Exhibitions

The Henry provides a platform for forward-thinking artists from around the globe to experiment, explore ideas, and generate new work.

Current

<p>Undocumented Migration Project,&nbsp;<em>Hostile Terrain 94&nbsp;</em>[installation view], 2019. Image courtesy of the Undocumented Migration Project.</p>
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Hostile Terrain 94

2020-21 Academic Year
<p>In the <em>Saints </em>series, Marin Burnett reflects on her experience as a Black woman in America. Burnett challenges the distorted and fragmented images of Black women through a societal lens, drawing a parallel to how light refracts around an object as it moves through water. <em>Refracted Saint No. 1 </em>envisions the differences between how Black women view themselves and the ways others see them. The work depicts a Black female body as a “whole saint” adorned with only a halo. Set against a vibrant gilded background, she occupies space with her refracted reflection in water. “As we pass through an intolerant society, our image is distorted, our light and our sainthood refracted – but we are somehow still whole,” Burnett has explained. “Real saints are not gilded, they are pained, flawed, and beautiful people.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><p>Image: Marin Burnett, <em>Refracted Saint No. 1, 2019</em></p></p>
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Set in Motion: A Public Art Exhibition

December 2020 – February 2021

Upcoming

<p>Brittney Leeanne Williams,&nbsp;<i>Our Horizon</i>, 2019. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Collection of Josef Vascovitz and Lisa Goodman.&nbsp;Courtesy of the artist&nbsp;and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. Photo: RCH Photography. </p>
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Plural Possibilities & the Female Body

Winter 2021
<p>Bambitchell. Set Documentation of <em>Bugs &amp; Beasts Before the Law. </em>2019. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Florian Clewe.<br /> </p>
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Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law

Winter 2021
<p>Honoré Daumier, <em>Le Ventre Législatif</em>, Henry Art Gallery, Gift of Albert A. Feldmann, 2018.357. </p>
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Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print

Winter 2021
<p>Elaine Cameron-Weir, <em>Untitled (crucifix) </em>[detail], 2020. Stainless steel, concrete textile, laboratory hardware, pewter, glass.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>Courtesy of the artist, JTT, New York, and Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles. Photo: Charles Benton. </p> <p><p></p></p>
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Elaine Cameron-Weir

April 3, 2021 – September 12, 2021
<p><p>Gary Simmons, Study for <i>The Engine Room</i>, 2021. Courtesy of the artist. </p><p></p></p>
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Gary Simmons: The Engine Room

April 3, 2021 – August 22, 2021
<p>Images: Barbara Earl Thomas, <em>Man in Waiting</em>, 2020. Paper cut with hand printed color. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Spike Mafford. Derrick Adams, <em>Queen of Everything</em>, 2017. Mixed media collage on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Adam Reich.</p>
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Packaged Black: Barbara Earl Thomas and Derrick Adams

Fall 2021
<p>Diana Al-Hadid. <em>Smoke Screen. </em>2015. Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, gold leaf, plaster, pigment. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Joshua White.</p>
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Diana Al-Hadid

Fall 2021
<p>Math Bass. <em>Newz!.</em> 2020. Gouache/canvas. Courtesy of the artist.<br></p>
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Math Bass: a picture stuck in the mirror

Fall 2021 – Winter 2022
<p>Donna Huanca,&nbsp;<i>Obsidian Ladder&nbsp;</i>[documentation of performance, June 28 – December 1, 2019, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles]. Courtesy of the artist, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, and Peres Projects, Berlin. Photo: Joshua White.</p>
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Donna Huanca

Spring – Fall 2022

Past

<p>Installation detail of&nbsp;<em>Free Them All: Portraits from La Resistencia</em>, 2020, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,&nbsp;Seattle. Photo: Ian Siporin.</p>
Exhibitions

Free Them All: Portraits from La Resistencia

Fall 2020 – Winter 2021
<p>Sadie Barnette, <i>Room to Live</i>, 2019. Mixed media installation, holographic vinyl sofa, metal flake TV, archival inkjet prints, metal flake security cameras. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of <i>In Plain Sight</i>, 2019, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Mark Woods.</p>
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In Plain Sight

November 23, 2019 – August 30, 2020
<p>Carrie Yamaoka. <em>UV/VU</em>. 1992. Etched glass and mirrors. Courtesy of the artist.</p>
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Carrie Yamaoka: recto/verso

July 13, 2019 – November 3, 2019
<p><em>Beverly Semmes</em> [Installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle]. 2019. Photo: Mark Woods.</p>
Exhibitions

Beverly Semmes

June 22, 2019 – October 13, 2019
<p><em>2018 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition</em>. [Installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 2018.] Photo: Chona Kasinger.</p>
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2019 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition

May 25, 2019 – June 23, 2019
<p><em>Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happe</em>n [Installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle]. 2019. Photo: Mark Woods.</p>
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Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen

April 27, 2019 – September 15, 2019
<p>Edgar Arceneaux. <i>Library of Black Lies</i>. 2016. Wood, mirrored glass, mylar, newspaper, hard-bound books, sugar crystals, lighting fixtures, audio component. [Installation view, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2017]. Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Photo: Charlie Villyard.<br /></p>
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Edgar Arceneaux: Library of Black Lies

November 17, 2018 – June 2, 2019
<p>Caitlin Berrigan (U.S., born 1981). <i>Imaginary Explosions</i> (video still). 2018. HD video. Image courtesy of the artist.</p>
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Between Bodies

October 27, 2018 – April 28, 2019
<p>Mickalene Thomas. <i>La leçon d’amour.</i> 2008. © Mickalene Thomas. Courtesy of the artist; Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong; and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.<br /></p>
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MUSE: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête

July 14, 2018 – September 30, 2018
<p><em>Martha Friedman: Castoffs</em> [installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle]. 2018. Photo: Mark Woods, courtesy of the Henry. </p>
Exhibitions

Martha Friedman: Castoffs

June 15, 2018 – February 10, 2019
<p><em>2018 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition</em>. [Installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 2018.] Photo: Chona Kasinger.</p>
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2018 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition

May 26, 2018 – June 24, 2018
<p>Mungo Thomson (U.S., born 1969). <i>Composition for 52 Keys</i>. 2018. Custom code, computer components, Yamaha Disklavier piano. Henry Art Gallery, Commissioned by and Gift of William and Ruth True, 2018.1. Yamaha Disklavier piano provided complements of Classic Pianos Bellevue.  Image courtesy of the artist. Photo: Mark Woods.  </p>
Exhibitions

Mungo Thomson: Composition for 52 Keys

May 26, 2018 – September 9, 2018
<p>Demian DinéYazhi' (born 1983). <i>American Bondage West (slide 51)</i>. 2016 Image courtesy of the artist.</p>
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The Brink: Demian DinéYazhi´ 

April 14, 2018 – September 9, 2018
<p>Rirkrit Tiravanija (Argentina, Thailand, born 1961). Untitled (Demonstration no. 146). 2006. Pencil drawing on paper. Henry Art Gallery, gift of David Hoberman, Los Angeles, 2014.286. Image courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown's Enterprise.<br /></p>
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The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection

Nov 4, 2017 - Mar 25/Apr 22, 2018*
<p><i>Doris Totten Chase: Changing Forms</i> [installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle]. 2017. Photo: Mark Woods, courtesy of the Henry. </p>
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Doris Totten Chase: Changing Forms

July 8, 2017 – October 1, 2017