Guest Artist Lecture: Alina Tenser

Visiting Artist Lecture: Alina Tenser
Wednesday, March 26, 7 p.m.
Civic Square Building Room 110

Alina Tenser is a Ukrainian-born artist and educator. Working across sculpture, performance, and video, Tenser makes propositions that elicit physical activation and play. Utilizing industrial and domestic materials and processes she reimagines taken-for-granted social and material relations; mining the entanglements of her experience as an immigrant and parent.

Tenser’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with recent solo exhibitions at KinoSaito Art Center (Verplanck, NY), HESSE FLATOW (New York, NY), SE Cooper Contemporary (Portland, OR), 17Essex Gallery (New York, NY), Konstepidemin (Gothenburg, SE), Soloway Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and AIR (New York, NY). Her work has been widely reviewed and written about in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, Cultured Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Third Rail.

In 2022, Tenser completed In Parentheses, a public installation at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Chemo Infusion Center in Brooklyn. In 2024, she was included in Great Women Sculptors, a Phaidon Press survey honoring 300 women sculptors from the Renaissance to today. She has participated in residencies at Lighthouse Works (Fishers Island, NY), Queens Museum Studio Program (Queens, NY), Recess Activities (Brooklyn, NY), and is currently a resident at Triangle Arts (Brooklyn, NY).

Tenser is an Assistant Professor of Art at Lehigh University where she teaches sculpture.

Image courtesy of the artist

This lecture is presented as part of the Spring 2025 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all.

ASL/CART available on request. Contact Cassandra at 848-932-5399 / coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu one week prior to event.
Masks strongly encouraged
Wheelchair accessible with ramps and elevators
Quiet room available