L Wood/Woody Hensens (they/them) [b. Bedford, TX, 1991] is a queer, biophilic artist currently occupying the traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco-Wishram, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin (Atfalati) Kalapuya, Molalla and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia and Willamette rivers and into the Cascade Mountains.
EDUCATION
Oregon State University Starting September 2024-
Bachelor of Science, Natural Resources Corvallis, OR
Virginia Commonwealth University May 2018
Master of Fine Arts, Painting and Printmaking Richmond, VA
University of North Texas May 2014
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing Denton, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Symbiosis: Queer Ecology, Parallax Art Center, Portland, OR
2020 New American Paintings: MFA Annual #147, Juror: Beth Rudin DeWoody, Exhibition in
2019 Phone Home, curated by Wendy Vogel, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2018 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Anderson, Richmond, VA
2017 Emerge, Page Bond, Richmond, VA
L’Heauxspitalitea, FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
The Candidates, John Marshall, Richmond, VA
2016 Aural Fixation, FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
2015 Autumn Glances, Manitou Art Center, Manitou Springs, CO
Hunting Art Prize Gala, Friedkin Companies Campus, Houston, TX
2014 Blue Yule, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Trust, Hyperspace Gallery, Dallas, TX
EXPO, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
Drawing and Painting Senior Exit Show, Cora Stafford Gallery, UNT CVAD, Denton,
TX
54th Annual Voertman Exhibition, UNT Art Gallery, UNT CVAD, Denton, TX
Mise en Scène, Cora Stafford Gallery, UNT CVAD, Denton, TX
Drawing and Painting Senior Invitational Showcase, Lightwell Gallery, UNT CVAD,
Denton, TX
2013 College EXPO, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
Drawing and Painting Senior Invitational Showcase, Lightwell Gallery, UNT CVAD
Denton, TX
Junior Review Showcase, Cora Stafford Gallery, UNT CVAD, Denton, TX
Scholarship Exhibition Showcasing Scholarship Recipients from CVAD, Lightwell
Gallery, UNT CVAD, Denton, TX
53rd Annual Voertman Exhibition, UNT Art Gallery, UNT CVAD, Denton, TX
All Level Watercolor-A Two Gallery Exhibition, North Gallery, UNT CVAD, Denton, TX
2010 Visual Arts Society of Texas Annual 125-mile, TWU East and West Galleries, Denton,
TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Unbuild, Epocha, Dallas, TX
PRESS RELEASES , PUBLICATIONS , and ONLINE FEATURES
2022 Fire Season II, by Fire Season
2021 Off the Cost Interview, by Off the Cost
2021 Booooooom Design Inc., “A Soft Journey Through Rigid Terrain, by Artist L. Hensens,”
https://www.booooooom.com/2021/02/04/a-soft-journey-through-rigid-terrain-by-
artist-l-hensens/
2020 MFA Annual Exhibition Issue #147, New American Paintings, Juror: Beth Rudin
DeWoody
2019 Wendy Vogel, “PHONE HOME’ AT EFA PROJECT SPACE, FEATURING VCUARTS
PAINTING + PRINTMAKING MFA ALUMNI,”
https://arts.vcu.edu/paintingprintmaking/2019/05/28/phonehome/
2018 VCU Arts, 2018 MFA Graduate Thesis Catalog, 86-89.
2015 Kelly Sims, “L. Hensens : Artist,” Austere REM // Issue 13.76
THESIS
2018. A PERSONAL APPROACH TO LANDSCAPE: EMPATHY, SENTIMENT, AND THE
ENVIRONMENT’S REPRESENTATION IN TUMULTUOUS TIMES, VCU Scholars
Compass
SELECTED AWARDS
2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Studio Art, UNT Honor’s Day, UNT Murchison
Performing Arts Center, Denton, TX
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, College of Liberal Arts, Southern Oregon University
Adjunct Faculty, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
2019 Adjunct Faculty, Cedar Valley College, Dallas, TX
2017-18 Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA