LeRoy Henderson
Egret (Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York), 2013
Digital print made from a color image in 1979, 21 x 24 inches
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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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2013 |
Fantasy & Reality:
Photography, June Kelly Gallery, New York. |
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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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2005 |
Brooklyn Diversity,
The Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
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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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2013 |
Convergence: Jazz, Films, and the Visual Arts, curated by Dr. Robert
E. Steele,
Dorit Yaron, Sonié Joi Ruffin-Thompson, organized by the David C.
Driskell
Center, College Park, MD and the American Jazz Musicians, Kansas
City,
MO; travelling exhibition, catalogue
Art & Soul: Vintage Photographs by Four African-American
Photographers,
Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York
I AM, Photographs & Prints, Works from the collection of Raymond J.
McGuire, Hotchkiss ’75, Tremaine Gallery AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL,
Lakeville, CT |
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2012 |
Eye of the
Photographer, Dorsey Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
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2011 |
30: A
Brooklyn Salon, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, BRIC Rotunda Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY; catalogue |
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2010 |
Eyewitness
Beautiful Black Brooklyn, Skylight Gallery, Restoration Center for
Arts Culture, Brooklyn, NY; catalogue |
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2009 |
Art &
Democracy IV, 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen & The Fall of The Berlin
Wall,
Visual Artists Guild, New York
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 |
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2008 |
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, NY
Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture,
Washington, DC
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
Harpo Studios, Chicago, IL |
Film/Video |
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2013 |
Snoad, Peter,
playwright, “The Draft,” a multi-media documentary play that,
includes an on stage projection of LeRoy Henderson’s photograph, “Anti-
Vietnam, Why Should I Fight in Vietnam,” multiple venues |
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2000 |
“Jazz,”
Florentine Films/Ken Burns Documentary, PBS Video Series, New
Hampshire & New York |
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1999 |
“I’ll Make Me
A World: A Century of African-American Art,” PBS Video Series,
Executive Producer Harry Hampton, Blackside, Inc., Boston, MA |
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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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