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Kathleen Henderson is a visual artist living and working in the Bay Area. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo shows in LA, and San Francisco as well as the Drawing Center in New York. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and is in the collections of the Hammer Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is currently a staff artist at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA and senior editor at the Creative Growth magazine. Known primarily for her drawings made with black oil stick on white paper, Henderson has incorporated color into this new work; in some instances suggesting a bloody rawness and at other times a queasy green toxic ooze.
Education
MFA Program, Queens College, Queens , New York
BFA Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA
Solo Exhibitions
Spring/Break Special Project: Kathleen Henderson, Gummed Reverse - Track 16, LA, CA, 2023
Bluebeard and Other Poolings - Track 16, LA, CA, 2022
Watch Me make You Disappear - Track 16, LA, CA, 2020
The Story of How This All Came to be is Long and Complicated - Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2014
Drawings - Paule Anglim Gallery, SF, CA 2012
Notes on a Gathering Crowd - Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2012
Irresistible Empire - Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2010
I Shew You A Mystery - Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2008
What If I Could Draw a Bird That Could Change the World - The Drawing Center, NY, NY, 2008
Time and Space Can Change Your Life - Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2007
Salvador Donkey - Ashby Stage, Berkeley, CA,2005
Drawings - Stephen Wirtz Gallery, SF, CA, 2002
Selected Group Shows
This is America - Kunsthalle Kade, Amersfoot, NL, 2020
Democracy Shop - Frieze Art Fair, LA, CA, 2020
Didn’t you Know What You were Carrying On Your Back - Rosalux, Berlin, Germany, 2019
The End is Here - Rosamund Felsen Gallery, LA, CA, 2016
The Nothing That Is: A Drawing Show In Five Parts - CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, 2015
The Possible - Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, 2014
La Bete - Galerie Impaire, Paris, France, 2010
Hot and Cold - Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions, SF, CA, 2009
Good Doll- Bad Doll - Armory Center for the Arts,Pasadena, CA, 2008
Who New? - Recent Art from the Bay Area - Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2005
Drawing First - Southern Exposure at Project Artaud, SF, CA, 1993
Awards
Yellow House Foundation -2009
National Endowment for the Arts, Works on Paper, 1992
Selected Bibliography
Leah Ollman, Review: Villain or victim? Comic or tragic? The unsettling art of Kathleen Henderson, LA Times, Jan. 2020
Jody Zellen, What’s On Los Angeles, 1/16/2020
Matt Stromberg, ArtRXLA, Hyperallergic, 10/14/2014
Renee Hoogland, A Violent Embrace, Art and Aesthetics after Representation, University Press of New England, 2014
Leah Ollman, A Cynical and Raw Approach Turns Searing, LA Times, Oct. 2012
Leah Ollman, Reviews, Art in America, Sept. 2012
Leah Ollman, Issues Tend to Draw Her, LA TImes, June 2010
Sharon Mizota, Critic’s Pick, Artforum.com, Nov. 2008
Leah Ollman, Keeping it Simple and Stark, LA Times, Dec. 2008
Holland Cotter, What if I Could Draw a Bird That Could Change the world?, The Listings, NY Times, Sept., 2008
Leah Ollman, Going Bit by Bit to a Larger effect, LA Times, March, 2007
Jody Zellen, Kathleen Henderson at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Artillery, Vol. 5, 2007
Lindsey Westbrook, Artweek, Vol. 36, July/Aug., 2005
Tripwire #6, Fall, 2003
Kenneth Baker, Goode and Henderson at Wirtz, San Francisco Chronicle, March, 2002
Public Collections
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Residencies
Surf Point Foundation, York, Maine 2021
18th Street Arts Center Residency, Santa Monica, CA 2021
Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA, 2017, 2015 ,2012, 2009
Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA, 2012, 2009
The Oxbow School, Napa, CA, 2012, 2009