Artist Statement/ Biography

Through installations of sculpture, sound, text, drawing, and performance, Jensen negotiates colonialist forms of monument-making against a landscape filled with climate grief and self-interested politics. She uses poetics and abstraction to express miscommunication and doubt within the predetermined spaces of European figural and modernist traditions, humanistic vocabularies, and privatized architectures.

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Jensen’s work has been supported by residencies and fellowships at Anderson Ranch Visiting Artist Residency (2022), the Core Program at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2020-2022), ACRE Residency (2021), a Humanities Teaching Fellowship at the University of Chicago (2019-2020), and by grants including a Creative Individuals Grant from the City of Houston Office of Cultural Affairs (2022), the Eliza Prize, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2021), and the Fine Arts Fund, University of Chicago (2018). She holds an MFA in visual art from the University of Chicago, and a BFA in art history from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

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