RESUME

EDUCATION

1970 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1969 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 (upcoming) Mike Henderson, Before the Fire, 1965-1985, curated by Dan Nadel, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem
Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, CA
2020 Mike Henderson: The Black Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Mike Henderson: At the Edge of Paradise, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mike Henderson: Honest to Goodness, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Insights: Paintings by Mike Henderson, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2017 Parallel Spaces, Hanes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Traces of Places, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Mike Henderson: Reflections, Morris Gallery, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, MO
2011 Mike Henderson, Alex Bult Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2010 Now, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 New Work, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2007 Branches, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Patterns, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 B. Sakata Gato Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2003 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR
Still Wet, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Inside the Outside, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Sound, Light & Time, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Mike Henderson: Oil Paintings, San Marco Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA
Time, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Five Year Survey, California Museum of Art at the Luther Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA
1994 Recent Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Recent Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Recent Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Paintings, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1990 Adeline Kent Award Exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1989 One Man Exhibition: Mike Henderson, Marcia McCoy Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1988 Mike Henderson, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 East/West, Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
1985 Acrylibilder und Aquarelle, Loeb Galerie, Bern, Switzerland
Time Out to Paint, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1982 Recent Paintings, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1980 New Works, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Recent Work, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1978 Paintings by Mike Henderson, California State University, Sacramento, CA
1977 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1976 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 (upcoming) Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, NC
2019 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Landscape Without Boundaries, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, CA
Likenesses, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Mú (Wood) Show, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA
2017 Spectral Hues, Palo Alto Arts Center, CA
2012 Painting, The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Choose Paint!, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2011 75th Anniversary Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2011 Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2010 Out Of Order: Geometric Systems in Contemporary Bay Area Art, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, CA
2008 Paul McCarthy's Low Life, Slow Life: Part 1, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Works by Northern California African-American Artists, Sierra College Ridley Gallery, Rocklin, CA
2007 Duo, Oakland Art Gallery, CA
2004 NEOMOD, Recent Northern California Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Five Art Stars, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
SFMOMA Artist Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2001 Music in My Soul, Portsmouth Museum, VA
1999 What Is Art For?, Oakland Museum of California, CA
Vision, A.T. Kearney, San Francisco, CA
The Sight of Sound, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
1997 The Painter’s Craft, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Beyond Color, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1996 Traditions from Home: Quilting to Hip Hop Culture, Bay Front Gallery, The Northern California Center for African
American Arts, San Francisco, CA
Generations - The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, CA
ReinCARnation, Oakland Museum of California, CA
Illustrious History, 1871 - Present, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Seven African American Artists, Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1995 About Abstraction, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1994 Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collection, Oakland Museum of California, CA
Twenty-Five Years of Collecting California, Oakland Museum of California, CA
Black Power, Black Art, San Francisco State University Art Department Gallery, CA
Taken By Surprise - Improvisation in Dance and Mind, Talking Dance Project, Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, CA
1993 Revolution - Into the Second Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1992 From the Studio: Recent Paintings & Sculpture by 20 California Artists, Oakland Art Museum, CA
Summer Salon, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Why Painting, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1990 Oakland Artists '90, Oakland Art Museum, CA
1989 A.C.D.H.H.H.J.N.P.P.S.T., Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
6 East Bay Artists, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Black Perspective, Oakland Art Museum, CA
Art Against AIDS, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, CA
Arts Explosion Exhibition, Oakland Festival of the Arts, CA
Group Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Marcia McCoy Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1988 Arts Explosion Exhibition, Oakland Festival of the Arts, CA
Nothing Springs to Mind - William Allen, Mike Henderson, Robert Hudson,William Wiley Collaborations, University of the Pacific Gallery, Stockton, CA
Terry Allen, Mike Henderson, William Wiley, Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
1986 Hospitality House Art Exhibition & Benefit Auction, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Works of Art on Paper by Black Artists, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1984 In Celebration of Black History Month: Twelve Artists and Their Work, First Bank of Minneapolis, MN
1983 Center for the Arts & Humanities, Sun Valley, ID
Contemporary Images Watercolor: 1983, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WN
1982 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Hastings Gallery of Art, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA
Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA
White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
Alumni Show, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1981 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1979 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1978 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
American River Junior College, Sacramento, CA
1978 Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1977 Invitational American Drawing Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
1976 Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1975 Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1974 James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1971 Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1970 Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1969 Human Concern / Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Berkeley Art Museum, CA

FILM EXHIBITIONS

2020 True/False Film Fest, Columbus, MO
2019 SFAI x Canyon Cinema: Mike Henderson, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2017 Mike Henderson Program, New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Down Hear: The Films of Mike Henderson, Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Just Another Notion: Filmmaker Mike Henerson and his “Talking Blues Films”, University of Wisconsin-Milwauki, WI
Plastik Festival, Irish Film Institute, Dublin, Ireland
2016 L’Age d’Or Festival, Belgian Cinematheque, Brussels, Belgium
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Down Hear: The Films of Mike Henderson, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
Artists’ Films Restored by the Academy Film Archive, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2015 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
Just Another Notion: Short Films by Mike Henderson, Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington, IN
2014 Mike Henderson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Cinema Project, Hollywood Theatre, Portland, OR
The Films of Mike Henderson, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2010 What’s It All Mean: Films by William T. Wiley and Friends, Berkeley Art Museum of Pacific Film Archive, CA
1990 San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1986 Mike Henderson, Films No Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, CA
1983 San Francisco Art Institute, CA
No Nothing Cinema, Artaud Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Colour Wheele & The San Francisco Cinematheque, CA
1982 Artaud Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1979-80 Australian Blues Society, Traveling to museums and theaters in Australia
1978 Premiere '74 San Francisco Blues Festival, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1977 San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Neighborhood Art Theatre, San Francisco, CA
1976 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974 Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1973 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Stevens College, Columbia, MS
University of Missouri, Columbia, MS
1971 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Ann Arbor Film Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1970 San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Ann Arbor Film Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
San Francisco Art Institute, CA

FILMOGRAPHY

THE LAST SUPPER (1970, revised 1973, color, 9.5m)
DUFUS (aka ART) (1970, revised 1973, b/w, 7m)
MONEY (1970, b/w, 2m)
MOTHER’S DAY (1970, b/w, 14m)
HARVEY HOG (1970, b/w, 3m)
KING DAVID (with Robert Nelson, 1970, revised (by Nelson) 2003, color, 9m)
MANIPULATING THE STRETCHER BAR (ca.1970?, b/w?, silent, 3m)
IN THE U.S.A. (1971, b/w, 2m)
WILL SHE GET OVER IT? (ca.1971, b/w, 8m)
THE ROCKING CHAIR FILM (ca.1972, color, silent, 23m)
IT’S A JUNGLE (ca.1972, color, 13.5m)
DOWN HEAR (1972, b/w, 12m)
LOOK WHAT DADDY CAN DO (ca.1972, b/w & color, 11m)
WORLDLY WOMAN (with Robert Nelson, 1973, b/w & color, 7m)
PITCHFORK AND THE DEVIL (1979, b/w & color, 15m)
THE SHAPE OF THINGS (ca.1981, b/w & color, ~8m)
MONEY DOES (ca.1982, color, 5.5m)
TOO LATE TO STOP DOWN NOW (1982, b/w, 4.5m)
HOW TO BEAT A DEAD HORSE (1983, b/w & color, 7.5m)
DUCKS ARE NO DINNERS... (1983, b/w, 3.5m)
JUST ANOTHER NOTION (1983, color, 3.5m)
WHEN & WHERE (1984, b/w, 4m)

AWARDS

2019 Artadia Awards, San Francisco, CA
2003/04 Flintridge Foundation Award, Pasadena, CA
1990 Distinguished Alumni Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Adeline Kent Award, CA
1989 National Endowment for the Arts
1978 National Endowment for the Arts
1973 Guggenheim Fellowship

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019 Murray, Soraya. Mike Henderson @ SFAI + Haines, Squarecylinder.com, October 11, 2019.
Mike Henderson and Angela Hennessy Win 2019 San Francisco Artadia Awards, Artforum, September 16, 2019.
Desmarais, Charles. Seven gallery shows for an artful autumn, San Francisco Chronicle, August 24, 2019.
Feuer, Robert. Mike Henderson: Blues Professor, Living Blues Magazine, April 2019.
2017 Pipolo, Tony. Irony of Ironies, Artforum, September 25, 2017.
2014 Couzens, Julia. Mike Henderson @ Haines Gallery, Squarecylinder.com, June 30, 2014.
Curiel, Jonathan. Interludes: Mathematical Formulas Meld with Abstract Paintings in Three New Shows, SFWeekly, June 25, 2014.
Valentine, Victoria. Mike Henderson: Colorful Improvisation, Arts Observer, June 18, 2014.
Baker, Kenneth. Mike Henderson’s abstract paintings at Haines Gallery, San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 2014.
2013 Will She Get Over It?, Preservation Insanity, January 4, 2013.
Friedman, Julia. Painting, ArtForum, January 2013.
Restrepo, Carlos. Marshall is music: Homecoming: ‘The Blues Professor’ to be featured at Bob James Jazz Festival, The Marshall Democrat-News, May 2, 2013.
2012 Ollman, Leah. Review: Paint’s Primal Power at the Box, LA Times, December 27, 2012.
2010 Hoffmann, Jens & McCarthy, Paul. Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life , Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010.
Baker, Kenneth. Paintings that power the imagination, San Francisco Chronicle, January 23, 2010.
Cheng, Dewitt. Mike Henderson at Haines Gallery, SquareCylinder.com, January 15, 2010.
2008 Sussman, Matt. Low Life, Slow Life: Part One, San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 20, 2008.
2007 Baker, Kenneth. Mike Henderson's 'inner studio' alive in his paintings, San Francisco Chronicle, December 22, 2007.
Mike Henderson. Spark, KQED First aired July 2007.
Baker, Kenneth. Fall Arts Preview: Visual Art, San Francisco Chronicle, August 23, 2007.
2006 Clark, Erin. Driven to Abstraction, Artworks, Spring 2006.
2004 Dalkey, Victoria. Improv on Canvas, The Sacramento Bee, November 14, 2004.
2003 Baker, Kenneth. Portraits of energy and immediacy: Little Hendersons at Haines, San Francisco Chronicle, July 26.
2002 Van Proyen, Mark. Mike Henderson at Haines, Art in America, December 2002: p. 120.
Hamlin, Jesse. Bluesman Henderson Also Jams On Canvas, San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 2002: p. D1.
Baker, Kenneth. Painter Henderson jams on jazz improvisations for canvas, San Francisco Chronicle, July 27: pp. D1,10.
1999 Baker, Kenneth. Mike Henderson, ARTnews, October 1999.
Baker, Kenneth. Painter with Open Heart, San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 1999.
1997 Longfish, George. Beyond Color, Native American Studies, UC Davis, Davis, CA.
1996 Baker, Kenneth. Substance with Style, San Francisco Chronicle, August 10, 1996.
Giles, Gretchen. Paint it Black, Sonoma County Independent, May 9, 1996.
Baker, Kenneth. Celebrating Art's Generations, San Francisco Chronicle, September 25, 1996.
1995 Frank, Peter. Four + Four, Prism-Arts of Pan Pacific, June 1995.
Gordon, Allan. Mike Henderson at Haines Gallery, Artweek, January 1995.
Nash, Steven. Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1995.
Webster, Mary Hull. A Conversation with Mike Henderson, Artist, Artweek January 1995.
Baker, Kenneth. Henderson's Large Works Contain Some Big Ideas, San Francisco Chronicle, Dec 24 1995.
1993 Talking with Mike Henderson, West - The Magazine of Working Fine Artists, 1993.
1992 Porges, Maria and Linhares, Phil. Mike Henderson: Recent Paintings. Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, 1992.
Kossy, Barbara. Among Friends. Artweek, March 26, 1992.
Baker, Kenneth. An Abstract Painter Who Skirts a Fine Visual Line, San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 1991.
Bonetti, David. Mike Henderson, San Francisco Examiner, May 17, 1991.
Jenkins, Steven. Painting Like the Blues, Artweek, May 23, 1991.
Van Proyen, Mark. Extending Abstraction, Visions Art Quarterly, Fall 1991.
1990 Baker, Kenneth. Career Survey: Evolving From Nightmare, San Francisco Chronicle, February 10, 1990.
Brookman, Donna. To Disturb and Delight, Artweek, February 22, 1990.
1989 Baker, Kenneth. Show of Benglis, Henderson at Fuller Gross, San Francisco Chronicle, 1989.
Van Proyen, Mark. Layered Improvisations, Artweek, December 24, 1989.
Van Proyen, Mark. Six From the Sunny Side, Artweek, October 14, 1989.

COLLECTIONS

Collection of the City and County of San Francisco, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Bank of America, Newark, DE
di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA
Genentech Corporation, South San Francisco, CA
Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, CA
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, CA
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Stanford Health Center, Menlo Park, CA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY