Kent Henricksen

Kent Henricksen is best known his embroidered paintings on silk and his ceramic sculpture whose participants don masks and elaborate costumes that transform their wearers into spirits, beasts, or ancestral beings. He has lived and worked in New York City and Cold Spring, NY since 2002. His work has been the focus of numerous solo and group museum exhibitions including the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, The Gold Standard (2006) and Greater New York (2005) at PS 1/MOMA; ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; Crafty, curated by Lisa Tung, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, at the Museum of Art and Design, New York. Gallery exhibtions include Paul Kasmin, New York; John Connelly Presents, New York; Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo; Arario Gallery, Seoul; Galleria Glance, Torino; c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin; and Mario Diacano, Boston. He is the recipient of awards including Acadia Summer Arts Program and finalist for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Residencies include Wave Hill in the Bronx and LES Artist Alliance. Henricksen has lectured at many universities and institutions, including The Rubin Museum, Ringling College of Art and Design, and the Acadia Summer Art Program. He has taught children through the Joan Mitchell Art Foundation Serving under privileged New York City school children. Henricksen’s work has been reviewed in numerous publications including the NY Times, Art in America, HyperAllergic and White Hot Magazine to name a few. Roberta Smith in the New York Times describes Henricksen’s work by saying it “dazzles on every front — skill, color, narrative suggestion, pictorial complexity”.

 

His work is in the permanent museum collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Fogg Museum at Harvard to name a few.