Camille Henrot
born 1978
Camille Henrot lives and works in New York. Henrot's diverse practice moves seamlessly between film, drawing, and sculpture. Drawing from her wide-ranging research into subjects and disciplines including literature, mythology, cinema, anthropology, evolutionary biology, religion and history, Henrot’s work acutely reconsiders the typologies of objects and established systems of knowledge. A 2013 fellowship at the Smithsonian resulted in her film Grosse Fatigue, a benchmark work for which she was awarded the Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale. In 2017 Henrot presented a carte blanche exhibition, entitled Days Are Dogs at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. That year, she also opened exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Allbright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, and the Wellcome Collection, London. Henrot has had one-person exhibitions at the New Museum, New York; Fondazione Memmo, Rome; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; New Orleans Museum of Art; Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris; and Jeu de Paume, Paris. She has exhibited in group shows at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands; and SculptureCenter, New York. Camille Henrot participated in the 2016 Berlin and Sydney Biennials and the 2015 Lyon Biennial. She is the recipient of the 2014 Nam June Paik Award.