Maggie Jensen is a multidisciplinary artist.
Her practice encompasses working with replicated artifacts and mass-produced materials to create artworks
that examine complex power conditions between cultural production, affective infrastructures, and ecological
collapse. In her work, she employs a post-minimalist perspective to consider how formal repetition can reinforce
inherited, restrictive systems of meaning-making and influence.
Jensen is an adjunct faculty of sculpture at the University of Houston, a freelance editor,
and a recent alum of the Core Fellowship Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Recent projects include:
Attitudes of Humility, Cage Match Projects, MoHA, Austin TX (2024)
Group Exhibition, Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX (2023)
Mother Mold, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY (2023)
Passing Through, Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago IL (2022)
EXPO Chicago (2022)
Core Fellowship Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston TX (2022)
publications:
Core Yearbook, 2022, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dinosaurs, 2021, 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
talks:
Artist talk with Ariel Wood, MoHA, Austin TX (forthcoming)
Podcast with Cage Match Project curator Aryel René Jackson (2024)
Artist Talk, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (2023)
Visiting Artist Lecture, Anderson Ranch, CO (2022)
Artist talk, Museum of Fine Arts Houston TX (2022)
Her work has been supported by residencies and fellowships at:
NARS International Artist Residency, Brooklyn NY (2023)
Anderson Ranch Visiting Artist Residency, CO (2022)
The Core Fellowship Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX (2020-2022)
ACRE Residency, WI (2021)
Humanities Teaching Fellowship at the University of Chicago (2019-2020)
and by awards and grants including:
Creative Individuals Grant from the City of Houston Office of Cultural Affairs (2022)
Inaugural recipient of the Leigh and Reggie Smith Glassell School of Art Core Fellow Residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2022)
Eliza Prize, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2021)
Fine Arts Fund, University of Chicago (2018)
“Texas Top Five: March 24, 2022,” Glasstire Magazine
Academic and professional activities:
Adjunct Faculty in Sculpture, School of Art, University of Houston (current)
Managing editor, Art in Pursuit of Common Cause, 2024, The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry, The University of Chicago (current)
Lecturer, Department of Visual Art, University of Chicago (2019-2020)
Managing editor, Pope.L CAMPAIGN, 2019, Mousse Publishing, Milan IT (2018-2019)
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.
Contact: margaretgjensen@gmail.com
ig: @m_jensen_
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