Elisa Jensen lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Academy Museum, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters.  She has shown extensively in New York and in Europe and her work has been featured in Whitehot Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artcritical.com, The New York Sun, New York Daily News, she currently teaches at the New York Studio School and Pratt Institute.