Joelle Jensen earned both her MFA in Visual Arts and her MA in Contemporary Art Theory and Criticism at Purchase College, State University of New York in 2006. Jensen’s work reveals a dark sense of humor as she examines family life, memory and loss.
A solo exhibition of her ongoing series, Interiors, took place at Wall Space in Seattle, WA in April 2008. Jensen has participated in numerous group exhibitions at galleries and non-profits nationwide, including Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle, WA), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland, OR), Michael Mazzeo Gallery (New York, NY), Abrons Art Center (New York, NY), Brooklyn Arts Council (Brooklyn, NY), Icebox (Philadelphia, PA), Tower Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Bakehouse (Miami, FL), Maryland Art Place (Baltimore, MD) and the University of Vermont (Burlington, VT).
Jensen received several awards for her photographs, including a darkroom residency at the Camera Club of New York, a Two-Year Fellowship from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, First Place from Juror Paul Kopeikin at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA, and Juror's Choice from Leslie Bellavance at Weber University, UT.
Solo
Exhibitions
2008
Wall
Space, Interiors, Seattle, WA
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2009
Newspace Center for Photography, Juried Member's Exhibition, Portland, OR
WCC Fine Arts Gallery, Home Again, Valhalla, NY
2008
Icebox, Perspectives, Philadelphia, PA
Wall
Space, Collectible, Seattle,
WA
Bakehouse, A(b)OMB, Miami, FL
Felicity R. (Bebe) Benoliel Gallery, Décor/Decorum, Philadelphia, PA
Wall
Space, On
Location, Seattle,
WA
Pittsburg
Center for the Arts,
Philadelphia Selections, Pittsburg, PA
Maryland
Art Place, Natural
Selection,
Baltimore, MD
Photo
LA, Wall Space
booth, Los Angeles, CA
Brooklyn
Arts Council, Lack
of Desire,
Brooklyn, NY
Explosivo/Chashama, Memory Minister, New York, NY
University
of Vermont, Gone, Burlington, VT
Peer
Gallery, Degrees
of Separation, New York, NY
Icebox,23 Degrees, Philadelphia, PA
Tower
Gallery, Flicker,
Philadelphia, PA
Center
for Emerging Visual Artists, En Masse,
Philadelphia, PA
Wall
Space, In A New
Direction,
Seattle, WA
Camera
Club of New York, Residents'
Exhibition, New
York, NY
2006
INOVA, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, Continuum 5(0), Milwaukee, WI
Photographic
Center Northwest, Resonance, Seattle, WA
Arts
and Literature Laboratory, Gender | Identity, New Haven, CT
New
Image Gallery,
James Madison University, 15th Annual New Images Exhibition, Richmond, VA
Mary
Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Being In Body, Ogden, UT
Abrons
Art Center, Henry
Street Settlement, Inner Limits, New York, NY
Silver
Eye Online Gallery,
Featured Artist,
Pittsburg, PA
2005
Stay
Gold Gallery, Engaging
Ephemera,
Brooklyn, NY
Warwick
Museum of Art, Women
in Self-Portraiture, Warwick, RI
Publications
Flash
Forward 2008, October 2008
The Photo Review, October 2008
Esquire (Russia), March 2008
PDN, Photo Annual, May 2007
The Photo Review, October 2006
Emerging
Photographer Award, Flash Forward 2008, Ontario, Canada, 2008
Competition
Winner, The Photo Review, Langhorne, PA,
2008 & 2006
Housing
Grant, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA, 2008 & 2007
Competition
Winner, Photo Annual, PDN, New York, NY,
2007
Fellowship,
Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA, 2006-2008
First
Place/Juror’s Choice, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, 2006
Emerging
Curator’s Award, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
Juror’s
Choice/Purchase Award, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University,
Ogden, UT, 2006
Artist
in Residency, The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY, 2006
Fertig,
Tami, “Catch It or Regret It,” Philadelphia
City Paper, August 12, 2008, p.
Hammer,
Andrea, “Joelle Jensen & Jedediah Morfit: Décor/Decorum,” Culture, The
Bulletin, August 11, 2008, p. 14
Walsh,
Bruce, “Mining Family Memories,” Entertainment, Metro,
July 31, 2008, p. 14
Maine, Stephanie,
“Down East,” Art in America, May 2006,
pp. 65-71
Austin,
Luanne, “Open It Up: New Image Gallery Celebrates New Home with Juried Show,” Daily News Record, April 6-12, 2006
Leonard,
James, “Engaging Ephemera at Stay Gold,” http://www.jamesleonard.org/news.htm,
September 2005
Cote,
Andrea & Joelle Jensen, “Posing,” www.lulu.com, 2008
Jensen,
Joelle & Miriam Kienle, “Postscript/Crude Metaphors,” HotShoe International, London, August/September 2007, pp. 38-47
Jensen,
Joelle & Miriam Kienle, “Fantasy, Melencholy & Angst at Feigen
Contemporary” NY Arts Magazine, New York,
September/October 2006, Vol. 14, No. 9/10, p. 18
Jensen,
Joelle & Miriam Kienle, “Framing Line,” NY
Arts Magazine, New York, May/June 2006, Vol. 12, No. 5/6, p. 98
Jensen,
Joelle & Miriam Kienle, “Exploring the Obsession,” NY Arts Magazine, New York, March/April 2006, Vol. 11, No.
¾, p. 67
Co-Curator, Posing, Henry Street Settlement/Abrons
Art Center, New York, NY, 2007
Curator, Mad Cow: Absurdity and Anxiety
in Contemporary Culture, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
Coordinator, Engaging Ephemera, Stay Gold Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,
2005
MFA
Visual Arts, MA Modern and Contemporary Art
Theory and Criticism,
Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, 2006
BFA
Printmaking,
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 1996