Judy Jensen

Who is Judy Jensen?

Judy Jensen is an American artist who resides in Austin, Texas. She was born in Lamesa, Texas. 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.

An NEA Fellowship Grant recipient, her works are in numerous public and private collections, including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, McDonald’s Corporate Art Collection, and the Washington Art Consortium. For eight years, Judy Jensen worked almost exclusively on commissions.

Jensen is involved in a project replacing glass paintings, destroyed in an earthquake, in a 19th-century Buddhist temple in northwestern Thailand. These will depict the Vessantara and Siddhartha incarnations of Buddha.