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| KAREN HENDERSON |
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Karen Henderson’s current work has been informed by research into visual strategies for spatial occupation.
She has been looking at camouflage as strategies of design which are intended to complicate how an object in
an environment is read, misread or visually erased in order to understand how objects can occupy space in
more tenuous and temporal ways. Henderson is interested in the point where an object integrates with a
space and how this succeeds or fails. This body of work includes a group of objects which draw on the Dazzle
camouflage designs employed during WWI to break up the visual coherence of large targets.
Henderson is interested in how objects take up space and interrupt our visual field and in how much effort is
required for this to happen over longer periods of time. The investment necessary seems to have political
potential and how space is occupied and claimed and how objects are implicated in these actions, are central
questions.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2010 Seasonal Disorder, 5 Gransden Avenue Gallery, London
2010 Something Might Happen, The Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
2009 Workshop of Hereafter, Blyth Gallery, London
2008 Cantilever, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London - curators Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman
2005 Performance Furniture, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London curated by Peter Stickland
1998.1999 Faculty Show, William Patterson University, Wayne, New Jersey
1995 Sense or Spit, Eighth Floor Gallery, 473 Broadway, New York
1994 BT New Contemporaries, London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Aberystwyth, Manchester
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2007 Oh, show me your beauty when the witnesses have gone Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana
curated by Noel Kelly and Alenka Gregoric
2005 Material Devotion, Ramchanderji Mandir, Jaipur International Festival, India
curated by Peter Nagy www.jaipurfestival.org
2004 No Respect, Dublin City Council Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin
curated by Alan Phelan and Jane Speller www.geocities.com/norespect4
2002 Picture This: Revisiting the Picturesque, The Meadow Gallery, Burford House, Shropshire
curated by Anne de Charmant www.meadowgallery.co.uk.
SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON SHOWS
2004 Arrangement, Atrium Gallery, PricewaterhouseCoopers, London
2003 Karen Henderson & Eiji Watanabe/ Dave Beech, Tag Team Experiment, Edinburgh www.tagteam.org.uk
2001 Karen Henderson & Hidenori Kondo, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York www.momentaart.org
RESIDENCIES
2009 Ox-Bow, Michigan, USA
AWARDS
2009-10 Research Bursary, Goldsmiths, London
2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship
2004 British Council Travel Grant
2001-2003 The Kerr-Fry Award
1992-1993 International Fellowship, the American Association of University Women
1991 The Helen Rose Bequest, Edinburgh College of Art
1991 The James and Frieda Lund Trust
1991 The Hope Scott Trust
The Scottish International Education Trust
EDUCATION
2009-present Phd Art Practice, Goldsmiths, London
2001-2003 BA Hons Interior and Spatial Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1991-1993 MFA Combined Media, Hunter College of the City University of New York
1986-1991 MA Hons Fine Art, Edinburgh University
She has been looking at camouflage as strategies of design which are intended to complicate how an object in
an environment is read, misread or visually erased in order to understand how objects can occupy space in
more tenuous and temporal ways. Henderson is interested in the point where an object integrates with a
space and how this succeeds or fails. This body of work includes a group of objects which draw on the Dazzle
camouflage designs employed during WWI to break up the visual coherence of large targets.
Henderson is interested in how objects take up space and interrupt our visual field and in how much effort is
required for this to happen over longer periods of time. The investment necessary seems to have political
potential and how space is occupied and claimed and how objects are implicated in these actions, are central
questions.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2010 Seasonal Disorder, 5 Gransden Avenue Gallery, London
2010 Something Might Happen, The Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
2009 Workshop of Hereafter, Blyth Gallery, London
2008 Cantilever, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London - curators Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman
2005 Performance Furniture, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London curated by Peter Stickland
1998.1999 Faculty Show, William Patterson University, Wayne, New Jersey
1995 Sense or Spit, Eighth Floor Gallery, 473 Broadway, New York
1994 BT New Contemporaries, London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Aberystwyth, Manchester
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2007 Oh, show me your beauty when the witnesses have gone Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana
curated by Noel Kelly and Alenka Gregoric
2005 Material Devotion, Ramchanderji Mandir, Jaipur International Festival, India
curated by Peter Nagy www.jaipurfestival.org
2004 No Respect, Dublin City Council Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin
curated by Alan Phelan and Jane Speller www.geocities.com/norespect4
2002 Picture This: Revisiting the Picturesque, The Meadow Gallery, Burford House, Shropshire
curated by Anne de Charmant www.meadowgallery.co.uk.
SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON SHOWS
2004 Arrangement, Atrium Gallery, PricewaterhouseCoopers, London
2003 Karen Henderson & Eiji Watanabe/ Dave Beech, Tag Team Experiment, Edinburgh www.tagteam.org.uk
2001 Karen Henderson & Hidenori Kondo, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York www.momentaart.org
RESIDENCIES
2009 Ox-Bow, Michigan, USA
AWARDS
2009-10 Research Bursary, Goldsmiths, London
2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship
2004 British Council Travel Grant
2001-2003 The Kerr-Fry Award
1992-1993 International Fellowship, the American Association of University Women
1991 The Helen Rose Bequest, Edinburgh College of Art
1991 The James and Frieda Lund Trust
1991 The Hope Scott Trust
The Scottish International Education Trust
EDUCATION
2009-present Phd Art Practice, Goldsmiths, London
2001-2003 BA Hons Interior and Spatial Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1991-1993 MFA Combined Media, Hunter College of the City University of New York
1986-1991 MA Hons Fine Art, Edinburgh University
