Camille Henrot
Portrait Camille Henrot. Photo © Brigitte Lacombe
Camille Henrot was born in 1978 in Paris, France. She currently lives and works in New York.
Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion for a promising young artist at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. She received the Nam June Paik Award in 2014 and the Edward Munch Award in 2015. She was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2013 and 2014 and a finalist for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2010. In 2013, she received the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington. Her residencies include Callie’s (2020-2022); Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen (2020); Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2015-2016); Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington (2013) and the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York (2012).
In 2013, Henrot received widespread critical acclaim for her film Grosse Fatigue, made during a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. The film was recently ranked number 7 by ARTnews in a list of the 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century.
Henrot's first theatrical production, Commedia dell'Arte, a co-commission by Performa, Aspen Art Museum / Wheeler Opera House, and LYRA Art Foundation, will premiere at the Aspen Art Museum's AIR Festival, in July 2026. Her first public commission in New York City, with New York Public Art Fund, will also be unveiled in September 2026, remaining on view in Central Park until August 2027.
The artist's work has been exhibited at numerous international institutions. Selected solo exhibitions and comissions include: Paper Planes, Copenhagen Contemporary (2026); In the Veins, LUMA Arles (2026); Camille Henrot. Tuesday, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2025); Sweet Days of Discipline, Lokremise, St. Gallen (2023); Jus d'Orange, Fondazione ICA Milano (2023); Wet Job, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (2022); Mother Tongue, Kunstverein Salzburg (2022); Mouth to Mouth, Munch Museum, Oslo (2022); Is Today Tomorrow, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2021); Mother Tongue, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2021); Saturday, Tuesday, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2020); Silver Series 02: Camille Henrot, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2018); Days are Dogs, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); If Wishes Were Horses, Kunsthalle Wien (2017); MAM Screen 006: Camille Henrot, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2017); Monday, Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2016); Luna di latte, Madre Museo, Naples (2016); MCA Screens: Grosse Fatigue, MCA Chicago (2016); Ma Montagne, Les Nouveaux Commanditaires, Pailherols (2016); The Pale Fox, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2015); Grosse Fatigue, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2015); Creating Realities. Encounters Between Art and Cinema. Chapter 4: 'Grosse Fatigue' by Camille Henrot, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); Grosse Fatigue, Tate Modern, London (2014); Black Box, Baltimore Museum of Art (2014); The Restless Earth, New Museum, New York (2014); and Snake Grass, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2014).
Selected group exhibitions and biennales in which the artist participated include: Regift, Swiss Institute New York at 40, Luma Westbau, Zurich (2026); New Humans. Memories of the Future, New Museum, New York (2026); MAMA: From Mary To Merkel, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2025); Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts (2025); Good Mom / Bad Mom. Unraveling the Mother Myth, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2025); We Are Me — We Never Just Pass By, Keelung Museum of Art, Taiwan (2025); Nurture Gaia, Bangkok Art Biennale (2024); How Did You Come into the World?, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (2024); Unruly Bodies, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2023); Picasso: Sin Título, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2023); Mirar al otro. La Mirada del otro, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2022); Historia de les mans, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (2022); The Stomach and the Port, Liverpool Biennial (2021); The Dreamers, 58th October Salon / Belgrade Biennial (2021); Art of Sport, Copenhagen Contemporary (2021); BIM2021 – Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva (2021); Bibliographic Office, MACRO, Rome (2021); The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2021); Voyages, Voyages, MUCEM, Marseille (2020); Animals in Art, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (2020); Busan Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (2020); 100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York (2020); Beating Around the Bush #6: Scenes from the Anthropocene, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2020); The Stage is Yours, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2019); Alienations, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2019); From the Home to the Museum, from the Museum to the Home. Homages to the Works of the Cerruti Collection. Chapter 2, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2019); Habitar el Mediterrani, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia (2019); Art in the Age of the Internet, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (2019); Dissolving Margins, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2018); What is Enlightenment?, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2018); MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2018); The Message: New Media Works, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington (2018); NGV Triennale, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2018); Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2018); Electronic Superhighway, MAAT Museum of Art, Lisbon (2017); Art and Alphabet, Hamburger Kunsthalle (2017); Colori. Emotions of Color in Art, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2017); The Present in Drag, Berlin Biennale (2016); The People's Cinema, Salzburger Kunstverein (2016); Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2016); Bittersweet Transformation, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (2016); The End of the World, Centro Pecci, Prato (2016); In Search of the Present, Espoo Museum of Modern Art (2016); Yona Friedman. Architecture mobile = Architecture vivante, Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, Paris (2016); and 20th Sydney Biennale (2016).
The artist's work is represented in the collections of Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht; Caja de Burgos, Barcelona; Centre National des Arts Plastiques - Ministère de la culture et de la communication, France; Denver Art Museum; Espoo Museum of Modern Art; Fondation Giacometti, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fond Municipal d'Art Contemporain, Paris; Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain Île-de-France, Paris; Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris; Fondazione MEMMO, Rome; François Pinault Foundation, Venice; Hara Museum, Tokyo; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Long Museum, Shanghai; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Middelheim Museum, Antwerp; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; La Fondation Neuflize Vie, Paris; Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.