Camille Henrot

Camille Henrot (born 1978, France) is recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary art today. Over the past twenty years, she has developed a critically acclaimed practice, encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and film. Inspired by literature, second-hand marketplaces, poetry, cartoons, social media, self-help, and the banality of everyday life, Henrot’s works capture the complexity of living as both private individuals and global citizens in an increasingly connected and over-stimulated world.

In 2013, Henrot received widespread critical acclaim for her film Grosse Fatigue, made during a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution and awarded the Silver Lion at the 55^th Venice Biennale in 2013. The film was recently ranked #7 by ARTnews in a list of the 100 Best Artworks of the 21^st Century. Henrot elaborated ideas from Grosse Fatigue to conceive her acclaimed 2014 installation The Pale Fox at Chisenhale Gallery in London, which has since toured to multiple collaborating venues. In 2017, Henrot was given carte blanche at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where she presented the major exhibition Days Are Dogs.

Henrot is the recipient of the 2014 Nam June Paik Award and the 2015 Edvard Munch Award, and has participated in the Lyon, Berlin, Sydney and Liverpool Biennials, among others. Henrot has had numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, including the New Museum, New York; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Fondazione Memmo, Rome; and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan, among others. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Guggenheim, the Centre Pompidou, and the National Gallery of Victoria, among others.

In 2026, Henrot will premiere her new film In The Veins at the New Museum, New York and LUMA, Arles. She will also present a major performative survey exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary, and will debut her first theatrical piece Commedia dell’Arte at the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR Festival, a co-commission between Performa, Aspen Art Museum and LYRA Art Foundation. Henrot’s first public commission in New York City with Public Art Fund will also be unveiled in September, remaining on view in Central Park until August 2027.