Bill Jensen

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.Jensen, Bill. Bill Jensen. (New York: Cheim & Read, 2007). 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.

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.

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Jensen’s abstract works have been praised for their unconventional compositions and profound sense of color.Wright, Maggie. Bill Jensen. (New York: Cheim & Read, 2013) 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.[https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/6267/releases/MOMA_1986_0001_1.pdf?2010 “BILL JENSEN /FIRST ETCHINGS”], The Museum of Modern Art. January 1986. Retrieved 10 July 2014

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.”Martin, Chris. [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/02/art/bill-jensen “Bill Jensen with Chris Martin.”] The Brooklyn Rail. 2 February 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2014.

Jensen’s work is held in public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago,{{Cite web |title=Bill Jensen |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/69233/bill-jensen |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=Art Institute of Chicago |language=en}} the Dallas Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=DMA Collection Online |url=https://collections.dma.org/search |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=collections.dma.org |language=en}} the Graphische Sammlung Albertina{{Cite web |title=Albertina |url=https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/#/query/e1751894-bd85-4586-9dc0-58e51ed2df61 |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=sammlungenonline.albertina.at}} (Vienna), Harvard University Art Museums{{Cite web |last=Harvard |title=Browse Our Collections {{!}} Harvard Art Museums |url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=harvardartmuseums.org |language=en}} (Cambridge), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden{{Cite web |title=Lie-Light {{!}} Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution |url=https://collections.si.edu/search/record/ark:/65665/py274e0010417bf47aabd17457b0e7b6625 |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=Smithsonian Collections}} (Washington), the Honolulu Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=XXXXI {{!}} Honolulu Museum of Art |url=https://honolulumuseum.org/collections/50083/ |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=honolulumuseum.org}} the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=Bill Jensen {{!}} LACMA Collections |url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/165390 |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=collections.lacma.org}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=Bill Jensen |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Bill+Jensen&sortBy=Relevance&pageSize=0 |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art}} MoCA{{Cite web |title=Bill Jensen |url=https://www.moca.org/artist/bill-jensen |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=MoCA}} (Los Angeles), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,{{Cite web |title=Results – Advanced Search Objects – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |url=https://collections.mfa.org/search/objects/*/bill%20jensen |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Collections}} the Museum of Modern Art{{Cite web |title=Bill Jensen {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/2907 |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=Museum of Modern Art |language=en}} (New York), the Phillips Collection{{Cite web |title=Bill Jensen |url=https://www.phillipscollection.org/bill-jensen |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=The Phillips Collection |language=en}} (Washington), Stanford University,{{Cite web |title=Bill Jensen {{!}} Artist {{!}} Anderson Collection at Stanford University |url=https://anderson.stanford.edu/work_artist/bill-jensen/ |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=Anderson Collection, Stanford University |language=en}} the Tate Gallery{{Cite web |last=Tate |title=Bill Jensen, born 1945 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bill-jensen-2275 |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}} (London), the Walker Art Center,{{Cite web |title=Bill Jensen |url=https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/http:://walkerart.org/collections/artists/bill-jensen |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=Walker Art Center |language=en-US}} and the Whitney Museum of American Art{{Cite web |title=Bill Jensen |url=https://whitney.org/artists/652 |access-date=May 17, 2022 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |language=en}} (New York)

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• Yau, John. [http://bombmagazine.org/article/2882/bill-jensen “Bill Jensen by John Yau.”] BOMB Magazine. 99 Issue Spring 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
• Brock, Peter. [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/bill-jensen-in-conversation-with-peter-brock “Bill Jensen with Peter Brock.”] The Brooklyn Rail. 1 February 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2014.

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140614085457/http://www.cheimread.com/artists/bill-jensen Bill Jensen-Cheim& Read]

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