Cynthia Henebry

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Born 1973, Richmond, VA
Lives and works in Richmond, VA

Education

2014
MFA, Photography, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

1992-1995
BA, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

Select Exhibitions

2017-18
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

2017
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TC
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2016
Outwin Boochever Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Solo exhibition, Sweetbriar College, Amherst, VA

2015
The Ones We Love, Camden Image Gallery, London
Fusion: Art of the 21st Century, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
View Find 4: Photography, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Portraits Expanded, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

2014
Camera Club of New York, Annual Juried Exhibition and Competition, Second Place, New York, NY
This May Have Happened, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Documentary: 19th Annual Photography Exhibition, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA
MFA Thesis, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
View Find, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2013
These Rhythmic Seasons, group show curated by Nomadique, The Metropolitan Building, Queens, NY
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center 4th Annual Competition and Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Unbound!, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Emerged, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
The Meeting of Parallel Lines, MFA Candidacy Show, Black Iris Gallery, Richmond, VA
View/Find: The Photograph, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
International Photographers Exhibition, Viewpoint Gallery, Halifax, NS
Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX. Juror: Sarah Kennel

2012
Emerging Artists Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NYC
Looking at Ourselves: Portraits featured on Lenscratch, Guate Photo Festival,  Guatamala City, Guatamala. Juror: Aline Smithson
Light Exhibition, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mimesis: A Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Raleigh, NC, Juror: Pamela Pecchio
Slow Exposures 2012, Concord, Georgia, Jurors: Brett Abbott and Julian Cox
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center 3rd annual competition and exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, Jurors: Kathy Ryan and Natasha Egan
Perfect Exposures 2012, The Top 100 Exhibit, Perfect Exposures Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Portfolio showcase, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA, Juror: Dan Estabrook
View/Find: The Photograph, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA

Bibliography
Mossless Magazine: The United States 2003-2013
Art Forum
ArtInfo
Art In America
Booooooooom!
Fototazo
Lenscratch
Light Leaked
NEXT Magazine (New Zealand)
Nido Magazine
NPR Picture Show
Real Simple
Sunday Telegraph Magazine
SXSE Magazine

Collections
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Capital One, Richmond VA
Private collections in NY, VA, NC

Awards & Honors

2014
Camera Club of New York,  Annual Juried Exhibition and Competition
VCU Graduate Research Grant
Review Santa Fe, Top 100

2013
Finalist, Critical Mass
Finalist, Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, London

2012
Slow Exposures 2012, Honorable Mention

2011
Artists Wanted: Finalist, Exposure

The Marriage Oaks

Since 2011 I have been engaged in a photographic investigation of the relationship between the chaos and conflict that can exist in the adult world and the internal life of the child. My own autobiography guides this process, and informs the choices I make about the people I work with as well as decisions about how to depict them, and how to let them depict themselves.

I think a lot about growing up: how to do it well, and what happens when the parts of us that are meant to grow up don’t. How the eternal children that live within us pass things onto the children we are in charge of helping to grow up now: grief, joy, fear, isolation, anger, abandonment, pride. How we are all walking around with seven year old parts of ourselves manifesting as we trying to parent actual seven year olds, or run corporations, or uphold the law, or deliver the mail. I marvel at this every single day.

The collaborative aspects of the work are significant, and point to my interest in the grey areas between the children and me, then and now, truth and metaphor. Both the research and the experiential aspects of making the work explore the idea that the child is fundamentally “Other” to the adult, and attempt to articulate the consequences of this elemental yet universal disconnect.