Tracy Heneberger
Born in New London, Connecticut, 1954
BA, New York University, 1978
One–Person Exhibitions
2008 “still.life,” Art Sites, Riverhead, New York (Nov 22 – Jan 11)
2007 “Tracy Heneberger, Sculpture,” Pickled Art Centre, Beijing (catalogue)
“Tracy Heneberger, Sculpture,” Passage Gallery, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2006 “Flow,” Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, New York
2005 “Tracy Heneberger, Sculpture,” Green T. House Gallery, Beijing
2004 “Geometry of Water,” Cutchogue Library Exhibition Series, Cutchogue, New York
“Liaison,” Pickled Art Centre, Beijing (catalogue)
“Liaison,” Passage Gallery, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2003 “undercurrent,” Kerrigan Campbell art + projects, New York (catalogue)
2002 “Terracing,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
“Tracy Heneberger, Sculpture,” Museum of New Art, Detroit, Michigan
2001 “Constellation,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
1999 “Tracy Heneberger, Sculpture,” Passage Gallery, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
1998 “Tracy Heneberger, Sculpture,” Gallery Tao, Beijing
1996 “Second Nature,” District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC (catalogue)
1995 “Tracy Heneberger, Sculpture, 1990-1995,” Bergens Kuntsforening, Bergen, Norway
“Best Intentions,” Galleri Riis, Project Room, Oslo
Two and Three Person Exhibitions
1999 “Habit: Tracy Heneberger and Scott Ingram,” Re•Entry Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 “Underpinnings: Tracy Heneberger, Shelley Himmelstein and Leslye Leaness,” 76 Varick, New York
1990 “Emerging Forms: D. Scot Cahlander, Tracy Heneberger and Ted Hirsch,” Arnold & Porter Law Firm,
Washington, DC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 “Peace,” Sideshow, Brooklyn, New York
“Variety in Media,” Silberman Art Gallery, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
“Night And Day,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York (Oct 11 – Nov 16)
2007 “Blast,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
“Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection,” curated by Sarah Tanguy. Traveled, 2007, to Katonah
Museum of Art, Katonah, New York; San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco,
CA; George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO; Terrace Gallery, Orlando, FL (catalogue)
“War is Over Again,” Sideshow, Brooklyn, New York
“Detritus,” Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
“Under the Sea,” Red Saw Art, Newark, New Jersey
2006 “War Is Over,” Sideshow, Brooklyn, New York
“Black & White,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
“Contemporary Antiquarians,” Art on the Bridge/Margaret Bodell, West Cornwall, Connecticut
“Stilled Life,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
“C.A.S.T.,” Red Saw Art, Newark, New Jersey
“Clean,” Westbrook Artists’ Site, Winterset, Iowa
2005 “Indestructible Delicacy: Miami – New York,” Galeria Galou, Brooklyn, New York
“Stairmasters,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
China International Gallery Exposition (CIGE), China World Trade Center, Beijing, represented by
Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
“September – Small Sculpture Exhibition,” Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, represented by Galeria Galou, Brooklyn
2004 “Botanica,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
“7th Annual Platte Clove Artist-in-Residence Exhibition,” Erpf Gallery, Arkville, New York
“NOO965859F,” Westbrook Artists’ Site, Winterset, Iowa
“Stairmasters,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
“Merry Peace,” Sideshow, Brooklyn, New York
2003 “Sweet Tooth,” COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, Napa, California (catalogue)
“Away From Home,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
“Flow: From the Bottom Up,” Studio 18 Gallery, New York
“Halcyon Days,” Kerrigan Campbell art + projects, New York
“ISC Member Juried Exhibition,” Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey (brochure)
“Strata,” Westbrook Artists’ Site, Winterset, Iowa
“Year End,” Studio 18 Gallery, New York
“Merry Peace,” Sideshow, Brooklyn, New York
2002 “Objects of Desire,” Studio 18 Gallery, New York
“Reactions,” Exit Art, New York. Traveled to Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of
Design, Pasadena, California
“Interiors/Exteriors,” Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York
“Blue Space,” Building of Seas and Oceans, Beijing (catalogue)
“Bound: An Exhibit of Artists’ Books,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
“Byrdcliffe Outdoor Exhibition 2002,” Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, New York
“Sequence,” Westbrook Artists’ Site, Winterset, Iowa
“Spirit Raising,” Rocking Horse Café, New York
2001 “Tools As Art: The Hechinger Collection,” curated by Sarah Tanguy. Traveled, 2001 – 2003, to City
Museum, St. Louis, MO; Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA; Peninsula Fine Arts Center,
Newport News, VA; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IO; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE;
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; DeCordova Museum and
Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV (catalogue)
“Elements, 5 Person Metal Sculpture Exhibition,” Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing.
Traveled to Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Art Miami, 2001, represented by The Viewing Room, New York
“re fuse,” Westbrook Artists’ Site, Winterset, Iowa
“Up Up & Away,” The Viewing Room, New York
“Brooklyn!” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida (brochure)
“Deck the Walls, 2001: Art in the American Genre,” Susan Conway Gallery, Washington, DC
“Celestial Musings,” American Center for Physics, College Park, Maryland (brochure)
2000 “selfsellmewellasis,” Westbrook Artists’ Site, Winterset, Iowa
“e-mona,” Museum of New Art, Detroit, Michigan
1999 “Paradise 8,” Exit Art, New York
“Inch Deep/Mile Wide,” Westbrook Artists’ Site, Winterset, Iowa (permanent installation)
“Morir Sonando,” 76 Varick, New York
“LTD, Living the Dream,” Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York
“The Passion/Passions of Art,” Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York
“Fall,” 76 Varick, New York
1998 “New York Centennial Exhibition,” Holland Tunnel, Brooklyn, New York
“Zero to One: Subject Meets Object,” Westbrook Artists’ Site, Winterset, Iowa
1997 “The Sculpture Barn,” Pier Show V, Brooklyn, New York
“Violence and Red,” C.C. Initiative Gallery, New York
“Tools as Art: Exploring Metaphor, The Hechinger Collection,” National Building Museum, Washington, DC
“Verge,” Chi Meat Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (brochure)
“Spring View w/6 Artists,” Mary Dungan Gallery, New York
“Warehouse,” Eighth Floor Gallery, New York
1991 “Painting/Sculpture,” Helen Drutt Gallery, New York
“UR,” Kunstraum Project, Blagden Alley Arts Building, Washington, DC
“Gallery Artists,” Helen Drutt Gallery, New York
1990 “Changing Chambers,” International Sculpture Center, Washington, DC
1989 “Sculpture 89: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture,” Washington Square, Washington, DC
Lectures
2007 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, March 25
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, November 7
2004 Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, October 13
1999 Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, December 6 – December 17
Tsing Hua University, Beijing, December 22
1998 Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, May 19 – 20
1997 Portland College of Arts, Portland, Maine, March 17 – 18
National Building Museum, Washington, DC, June 28
1995 Bergens Kuntsforening, Bergen, Norway, October 28
Residencies and Grants
2004 Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2003 Platte Clove Artists-In-Residence, Platte Clove, New York, August 11 – 18 and October 19 – 26
2002 Red Gate Gallery Residency Program, Beijing, June
2000 Art Link Foundry Residency, Beijing, June – July
1999 River Dog Fine Arts Foundry Residency, Chimacum, Washington, July – August
Bibliography
2007 Genocchio, Benjamin, “Looking in the Toolbox and Seeing Art,” The New York Times, January 28
2006 Tuohy, Laurel, “New West Cornwall Gallery Offers Art From Slow Lane,” Litchfield County Times, June 22
2004 Jing Jiang, “Art Report,” Interior Design, China, October
Pierre, Amanda. “Westbrook takes a quirky route,” Des Moines Register, August 29
Riley, Charles A. “Wide Spindrift Gaze,” Tracy Heneberger, undercurrent, exhibition catalogue
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2003 Metrick, Lenore. “outside the (museum) box,” DSM, Des Moines Social Magazine, November
Pierre, Amanda. “Paintings, frogs dwell in a barn near bridges of Madison County,” Des Moines
Register, August 31, 2003
Tanguy, Sarah. Sweet Tooth, exhibition catalogue
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Pierre, Amanda. “Sculptors Embrace Change,” Des Moines Register, August 18
Sausser, Nancy. “A Disjointed But Pleasing View of the Cosmos,” The Washington Post, March 14
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Blue Space, exhibition catalogue
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Kane, Loulou. “Art Joins Nature in Winterset Exhibit,” Des Moines Register, September 23
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Kunst Foreningen, September (cover photograph)
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