Recent news + presentations
Recipient, 2026 Current Art Fund project grant, Tri-Star Arts
Solo exhibition at COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN: Collapsible, April 3-24, 2027
Solo exhibition at NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, April-May, 2027
Bio
Maggie Jensen is an artist working with sculpture, collections, and installation. Her practice focuses on how one is asked to believe in a thing, in an object.
Born in St. Louis and raised in Kentucky, Jensen lived in Boston, Chicago, and Houston. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, her MFA from the University of Chicago, and was a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She has returned to the South as an Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Memphis.
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Education
2022 Fellow, Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2019 Master of Fine Arts, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago
2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honors, History of Art, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Academic Appointments
2025-current Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Department of Art and Design, University of Memphis, TN
2024-2025 Adjunct Professor of Sculpture, University of Houston, TX
2019-2020 Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago, IL
Awards, Grants, and Residencies
2026 Current Art Fund project grant, Tri-Star Arts
2026 Stove Works, Artist Residency, Chattanooga, TN
2026 Travel Grant, University of Memphis, Rome, Italy
2025 Pollinator, Residency for the Inaugural year of the program, virtual
2023 NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Visiting Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch, CO
2022 Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Glassell School of Art Core Program at Anderson Ranch, CO 2022 Artists and Creative Individuals Grant, Houston Arts Alliance, City of Houston Office of Cultural Affairs
2022 Eliza Prize, Core Residency Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2021 ACRE Residency, Chicago, IL/WI
2020-2022 Core Residency Program and Fellowship, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2019-2020 Humanities Teaching Fellowship, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago, IL
2018 Fine Arts Fund Grant, University of Chicago, IL
2013 Lipchitz Award for Excellence, Art History, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, MA
2013 Departmental & Academic Honors, Art History, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, MA
2010 Studio Foundation Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2027 Solo Exhibition, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY (upcoming)
2027 Solo Exhibition, Collapsible, Coop Gallery, Nashville TN (upcoming)
2024 Solo Exhibition, Attitudes of Humility, Cage Match Projects, MoHA, Austin TX
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2023 Mother Mold, NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program, Brooklyn NY
2022 Logan Center 10-Year Anniversary DoVA Alumni Show, Logan Center Exhibitions, IL
2022 Core Program Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX.
2022 EXPO Chicago, International Exposition of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
2022 Glassell School Benefit Auction, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 Program 18: Maggie Jensen & Cristen Leifheit, Screen Share Video Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Buzzing and Humming for You, Logan Center Theater, University of Chicago, IL
2018 Summer Exhibitions Project, Logan Center Exhibitions, University of Chicago, IL
2018 That all of these hands, Hyde Park, Chicago, IL
2018 Performance, G+H, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois
2017 STAND UP, Kayafas Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Boston Center for the Arts Gala, Cyclorama, Boston, MA
2016 MassArt 28th Annual Benefit Art Auction, MassArt Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Performance, 1 Minute Solos, Mobius, Inc., Cambridge, MA
2016 Uncovering Bodies, Objects and the Futility of Desire, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2016 Small Motors: Real Fans, Replicas, And Robots…, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2015 Annual Aids Benefit Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 No Shake, Not Here…, Montserrat College of Art & Design, Beverly, MA
2015 Yeah, You Missed It!, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Presentations of Practice
2026 Lecture, Art Talks series, University of Mississippi, Oxford
2026 Artist Talk, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2025 Artist Talk, Pollinator, virtual residency program
2025 Visiting Artist Lecture, Hobart and Williams College, Geneva, NY
2025 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Memphis, TN
2025 Visiting Artist Lecture, Georgia Southern University, GA
2024 Artist Talk, MoHA, Austin TX
2023 Artist Talk, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, Anderson Ranch, CO
2021 Artist Talk, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
2020 Artist Talk, Glassell School of Art, Houston TX
2019 Artist Talk, University of Chicago, IL
2016 Artist Talk, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA
Publications
2022 Core Yearbook, Works by Mickey Aloisio, Bryan Castro, Maggie Jensen, Jagdeep Raina, Fred Shmidt-Arenales, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, and texts by Victor Albarracin Llanos and Karen Schiff, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2021 Dinosaurs, Produced and edited by Victor Albarracin Llanos, Qais Assali, Maggie Jensen, Irmak Karasu, Niloufar, Kara Springer, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, and Ana Tuazon. Calipso Press, Printed in Columbia by Editorial Nomos S.A.
2018 Accordion Issue 3: Gatekeepers included in The Wrens in the Parking Lot, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, IL
links
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)