Bill Jensen

Bill Jensen (b. 1945, Minneapolis, Minnesota) came into prominence in the late 1970s in New York City. Known for his abstract and expressive works, Jensen’s art often explores themes of spirituality and nature through gestural brushwork and rich textures. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, at the Whitney Museum of American Art including the 1981 Whitney Biennial, and the Museum of Modern Art. Recently, his work was shown at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in conjunction with its Albert Pinkham Ryder exhibition in 2021, and at MoMA PS1 in New York in 2016. Jensen earned his BFA and MFA from the University of Minnesota in 1968 and 1970 and relocated to New York City in 1971. He has lived and worked in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn since 1976.

Jensen’s work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., the Tate, London, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.