Bill Jensen
Bill Jensen (born 1945) is an American abstract painter.
Bill Jensen
- Name
- Bill Jensen
- Born
- 1945
- Birthplace
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Known for
- Painting, Drawing, Printmaking
- Training
- 1970 M.F.A.University of Minnesota. 1968 B.F.A.University of Minnesota.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator · artist
- Fields
- painting
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Biography
Biography
Bill Jensen studied at University of Minnesota. The field of work recorded is painting. Residence is recorded at New York City. Work by Bill Jensen is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Tate, Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Bill Jensen • Born — 1945 • Birthplace — Minneapolis, Minnesota • Known for — Painting, Drawing, Printmaking • Training — 1970 M.F.A.University of Minnesota. 1968 B.F.A.University of Minnesota. Bill Jensen (born 1945) is an American abstract painter.
Education
Education
Jensen was born in 1945 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at University of Minnesota, where he earned his BFA in 1968 and his MFA in 1970. He has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. Jensen was one of the artist pioneers who established a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Documentary record
Bill Jensen appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names as a graphic artist and painter (born 1945). Bill Jensen was born in 1945.
Early years
Early years
In 1971, Jensen was included in a group show at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. His first solo exhibition was at Fischbach Gallery in New York in 1973. • Illustration — Bill Jensen, "The Five, The Seven (The Scream)" 2002-2006. Oil on linen. 48"x32".
Mature work
Mature work
Jensen’s abstract works have been praised for their unconventional compositions and profound sense of color. In 1986, Jensen was included in a group show at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In the same year, he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Jensen explores certain realms of the inner life through abstraction. His works create an invented world which pulses with feelings that relate to real life without depicting it. Jensen had one-person exhibitions at Mary Boone Gallery in 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, and 2002. Jensen is represented by Cheim & Read Gallery in New York. Jensen described, “…What abstract art can do is put people in touch with areas of their psyche they’re not normally aware of. […] This other world is where prejudice and wars do not exist. The I, the Me, the you, do not exist there. If you can bring people in touch with that for just a second, then you have a different way of looking at the world.”
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Collections
Jensen’s work is held in public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Graphische Sammlung Albertina (Vienna), Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoCA (Los Angeles), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Phillips Collection (Washington), Stanford University, the Tate Gallery (London), the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
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- 1.Jensen, Bill. Bill Jensen. (New York: Cheim & Read, 2007).
- 2.Wright, Maggie. Bill Jensen. (New York: Cheim & Read, 2013)
- 3.“BILL JENSEN /FIRST ETCHINGS”, The Museum of Modern Art. January 1986. Retrieved 10 July 2014
- 4.Martin, Chris. “Bill Jensen with Chris Martin.” The Brooklyn Rail. 2 February 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- 5.Bill Jensen. Art Institute of Chicago.
- 6.DMA Collection Online. collections.dma.org.
- 7.Albertina. sammlungenonline.albertina.at.
- 8.Harvard. Browse Our Collections Harvard Art Museums. harvardartmuseums.org.
- 9.Lie-Light Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Collections.
- 10.XXXXI Honolulu Museum of Art. honolulumuseum.org.
- 11.Bill Jensen LACMA Collections. collections.lacma.org.
- 12.Bill Jensen. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 13.Bill Jensen. MoCA.
- 14.Results – Advanced Search Objects – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Collections.
- 15.Bill Jensen MoMA. Museum of Modern Art.
- 16.Bill Jensen. The Phillips Collection.
- 17.Bill Jensen Artist Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Anderson Collection, Stanford University.
- 18.Tate. Bill Jensen, born 1945.
- 19.Bill Jensen. Walker Art Center.
- 20.Bill Jensen. Whitney Museum of American Art.
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