Jake Barningham was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. He moved to Chicago, IL to pursue film studies and began making videos in 2004. His work has shown at The Onion City Film festival, The Wisconsin International Film Festival, Bearded Child Film Festival, The Iowa City Experimental Film Festival and The Milwaukee and Arkansas Underground Film Festivals. His work was also part of a the Three Person Show "After Image: New videos by Jake Barningham, Kyle Canterbury and Yoel Meranda" last Winter at Chicago Filmmakers. Barningham's work has also been featured internationally, in a program curated by Gabe Klinger: "Fragments of a room: A Sampling of Chicago's best film/video art" in Toronto, CA.