I am an interdisciplinary artist who creates intimate settings with my paintings and prints, and I then use these environments to organize social events and do interviews. I invite both people I know and strangers. My art work is mostly inspired by the shared efforts of locals to get a bike/pedestrian lane on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and I am a cofounder of Bike South Brooklyn.

I hold an MFA in Visual Arts from Hunter College in New York, NY, and an MA in International Relations from University of Chicago, IL. At Hunter, I was awarded the Hunter College Foundation Scholarship for exchange studies at the Slade, London.

Among the places I've exhibited my work are: Edward Hopper House, New York Center for Book Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Bronx Arts Space, Flux Factory, The Old Stone House, Stand4 Gallery, BioBAT Project Space, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, and Southampton Cultural Center.

I've presented my work at the conferences of National Women's Study Association, Open Engagement (Queens Museum and Portland State University), the Alice Austen House Museum, and discussed it on NPR's The Brian Lehrer show. I've organized several projects involving many artists, and I contributed an essay to the publication by Open Engagement (art + social practice), The Questions We Ask Together, 100 artists responding to 100 Questions. To realize my projects, I have received funding from Manhattan Cultural Arts Fund, Queens Arts Council and Norddjurs Kommune (Denmark). My work is in the collection of New York City Parks and private collections, including that of Candida Höfer.

Anna Lise Jensen

Anna Lise Jensen