Mishka Henner is a key practitioner among the generation of artists redefining the role of photography in the internet age. He views the capturing of images by an endless array of automated and manual cameras as a unified representation of the world with infinite detail, accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Much of his work navigates through this vast digital terrain to focus on key subjects of cultural and geo-political interest. His process often involves extensive documentary research combined with the meticulous construction of imagery from materials sourced online.

Born in 1976 in Brussels, Belgium, Henner moved to the UK in 1984. He holds a Masters degree from Goldsmiths College in London and in 2013, was awarded the Infinity Award for Art by the International Center of Photography. He was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in the same year and in 2014, was on the shortlist for the Prix Pictet for his large-scale works focusing on landscapes carved by the beef and oil industries of America. Henner was showcased as part of the group show New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2015. A major solo show, Counter Intelligence at Orebro Konsthall, Sweden featured works across several series in the spring of 2017.   

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018

Mishka Henner, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco, CA

2017                                                                                                            
Counter Intelligence, Orebro Konstall, Orebro, Sweden
Search History, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

2016
Less Amèricans, SILVERSTEIN/20, New York, NY
Field, Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland

2015
Semi-Automatic, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

2014
Black Diamond, Carroll/Fletcher, London, UK

2013
Precious Commodities, OpenEye Gallery, Liverpool, UK

2011
No Man's Land, Hotshoe Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

An Act of Collective Faith, Mishka Henner & Jonathan Lewis, GALERIE ANDREAS SCHMIDT, Berlin, Germany

2017

Wanderlust, International 3, Salford, UK

Les Nouveaux Encyclopédistes, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Watching You Watching Me, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany

Evidence du Réel, Musée de Pully, Switzerland

Watched!, C/O Berlin, Germany

Nautilus, Marsèlleria, Milan, Italy
Invisible to the Eye Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Man-Made Landscapes Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
Green and Pleasant Land Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Certain Blacks GSL Projekt, Berlin
 

2016

The Peeled Eye, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

I wanted to be a Photographer, Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain

The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, ON

Touch the Sky, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Watched! Surveillance Art and Photography in Europe After Nine-Eleven Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg

Cornucopia, Shepparton Art Museum, Australia

Was ist fotografie heute?, Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Safe and Sound MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland

2015

Unmapping the End of the World, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia

Infosphere, ZKM_Lichthof, Karlsruhe

Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 MoMA, New York

Infosphere ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

A Room With A View L21, Palma de Mallorca

Public Eye New York Public Library, New York

Beastly / Tierisch Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

A History of Photography: Series and Sequences V&A, London

Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd'hui Centre Pompidou, Paris

No Man Nature Fotografia Europea, Palazzo Mosto, Reggio Emilia

Beyond Evidence QUAD, Derby, UK

This Is War! Palazzo del Monte di Pietà, Italy

Digital Conditions Kunstverein Hannover, Germany

Watching You Watching Me Open Society Foundation, NYC

Consumption Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

Eighteen Pumpjacks The Armory Show, New York

The Hierarchy of Images Galleria Photo Forum, Italy

2014

Watching You Watching Me, Open Society Foundation, New York

The Hierarchy of Images, Galleria Photo Forum, Italy

Public Eye, New York Public Library, New York

Consumption, Science Center and Technology Museum “NOESIS”, Thessaloniki

ABCEUM, University of Brighton Gallery, UK

Consumption, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

Zelf weten, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam

Consumption, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin

Images Vevey, Switzerland

MANIFESTOS! Eine Andere Geschichte der Fotografie Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Consumption, Westbau, Zurich

Consumption, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Munich

Object Recognition, Sale Waterside

(Mis)Understanding Photography: Works & Manifestos, Museum Folkwang, Essen

They Used to Call it the Moon, Baltic [Link]

Consumption: Prix Pictet 2014, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Now You See It: Photography and Concealment Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

In Context: The Portrait in Contemporary Photographic Practice Wellin Museum of Art