CORNELIA JENSEN – ARTIST RESUME
EDUCATION
2008 MFA – California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1987 BA – Philosophy – Haverford College, Haverford, PA
1986 Studio Art Program – Syracuse University, Florence, Italy
1983 Honors in Art – The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2016 Salon Art Club Member – WAH (Williamsburg Art & Historical) Center
2013 Artist in Residence – Taliesin West Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, AZ
2012 ArtSlant Round #6 Showcase winner
2012 ArtSlant Round #5 Showcase winner
2012 ArtSlant Round #1 Showcase winner
2011 Artist in Residence – The Petrified Forest National Park, AZ
2011 ArtSlant Round #1 Showcase winner
2003 Artist in Residence – The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990-91 Graduate Assistantship – California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1983 Linda Wyatt Chissell Art Award – The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Pidgin Palace Arts, Tucson, AZ ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSCENDENTALISM II
2013 Steeplechase, Brooklyn, NY Sand and Sky
2012 Modulightor / Paul Rudolph Foundation, New York, NY Micro-Modulightor
2011 Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY STRUCTURE + LIGHT
2010 Manhattan Theater Source Gallery, New York, NY The Home Collection
2009 art.les.nyc studios, New York, NY Microstructures
2003 The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA Portraits of Mary Jane
2000 The Rite Spot, San Francisco, CA
1999 Das Pussycat, San Francisco, CA Restricted: Adult Art
1997 The Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York, NY New and Used Work
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Patagonia Museum, Patagonia, AZ Art + History
2023 Tubac Center For The Arts, Tubac, AZ Chasing The Light
2023 Ranch House Gallery, Agua Caliente Sonoran Plein Air Painters
2022 Stevens Gallery, Salpointe Catholic High School Painting Out, Painting In
2022 WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY Women Forward, Part 3: Women Artists Who’ve Helped Us Grow
2021 Ironwood Gallery, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ A Brush With the Desert
2021 Continuum Gallery, Warwick, NY Holiday Show
2020 Cube Colony, Tucson AZ Art Walk (February)
2020 Tucson International Airport-Upper Links Gallery, Tucson, AZ Heartbeat of Tucson
2019 Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson AZ Tucson Vernacular
2019 Rancho Santa Cruz Gallery, Tumacacori, AZ In the Barrios
2019 Cube Colony, Tucson AZ Art Walk (June, August, October, December)
2019 Tucson International Airport-Center Gallery, Tucson, AZ Heartbeat of Tucson
2019 Tucson Desert Art Museum-Four Corners Gallery, Tucson, AZ Broad Strokes: Women Landscape Painters
2018 Herberger Theater Art Gallery, Phoenix, AZ Arizona Landscapes
2018 Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tucson, AZ Desert Hollywood
2017 WAH (Williamsburg Art & Historical) Center, Brooklyn, NY Volunteers Show
2017 WAH (Williamsburg Art & Historical) Center, Brooklyn, NY LIFE ON EARTH
2016 WAH (Williamsburg Art & Historical) Center, Brooklyn, NY Light, Form and Symbol
2016 WAH (Williamsburg Art & Historical) Center, Brooklyn, NY 17th Annual Salon Art Club Exhibition
2015 Light Space & Time: Online Gallery Landscapes
2015 WAH (Williamsburg Art & Historical) Center, Brooklyn, NY Bridges Self
2015 Light Space & Time: Online Gallery Seasons
2014 The Painting Center, New York, NY Shifting Ecologies
2013 Light Space & Time: Online Gallery Landscapes
2013 see | me at Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY The Story of the Creative
2013 Modern Day Griot Theater, Brooklyn, NY See Hear Taste Touch 2013
2011 Freddy’s Silver Room, Brooklyn, NY Madarts Show
2011 Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Madarts Summer Show
2011 Hells Kitchen, New York, NY Artists in the Kitchen
2011 Under Minerva Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Art Sale
2011 Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Madarts “Coming Soon“
2010 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA CCA Alumni Show
2010 Culture Fix, New York, NY A Retrospective: The First Five Years at 202 Rivington St
2010 Martinez Gallery, Troy, NY Original Sin/Pecado Original
2010 Windows Gallery, Long Island City, NY 2X2
2010 Giacobetti Paul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Madarts Salon Show
2010 Hells Kitchen, New York, NY Artists in the Kitchen
2010 Einhorn Center Gallery, New York, NY Opening Benefit Exhibition
2009 A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Generations 7
2009 Swing Space: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY I, Daughter of Kong
2009 Varga Gallery, Woodstock, NY Woman Show
2008 Gallery Ho, Seoul, Korea The Circular Exhibition
2008 Hun Gallery, New York, NY The Circular Exhibition
2007 McGovern Design House, New York, NY Excelsior
2007 McGovern Design House @ AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2007 Local Project, Long Island City, NY Frock ‘n Roll Show
2005 The Lola Gallery @ AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2004 Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI The Bay Area Show
2003 The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA Mischief
2003 StartSoma, San Francisco, CA Insider Art
2003 The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA Doctrine: An Exhibition of Political Art
2003 The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA 21st Century
2002 The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA She’s Crafty
2001 Kytin Design & Fabrication, Oakland, CA Post-Art
2000 Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 The New College, San Francisco, CA Circoseum
1999 SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA The Metal Garden
1998 Livet Reichard Company Benefit Auction, New York, NY Artwalk
1998 The Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York, NY Art Discoveries
1998 The Werepad, San Francisco, CA Salon 1.23
1996 The Werepad, San Francisco, CA Salon #1
1994 CBGB’s Gallery, New York, NY Reverence
1992 ATA (Artists Television Access), San Francisco, CA CCAC Select Media Show
1991 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA SFAI/CCAC Art Exchange
1991 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA Surrealism
1991 Isabel Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA Cosmic Hex Show
1989 ATA (Artists Television Access), San Francisco, CA Three-Day Art Festival
1986 Villa Rosa at Syracuse University, Florence, Italy
1986 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence Italy
1985 Haverford College, Haverford, PA
1983 The Dalton School, New York, NY A.T.I.S. Arts Festival
1982 The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY A.T.I.S. Arts Festival
1980 Pace College, Westchester County, NY
CURATORIAL/INSTALLATION EXPERIENCE
2017 WAH (Williamsburg Art & Historical) Center, Brooklyn, NY LIFE ON EARTH
2012 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Stephen Ferry: Violentology
2012 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Rania Matar: A Girl and her Room
2012 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Ken: Light: Valley of Shadows and Dreams
2011 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Lori Waselchuk: Grace Before Dying
2011 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Tim Hetherington – Reprise Liberia Retold: Long Story Bit by Bit
2011 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Nevada Rose
2011 Mother Advertising Agency, New York, NY – Installation, Haiti Fundraiser
2011 Freddy’s Silver Room, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Madarts Show
2011 Hells Kitchen, New York, NY – Installation, Artists in the Kitchen
2011 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Wyatt Gallery: Tent Life – Haiti
2010 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Teun Voeten: Tunnel People
2010 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Mario Tama – Coming Back: New Orleans
2010 Windows Gallery, Long Island City, NY 2X2
2010 Hells Kitchen, New York, NY – Installation, Artists in the Kitchen
2010 Lolita Bar, New York, NY – Installation, EXHIBITION ONE: Zero Gravity
2010 Einhorn Center Gallery, New York, NY Opening Benefit Exhibition
2009 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Tim Hetherington- Liberia: Long Story Told Bit by Bit
2009 Varga Gallery, Woodstock, NY – Installation Woman Show
2008 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Lisa Van Noorden: LuckyUnlucky
2008 American Indian Community House Gallery, New York, NY – Installation, Lorene Taurerewa: Drawings
2008 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Tyler Hicks: Histories Are Mirrors
2007 Umbrage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Installation, Kadir Von Lohuizen: Diamond Matters
2007 The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY – Installation
Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008, Piranesi as Designer, Ingo Maurer: Provoking Magic
2007 McGovern Design House, New York, NY – Installation, Excelsior
2007 McGovern Design House, New York, NY – Installation, AAF Art Fair
2005 The Lola Gallery, New York, NY – Installation, AAF Art Fair
2003 StartSoma, San Francisco, CA – Installation, Insider Art
2003 The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA – Installation, 21st Century
2002 The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA Bizarre Bazaar
1999 SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA The Metal Garden
1998 The Werepad, San Francisco, CA Salon 1.23 & Salon 4.25
1996 The Werepad, San Francisco, CA Salon #1
1992 ATA (Artists Television Access), San Francisco, CA CCAC Select Media Show
1991 Isabel Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA Cosmic Hex Show
PRESS
Art Boars.com-NY/Lebanon http://artboars.blogspot.com/2011/12/cornelia-jensen.html,
New York Optimist http://www.thenewyorkoptimist.com/CorneliaJensenNov1_2011.html, ArtBusiness.com http://www.artbusiness.com/lola3.html
http://www.artbusiness.com/start2.html
Artlog Magazine http://artlog.com/events/41981-art-les-nyc-studios-a-retrospective
Artweek
Brooklynartproject.com http://www.brooklynartproject.com/events/microstructures-by-cornelia
CityArts: new york’s review of culture http://cityarts.info/event/cornelia-jensen-“structure-light-and-rebecca-aidlin-“water”/
Guest of a Guest http://guestofaguest.com/new-york/art/everything-you-need-to-know-this-week-on-new-yorks-art-scene-11&slide=10
High Times-August 2003
Hyperallergic Magazine
joonbug.com http://joonbug.net/tag/cornelia+jensen
NewYearsEveCentral.com http://newyearsevecentral.com/scenetracker/14807/Your-Guide-to-NYCs-Art-in-December/
San Francisco Weekly
(Irish) Home-
UTUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rhl5ZpKs-I
GROUPS/GALLERIES:
art.les.nyc studios http://artlesnyc.com/#/cornelia-jensen/4535012894
ArtSlant http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/95288-cornelia-jensen
Art Trope http://www.corneliajensen.art-trope.com
CCA Alumni Gallery http://ccaalumnigallery.com/artwork/1441547_Cornelia_Jensen_Ladybugs.html
Giacobetti Paul Gallery http://giacobettipaul.com/shows/index.html
Graficås Gallery, Nantucket , MA www.gallerygraficas.com
MadArts http://madarts.org/artists/cj/index.html
Martinez Gallery www.martinezgallery.net
Modulightor www.modulightor.com
NY Eye Ear Infirmary: Einhorn Research Center www.nyee.edu/einhorn-art-gallery-artists-jensen-cornelia.html
Saatchi Online http://www.saatchionline.com/art/Assemblage-Collage-Found-Objects-Eclipse-Entombed/310869/170335/view
Sanchez Art Center http://www.sanchezartcenter.org/ARCHIVES/2010/CCA_Alumni_Exhibition.html
WASNYC (International Women Artists Salon)
http://womenartsalon.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html
http://womenartsalon.blogspot.com/2010/10/member-spotlight-cornelia-jensen-visual.html
http://womenartsalon.blogspot.com/2011/05/member-spotlight-visual-artists.html
WAH (Williamsburg Art & Historical) Center http://wahcenter.net/2016/01/17th-annual-wah-salon-art-club-show/
WOOLOO.org http://www.wooloo.org/exhibition/entry/144956