About

Lee Jensen is a Danish textile artist who lives and works between Queens, New York and Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Lee creates contemporary abstract quilts as well as hand-sewn, stretched, or free-hanging textile pieces. Her quilts are portraits of her urban environment in abstract form. Her work is rooted in her experience of place, seasonality, and memory, drawing from a life-long connection to sewing and textiles. She uses reclaimed textiles in her work and often sews and quilts by hand - a slow and meditative process.

Lee is a recipient of the Queens Art Fund (QAF) 2024 New Work Grant distributed by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and she was also awarded participation in NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (2023-24). In 2025, Lee attended the Peyton Evans Artist Residency in Key West, Florida. In 2026 she was awarded a grant from the Danish foundation L. F. Foghts Fond.
Lee has exhibited widely across New York and nationally in the U.S., and recent venues include Scandinavia House, Upstate Art Weekend, Ford Foundation Live Gallery, CultureLab LIC and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. In 2027 she will exhibit internationally in a two-person show in Copenhagen, Denmark, followed by her second New York solo show in 2028. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic and Queens Chronicle.

Email: leejensenstudio@gmail.com