About Barkley L. Hendricks

Barkley L.  Hendricks (1945-2017) was born in Philadelphia, and lived and worked in New London, Connecticut. He earned both his BFA and MFA from Yale University and was the subject of a large-scale traveling exhibition, Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham (2008), which traveled to the Studio Museum in Harlem (2008–2009); the Santa Monica Museum of Art (2009); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2009–2010); and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2010). Hendricks’s work has been prominently shown in recent significant exhibitions, such as the Prospect.4 Triennial, The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans Museum of Art, (November 18, 2017 – February 25, 2018), and Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, exhibited at the Tate Modern (July 12 – October 22, 2017); the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, (February 3 – April 23, 2018); Brooklyn Museum of Art, (September 7 – February 3, 2019); The Broad, Los Angeles, (March 23 – September 1, 2019); the de Young Museum, San Francisco, (November 9, 2019 – March 8, 2020); and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, (April 19 – July 19, 2020). Hendricks is included in numerous public collections both within the United States and abroad, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate Modern, London; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Columbus Museum of Art; and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge.