Alina Tenser

Biography

Alina Tenser is a Ukrainian-born artist and educator whose work spans sculpture, performance, and video. Her interdisciplinary practice proposes modes of physical engagement that interrogate habitual interactions with materials and social structures. Working with industrial and domestic forms, Tenser reimagines everyday systems through a lens shaped by her experience as an immigrant and parent. Her work invites movement, play, and reorientation, often blurring the boundaries between the functional and the poetic.

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 reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and others.

In 2022, Tenser completed In Parentheses, a public installation for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Chemo Infusion Center in Brooklyn. In 2024, she was included in Great Women Sculptors, a major Phaidon Press survey. She has held residencies at Lighthouse Works, Queens Museum Studio Program, Recess Activities, and is currently in residence at Triangle Arts in Brooklyn.