Untitled, 2021, Bill Henson

MaleAustralianCreated Post-2000Purchased 2021Photography
Written By Chloe Penn

Provenance: Monash Gallery of Arts, Melbourne

Bill Henson was born in Glen Waverley, in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs in 1955 and continues to live and work in Melbourne. Henson studied photography at Prahran Technical College in 1974 and at 19 years of age held his first solo show at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1975. In 1995 Henson represented Australia at the Venice Biennale, with his celebrated series of cut-screen photographs. In 2005 a comprehensive survey of his work was held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. This landmark survey show, titled Mnemosyne attracted record visitor numbers for a contemporary art exhibition in Australia and was accompanied by the substantial and important publication by the same name.

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