Located in Calgary, Alberta.
Email: natasha.faye.jensen@gmail.com
Education
2020 Contemporary Art Practice (MA), Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2016-2018 Animation Fundamentals, Projects in Animation and Adobe After Effects, Quickdraw Animation Society, Calgary, Alberta.
2013 Bachelor of Fine Art (with Distinction), Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta.
Scholarships, Awards and Grants
2026 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Film and Media Individual Project Funding.
2025 Calgary Arts Development, Individual Artist Project Fund, Calgary Alberta.
2023 Calgary Arts Development, Individual Artist Project Fund, Calgary Alberta.
2021 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Visual Art and New Media Individual Project Funding.
2020 Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award, Creative Scotland.
2020 RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award 2020, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2018 RBC Emerging Artist Award, Mayor’s Lunch for Arts Champion.
2017-2018 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Film and Video Individual Project Funding.
2017 ACAD Alumni Horizon Award.
2016 Chris J. Melnychuk Memorial Scholarship at Quickdraw Animation Society
2013 Art Central Studio Prize
2012 4th Year Drawing Merit Scholarship
2010 Excellence in Drawing Scholarship
2009-2012 Jason Lang scholarship
Artist-in-Residence
Upcoming 2026 Time, Space and Place, Ionian Centre for the Arts, Kefalonia Island, Greece.
2025-2026 Trico Changemakers residency, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta.
2025 Early Career Artist In Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta.
2020 Dumfries House Estate, Royal Drawing School (London), Ayrshire, Scotland.
2020 (Isle of Eigg) RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award 2020, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2016-2018 Chris J. Melnychuk Memorial Scholarship at Quickdraw Animation Society
2015 May-June, Calgary Allied Arts Foundation, Calgary Alberta.
Solo Exhibition
2027 Smoke That Thunders, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta.
2021 Gazing the Hothouse, Rise Emerging Artist Exhibition, Canmore, Alberta.
2018 Honey Pot, Five AM Art and Merchandise, Calgary, Alberta.
2013 Cult of the Invisible, Stride +15 Gallery, Calgary Alberta.
2012 Charmed, Coven Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta.
2012 XXXO, Contemporary Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta.
2012 Empty, But Interesting, Coven Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta.
2011 Blush, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta.
2011 Unexplored History, Cabinet Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta.
Group Exhibitions
2026 Relational Ecology, Trex Southeast, Medicine Hat.
2024 Accelerate Action, Art Point Studios Cspace, Calgary Alberta.
2023 Since We Saw You Last, Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta.
2023 Into the Distance, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2021 A Space Between, Scottish Contemporary Art Network, Glasgow, Scotland.
2020 Kirjasto/Library, Forum Box Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2020 Summer 2020, Degree show, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2020 Material Girls, Project Space, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2020 Household, Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2020 Salon des Refuses, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2018 Growing Pains, Five Am Art and Merchandise, Calgary Alberta.
2017 Portraits, Five Am Art and Merchandise, Calgary Alberta.
2017 Heatwave, curated by Lyndon Navalta, RandM Collective in C Space, Calgary, Alberta.
2015 SCARLETT LETTERS with Dana Buzzee, Sled Island Music Festival, Calgary, Alberta.
Festivals/Screenings
2022 Film Seed Tour, Moving Images Caravan with Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, various location throughout Scotland.
2021 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland.
2020 Sled Island Lemonaid partnership with Quickdraw Animation, online, Calgary, Alberta.
2019 International Animation Film Festival- Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
2019 First time Filmmakers session, Pinewood, England.
2019 GIRAF 13 Animation Festival, Calgary, Alberta.
2019 Femme Wave Feminist Arts Festival, Film Program, Calgary, Alberta.
Bibliography
Lindsay Sorrel, Honeypot review, Akimbo, 2018. Digital.
Kelsey Thompson. “Heatwave: Calgary’s Hottest Art show. The Cummentary. 2018. Digital.
Drew Anderson. “Your Face Here.” FFWD Weekly 20 June. 2013: Print.
Christine Leonard. “Physical Graffiti: An Avalanche of Art.” Beat Route 9 June. 2013. Print.
XX, Official ZINE for Feminist Book Club at Alberta College of Art and Design, Issue no. 5, no. 4, no. 3, no. 2, Print.