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.
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).
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Aktuelle und vergangene Ausstellungstermine:
16.11.2012
"Die Nacht ist in den Tag verliebt"
31.01.2013
IN ORDER
23.07.2016
Decoding Scripture & Picture
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
In order, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2012
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 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, NY
Polyconic Projections (in collaboration with Zeena Parkins), Diapason Gallery, New York
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
Our Words Became Parts of the Landscape, Diapason Gallery, New York City
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCE (SELECTION)
2013
Poesie als Kunstklang, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Metamorphosen, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin,Germany
2012
City Sonic Festival, Brussels and Mons, Belgium
Asche und Gold. Eine Weltenreise, MARTa Museum, Herford
Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2011
Twin Twin, Pierogi Gallery, New York
The sound of No-one, Club Transmediale, Berlin
Hans hat Glück, Shloss Gandegg, Eppan
2010
Tonspur expanded, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Common Sense, Appiano, Bolzano
2009
ganz kleines Kino (collaboration with Stefan Bohnenberger), Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf
Anlage, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
2008
Disobey This Command (sound for video by David Brody) Pierogi Leipzig, Leipzig
INTERIEUR, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf
“Steierischer Herbst” Festival, Sound Installation for choreographer Meg Stuart, Helmut List
Halle, Graz
Zoom+-, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
2007
Sequences Festival, Reykjavik
2007 fünf+1, singuhr – hoergalerie / TU, Berlin
The Cycle of the 10,000 Things multi-channel audio concert presentation Roulette / Location One,
New York City
Silence, Gigantic Art Space, New York City
2005
Resonant Spaces, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Passing Through, Art in General at Bloomberg LP, New York City
Technical Breakdown, AUX.dk, Copenhagen
The Nature of the 102nd Thing (of 10,000), Anthology Film Archive, New York City
2004
Six Sites for Sound, Resonance Magazine, London
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)
The Whitney Museum of American Art Commission
2004
Long Island University Outdoor Sculpture Commission
Artist Resource Media Lab Fellowship, Dance Theater Workshop
2002 Harvestworks Artist in Residence
1999
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Recording Program Award
1998
The New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”)
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