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NELSON HENRICKS

was born in Bow Island, Alberta and graduated from the Alberta College of Art (1986). He moved to Montréal in 1991 and received a BFA from Concordia University (1991). He has taught art history and studio art at Concordia University, McGill University, UQAM and Université de Montréal. He completed a Ph.D in research-creation at UQAM in 2018. His writings have been published in exhibition catalogues, magazines, and in several anthologies. A curator and artist, Henricks is best known for his videotapes and video installations, which have been exhibited worldwide. A focus on his video work was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of the Video Viewpoints series in 2000. Henricks was the recipient of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art in 2002, the Prix Giverny Capital in 2015, the Prix Louis-Comtois in 2023, and the Prix Robert-Forget in 2024. An solo exhibition of his work was presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 2023. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal and others. He is represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto.

CURRICULUM VITAE (SELECTED EXHIBITIONS)

PERSONAL DATA
Born: Bow Island, Alberta, June 22, 1963
Residence: Montréal, Québec
Education: 1982-86, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Diploma in Visual Arts
1991-94, Concordia University, B.F.A. Cinema
2012-18, Université du Québec à Montreal, Ph.D. Recherche-Création

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Don’t You Like the Green of A?, video, photos & painting, April 5 – May 11, 2024, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
Nelson Henricks, video installation, November 8, 2022 – April 9, 2023, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec
Winter Fruit, photos & painting, November 20 – December 23, 2020, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
Lacuna (Alas Poor Yorick!), photos & painting, February 22 – March 23, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
Document XXL, April 13 – June 17 2017, Artexte, Montréal, Québec
Flower Painting, February 17 – March 25 2017, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
Life Session, January 28 – March 25 2017, Galerie Optica, Montréal, Québec
Life Session, March 25 – April 23, 2016, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
A Lecture on Art, April 30 – June 30, 2015, Dazibao, Montréal, Québec
Endless Paper, March 19 to April 25, Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette, Montréal, Québec
Satellite, January 9 – March 15 2014, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Québec
5 sur 5, Les fictions polymorphes, video, March 5 – 7 2014, Vidéographe / Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, Québec
Nelson Henricks – Obras en vidéo, video, November 17, 2011, Museo de Arte Moderno/Alianza Francesco de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Time Will Have Passed, mid-career retrospective, September 1 – October 16, 2010, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal, Québec
The Sirens (Fragments), photos and video, May 4 – 16, 2010, Paul Petro Special Projects Space, Toronto, Ontario
Nelson Henricks, installation, November 7 – December 19 2009, Vox Image Contemporaine, Montréal, Québec
Nelson Henricks, installation, Galleria Gianluca Collica, April 27 – 28 2009, Catania, Sicily; Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, April 28 2009, Palermo, Sicily
Map of the City, installation, January 16 – February 14 2009, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Ontario
The Sirens, installation, March 13 – April 12 2008. Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario
Map of the City, installation, PAVED Art, August 1- 23, 2008, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Map of the City, installation, February 29 – March 30 2008, articule Gallery, Montréal, Québec
Map of the City, installation, June 28 – August 25 2007, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Satellite, outdoor video projection, April 20-21, May 3-4 2007, Saw Video, Ottawa, Ontario
Satellite, installation, November 25 – December 23 2005, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
Satellite, installation, May 17 – August 17 2004, Musée des beaux-arts du Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Happy Hour, installation, November 8 – December 13 2003, Galerie B-312, Montréal, Québec
Substance + Planetarium, photos and video, February 15 to March 15, 2003, Galerie Graff, Montréal, Québec
Nelson Henricks, solo programme, October 10 -20, 2002, Festival International Nouveau Cinéma Nouveaux Médias Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Fuzzy Face, installation, June 13 – August 4, 2002, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
Nelson Henricks, lecture/screening, November 3, 2001, Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fuzzy Face, installation, August 3 – September 1, 2001, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C
Fuzzy Face, installation, March 2 – April 7, 2001, Optica, Montréal, Québec
Planetarium, video, February 21 – March 17, 2001, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Ontario
Video Viewpoints, lecture/screening, January 24 2000, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Nelson Henricks, artist residency, April 15-24 / May 13-22, 1998, La Bande Vidéo, Québec, Québec
Je vais vous raconter une histoire de fantômes : Films et videos de Nelson Henricks, video, April 6 – 23, 1995, Galerie OBORO, Montréal, Québec

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

Editions Part 1, photo, January 13 – February 18, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario

2022

C’était possible, video, June 5 – August 14, MAC LAU, St-Jérôme, Québec
Giving Entry, photo, July 9 – September 10, Namara Projects, Toronto, Ontario.

2021

Les Vidéographes, video, November 6 – 26, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, Québec.

2020

Points of Light, video installation, January 15 – August 31, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec
En bonne compagnie, painting/sculpture, July 11 juillet – August 20, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, Québec

2019

Cache, paintings, July 6 – August 31, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
Mon nom est roche, je suis une rivière, video, April 10, Galerie SKOL, Montréal, Québec

2018

Art souterrain 2018, March 3 – 25, Arsenal, Montréal, Québec

2017

Motion, video, January 20 – May 14, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Le mois de la photo, September 7 – October 14, Various venues, Montréal, Québec

2016

Papier 16, photos, April 22 – 24, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Montréal, Québec
Motion. Montréal/Genève, video, March 1 – April 9, Galerie de L’UQAM, Montréal, Québec

2015

Endless Paper, video installation, March 19 – April 25, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal, Québec
Papier 15, photos, April 24-26, Paul Petro Contemporary Art – Booth 111, Montréal, Québec

2014

Made in Calgary: The 1990s, video, February 8 – May 4, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
Mise à l’épreuve, screening, March 18, Chantier Libres 4/Les ateliers Jean-Brillant, Montréal, Québec
40 ans d’art video au Québec, screening, March 12-16, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, Québec

2013

Who Runs May Read, vidéo, May 1, South London Gallery, London, England

2012

Interactions, video installation, August30 – October 27, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal, Québec
Background://, video installation, January 20 – February 13, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Like-Minded, video installation, January 25 – March 25, Plug-In ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba
PRIM : Les années 2000, video, April 11, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, Québec

2011

The Québec Triennal 2011, video installation, October 7, 2011 – February 3, 2012, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec

2010

Chimère/Shimmer, video, November 11, 2010 – April 3, 2011, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
CUE: Artists’ Videos, video, January 23 – March 21, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Revelaciones, installation, June 17 – 19, 2010, Gladstone Hotel / ON.Fire 2010, Toronto, Ontario

2009

Time as Activity, installation, September 12 to November 7, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium.
European Media Arts Festival, video, April 22 – 26, Osnabrück, Germany.
YYZXXX, video, May 2 – June 13, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Ontario.

2008

L’oreille dans l’oeil/The Hearing Eye, video installation, May 2 – June 1, Oeil de poisson, Québec, Québec
26e Festival international du film sur l’art, video, March 6-16, Montréal, Québec
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, video, February 14 – 24, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, Québec

2007

L’oreille dans l’oeil/The Hearing Eye, video installation, March 1 – April 7, Galerie Clark, Montréal, Québec; April 20 – May 19, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
Capsule – Mémoire, film installation, March 8 – April 29, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, Québec

2006

Invideo 2006, video, November 7-11, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
Queer Plunder, installation, November 17, 2006 – January 14, 2007, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Aquérir pour grandir, video, November 22, 2006 – April 15, 2007, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
Canada Dreaming, video, March 4-30, Wolfsburg Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany

2005

Split Decisions, video, November 26 – January 13, Vtape, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, video, January 13-16, Stuttgart, Germany
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, video, February 18-26, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, Québec, Canada

2004

Instants Vidéo Festival, video, November 20-December 6, Manosque, France
Artronica, video, September 30 – October 12, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango y Teatro Colon, Bogota. Colombia
Invideo 2004, video, November 10 – 14, Milan, Italy
Living Room, video, June 3 – July 3, Coldcreation Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2003

Stealing to Subvert, video, April 30 – May 4, Wroclaw Media Art Biennal, Wroclaw, Poland
UK/Canadian Film & Video Exchange, video, 10 April – 13 April, South London Art Gallery, London, England
Signal + Noise 03, video, March 27 – 30, Video In, Vancouver, B.C.

2002

Media City Seoul, installation, September 26 – November 24, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Video Videopoints: A Selection from the Last Decade, video, May 10, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2001

Transmediale 01, video, December, Berlin, Germany
Impakt 2001, video, October 2-7, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland
Festival Video Estavar-Llivia, video, July 26-29, Estavar, France
New York Video Festival, video, July 13-19, New York, New York, U.S.A.
L’Immagine Leggera, video, March 21-29, Palermo, Sicily.
Pandaemonium, video, March 1-9, LUX, London, England.

2000

Peepshow, video, July 29, Melbourne International Film Festival; July 30, Brisbane International Film Festival; August 11, Chauvel Cinemas, Sydney; August 24, Media Resource Centre, Adelaide, Australia.
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, video, January 13-16, Stuttgart, Germany
European Media Arts Festival 2000, video, May 3-7, Osnabrück, Germany

1999

Festival de Sofia, video, Sofia, Poland
Il Muestro Internacional de Vidéo Independiente: OVNI 1999, video, May 18-23, Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Tenerife, Canary Islands
In A Different Light, installation, October 23 to November 21, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
IMAGES 1999, video, April 21 – May 1, Toronto, Ontario
VideoLisboa, video, January 20-24 , Clube Português de Artes e Ideias, Lisbon, Portugal
17e Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, video, February 11-17, Cinéma ONF, Montréal, Québec
14e Videoformes, video, March 16-21, Clermont-Ferrand, France

1998

MuuMediaFestival, video, October 9-18, Kiaasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Dummies, video, November 24, De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland
Fragile Electrons: 20 Years of Collecting Video Art, video, April 17-June 7, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
16e Rendez-vous du cinéma québecois, video, February 19-28, Cinéma ONF, Montréal, Québec
Biennale de l’image de Paris: Very Short Spaces of Time, video, May 12 – July 12, Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
44th International Short Film Festival, video, April 23-28, Oberhausen, Germany

1997

Digital Video Wall, video presented as part of a series organized by the Museum of Modern Art and presented at Rockefeller Center, New York, U.S.A.
Microwave Festival ’97, video, December 12-14, Videotage, Hong Kong.
Tercera Bienal de Video y Artes Electronicas, video, October 6-11, Museo de arte Contemporano, Santiago, Chile.
15th World Wide Video Festival, video, September 12-17, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.

1996

Pandaemonium, video, March 7-14, ICA, London, England
11th Fringe Film and Video Festival, video, April 16 – 21, Edinburgh, Scotland

1995

Internationaler Kunstpreis, video broadcast on Südwest 3 and ORT 2, presented October 24 – November 13 by Zentrum für Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
other real stories / d’autres fictions, photo project, Fotofeis, Scotland
Identity Dispersions: Recent Videos from Québec, video, January 25 – March 26, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

1994

New Canadian Video, video, June 3 – September 6, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Fruit Machine, video and film, November 25 and December 7, Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto

1993

American Film Institute 12th National Video Festival, video, February 4 – 7, American Film Institute Campus, Los Angeles, California, USA

1992

12e Mondiale de la Vidéo, video, Nov 10-15, Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, Brussels, Belgium

1991

Some New Alberta Art, video, June 28 – August 28, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
4e Semaine Internationale de la vidéo, video, November 4 – 9, St – Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland

1990

Noise Under the Tongue, video and performance, Feb 2-Mar 4, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
Video From the South, video, December 2 – January 28, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta

1989

Infermental 9: Herz von Europa, touring video package, February 1989 – March 1990
Moving Images II, video broadcast, T.V. Ontario, Ontario

1988

Elemental Instincts: A Matter of Course, video and performance, October 14-November 20, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta

1987

Prairie Video, video, December 13, 1987, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Plains Canada Film and Video Festival, video, September 10 – 12, Video Pool, Winnipeg, Manitoba

AWARDS

Bell Canada Prize, 2002
Board of Governors’ Alumni Award of Excellence, Alberta College of Art and Design, 2005
Prix Giverny Capital, 2015
Prix Louis-Comtois, 2023
Prix Robert Forget, 2024

COLLECTIONS

The Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
The Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal, Québec
National Bank of Canada, Montréal, Québec
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec
Ville de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Torys LLP, Toronto, Ontario
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Montréal, Québec
Private collections

DISTRIBUTION

Vidéographe, Montréal
V TAPE, Toronto
LUX, London, England
Heure Exquise!, Lille, France
Video Data Bank, Chicago

AS A CURATOR

Independent Film and Video Alliance AGM Showcase, Co-curator, 1991
Video from Western Canada, Articule, Montréal, May 1992
Steve Reinke, Oboro, Montréal, December, 1992
It Came From Quebec, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, February, 1996
Video from Hungary, Optica, Montréal, March, 1996
Video London, Montreal Festival of Cinema and New Media, June, 1997
American Psycho(drama), for Video Data Bank. Presented worldwide, 1998-2000
Cane CapoVolto, presented at PleasureDome (Toronto), 1999 and Articule (Montréal), 2000
Sense Machines, presented during Uncommon Senses, Concordia University, 2000
Welcome to the Neighbourhood, presented as part of the rePLACE series organized by V Tape, 2001. Presented at Art System, Toronto, March, 2001
Minor Star, presented as part of Tranz<—>Tech: Toronto Media Art Biennial, October, 2001
Here Now, Ed Video 25th Anniversary compilation, Guelph, Ontario, 2001
Co-curator of Oasis, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal, Quebec, Summer, 2001
Words/Without Words, InVideo, Milan, Italy, November, 2002
Pipeline, Em/Media, Calgary, November, 2005

EDITED AND WRITTEN BY NELSON HENRICKS

Henricks, Nelson & Reinke, S. By the Skin of Their Tongues, YYZ Books, Toronto, Ontario, 1997.
Henricks, Nelson. Cigarettes, Coffee and Dep Wine, FUSE Magazine, Volume 21, Number 3. Summer 1998, pp. 17-23.
Henricks, Nelson. 4 Zones of Emergence and Cane Capovolto: An Introduction to the Group, TRANZ <—> TECH: Toronto International Video Art Biennal, Trinity Square Video/V Tape/Pleasure Dome/VVV, 1999. pp 13-17.
Henricks, Nelson. 4 Zones of Emergence, text accompanying exhibition Zones d’emergence, Perte de Signal, 1999.
Henricks, Nelson. Canadian Fall, text accompanying exhibition Canadian Fall exhibition, organized by the Glasgow Film and Video Workshop, Fall, 1999.
Henricks, Nelson. 4 texts about light, PUBLIC 18, Public Access, Toronto, 1999. pp. 143-146.
Henricks, Nelson. American Psycho(drama): Sigmund Freud vs. Henry Ford, from LUX: A Decade of Artists’ Film and Video, edited by Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor, Toronto: YYZ Books, 2000. pp. 45-54.
Henricks, Nelson. Life in Music, from COIL 9/10 London: Proboscis, 2000.
Henricks, Nelson. Les vrais mensonges ou l’importance d’être Colin from ESSE Arts + Opinions, Montréal: Esse, Numéro 46, automne 2002. pp. 32-40.
Henricks, Nelson. Words/Without Words, text accompanying Words/Without Words program, InVideo 2002, Milan: A+G Edizioni, 2002.
Henricks, Nelson. Tom Sherman: Before and After the I-Bomb, review published in Parachute 109, Montréal: Parachute, January-March 2003. pp. 140-141.
Henricks, Nelson. Colleen Gray: Gray Matter, from Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women, edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder, Toronto: YYZ Books, 2004. pp. 250-250.
Henricks, Nelson. Shari Hatt: Dogs, catalogue essay for Shari Hatt: Dogs, Lethbridge: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2004. pp. 10-61.
Henricks, Nelson. The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game, from Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars, Toronto: Fado Performance Inc., 2008. pp. 183-186.
Henricks, Nelson. Perte de Signal: An Introduction to the Group, from Perte de Signal: Ten Years of Digital Creation, Montréal: Perte de Signal, 2008. pp. 94-106.
Henricks, Nelson. Steve Reinke – The Hundred Videos, from SWITCH, Toronto: The Power Plant, Issue 3, Spring, 2010. pp. 44-45.