental, Palm Springs, CA
2023
Filme im Dialog
California on Fire, Berlin, Germany
2020
Clermont-Ferrand Intl Film Festival
California on Fire, Audience Award, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceÉCU The European Independent Film Festival
California on Fire, Special Jury Mention Award, Paris, FranceLISFE Leiden International Short Film Experience
California on Fire, Leiden, NetherlandsKinodot Experimental Film Festival
California on Fire, St Petersburg, RussiaTabor Film Festival
California on Fire, Veliki Tabor Castle, Croatia5º EUREKA University Film Festival
California on Fire, Bogota, ColumbiaMillennium Documentary Festival
California on Fire, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Palm Springs Art Museum
California on Fire event with Q&A, Annenberg Theater, Palm Springs, CADok Leipzig Film Festival
California on Fire, Leipzig, GermanyFestival internazionale Segni della Notte
California on Fire, Night Award, Urbino, Italy17° Festival internacionale Signos da Noite (Signs of the Night)
California on Fire, Special Jury Awad, Lisbon, PortugalDesert Daze Music Festival
Sound art performance, Lake Perris, CAArt Responds
California on Fire film premiere, Napa Valley Opera House (Blue Note), Napa, CANorthwest Film Forum
California on Fire event with Q&A, Seattle, WA
2016
Palm Springs Photo Festival
California on Fire preview and panel, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2015
Palm Springs Photo Festival
Circuit Board Species, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2014
Palm Springs Photo Festival
Circle of Abstract Ritual, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2013
Palm Springs Photo Festival
Modern Ruin, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2012
Palm Springs Photo Festival
Flawed Symmetry of Prediction, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025
Palm Springs Life
“Fire When Ready” magazine print article, multi-page spread, July 2025, pg. 46-54
2024
Sai Pathmanathan
We the Forest, Forestry England and Culture Shock, pg. 78-79
2023
Anand Varma
Invisible Wonders: Photographs of the Hidden World, National Geographic Books, pg. 172-173
2022
National Geographic Magazine
“Saving Forests” Issue, full-page spread, May 2022Molly Enking
“See How California Artists Process Wildfires Through Their Work,” Smithsonian Magazine, October 18, 2022Craig Welch
“Forests Are Reeling From Climate Change but the Future Isn’t Lost,” National Geographic, April 14, 2022
2021
Korsha Wilson
“T-List Recommends: An Exhibition that Takes on Climate Change,” The New York Times, July 1, 2021Art Forum
“Spotlight: Implied Scale, Confronting the Enormity of Climate Change,” Artforum, June 3, 2021Alejandra Borunda
“Wildfires Threaten the World’s Oldest Trees—but Prescribed Burns Are Protecting Them,” National Geographic, September 21, 2021Jeff Frost and Lauren Markham
“Land of Smoke and Fire: Documenting California’s Endless Season of Heat,” Literary Hub, July 21, 2021Mariana Mazzucato
“Saving the Climate in a Triple Crisis,” The New Republic, March 15, 2021
2020
Elisa von Hof and Carola Padtberg
“Fire Photographer Frost,” Der Spiegel, September 16, 2020Sarah Cascone
Interview: “Photographer Jeff Frost Has Been Chasing California Wildfires for Years. This Season Is the Worst He’s Ever Seen,” Artnet, September 10, 2020
2019
Miles O’Brien
TV Interview: “Artists Harness the Power of Fire and Ice to Shape Attitudes on Climate Change,” PBS NewsHour, April 16, 2019Shana Nys Dambrot
Review: “The Sea and Fire: Art in the Coachella Valley by Cristopher Cichocki and Jeff Frost,” LA Weekly, April 4, 2019Sarah Cascone
Review: “This Artist Spent 5 Years Chasing Wildfires Across California—See His Harrowing Footage Here,” Artnet, February 15, 2019
2018
John Bartell
TV Interview: “The Art of Fire,” ABC10, November 8, 2018
2017
Josh Raab
Interview (video and text): “California on Fire,” TIME Magazine, October 9, 2017
2016
Jack Crager
“Jeff Frost’s Stunning Photos of California’s Devastating Wildfires,” American Photo Magazine, July 12, 2016Arianna Menon
Interview (print): “Videographer’s ‘Fire’ Spreads to U2,” Palm Springs Life, March 31, 2016
2015
Harriet Jarlett
Interview (video): “From U2 to TEDxCERN: Visual Artist Shows CERN in New Light,” European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), October 7, 2015
2014
Holly Willis
“Video Artist Jeff Frost Decouples Time and Space,” KCET LA, January 13, 2014
2013
Joe Gosen
“Hundreds of Thousands of Images Unite for Ultra-Creepy Animation,” WIRED, October 28, 2013Ken Scarboro
“Making the News Into Art,” NPR LA 89.3 KPCC, October 10, 2013Helga Marsala
“War Paint for Trees: When Film Reinvents Landscape,” Artribune (Italian), May 15, 2013
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2025
Contributor, Palm Springs Life
2021
Videographer, National Geographic
Documented photojournalist Stuart Palley shooting wildfires for a story on prescribed burns
2020
Field Producer, National Geographic
Guided Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer Lynsey Addario through California wildfires for a National Geographic grant project
2019
Mural Commission, FBAiR, Los Angeles, CA
Ghosts of the Present, large 700 sq ft indoor optical illusion mural in Facebook office building
2017
Commissioned Artist, NatGeo
Wildfire footage One Strange Rock TV series, directed by Darren Aronofsky
2016
Commissioned Artist, Philip K Smith III and Golden Voice
Created a film from Philip K Smith III’s Coachella Music Festival installation, “Portals”
Official photography for installations by Alexandre Arrechea, Jimenez Lai, and othersProducer & Subject, Netflix
Fire Chasers docuseries
2015
Commissioned Artist, U2 Innocence + Experience Tour
Director & editor for live visuals
AWARDS
2020
Clermont-Ferrand Intl Film Festival
California on Fire, Audience Award, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceÉCU The European Independent Film Festival
California on Fire, Special Jury Mention, Paris, France17° Festival Internationale Signos da Noite (Signs of the Night)
California on Fire, Special Jury Award, Lisbon, Portugal
2019
Festival internazionale Segni della Notte
California on Fire, Night Award, Urbino, ItalyFB AiR Program
Residency, Facebook offices, Los Angeles, CA
2014
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)
Best Photographers of 2014 Award
2011
Art Institute of California Graduate Portfolio Show
Best in Show
LECTURES & PANELS
2024
Guest Lecture & Q&A, National Wildlife Museum of Art, Jackson Hole, WY
2021
Panelist, Palm Springs Photo Festival, “Photographers Talk Photography” with Barbara Davidson, Keith Carter, Dan Winters, and Jeff Dunas
Panelist, Earth Institute & Mana Contemporary, “Actors From Witnesses” with Zaria Foreman, Robin Bell, and Caroline Juang
2019
Guest Lecture & Q&A, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Guest Lecture & Q&A, Palm Springs Art Museum screening event for California on Fire, Palm Springs, CA
2015
Featured Speaker, TEDxCERN, European Center for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland