Matthew Jensen (American, born 1980) [1] is a conceptual landscape artist and photographer based in the Bronx, New York. [2] [3] His work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. He currently teaches photography and art at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York City. [4]
Jensen received a BA in political science and fine art from Rice University in 2002 and an MFA in photography from the University of Connecticut in 2008. [5]
Jensen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, [6] [7] Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant and his work has been twice received support from the National Endowment for the Arts. [8] His work has been described as exploring "our relationship to the natural world and ... environment." [9]
Jensen has designed public walks and free maps for groups and venues, including: Open Spaces Kansas City, [10] Green-Wood Cemetery, The High Line Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Visual Art Center of New Jersey.[ citation needed ]
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Andrea Modica is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University. She is known for portrait photography and for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera. Modica is the author of many monographs, including Treadwell (1996) and Barbara (2002).
Simone Leigh is an American artist from Chicago who works in New York City in the United States. She works in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and her interests include African art and vernacular objects, performance, and feminism. Her work is concerned with the marginalization of women of color and reframes their experience as central to society. Leigh has often said that her work is focused on “Black female subjectivity,” with an interest in complex interplays between various strands of history. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.
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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is a British photographer. Her work has been exhibited at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Harvard Art Museums; Guangzhou Biennial of Photography, China; Tang Museum, New York; and The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Matthew is a professor of art (photography) in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Art and Art History.
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