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Exhibitions
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Mike Henderson: Chicken Fingers, 1976–1980
January 14 - April 1, 2023Haines Gallery proudly presents Mike Henderson: Chicken Fingers, 1976–1980, a solo exhibition by the acclaimed Bay Area artist, filmmaker, and blues musician. Henderson's fifteenth solo exhibition with the gallery presents...Read more -
Blaze Across the Firmament
September 10 - October 30, 2021Haines Gallery proudly presents Blaze Across the Firmament, a group exhibition exploring our relationship to the heavens — those ethereal bodies that illuminate the night sky, mark our place in...Read more -
Chromotherapy
July 8 - September 5, 2021Haines Gallery is pleased to announce our reopening to the public with Chromotherapy, a group exhibition celebrating the transfor-mative powers of color. Opening on Thursday, July 8, our first exhibition...Read more -
Mike Henderson: The Black Paintings
January 2 - March 28, 2020Haines Gallery proudly presents our thirteenth solo exhibition with pioneering Bay Area artist Mike Henderson (b. 1943; lives and works in San Leandro, CA). Henderson and his work have been...Read more -
Mike Henderson: At the Edge of Paradise
November 7 - December 14, 2019Haines Gallery proudly presents our latest solo exhibition of new paintings by the pioneering Bay Area artist and 2019 Artadia Award winner Mike Henderson . Henderson moved to the Bay...Read more -
Likenesses
July 9 - August 31, 2019Haines Gallery proudly presents Likenesses, a group exhibition bringing together works by seven contemporary artists from around the world to explore the conventions, possibilities, and limits of portraiture. The paintings,...Read more -
Mike Henderson: Parallel Spaces
September 7 - October 28, 2017Haines Gallery is pleased to present Parallel Spaces, a solo exhibition comprising new paintings and works on paper by Mike Henderson (b. 1943; lives and works in San Francisco, CA)....Read more -
Mike Henderson: Traces of Places
May 1 - July 3, 2014Haines Gallery is pleased to present new work by pioneering Bay Area artist Mike Henderson , who has exhibited with the gallery for over twenty years. Through his highly gestural...Read more -
Fundamental Abstraction III
January 9 - March 1, 2014Haines Gallery is pleased to present Fundamental Abstraction III, a group exhibition featuring an international selection of artists concerned with the formal aspects of line, color, shape and composition as...Read more
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News
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Mike Henderson
Dwelling: New Acquisitions
Museum Exhibition
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA
October 4, 2024 - ongoingThe Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents Dwelling: New Acquisitions opening early October. The exhibition showcases the Center's recent acquisitions to their collection, including Mike Henderson's Rain, 1978. Dwelling... -
Mike Henderson
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA acquires painting Mike Henderson's The Yellow Pencil (1979)
Museum AcquisitionHaines is pleased to announce that MIKE HENDERSON'S The Yellow Pencil (1979) has been acquired by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The Yellow Pencil is part of... -
Mike Henderson
You Should Have Seen It: A Discussion with Christina Schlesinger and Mike Henderson
Artist Talk
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
Sunday, May 12, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PMThis past winter, the Skowhegan Alliance published You Should Have Seen It, a zine of lost and destroyed artwork. Of its many incredible examples of loss and heartbreak, one story...
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Press
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Jamie Kennedy, “Mike Henderson’s provocative art exhibition sheds light on racial justice,” Spectrum News, July 4, 2023
Vanessa Labi, “Fire destroyed 20 years of Mike Henderson’s work. But it also turned his art in a new direction,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 2, 2023
Maria Porges, "Mike Henderson," Artforum, Summer 2023
Margarita Lila Rosa, "Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965–1985," The Brooklyn Rail, February 2023
Harley Wong, "Mike Henderson's Heated 'Protest Paintings' Re-Emerge From the Flames," Frieze, February 24, 2023
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, "An Oddyssey of Fire: Nearly Destroyed in a Blaze, Mike Henderson's Long-Lost Paintings About the Rage of the '70s Reemerge," ARTnews, February 13, 2023David M. Roth, "The Dialectical Journey of Mike Henderson," Squarecylinder.com, February 4, 2023
David Smith, "'I could have died': how an artist rebuilt his career after a studio fire," The Guardian, February 2, 2023
Chadd Scott, "Mike Henderson's American Odyssey On View At University of California, Davis," Forbes, January 31, 2023
Darrell Smith, "His works feared lost, pioneering painter Mike Henderson's art rises in new UC Davis show," The Sacramento Bee, January 30, 2023
Hillary Louise Johnson, "By Any Means Necessary, I Will Keep Being An Artist," Sactown Magazine, January/February 2023Marcus Crowder, “Mike Henderson’s Personal Renaissance,” Alta, December 21, 2022
Tony Bravo, “Bay Area visual arts scene stacked with new shows, anniversary celebrations for 2023,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 28, 2022
“LAURELS: Professor Emeritus Mike Henderson Receives Arts Medallion,” UC Davis, October 25, 2022
David M. Roth, “Water & Sky @ Crown Point and Haines,” Squarecylinder.com, October 1, 2021
Janet Reilly, “Mike Henderson Has More to Do,” Nob Hill Gazette, May 1, 2021
Qianjin Montoya, “It Doesn’t Come Overnight: Mike Henderson and Qianjin Montoya in Conversation,” SFMOMA Open Space, May 4, 2020
Sura Wood, “Art from injustice: 'Soul of a Nation’,” Bay Area Reporter, November 19, 2019
Jonathan Curiel, “Mike Henderson Does It All,” SF Weekly, October 30, 2019
Soraya Murray, “Mike Henderson @ SFAI + Haines,” Squarecylinder.com, October 11, 2019
“Mike Henderson and Angela Hennessy Win 2019 San Francisco Artadia Awards,” Artforum, September 16, 2019
Charles Desmarais, “7 Bay Area gallery shows to see this fall,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 22, 2019
Robert Feuer, “Mike Henderson: Blues Professor,” Living Blues, April 2019
"Down Hear: The Films of Mike Henderson," School of the Art Institute of Chicago, March 31, 2016
Julia Couzens, "Mike Henderson @ Haines Gallery," Squarecylinder.com, June 30, 2014
"Mike Henderson: Colorful Improvisation," Arts Observer, June 18, 2014
Kenneth Baker, "Mike Henderson's Abstract Paintings at Haines Gallery," SF Gate, May 17, 2014
Carlos Restrepo, "Marshall is Music: Homecoming: 'The Blues Professor' to be Featured at Bob James Jazz Festival," The Marshall Democrat-News, May 2, 2013
