In 2012 she was a finalist for the Basil Alkazzi Award for Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has recently won awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Academy. She currently is a faculty member at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, and has shown her work recently at Woodward Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, the Governor’s Island Art Fair, all in New York City, Galleri Salling in Denmark, and Edelman Arts in New York City and Miami. Elisa Jensen Studied at the New York Studio School and Smith College.