Matthew López-Jensen is a Bronx-based, interdisciplinary environmental artist whose projects combine social practice, walking, site-specific installations, and research. He is a Guggenheim Fellow in photography and his site-specific landscape projects have twice been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been commissioned to create artworks for and by The High Line, Waterfront Alliance, New York Botanical Garden, Brandywine Museum of Art, City as Living Laboratory, Green-Wood Cemetery, Montefiore Hospital, and Brooklyn Bridge Park, among others.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, among other institutions. López-Jensen teaches environmental art and photography at Fordham University and Parsons School of Design. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Connecticut and B.A. from Rice University. Lopez-Jensen was the 2023 artist-in-residence with the Erie Canal and his forthcoming book, The Work and the Water, will be published in 2025. He has also participated in residency programs at MacDowell, New York City Urban Field Station, Guild Hall, the Queens Museum, Wave Hill, L.M.C.C., among others.
While at MacDowell, he created a site-specific series about walking the landscape titled 31 Winter Walks; a selection of the series was exhibited in the Crossing Brooklyn show at the Brooklyn Museum. He has received support for his projects from the NEA, New York State Senate and MCAF.
