DOUGLAS HENDERSON (1960, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

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1 DOUGLAS HENDERSON (1960, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

2 Douglas Henderson Sound artist and composer Douglas Henderson was born in 1960 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied music composition and theory with Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky, and J.K. Randall, receiving his PhD. in composition from Princeton University in 1991 and his Bachelor's degree in composition from Bard College in He recently chaired the Sound Arts Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and conducts master classes in electroacoustic composition, multi-channel audio and recording arts. In 2012 he has been invited to major museum exhibitions such as "Asche und Gold. Eine Weltenreise" at MARTa in Herford, "Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst" at ZKM in Karlsruhe and "City Sonic Festival" in Belgium. He has been awarded a 2008 Rockefeller Foundation Multi- Arts Program Award for Music for 100 Carpenters (2009), a 2007 DAAD artist residency in Berlin, and a 2007 Foundation for Contemporary Arts individual artist grant. He was a 2002 and 2006 artist in residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Lab, a 2004 Dance Theater Workshop ARM Fellow, and a 2005 guest artist for Resonance Magazine (London). He received a 2005 Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Program Award for work with choreographer Luis Lara Malvacías, and the New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") for his work on Kriyas (1998)

3 Solo Exhibitions 2013 The Sea Is A Big Green Lense, in collaboration with David Henderson, Studio 10, Brooklyn, New York In order, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Gallery, Vienna 2012 Poets and Superheroes, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin 2009 Music for 100 Carpenters, The Pierogi, Brooklyn Dukatenscheißer, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin 2007 playback. no rewind button, daadgalerie, Berlin 4 Parts in an Immense Disorder of Truths, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne 2006 Icebreaker, Hudson Opera House, Hudson Polyconic Projections (in collaboration with Zeena Parkins), Diapason Gallery, New York City 2005 A Dream Like She Loves You, vertexlist space, New York City 2003 Music from Empty Holes, Big and Tall Casuals Gallery, Brooklyn Our Words Became Parts of the Landscape, Diapason Gallery, New York City

4 Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances 2015 in collaboration with SinusTon Festival, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Liebe Frauen, Magdeburg 2014 Digital life, Romaeuropa festival, MACRO, Rome Metamorphilia/Metamorphobia, Kanepes Kultural Centrs SIA, Riga 2013 On reflexion, DAAD's 50th Anniversary of the Artist-in-Berlin Programm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin Metamorphosen, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin Poesie als Kunstklang, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2012 CitySonic festival, Mons Ash and Gold, MARTa Museum, Herford Klang als Medium der Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe 2011 Twin Twin, Pierogi Gallery, New York City The sound of No-one, Club Transmediale, Berlin Hans hat Glük, Schloß Gandegg, Appiano 2010 Tonspur expanded, MuseumQuartier, Vienna Common Sense, Appiano Museo di San Francesco, San Marino 2009 ganz kleines Kino - Romeo y Julieta (collaboration with Stefan Bohnenberger), Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf Anlage See, we rise, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin 2008 Disobey This Command (sound for video by David Brody), Pierogi Leipzig, Leipzig INTERIEUR Footfall interieur Sound Installation for choreographer Meg Stuart, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf Steierischer Herbst Festival All Together Now, Helmut List Halle, Graz Zoom+- Disobey This Command, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco 2007 Sequences Festival Giving Up the Ghost, Grey Cat, Reykjavik fünf+1 On the Road Home, singuhr hoergalerie / TU, Berlin The Cycle of the 10,000 Things multi-channel audio concert presentation, Roulette / Location One, New York City Silence - Untitled 2006, Gigantic Art Space, New York City 2005 Resonant Spaces - Music from Empty Holes, (pages of illustrations), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City Passing Through Tickertape, Art in General at Bloomberg LP, New York City Technical Breakdown Giving Up the Ghost, AUX.dk, Copenhagen The Nature of the 102nd Thing (of 10,000), Anthology Film Archive, New York City 2004 Six Sites for Sound Icebreaker, Resonance Magazine, London Six Outdoor Projects at LIU Icebreaker, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, New York City

5 Selected Awards, Commissions 2013 Winner of the European Soundart Award (Deutsche Klangkunst Preis) 2012 The Giga Hertz Prise for electronic music 2008 The Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Program Award 2007 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grantee 2005 The Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Program Award (with Luis Lara Malvacias) The Whitney Museum of American Art Commission 2004 Long Island University Outdoor Sculpture Commission Artist Resource Media Lab Fellowship, Dance Theater Workshop 2002,06 Harvestworks Artist in Residence 1999 Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Recording Program Award 1998 The New York Dance and Performance Award ( Bessie )

6 Education 1982 BA in Music Composition at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY 1991 PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University, Princeton NJ

7 Douglas Henderson, See, we rise, 2009 Rope, concrete, speakers, 16 channel audio, 50 min 15 sec, 4m x 40cm x 40cm

8 Douglas Henderson, Untitled 2006, 2006 Water, speakers, low frequency sine waves, 55 min

9 Douglas Henderson, Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges, 2009 Water, speakers, low frequency sine waves, paint, wood, terracotta, 1m x 2m x 30 cm

10 Douglas Henderson, Dukatenscheißer, 2009 Plastic sewer pipes, 22 karat gold, speakers, 12 channel audio. 36 x 36 x 350 cm, 35 min

11 Douglas Henderson, Fadensonnen, 2009 Fiberglass, wood, rope, speakers, 8 channel audio. 42 x 42 x 350 cm, 25 min

12 Douglas Henderson, Flash Gordon, 2009 Wood, steel, paper, speaker, electronics, 2 channel audio. 22 x 40 x 170 cm, 15 min

13 Douglas Henderson, Panorama I, 2009 In collaboration with S. Bohnenberger. Wood, lenses, electronics, single channel audio. 11 x 14 x 9 cm, 3 tracks, 135 secs

14 Douglas Henderson, Romeo y Julieta, Act II Scene II, 2009 In collaboration with Stefan Bohnenberger. Wood, lenses, electronics, single channel audio. 20 x 15 x 6 cm, 20 secs

15 Douglas Henderson, Stop, 2007 Wood, concrete, electronics, amplifier, speakers, 140 x 60 x 60cm, and 130 x 75 x 30 cm.

16 Douglas Henderson, Water Speaker Resonance Patterns 1 15, 2009 Lambda prints, 50 x 38 cm, in editions of five prints

17 Douglas Henderson, Silver Surfer, 2010 Sterling silver, wood, acrylic, steel, loudspeakers. 2 channel audio, 8 min. 15 sec. First part: 45 x 45 x 45 cm. Second part: 11 x 11 x 20 cm.

18 Douglas Henderson, Silver laser, 2010 Lambda prints, 50 x 38 cm, in editions of five prints

19 Douglas Henderson, Babel III: Language Angel, 2010 With thanks to David Henderson. Carbon fiber, stainless steel, aluminum, speakers. 6 channel audio. 15 minute loop. 4m x 2,1 m x 2,1 m

20 Douglas Henderson, Wonder Woman, 2011 Carbon fiber, 22k gold, glass, speaker, lasers, 10 min. stereo soundtrack. 106 x 70 x 32.

21 Douglas Henderson, Kosmonaut Gagarin, 2011 With thanks to David Henderson. Carbon fiber, stainless steel, aluminum, speakers. 6 channel audio. 15 minute loop. 4m x 2,1 m x 2,1 m.

22 Douglas Henderson, The Royal Flush, 2011 Plastic sewer pipes, sterling silver, speakers, 5 channel audio. 36 x 36 x 300 cm, 28 min

23 Douglas Henderson, Babel V: Dream Man, 2012 Fiberglass, stainless steel, wood, speakers. 7 channel audio 16 min. loop. 110 x 90 x 285cm

24 Douglas Henderson, Silver Surfer #2: Exile, 2012 Wood, loudspeakers, sterling silver, mylar, PVC, aluminum, lasers, multichannel audio. 8 min. 40 sec. loop. 110 h x 120 x 42 cm

25 Douglas Henderson, In Order, 2012 Fiberglass, copper, wood, concrete, acrylic, speakers. Kinetic, 8 channel audio, 21 min. loop. Size Variable

26 Douglas Henderson, Flower nr. 4, 2014 Kinetic sound sculpture, fiberglass, carbon fiber, glass, wood, metal, acrylic, 1 channel audio, 7 minute loop

27 Douglas Henderson, Flower nr. 3, 2013 Kinetic sound sculpture, fiberglass, carbon fiber, glass, wood, metal, acrylic, 220h x 40 x 55 cm 1 channel audio, 6 min. loop

28 Douglas Henderson, The Sea Is A Big Green Lense, 2014

29 Douglas Henderson, Underway, 2014 Wood, aluminum, brass, speakers, electronics. 6 min 45 sec loop, 145 x 50 x 50 cm