Douglas Henderson (Baltimore,1960)
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 1982.
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.
He has been awarded 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).
Solo Exhibitions
2012 (March) Poets and Superheroes, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
2010 Guest, Museo San Francesco, San Marino
2009 Music for 100 Carpenters, The Boiler @ Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Dukatenscheißer, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
2007 playback. no rewind button, daadgalerie, Berlin
2007 4 Parts in an Immense Disorder of Truths, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne,
2006 Icebreaker, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2006 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, New York
2003 Our Words Became Parts of the Landscape, Diapason Gallery, New York City
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
2012 (January) Ash and Gold, MARTa Museum, Herford
2011 Twin Twin, Pierogi Gallery, New York
2011 The sound of No-one, Club Transmediale, Berlin
2011 Hans hat Glück, Shloss Gandegg, Eppan
2010 Tonspur expanded, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2010 Common Sense, Appiano, Bolzano
2009 ganz kleines Kino (collaboration with Stefan Bohnenberger), Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf
2009 Anlage, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
2008 Disobey This Command (sound for video by David Brody) Pierogi Leipzig, Leipzig
2008 INTERIEUR, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf
2008 “Steierischer Herbst” Festival, Sound Installation for choreographer Meg Stuart, Helmut List
Halle, Graz
2008 Zoom+-, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
2007 Sequences Festival, Reykjavik
2007 fünf+1, singuhr – hoergalerie / TU, Berlin
2007 The Cycle of the 10,000 Things multi-channel audio concert presentation Roulette / Location One,
New York City
2007 Silence, Gigantic Art Space, New York City
2005 Resonant Spaces, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
2005 Passing Through, Art in General at Bloomberg LP, New York City
2005 Technical Breakdown, AUX.dk, Copenhagen
2005 The Nature of the 102nd Thing (of 10,000), Anthology Film Archive, New York City
2004 Six Sites for Sound, Resonance Magazine, London
2004 Six Outdoor Projects at LIU, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, New York City
Selected Awards, Commissions
2008 The Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Program Award
2007 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
2007 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grantee
2005 The Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Program Award (with Luis Lara Malvacias)
2005 The Whitney Museum of American Art Commission
2004 Long Island University Outdoor Sculpture Commission
2004 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”)
Education
1982 BA in Music Composition at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
1991 PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University, Princeton NJ
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Wonder Woman ( 2011), carbon fiber, 22k gold, glass, speaker, lasers, 10 min. stereo soundtrack. 106 x 70 x 32. Photo by Douglas Henderson
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Wonder Woman -detail- ( 2011), carbon fiber, 22k gold, glass, speaker, lasers, 10 min. stereo soundtrack. 106 x 70 x 32. Photo by Douglas Henderson
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Babel III: Language Angel (2010) (with thanks to David Henderson) Carbon fiber, stainless steel, aluminum, speakers. 6 channel audio. 15 minute loop. © Photo by Douglas Henderson. |
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Babel III: Language Angel, detail (2010) (with thanks to David Henderson) Carbon fiber, stainless steel, aluminum, speakers. 6 channel audio. 15 minute loop. © Photo by Douglas Henderson. |
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Silver Surfer (2010), Sterling silver, laser, wood, acrylic, steel, loudspeakers. 2 channel audio, 8 min. 15 secs. Size Variable. © Photo by Douglas Henderson. |
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Silver Surfer (2010), Sterling silver, laser, wood, acrylic, steel, loudspeakers. 2 channel audio, 8 min. 15 sec. Size Variable. © Photo by Douglas Henderson. |
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Dukatenscheißer (2009) Plastic sewer pipes, 22 karat gold, speakers, 12 channel audio. 36 x 36 x 350cm, 35 min.© Photo by Douglas Henderson. |
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Fadensonnen (2009) Fiberglass, wood, rope, speakers, 8 channel audio. 42 x 42 x 350 cm, 25 min.
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Flash Gordon (2009) Wood, steel, paper, speaker, electronics, 2 channel audio. 22 x 40 x 170cm, 15 min. |
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Flash Gordon detail |
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Panorama I (2009) in collaboration with Stefan Bohnenberger. Wood, lenses, electronics, single channel audio. 11 x 14 x 9 cm, 3 tracks, 135 secs.
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Interior view from Panorama I
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Romeo y Julieta Act II, Scene II (2009) in collaboration with Stefan Bohnenberger. Wood, lenses, electronics, single channel audio. 20 x 15 x 6cm, 20 secs.
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Interior view, frames from the film inside Romeo y Julieta Act II, Scene II |
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...therefore I Am (2009) wood, speakers, 15 channel audio. Size variable, 30 min. |
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...therefore I Am detail |
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See, we rise (2008), 4 m x 40 cm x 40 cm, rope, concrete, speakers, 16-channel audio, 50 min. 15 sec. © Photo by Douglas Henderson. |
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See, we rise (2008), 4 m x 40 cm x 40 cm, rope, concrete, speakers, 16-channel audio, 50 min. 15 sec. © Photo by Douglas Henderson. |
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Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges (2009), 1m x 2m x 30 cm, water, speakers, low frequency sine waves, paint, wood, terracotta. |
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Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges (2009), 1m x 2m x 30 cm, water, speakers, low frequency sine waves, paint, wood, terracotta. |
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Water Speaker Resonance Patterns (2009) 40 x 50cm, Lambda print. |
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Untitled 2006 (2006).1m x 170cm x 70cm, water, speakers, low frequency sine waves, paint, wood. |
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Untitled 2006 detail (2006).1m x 170cm x 70cm, water, speakers, low frequency sine waves, paint, wood.
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stop. 2007, 140cm x 60cm x 60cm, and 130cm x 75cm x 30cm, wood, concrete, electronics, amplifier, speakers. |
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