biography / bibliography
BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS
Born in 1945, Philadelphia, PA
Lives and works in New London, CT
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT
B.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT
Certificate, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Barkley L. Hendricks: Some Like It Hot, William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, October 25–December 18, 2011.
2008–2010
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Traveled to: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, November 12, 2008–March 15, 2009; Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, May 16–August 22, 2009; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, October 17, 2009–January 3, 2010; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, January 30–April 18, 2010.
2008
Thank You, Mr. John, The Project, New York
Barkley Hendricks: Jamaican Landscapes, Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, Providence RI
2005
Barkley Hendricks, 1972–1983, Projectile Gallery, New York
Beautiful Like a Woman, A Real Woman , Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
2001
The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience, Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, New London, CT
1997
Laura Knott Gallery at Bradford College, Bradford, MA
1993
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Connecticut College, New London, CT
The Many Face of Barkley Hendricks, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
1992
Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
Cape May County Art Gallery, Cape May, NJ
1988
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
1985
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Peale House Gallery, Philadelphia
1984
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
1983
Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, PA
1982
A.C.A. Galleries, New York, NY
1981
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Bell Laboratory, NJ
1980
Lancaster Community College, Lancaster, PA
Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
CRT Craftery Gallery, Hartford, CT
1979
The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience, Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, New London, CT
Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
1978
A.C.A. Galleries, New York, NY
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Arch Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Chicago State University, Chicago, IL
1976
A.C.A. Galleries, New York, NY
Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
1975
CRT Craftery Gallery, Hartford, CT
Gibbs Art Gallery, Charleston, SC
Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, SC
1973
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Kenmore Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1970
Kenmore Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
1968
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009–2013
30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, December 3, 2008–November 28, 2009. Traveled to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, March 19–September 4, 2011; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2011–February 12, 2012; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, March 16–July 15, 2012; Memphis Brooks Museum, Tennessee, Spring 2013. (Catalogue; text by Franklin Sirmans)
2012
Magical Visions, University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, February 8–June 30, 2012.
2011
Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut, April 10–September 18, 2011.
Shared Intelligence: American Painting and Photograph, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, February 4–April 24, 2011. Traveled to: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 20–September 11, 2011. Co-curated by Barbara Buhler Lynes and Jonathan Weinberg. (Catalogue; texts by Barbara Buhler Lynes, Jonathan Weinberg, Robert Cozzolino, Suzanne Hudson, Michael Leja, Michael Lobel, Kathleen Pyne, and Melissa Wolfe.)
Building The Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 10–August 14, 2011. Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker.
GOLD, Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum, Vienna, Austria
2010–2011
Counterlives, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 2, 2010–January 11, 2011.
2010
Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, University of Maryland, David C Driskell Center, College Park, MD. Traveling to: Yale University, New Haven, CT
185th Annual :An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, NY
Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Self-Consciousness, Curated by Peter Doig and Hilton Als, Michael Werner, Berlin
2009
The Joy of Blues, Country Club Project, Los Angeles, CA
Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
2008
Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, NY
Yesterday and Today, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Alumni Exhibition, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007
New at the Nasher, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Black Panther: Rank and File, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC and Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Connecticut Contemporary, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
American Visions, Phillips Exeter Academy Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH
2006–2007
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, March 17–June 2, 2006. Traveled to: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, July 21–November 30, 2007.
2006
Who’s On First: American Legacies Invitational, ALVA Gallery, New London, CT
REPRESENT: From the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Lag-Time Line-Up, Mumbo Jumbo Gallery, New York, NY
Black Panther: Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Day for Night: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005
Art Basel Miami, Projectile Gallery, Miami, FL
Frieze Art Fair, Projectile Gallery, London, England
Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imagery, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imagery, The Whitechapel, London, England
Tête à Tête, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
Centre International de Expocision de Larouche, Quebec, Canada
The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Queens, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2003–2005
Hair Stories, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, October 3, 2003–January 4, 2004. Traveled to: Clark Atlanta University Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia, February 1–April 10, 2004; Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, May 4–July 3, 2004; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, January–March 2005; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 16–June 19, 2005; Forty Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento, California, June–August 2005; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, July 9–September 11, 2005. (Catalogue; texts by Kim Curry-Evans and Dr. Neal A. Lester)
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, July–September 2003. Traveled to: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Seattle, April–July 2004; Barbican Art Gallery, London, September 9–October 24, 2004; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, December 18, 2004–March 6, 2005. (Catalogue)
2003
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
P. S. 1, New York, NY
Pfizer Global Research Headquarters, New London, CT
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY
Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting 1950 – 2000, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doyleston, PA
Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting 1950– 2000, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
2001
Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting 1950 – 2000, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Chrylser Museum, Norfolk, VA
Hampton University Art Museum, Hampton, VA
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
2000
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Durham, NC
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY
The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Clark Atlanta University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1999
Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
C. H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
Connecticut College, New London, CT
1998
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Mattituck Museum, Waterbury, CT
National Black Fine Art Show, New York, NY
1997
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT
1996
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Accra Contemporary Art Gallery, Accra, Ghana
1995
Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY
1993
Laura Knott Gallery at Bradford College, Bradford MA
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Hera Art Gallery, Wakefield, RI
1992
Laura Knott Gallery at Bradford College, Bradford MA
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
1991
Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY
1990
Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY
1988
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Long Island, NY
1987
Black American Art in Japan, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1985
John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY
1984
Long Wharf - Xerox Gallery, Stamford, CT
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Spectrum Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1983
Spectrum Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Spectrum Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Harlem State Collection, New York , NY
Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT
Wendell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia
1981
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Federal Executive Board, New York, NY
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1980
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
New York Urban League, Lever House, New York, NY
National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA
Stanbeck Museum, SC State College, Orangeburg, SC
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1979
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1978
Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1977
Florida International University, North Miami, FL
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1976
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1975
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Academy of Design, New York
Kenmore Galleries, Philadelphia
1974
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania State Academy, University Park, PA
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA
National Academy of Design, New York
1973
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ
1972
Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA
Carnegie Institute Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
1971
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Carnegie Institute Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Provident National Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
National Academy of Design, New York
1970
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
National Academy of Design, New York
Philadelphia Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1968
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1967
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1966
Kenmore Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2010
Amistad Center for Art & Culture President’s Award
College Art Association
Connecticut Governor’s Award for Excellence
2008
United States Artists Ford Fellow
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
Duke University Artist in Residence, Durham, NC
2006
Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Yale University Norfolk, CT
1998
Dupont Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Art Institute of Boston
1991
People to People Citizens Ambassador Fellowship
Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 1991
1987
The Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, PA
1984
Salute to the Arts Award, Philadelphia, PA
1979
43rd Annual Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art
Connecticut Commission on the Arts
1977
American Academy of Arts and Letters
1976
Connecticut Artist Annual, Slater Memorial Museum
1975
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Fellowship Exhibition
1974
Connecticut Artist Annual, Slater Memorial Museum
1972
Teaching Assistantship, Yale University
National Institute of Arts and Letters: Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award
1971
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Teaching Assistantship, Yale University
1969
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Fellowship Exhibition
1967
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, J. Henry Scheidt Memorial Scholarship
1966
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, William E. Cresson Memorial Scholarship
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Cecilia Beaux Portrait Prize
Pennsylvania Academy
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