Maggie Jensen is a multidisciplinary artist. Her practice encompasses working with replicated artifacts and mass-produced materials to create artworks examining relationships between cultural production, affective infrastructures, and ecological collapse.
Jensen has participated in exhibitions and programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn; MoHA, Austin; EXPO International, Chicago; the University of Chicago, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Gallery Kayafas, Boston; Mobius, Cambridge; and the Boston Center for the Arts.
Her work has been supported by residencies and fellowships at NARS International Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch Visiting Artist Residency, the Core Program at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, ACRE Residency, a Humanities Teaching Fellowship at the University of Chicago, and by grants including a Creative Individuals Grant from the City of Houston Office of Cultural Affairs, the Eliza Prize, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Fine Arts Fund, University of Chicago. Jensen holds an MFA in Visual Art from the University of Chicago and a BFA in Art History from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is a member of the artist advisory committee for DiverseWorks, Houston.
Jensen is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Memphis.
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Core Program Alumni Fellow, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Spring/Summer 2025)
Dinosaurs, artists’ book, designer: Taller Agosto, printer: Calipso Press, Cali Columbia. Editors: Víctor Albarracín Llanos, Qais Assali, Maggie Jensen, Irmak Karasu, Niloufar, Kara Springer, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy & Ana Tuazon
Artist talk with Ariel Wood, MoHA, Austin TX (2024)
Podcast with Cage Match Project curator Aryel René Jackson (2024)
Visiting Artist Lecture, Anderson Ranch, CO (2022)
Contact: margaretgjensen@gmail.com