Stephen Hendee is a sculptor who builds objects inspired by digital culture, speculative fiction, and architecture. His work has been exhibited at PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, The New Museum, the Sculpture Center, and The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria. Other national exhibitions include those at the Smart Museum, Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, MO, The New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC, and Rice University Art Gallery, Houston.
After receiving degrees in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University, his work has been recognized by the Pollock Krasner Foundation, a Louis Tiffany Comfort award, an Elizabeth Foundation grant, the Kirin Contemporary Art Award in Japan, a New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship, and has been awarded residencies at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in 1997 and the Headland Center for the Arts in 2001. Recent awards include a 2007 Nevada Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and a residency at MacDowell in 2008 where he started The Ice Next Time, a speculative historical examination of textiles and crafts from our future. The project was further produced at a Goldwell Open Air Museum Red Barn residency in 2010 and has since been exhibited at the Barrick Museum in LasVegas in 2010 and SiteLab in Grand Rapids in 2012. Events in the near future include a 2014 residency at Willipa Bay, WA, and an exhibition at Goucher College MD in early 2015.
