MATTHEW JENSEN
EDUCATION
MFA
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
BFA
Rice University, Houston, TX
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Park Wonder, Visual Art Center New Jersey, Summit, NJ
The Sun Returning, Sezon Gallery, Tokyo
2016 The Wonder Under: Photographic Cabinets of Curiosity, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Feels Like Real, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
2014 Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
2013 Delaware Center for Contemporary Exhibitions Art, Wilmington, DE
Third Streaming Gallery, New York, NY
Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, Bronx, NY
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2011 Public Works/Scaffold Installation, East 57 Street, New York, NY
2010 Building 110: LMCC’s Art Center on Governors Island
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2009 Chashama Gallery, 44 Street, New York City
2008 Citizens Committee For New York City, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, curated by Drew
Sawyer
2016 Wanderlust, The High Line, curated by Cecelia Almemani
2016 Reflecting on the Kuji River, Kenpoku Art 2016, Ibaraki, Japan, curated by Kodama Kawaza
2016 Lux: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY,
2016 Field Studies, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Naomi Reis
2016 NE, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, curated by Amanda Smith
2015 Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
curated by Sarah Greenough
2015 An Other World, Projekstrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway, curated by Ian Cofre
2015 Walking Flatbush, BRIC Arts, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, special project
2015 University of California, San Diego, State Park, curated by Mike Calway-Fagen
2014 Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
2013 Surveying the Terrain, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
After Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Psychic Triangle, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Contemporary Ruralism, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, KY
Fools Journey, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2011 MASS MoCA, North Adams, NY
2009 Canal View, SoHo, New York City
2008 Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Lagrange Art Museum, Lagrange, GA,
Center for the Visual Arts, University of Toledo
2007 “Radius” – Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum/Ridgefield Artist Guild
Contemporary Arts Gallery, University of Connecticut
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2016 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for photography
2016 Peter S. Reed Foundation, grant for photography
2016 High Line Art, commission for new work and walks
2016 Kenpoku Art 2016, commission for new work and installation
2016 Trust for Public Land/Queensway, commission for new work and walk
2015 Commission, Brooklyn Bridge Park, for creation of site-specific work
2015 Commission, City as Living Laboratory, project development for West Harlem initiative
2014 Commission, Brandywine River Museum of Art, creation of site-specific work and exhibition
2014 Alongside Tall Grasses, art commission for the BCMA
2013 National Endowment for the Arts with the DCCA
2011 MacDowell Fellowship
2010 New York State Senate Grantee
2009 Manhattan Community Arts Fund/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGS
2016 Park Wonder, Matthew Jensen, monograph and essays, Guttenberg Press, NJ, 2016
Three Wonder Walks, Matthew Jensen, booklet of maps, photographs and text, first printing by
the High Line, second printing by Orion Magazine
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Drew Swayer, catalog Columbus Museum of Art, 2016
A Place that Moves People, Matthew Jensen, artist book for QueensWay, 2016
2014 Crossing Brooklyn, Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Beyond, Eugenie Tsai, Brooklyn Museum
ARTIST WALKS AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2015 Walking Flatbush, Municipal Arts Society, invited artist walk
2014 Flatbush Old/ Flatbush New, Brooklyn Museum of Art
2013 Wilmington Center for the Study of Local Landscape, DCCA, Wilmington, DE
City as Living Laboratory, The air up there, invited artist walk
Storm King Art Center, Wanderings and Wonderings, two invited artist-walks
2012 Storm King/LMCC/River-to-River: Artists Respond, invited artist-walk
2011 Nowhere In Manhattan: Billboard project with the High School for Art and Design
Wave Hill Workshop: Typologies of Place
Elastic City, Signs of Life, Artist walks at Inwood Park
JUROR/ARTIST LECTURE
2015 Parsons Photography MFA Program, Visiting artist
Christie’s Education, Artists and the Environment, Panel discussion
BRIC Arts, FOUND: In Plain Sight, Collaborative talk
University of California, San Diego, Visiting artist lecture
2014 Performance Art and Activism, HyperAllergic, Panel discussion
Professional Women Photographers, Artist talk
2013 Marfa Dialogues/CaLL/Mary Miss, Panel discussion
Artist Talk, Pratt University
2010 The James Prize, Moving Image Art Fair, Juror
2011 Visiting Artist Presentation, Parsons School of Design
2010
2005
Artist Presentation and Talk, Evolve the Conversation
Artist Presentation and Talk, High School for Art and Design
The Artist Life in New York, NYFA Panel Discussion at Pratt
Shoreline Alliance for the Arts: Images 30, Juror
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Swing Space, Juror
Artist Talk, Salve Regina University
TEACHING
Present Parsons/The New School, Instructor/Lecturer of Photography and Visual Art
2014 SUNY Purchase, 4D Processes
2013 George Washington University, Lecturer of Photography
2007 University of Connecticut, Adjunct Instructor
RESIDENCIES
2015 Queens Museum of Art/ArtBuilt Studio, Queens, NY
2013 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
2012 Wave Hill Winter Workspace, Bronx, NY
2011 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2010 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governors Island, NY
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art
New York Public Library
New York University
The James New York
Agnes Gund
PRESS
2016 An Artist’s Guide to Wandering the Overlooked Edges of New York City, Allison Meier,
Hyperallergic.com, 11/10/16
Traffic Cam Sunrise, Untitled Project Magazine, 1/28/16
Photographing a Technological Age, Ivy Magazine Online, 1/28/16
2015 Artist’s New Exhibit Shows the Beauty of Walking…, NY1, Colleen Hagerty, 9/8/15
This art project is a walk in the park, Time Ledger, Tammy Scileppi, 8/13/15
Mobile Studio in Flushing Meadows Tests…, untapped cities, Alexander McQuilkin, 8/13/15
2014 At Brandywine museum and conservancy…, Philadelphia Inquirer, Stephan Salisbury, 8/8/2014
Crossing Brooklyn…, Art in America, Brian Boucher, 4/23/2014
2013 Artists Take On Surveillance State, WUNC.org, S. Wen and F. Stasio, 10/22/2013
Surveying the Terrain, Doug Rickard and Matthew Jensen, Daylight Digital, Interview, 10/20/2013
First rate walking in the First State, The News Journal/Crossroads, Betsy Price, 10/10/2013
San Francisco Arts Quarterly Online, Review of Local Expeditions, Louis M. Schmidt, 7/6/2013
2012 Walkabout: Lost and Found, The New Yorker, Ian Frazier, p. 23, 7/23/2012
Taking Root in the Bronx, The Wall Street Journal, Lizzie Simon, 2/13/2012
2011 The 49 States, 1814 Magazine, 12 page interview/photo essay, 10/8/2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Art Sprouts Up At a School Construction Site, The New York Times/School Book Online, H.
Goshen, 9/15/11
Tapped In: Constructive Art, Our Town East Side, M. Finnegan, 9/21/11
Artist Matthew Jensen Opens Outdoor Public Art Exhibition…, NY Daily News Online, 9/19/11
Photos of ‘Nowhere’ Adorn High School Construction Site, DNAInfo.com, Mary Johnson, 9/16/11
An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Regine Basha, Cabinet Books, p. 82, 2011
Art in Residence: The James New York, Phaidon.com, Bonnie Tsui, 2/28/10
Rooms with a view, Wallpaper Magazine, Marina Cashdan, p. 90, 12/2010
The Hotel as Art Gallery, The New York Times, Diane Cardwell, 8/29/10
A hotel that’s also an art Gallery, WABC-TV, Interview by Lauren Glassberg, 9/2/10
Jensen @ Governors Island, Whitewall Magazine Online, Review by Elizabeth Weiner, 7/26/10
Exotic Isle for Artists, Right in the City, The New York Times, Robin Pogrebin, 6/1/10
‘The New Landscape at Canal View in SoHo, The Huffington Post, Yelena Kalinsky, 12/17/09
A Walk Through Nowhere, NPR/WNYC, Beth Fertig, Morning Edition feature story, 8/20/09
Nowhere In Manhattan, The Huffington Post, Rufus Lusk, Front Page Feature Story, 8/11/09
Previews, Whitewall Magazine Online, Lily Rose, 8/13/09
Exhibition Exposes The ‘Other Side’ Of the Rockaways, The Wave, 5/30/08
Tall Order, The Chronicle, Janice Steinhagen, review of show, two images, 8/23/07
One, Two, Tree: Counting The Spruces, Hartford Courant, Peter Marteka, Front-page feature
story, 6/12/07
Interview with Matthew Jensen, Artists & Authors with Erica Pagliuco, Interview, CPTV 14,
5/20/07
Trash artist strikes again in Willimantic, The Willimantic Chronicle, Heather Lottier, Front-page,
11/29/06
One-man’s trash is another man’s art, The Willimantic Chronicle, Heather Lottier,Front-page,
11/13/06