Kathleen Henderson - November 2021

Kathleen Henderson is a visual artist living and working in the Bay Area. With a tense and energetic line, using oil stick and brush on paper, she creates works that are at once comic, perverse, poignant, and beautiful.

Her work has been the subject of numerous solo shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco as well as the Drawing Center in New York. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and is in the collections of the Hammer Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has been a staff artist at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland for over ten years. Creative Growth is the country’s oldest and largest center for artists with disabilities in the country. She is the founding editor of the Creative Growth magazine, which examines and showcases the unfolding and expanding world of art and disability. Henderson also runs a weekly poetry workshop for poets with disabilities in Oakland with participating poets around the country and publishes their yearly chapbook.