Sinh:
1974
Cư trú:
Cold Spring, New York, USA
Quốc tịch:
American
Quỹ:
APT New York
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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.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art