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LeRoy Henderson

West Indian Day Parade, Brooklyn, NY, 1988
Gelatin silver print, 20 x 16
inches, edition 10
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Born
Richmond, Virginia
Lives and works in New York City |
Education |
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1967-70 |
Graphic
Design/Photography/Film, School of Visual Arts, New York |
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1966 |
M.S.,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York |
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1962 |
Printmaking,
Pratt Graphic Arts Center, New York |
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1959 |
B.S.,
Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia |
Solo Exhibitions |
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2009 |
Mermaids and
Masquerades, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2008 |
Protest:
Photography, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI |
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2007 |
Protest:
Photography, Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH
Protest: Photography, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2006 |
Black Women: a
place in history, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
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2003 |
All Our Children,
sponsored by Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Moon Café,
New York |
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2002 |
LeRoy Henderson
and Charles Martin: Photography, HBO/Time Warner
Entertainment Company, New York |
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2001 |
LeRoy
Henderson: Photography, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1999 |
LeRoy
Henderson: Photography, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York |
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1973 |
LeRoy
Henderson: Photography, Donnell Library, New York |
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1970 |
LeRoy
Henderson: Photography, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus,
New
York |
Select Group Exhibitions |
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2008 |
I Am A Man,
organized by Laurie Cumbo and Kimberli Gant, curated by Kevin
Powell, Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art, Brooklyn, NY
New York in Focus, curated by Gregory Pierre Minsk, New York
Health and
Hospital Corporation, New York
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968,
curated by curator of photography, Julian Cox, High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, GA, traveling exhibition, book |
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2007-08 |
Vietnam
Veterans’ Oral History, Brooklyn Historical Society, NY |
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2007 |
Celebration: Nine Artists Commemorate the 35th Anniversary of
Winston-Salem
Delta Fine Arts, NC; brochure |
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2004 |
Hearing
Voices: Personal Narratives, Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrence
Township,
NJ |
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2002 |
Flash,
City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA |
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2001 |
Committed
to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers, organized by Barbara Head Millstein, curator of photography,
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; catalogue |
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2000 |
Reflections
In Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present,
organized by the Anacostia Museum and
Center for African American
Identity and Culture, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC; traveling
exhibition, catalogue
Resurrection City: The Poor Peoples Campaign of 1968, New School
University,
New York |
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1999 |
Black New
York Photographers of the 20th Century, Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture, NY |
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1994 |
Photographers
Annual, 843 Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
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1993 |
Selected
African American Photographers,” 73-93,” Crawford Gallery, New York |
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1988 |
Small Works,
Cinque Gallery, New York
Curators Choice: The Photographer's Mind, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo,
NY |
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1987 |
Ars
Brvklyniensis: Part IV: Photography, Wiesner Gallery, New York |
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1985 |
Positive
Images of Black Americans, World Institute of Black Communications/
CBS, New York
The Family, 22 Wooster Gallery, New York |
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1984 |
Photo
Narration, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
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1983 |
The Chair
Show, BACA Downtown Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY |
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1981 |
Black
Enterprise 10th Anniversary Collection, CRT Craftery Gallery,
Hartford, CT |
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1980 |
Self-Portrait, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, traveling
exhibition,
book |
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1977 |
The Black
Photographer’s Perspective, The Wisconsin Union Galleries,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI |
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1972 |
An
Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Black Artists, C. W. Post College,
Long
Island, NY |
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1971 |
One A-Piece,
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York |
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1969 |
Focus on
Brooklyn II: Twenty Photographic Personalities, Community Gallery,
Brooklyn Museum, New York |
Public and Corporate Collections |
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Brooklyn Museum of
Art, New York
Schomburg Center for the Research in Black Culture, New York
Harpo Studios, Chicago, IL |
Film/Video |
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2000 |
“Jazz,”
Florentine Films/Ken Burns Documentary, New Hampshire & New
York, PBS Video series |
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1999 |
“I’ll Make Me
A World: A Century of African-American Art,”
Executive Producer Harry Hampton, Blackside, Inc., Boston, MA,
PBS Video series |
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1992 |
“You Gotta Pay
the Band,” an Abbey Lincoln Portrait, Gene Davis
Productions, New York |
Special National Tour |
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2008 |
“Fifteen
photographs by LeRoy Henderson were included in “Know Your History,” an
exhibition organized by American Legacy Magazine that visited 12 U. S.
cities in early 2008. The tour highlighted African-American history and
culture and included images from Henderson’s “Black Women, A Place in
History” series. |
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