MFA University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 2008

BA Rice University, Houston, TX, May 2002

www.Jensen-Projects.com

Exhibitions/Residencies

2013

Third Streaming, New York, NY

Local Expeditions, Solo show

Delaware Center for Contemporary Art

The Wilmington Center for the Study of Local Landscape, Solo project and 10 week residency

2012

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

After Photoshop, Group exhibition

Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ

The Fools Journey, Group exhibition

Wave Hill Winter Work Space, Bronx, NY

Six-week residency

2011

InSite: Art + Commemoration, L.M.C.C. Aug 27 � Oct 15

Life Near the Void, photographs and walk

Nowhere In Manhattan: Public Works/Scaffold Installation Sept 15 - Nov 30

Selections from Nowhere In Manhattan will be installed in on 57th Street

Elastic City April/May

Signs of Life, four artist walks through Inwood Park, New York, NY

MacDowell Colony March/April

2010

Building 110: LMCC�s Art Center on Governors Island

July 23 � Aug 29, Solo Show

Nowhere In Manhattan: Public Work/Billboard Installation

Sixth Avenue at Grand and Thompson Street at Canal. Installation of two street-level billboards of landscapes (24�x16�). In the Spring of 2011 the project will extend into Pubic Schools on the Eastside of Manhattan with a corresponding lecture.

New York State Senate Grantee

Grants awarded for continued work on Nowhere In Manhattan

Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

Residency, Nebraska City, NE

2009

The New Landscape

Group Show at Canal View, Soho, New York City

Nowhere In Manhattan

Solo Show, Chashama Gallery, 44th Street, New York City

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant Recipient

2008

Rockaway: Landscapes at the Edge of New York

Solo Show, Citizens Committee For New York City

Pentameter

Group Show, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York City

New Work/Five Artists

Group Show, Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT

Real Art Ways Slide Slam 2008 & 2009

Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

Lagrange National Biennial XXV

Toledo Friends of Photography

Center for the Visual Arts, University of Toledo

2007

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: Radius

Group show, Curated by the Aldrich Museum

Matthew Jensen: Recent Photography and Sculpture

Solo show, Windham Arts Center, Willimantic, CT

Digital Atelier 2007

Contemporary Arts Gallery, University of Connecticut

2006

Spectrum and First Snow

Two outdoor installations in abandoned parcels of land in Willimantic, CT.

Studio Work

John-Paul Philippe, New York, NY May 2006 � Present

Studio Manager: fabricating site-specific murals, artwork and design for worldwide commissions.

Teaching

University of Connecticut, Instructor Sept 2007 � April 2008

University of Connecticut, Teaching Assistant Sept 2006 � April 2007

Curator/Juror

Shoreline Alliance for the Arts: Images 30, Juror Jan 2011

The James New York: Stand Here and Listen: Curator Fall 2010

Permanent collection and exhibition of works by 16 emerging artists using landscape as concept.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Swing Space: Juror Fall 2010

Bibliography

- 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

Two-page, feature article on my curatorial project Stand Here and Listen.

- A hotel that�s also an art Gallery, WABC-TV, Interview by Lauren Glassberg, 9/2/2010

- Jensen @ Governors Island, Whitewall Magazine Online, Review by Elizabeth Weiner, 7/26/2010

- Exotic Isle for Artists, Right in the City, The New York Times, Robin Pogrebin, 6/1/2010

- A Walk Through Nowhere, NPR/WNYC, Beth Fertig, Morning Edition feature story, 8/20/2009

- Nowhere In Manhattan, The Huffington Post, Rufus Lusk, Front Page Feature Story, 8/11/2009

- Previews, Whitewall Magazine Online, Lily Rose, 8/13/2009

- Exhibition Exposes The �Other Side� Of the Rockaways, The Wave, 5/30/2008

- Tall Order, The Chronicle, by Janice Steinhagen, review of show, two images, 8/23/2007

- One, Two, Tree: Counting The Spruces, Hartford Courant, by Peter Marteka, Front-page feature story, 6/12/2007.

- Interview with Matthew Jensen, Artists & Authors with Erica Pagliuco, 30-minute interview, CPTV 14, 5/20/2007.

- Trash artist strikes again in Willimantic, The Willimantic Chronicle, by Heather Lottier, Front-page Feature, 11/29/06.

- One-man�s trash is another man�s art, The Willimantic Chronicle, by Heather Lottier, Front-page, 11/13/06.

��a follower of Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark. Mr. Jensen photographs mostly natural sites around the city where people are not ordinarily found � muddy riverbanks, off-trail spots in various parks. A shelving system displays hundreds of small items picked up along the way: ceramic shards, sea glass, rusty pieces of hardware and other ordinary treasures which, along with the photographs, invites us to think of New York City archaeologically.�

�Ken Johnson, New York Times