Solo Exhibitions

2008

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

2007

Con el Mismo Amor, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

2000-01

Jan Henle: Selected Works 1973 - 2000, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

1999

Jan Henle: Sculpture of No Thing, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY

1998

La Jíbarita, The Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA  (Catalogue)

1996

The La Jíbarita Film Drawings, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

1994

No Thing, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

1992-93

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY

1988

Jan Henle: Land and Stone, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (Artist’s book)

1983

Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY

1978

American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.

1970

Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Screenings

2013

Con el Mismo Amor, ikono On Air Festival, Sept 6 - 29, 2013 on HDTV channels ikono TV and ikono MENASA reaching
over 30 countries worldwide as well as on ikono online

Con el Mismo Amor, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York

2010

Con el Mismo Amor, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2009

Con el Mismo Amor, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

Group Exhibitions

2016-17

The Poetics of Place, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2016

Landed: Surveying New Geographies, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

2015-16

Photographic Commissions of the Lhoist Group: Roy Arden, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Elliot Erwitt, Rodney Graham, Jan Henle, Josef
Koudelka, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

2015

Framing Desire, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

2013

Figure and Ground: Vivien Bittencourt, Rudy Burckhart, Juan Gomez, Jan Henle, Alex Katz, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York

2012

Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico

At the Edge: Recent Acquisitions, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

2009

Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

2008

Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

2005

Exposed: Thirty Years of Collecting Photography, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

2004

Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Video: The Permanent Collection, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

2003

Why do we see what we see how we see?  K21 Düsseldorf, Germany

2002-03

110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

2002

Curious Terrain, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

Prophets of Boom, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

2001

Ordinary Grandeur, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

Piqued Lands: Works by Michael Ashkin, Jan Henle and Paul Seawright, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

Michael Light/Jan Henle, Adamski Frehrking Wiesefofer, Köln 

Photographic Commissions of the Lhoist Group: Roy Arden, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Elliot Erwitt, Rodney Graham, Jan Henle, Josef Koudelka, Center National de la Photographie, Paris. Traveled to Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels. (Catalogue)

2000

Deep Distance, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

1999

Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY

More Than Meets the Eye, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (Catalogue)

Big Pictures Little Pictures, PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY

1998

Summer, Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY

1997

On Paper, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Making It Real, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. Traveled to The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Catalogue)

1996

Transformations in Landscape, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

1995-96

The Abstracted Image in Photography, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1995

Being There, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY

1994

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Stark Gallery, New York, NY

Inspired By Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

1993-94

Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

1991-92

Past/Present: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1990

Constructed Illusions, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY

1989

Selections from Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

1988

Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1987

Drawings, Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY

This Is Not A Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986, The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida. Traveled to Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio and The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia.  (Catalogue)

1986

Drawings, Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1985

Photographs from the Sam Wagstaff Collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

New Works, Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY

Black on White, White on Black, Phoenix Gallery Invitational, New York, NY

1983

Big Pictures, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Drawings, Xavier Fourcade, New York, NY

1982

20th Century Photographs from MoMA, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Public Collections

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

College of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Group Lhoist Collection, Belgium

International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Library and Museum of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

Wilhelm and Gaby Schürmann Collection, Berlin, Germany

Chronology

1948

Born in New York City.

1952

Moved to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

1964-83

Worked periodically in landscaping on St. Croix.

1968

Studied at the San Francisco Art Institute.

1969

Received grant from Virgin Islands Council on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts.

1969-73

Photographed women.

1970

Filmed dance performed on the beach and in the sea.

1972-73

Danced in concerts given by Theatre Dance on St. Croix.

Studied Eastern thought.

Traveled and worked in Ireland and Holland.

First sand pieces.

1974

Worked on a trawler fishing off the Carolina coast.

1975

Received grant from Virgin Islands Council on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts to photograph Danish architecture on St. Croix.

1976-79

Worked with Eiko and Koma, two Japanese contemporary dancers.

1977-79

Headed the board of Theatre Dance and organized the company's first outdoor concerts.

1978

Trip to British Virgin Islands.  Continued sand work.

Received grant from Virgin Islands Council on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts to continue work with Eiko and Koma.

1980

Made Drifting on Melody Smoke / A Flower Opening to the Moon, nine portfolios of work done with Eiko and Koma.

Began land sculptures on St. Croix.

1981

Began aerial work, Fallen Jerusalem.

Worked in Ireland.

1982-84

Continued land sculptures on St. Croix.

1985-88

Made book Jan Henle: Topographical Film Drawings, text by Michael Auping.

Published as an artist's book by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

1987-91

Worked in New York as an art handler and truck driver.

1989

Received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in New Genres.

1991-92

Made land sculpture, La Jíbarita, in Maricao, Puerto Rico.

Began negotiations to acquire 218 acre abandoned farm.

1995

Together with patron, purchased 218-acre farm as site for sculpture project.

1992-98

Fabricated La Jíbarita film drawings.

2006-07

Co-directed with Vivien Bittencourt film, Con el Mismo Amor.

1999 -

Working on living sculpture Con el Mismo Amor, related photography and film.  (Ongoing)

Selected Bibliography

Rothfuss, Joan (Editor). Visual essay in Eiko & Koma: Time is not Even, Space is not Empty, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2011.

Swartley, Ariel. Jan Henle: Art-Work/Work-Art, May 13, 2009, Ariel Swartley for Agency, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

Falconer, Morgan.  Artnews, November 2007, p. 218.

Cotter, Holland.  The New York Times, October 12, 2007.

The New Yorker, January, 2001, p. 18.

New York Magazine, December 4, 2000, “A Show About No Thing.”

Princenthal, Nancy. “Jan Henle: Sculpture of No Thing,” Dove Bradshaw / Jan Henle (exh. cat.), California: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: 1998, pp. 5-15.

Katz, Vincent. “Something on Jan Henle: An Interview,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter, March-April 1995, pp. 5-8.

Maria Morris Hambourg. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Fall 1994, p. 77.

Auping, Michael. Jan Henle: Topographical Film Drawings, Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1988.