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  KAREN HENDERSON
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Born:
1964, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Toronto, Canada

Education:
1986-1988: M.F.A., University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1983-1986: B.F.A. Honours, Camberwell School of Art, London, UK
1982-1983: Foundation Course in Art and Design, Central School of Art, London, UK
 
Solo Exhibitions:
2011: Slow Falls Rising, a commissioned project for Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario
2011: Solid Light, YYZ, YYZ artists outlet, Toronto, Ontario
2010: Slow Pan 5pm to 9pm, Blackwood Gallery, Bernie Miller Lightbox, Mississauga, Ontario
2009: Slow Pans, Akau inc., Toronto, Ontario
2007: Open Studio Visiting Artist’s Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007: Ramp-Wall, a project for the Wallworks series at the Art Gallery of Ontario
2005: Optica, A Centre For Contemporary Art, Montréal, Québec
2002: Artists Residency and exhibition at Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
2002: Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
2000: Images Festival of Film and Video, Installation at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
1999: Present Tense Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario
1999: The White House Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997: Peregrine Artists Collective solo project at 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto, Ontario
1992: Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
1988: X-Changes Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
 
Group Exhibitions:
2017: Signals and Sentiments, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto
2016: Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto, Art Museum, University of Toronto
2013: Half Way There screening at Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
2013: Half Way There screening at Images Festival, Toronto, Ontario
2013: I Thought There Were Limits, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2011: This is the place it is, 20+3 projects, Manchester, UK
2009: Graphica Creativa 09, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland
2005: time lag,  iiab Foundation. Basel, Switzerland
2005: Waypoint, Case Studies, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2005: Beyond/In Western New York, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
2003: Flywheel  artists’ collective, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1999: Flywheel  artists’ collective, The Nunnery Gallery, London, England
1998: Cold City Invitational, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1998: Time Indefinite, The Loggia Gallery, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Ontario
1995: Niche, Install-ART, Guelph, Ontario
1994: Naked State, Power Plant Gallery, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario
1986: London Institute of Art Show, Festival Hall, Southbank, London, England
1985: South London Art Gallery, London, England
 
Related Works:
2006: Supernova. Trophies commissioned by the Groupe Molior for the Canadian Association of Science Centres Awards 2006
2000: Macintosh Road Test, an artists publication made in collaboration with Corinne Carlson and Marla Hlady

Awards:
2007: The Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Grant
2005: The Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography through the Canada Council for the Arts

Artists Residencies:
2009/2010: Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2000: Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.

Many of the works shown were produced with the support of:
The City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council
Ontario Arts Council
The Canada Council for the Arts

 
 
 
 

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