Background
She was born in Lamesa, Texas.
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Judy Jensen
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Career
She does primarily glass work, although she incorporates other mixed media into her glass pieces. Jensen has exhibited widely. Solo venues include: eight exhibits with New York’s Heller Gallery, the Galveston Arts Center, and the Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts.
Group exhibitions include Gerald Peters Gallery in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Atlanta’s High Museum, the New Delhi Biennale, Chicago’s Navy Pier, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Japan.
Foreign eight years, Judy Jensen worked almost exclusively on commissions. She was awarded a grant from the Thompson Foundation in Bangkok in support of the project
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, Doctorate.C.Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, CanadaLos Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CaliforniaAkron Art Museum, Akron, OhioCorning Museum of Glass, Corning, New YorkThe David Jacob Chodorkoff Collection, promised gift toDetroit Institute of ArtsRacine Art Museum, Racine, WisconsinSpeed Art Museum, Louisville, KentuckyAustin-Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, Texas City of Austin Art in Public Places Offices, Austin, Texas McDonald"s Corporate Collection, Chicago, Illinois Selective Auto and Fire Ensurance Company of America Corporate Collection, Seattle, Washington.
Achievements
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James Heriot-Watt University Thompson Foundation Grant, 2013 (Thai foundation) Represented Austin/Bergstrom International Airport in Master of Science in Nursing.com “Airports with the Best Art”, 2009 Curator’s Award, Galveston Arts Center, 2007 Best of Show, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004 John H. Hauberg Fellowship Residency, Pilchuck Glass School, 2002 Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship nominee, San Francisco Art Institute, 2000 Most Original Austin Artist, Michael Barnes, Arts Editor, Austin American-Statesman, 1997 Juror, Art Kauai, The Kauai Museum of Art, Hawaii, 1996 Juror’s Award, Austin Museum of Art, Texas, 1996 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award nominee, 1993 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, 1986 Juror’s Award, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Los Angeles, 1985 New Glass Reviews 19, 11, 8, 7, 6, & 5, annual competition documenting the 100 most innovative objects made in glass each year.
