Geoffrey Hendricks bio (Advisory Board)

Geoffrey Hendricks, born in Littleton, New Hampshire in 1931, is most renowned for his work with clouds, headstands, and cooking delicious macrobiotic meals. He attended Amherst College, Cooper Union Art School and Columbia University. Since the mid-60s he has been active with Fluxus. His signature sky works were first shown at Bianchini Gallery, New York (1966), followed by Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo (1968). Recent solo shows include exhibitions at UnimediaModern, Genoa, Italy and Galerie Etage, Münster, Germany both in 2008; and the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic; Galerie Esplanade, Bad Ischl, Austria; UC Santa Cruz Art Gallery in California; and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City, all in 2006. A Canadian retrospective, Between Earth & Sky (in knowing one, one will know the other) organized by the Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in 2003 traveled to the Winnipeg Art Gallery (2004) and the Art Gallery of Windsor (Ontario) in 2006. An earlier retrospective, Day into Night, traveled to museums in Scandinavia and Poland in 1993 and 1994. Hendricks has participated in numerous group shows and performances in Europe, Asia and North America, including the most important Fluxus exhibitions and festivals from Happenings & Fluxus, Kunstverein, Cologne (1970), and 1962 Wiesbaden FLUXUS 1982, Wiesbaden, Germany (1982), on to the recent Fluxus Continues 1963-2003 in Nice, France, and Fluxus East, that opened in Berlin fall 2007, and has traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania; Krakow Poland; Budapest, Hungary; and Tallinn, Estonia through 2008. Hendricks is Professor Emeritus of Visual Art at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey where he taught from1956 to 2004. In 2003 he curated Critical Mass, Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University, 1958-1972 at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, and the Mason Gross Art Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, together with a restaging of George Maciunas' Flux-Mass. C. Carr has called his catalogue for this exhibition, “an invaluable addition to avant-garde history.” Hendricks currently serves as President of the Board of Visual AIDS, a not-for-profit that assists artists with HIV/AIDS, their estates, and through the Frank Moore Archive Project provides a resource for curators of exhibitions and publishing projects. He taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2000, and has taught a number of summers at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art where he will again teach in summer 2009. Hendricks lives and works in New York City and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada together with his partner, and at times artistic collaborator, Sur Rodney (Sur).