Bill Henson Melbourne, Australia, b. 1955-
Bill Henson (b. 1955 in Melbourne, VIC) is an internationally acclaimed artist, whose works of great beauty evoke contradictory moods of squalor and opulence, introspection and sensuality. Encompassing the qualities of the Baroque, his images are intense and intimate, reflecting a space between the mystical and the real. At the age of just 19, Henson staged his first solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne in 1975. Since then, the NGV has acquired over 100 works by Henson, the most significant of any public institution. Henson represented Australia at the 46th Venice Biennale in 1995 and his photographic works have been exhibited extensively both locally and internationally over an incredible 45-year career. Henson's most distinguished work is held in every major public collection in Australia and numerous important museum collections worldwide, including the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA; Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Stifting Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; Tate Collection, London; and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, Paris, France
Chartwell Collection, New Zealand
Darwin Community College, Darwin
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
DG Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Griffith University, Brisbane
High Court of Australia, Canberra
Horsham Art Gallery, Horsham
Houston Museum of Fine Art
Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, Ipswich
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Monash City Council Collection
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain
Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Stifting Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
NRMA Collection, Sydney
Parson's School of Art & Design, New York, USA
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, Australia
Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Polaroid Corporation, New York, USA
Progressive Corporation Collection, Ohio, USA
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Refco Collection, Chicago, USA
Sammlung Volpinum, Vienna, Austria
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, Hobart
Tate Collection, London
The Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, Melbourne
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
The Philip Morris Collection, Canberra
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art
Wollongong City Art Gallery, Wollongong
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The light fades but the gods remain, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
The light fades but the gods remain, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Bill Henson, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Landscapes, Castlemaine Regional Gallery, Victoria.
Oneiroi, Hellenic Museum, Melbourne.
Cloud Landscapes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Untitled 1985/86, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Bill Henson: Across Time, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
Diane Arbus, Bill Henson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Bill Henson: Early work from the MGA collection, Touring across Australia
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Bill Henson: early work from the Monash Gallery of Art collection, travelling exhibition
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Bill Henson, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Bill Henson, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Bill Henson, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
Bill Henson, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Bill Henson: 2003-2004 Newcastle Region Art Gallery Acquisitions, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle
Bill Henson: Three Decades of Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presence 3: Bill Henson, The Speed Art Museum, Kentucky, USA
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Bill Henson, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
Bill Henson, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Bill Henson, Lux et Nox, book launch, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Bill Henson, Lux et Nox, book launch, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Bill Henson, Centro de Fotografia, University of Salamanca, Spain
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia, November-December
Bill Henson, Scalo, Zurich, Switzerland, September - November
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia, March
Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia, August
Bill Henson, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, March
Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia, May - June
Bill Henson, ACP Galerie Peter Schuengel, Salzburg, Austria, January - February
Bill Henson, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne International Festival of Arts, Melbourne, Australia, October - November
Bill Henson, Banning and Associates, New York, USA, February.
Bill Henson, Works from the 46th Venice Biennale, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth, Australia, February - March.
Bill Henson: Photographs form the Monash City Council Collection, March
Bill Henson, Recent Works from 1995/96, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, April - May
Bill Henson, Works from The 46th Venice Biennale, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, April - May
Bill Henson, Works from The 46th Venice Biennale, National Gallery of Victoria, May - June
Bill Henson, Works from The 46th Venice Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, July - September
Bill Henson, Works from The 46th Venice Biennale, Plimsoll Gallery University of Hobart, October - November
Bill Henson, 46th Venice Biennale, Australian Pavilion, June - September
Bill Henson, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, August - September
Bill Henson, Photographs, Peter McCleavey Gallery, Wellington, November.
Bill Henson, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. February - March
Bill Henson, University of Tasmania, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, April/May
Bill Henson, Works from Untitled 1992 -1993, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, May - June
Bill Henson Work from Two Decades 1970s - 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Bill Henson Selected Works, Geelong Regional Art Gallery
Works From The Paris Opera Project, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, March -April
Bill Henson, Perspektief Gallery, Rotterdam. June - July
Bill Henson Photographies, Les Ateliers Nadar, Marseille (France), March
Works from the Paris Opera Project, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, May - June
Bill Henson, Peter McCleavey Gallery, Wellington, June
Bill Henson Installation 1985/86, Urbi et Orbi, Paris, November 1989 - January 1990
Bill Henson Photography, Denver Art Museum, December 1989 - May 1990
Bill Henson Photography, Marta Cevera Gallery, New York, March - April
Bill Henson, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
Bill Henson, Glendash Gallery, Los Angeles, July
Bill Henson Photographs, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, September-November
Bill Henson Untitled 1977/87, Milburn+Arte, Brisbane, March
Bill Henson, Images from 'Untitled 1987/88', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, March - April
Bill Henson Photographs 1974 - 84, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, March -April
Bill Henson Fotografien, Museum Moderner Kunst, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, February - March
Bill Henson Photographs 1974 - 1984, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne, June
Bill Henson, Untitled 1987/88, Realities, Melbourne, November
Bill Henson, Untitled 1985/86, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, February - March
Bill Henson, La Chartreuse de Villeneuve les Avignon, Avignon, November
Bill Henson, Untitled 1983/84, Australian National Gallery at the Australian National University, Drill Hall, Canberra, 6 December 1986 - 5 April 1987
Bill Henson, Untitled 1983/84, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 25 April - 17 May
Bill Henson Photographs, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Bill Henson Photographs, Realities, Melbourne, November
Bill Henson Photographs, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, July
Bill Henson, Untitled 1983/84, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia, July
Bill Henson Photographs, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, September - October
Bill Henson Photographs, The Developed Image Gallery, Adelaide, October - November
Bill Henson Photographs, Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston, May
Bill Henson Untitled Series 1977, The Developed Image Gallery, Adelaide, February - March
Bill Henson Photographs, North Hobart Photographic Gallery, Hobart, July
Bill Henson Photographs, Photographers' Gallery, London, November
Bill Henson Photographs, Church Street Photographic Centre, Melbourne, February
Bill Henson Photographs, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, October
Bill Henson Photographs, Church Street Photographic Centre, Melbourne, August
Bill Henson, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, July/ August
MONOGRAPHS
Sic Transit, Stanley Barker, London
Principio Erat, Editions Bessard, Paris
The Light Fades But The Gods Remain, Thames and Hudson, London
Kindertotenlieder, Stanley Barker, London
Bill Henson, Michael Heyward, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bill Henson Oneiroi, Peter Craven, Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
Bill Henson, Editions Bessard, Paris
Particle Mist, Stanley Barker, London
Bill Henson 1985, Stanley Barker, London
The Henson Case, David Marr, Text Publishing, Melbourne
Mnemosyne, various authors, Scalo/AGNSW, Zurich
Bill Henson, (exhibition catalogue), Dennis Cooper, Ediciones Universidad, Salamanca
Lux et Nox, Scalo, Zurich Berlin New York
Bill Henson 46th Venice Biennale, (exhibition catalogue), Michael Heyward, AETA Sydney
Bill Henson Photographs 1974-1984, (exhibition catalogue), Peter Schjeldahl/David Malouf, Deutscher, Melbourne
Bill Henson Fotografien, (exhibition catalogue), Bodo Hell, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Bill Henson Photographs, David Malouf/Michael Heyward, Pan-Picador, Sydney
Bill Henson Untitled 1985/86, Terence Maloon, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Art Cologne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Art Basel Hong Kong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Hong Kong
Provenence II, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Idle Worship, Lismore Regional Gallery, Australia
Group Exhibition, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Gothic Beauty: Victorian notions of love, loss and spirituality, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Sydney Contemporary, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Unflinching Gaze: photo media & the male figure, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Wall Power: Contemporary Australian Photography, Michael Reid and Department of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Paris, London
Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond, University of Queensland Art Museum, QLD, Australia
Contemporary Masters - from a Private Collection, Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
Versus Rodin, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Paris Photo, Tolarno Galleries, Paris
Art Basel Hong Kong, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Hung Out to Dry: Space, memory and domestic laundry practice, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Five Centuries of Melancholia, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane.
Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Beautiful Creatures, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Mix Tape 1980′s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Under My Skin: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton
The Youth Code!, curated Natalie Herschderfer, Chrisoph Guy, Zurich
Elsewhere, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, TV Moore, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Naked, Jensen Gallery, Sydney
Zurich Film Festival Exhibition, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Teen City, Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer
People and Places: Selections from the Allen Thomas Jr. Photography Collection, SECCA (Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art), North Carolina
Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, IMA touring show - Logan Art Gallery, Redcliffe Art Gallery
DeOverkant/Downunder, Den Haag Sculpture 2007, Netherlands
Intimacy, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, IMA touring show - 24Hr Art, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Pinnacles Gallery
Strange Cargo: Contemporary art as a state of encounter, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and Tweed River Regional Gallery
Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Black & Blue, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Perception, The Daryl Hewson Photographic Collection, Queensland Centre for Photography, Bulimba, QLD, Australia
The Subjective Figure, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
C'town Bling, curator Anne Loxley, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW, Australia
10/21 - VCA at the Venice Biennale, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
The Children's Hour, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA
Almost, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Auto Fetish: The Mechanics of Desire, curated by Nick Mitzevich, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales
Penumbra: Images of Light and Darkness, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
Night Vision, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Written with Darkness, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney
The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art, A Heide Museum of Modern Art Travelling Art Exhibition, Melbourne
Satellite cities and tabloid life, MUMA Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Presence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (through to March 2005)
2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Contemporary Photo-media, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York
MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Stellar, Centre of Contemporary Photography Fundraising Auction, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Through their lens, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford
Child in Time, Gemeente Museum Helmond, Helmond, The Netherlands
Portraiture, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
Flagship: Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, 1790 - 2000, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
SEX, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003)
Points of View, University of Technology Sydney Art Collection, UTS, Sydney
Sublime: 25 Years of the Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
2nd Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002
Dirty Dozen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The First Twenty Years, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Nocturne: Images of Night & Darkness from Colonial to Contemporary, 23 April - 16 June, MPRG Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Images of Australian Men: Photographs from the Monash Gallery of Art Collection, A Monash Gallery of Art Travelling Exhibition (Adelaide Festival Centre, Gippsland Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery) 24 May 2002 - 21 Sept. 2003
Other Views: an exhibition from the Griffith University Art Collection, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland
Phiction: lies, illusion and the phantasm in photography, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia, December
a person looks at a work of art…, The Michael Buxton Contemporary Art Collection, 24 November 2001- 3 December 2002, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, Australia
Lightness of Being, Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, September - October; Museum Scholb Hardenberg, Velbert, November - January; Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, January - February; Kulturzentrum der Stadt Stuttgart, March - April, Germany
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Millennium Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum
Presumed Innocent, CAPC Musee d'Art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
All Stars 2000, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Darkness & light: looking at the landscape, McClelland Gallery; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery; Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
The Promise of Photography: Selections from the DG Bank Collection, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Moral Hallucinations: Channelling Hitchcock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1999 - 2000)
Ghost in the Shell - Photography and the Human Soul 1850 - 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1999 - 2000)
13 - Blind Spot Summer Show, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
Liberamente, Comune di Cescna, Italy
Body, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Bill Henson, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Sarah Jones, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
System's End: Contemporary Art In Australia, Oxy Gallery, Osaka, April.
From The Street: Photographs From The Collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales, April 27 - 14 July 1996
Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, April, Sydney
Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, July-November
Australian Art - Colonial to Contemporary 1780 - 1990, D.F.A., August
Face Value, Waverley City Gallery, Sydney, September
30th Artists Today Exhibition, Yokohama Citizen's Art Gallery, Yokohama, March 1995
Through a Glass Darkly, Guinness Contemporary Art Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 May - 16 July
Passions Privee, ARC Musee D'Art Modern D'La Ville De Paris, December - January 1996
Bill Henson & Ranier Usselmann, Cambridge Darkroom, UK
Pride-of-Place, Art Gallery of Western Australia, May 1994
The Full Spectrum: Colour Photography in Australia 1860s to 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, June 1994
Printemps de Cahors France, Cartier Foundation, June 1994
Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Australian Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Feb - May 1993
Presences, London Photographers Gallery, November 1993 - January 1995
A Constructed Reality, National Gallery of Victoria. January - February
Strangers in Paradise, Contemporary Australian Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, November - December
Sights of the Imagination: Contemporary Photographers View Melbourne and Its People, National Gallery of Victoria, September
Group Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, December
Des De El Fin Del Imperio, Circulo De Bellas Artes, Madrid, March
The Corporeal Body, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, April - May
Corriger Les Lieux, Apres La Photographie De Voyage, Maison de la Culture, Frontenac, Montreal, April - May
Photodeath, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, April - June
Egypt From the Nineteenth Century Until Now, Montpellier Museum, France, May - June
Sphinx: Bathazar Burckhard, Bill Henson, Thomas Ruff, & Susan Wides, Galerie Pierre Bernard, Nice, May - June
Peuples En Image: Weegee, Bill Henson, Roy Arden, Raymonde April and Anne Favrat, Le Lieu Galerie de Photographies, Lorient (France), November - December
Elegia de la Mirada, Raymonde April, Bill Henson, Patrick Tosani, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall, Sala de Arte la Recova, Santa Crus de Tenerife, November - December
Edge 90, Newcastle upon Tyne, Glasgow, London, May - June
Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers 'From the Hallmark Cards
Australian Collection', National Gallery of Victoria, June - August; touring Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, regional galleries
Passages De L'Image, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, September-November, Wexner Art Centre, Colombus, (Ohio, USA), July - October, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 1991 - February, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, February - March
I.C.I. Contemporary Art Collection, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat (Touring) May - June
Photo Kunst, Stuttgart Staats Gallerie (including Jeff Wall, Cragie Horstfelt, Sigmar Polke)
International Fototriennale Esslingen, September - November
Artists Under Saturn, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne, November - December (touring 1990)
The Bicentennial Australian Perspecta 1987/ 88, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 15 October - 29 November 1987, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 5 March - 17 April 1988
Shades of Light, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, March
Australian Photography in the 1980s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, March
1978 - 1988 Ten Years of Australian Photography, Australian National Gallery at the Australian National University, Drill Hall, Canberra, April
Elsewhere - Photobased Work from Australia, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, April - May
Behold the Man, Photographers' Gallery, London, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, May - August
Edge to Edge: Australian Contemporary Art to Japan 1988/ 89, National Museum of Art Osaka, May - July; Hara Museum, Tokyo, July - September; Nagoya City Museum, Sapporo, April
The Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Australian Art: Selected Works, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, February - March
The Thousand Mile Stare, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (touring), March - April
Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988, T.C.C.A. and the Australian Bicentennial Authority by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (touring)
Aperto XLIII Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, June - September
Contemporary Australian Art to China, Beijing, (touring), November
Mnemosyne of the Theme of Recording - An Exhibition with and in the Castle Herrnsheim, Castle Herrnsheim, Frankfurt, September - October
The Bicentennial Australian Perspecta 1987/88, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (touring thru 1989)
Australian Art Post - 1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne, October
Australian Art in Paris, Salpetiere, C.I.R.C.A., Paris, December - January
Living In the Seventies - Australian Photographs, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, June - September
Aberdare Prize for Landscape, Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, Ipswich, August - September
Ten Years On, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, February - March
Big Pictures, Australian National Gallery at the Australian National University, Drill Hall, Canberra, March - May
Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, May - July
Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, September - November
The Repeated Image, Griffith University, Griffith, September - October
C.S.R. Photography Project, Queensland Art gallery, (touring) November - January
Australian Art Now, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, November - January
La Photographie Creative, Pavilion Des Arts, Paris, November - January
Australian Visions, Queensland Art Gallery, 10 January - 10 February, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 8 March - 7 April; Art Gallery of Western Australia, 20 April - 20 May
Isolaustralia, Galleria Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, May - June
Australiana, Galerija Studentskog Kulturnog Centra, Belgrade, September; Zagreb, October
Recent Australian Photography From the Kodak Fund, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, October - February
C.S.R. Photography Project Selected Works, Opera House Exhibition Hall, Sydney, March - April
Australian Visions: 1984, Exxon International Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September - November
D'un Autre Continent: l'Australie, Le Reve et le Reel, A.R.C.2: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, October - December
Australian Artists in Amsterdam, Gallerie Jurka in association with Gallerie Wetering and Gallerie Biederberg-Muller, Amsterdam, October
C.S.R. Photography Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, October
A Decade of Australian Photography 1972 - 1982, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, October - January
Biennale of Sydney: Vision in Disbelief, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, April - May
Male, James Harvey Gallery, Sydney, July
Sexual Imagery in Art, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, September
Australian Perspecta 1981: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, May - June
Scene, Sequence, Series, Nantes Regional Gallery, France (co-ordinated by Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and Musee des Beau-Arts de Nantes), October - November
Aspects of the Philip Morris Collection: Four Australian Photographers, Australian Embassy, Paris (touring), September
Photography - The Last Ten Years, Australian National Gallery at the Australian National University, Drill Hall, October
The Nude, Glanville Gallery, Perth; Susan Gillespie Gallery, Canberra, Church Street Photographers Centre, Melbourne, September
New Australian Work, The Photographers Gallery, Melbourne, September
Graduating Photography, Ewing Gallery and George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne, July
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Luminous, with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, National Tour, 2019
Chiaroscuro, with the Sydney Art Quartet, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2019
Luminous, with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, National Tour, 2009
Luminous, with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, National Tour, 2002
Paris Opera Project, Opera de Paris, 1990-1991
PUBLICATIONS
Peter Craven, ‘Search for a lost time’, The Australian, 5 March 2021
John McDonald, 'Bill Henson’s latest work a warning against generalisations on gender', Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 2021
John McDonald, 'The enduring beauty of uncertainty', Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March 2021
Erin McFayden, 'Bill Henson', Artist Profile, Issue 54, March 2021
Kerrie O'Brien, ''Everyone gets a turn’- Bill Henson on the destructiveness of cancel culture', Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 2021
Philippa Coates, ‘BILL HENSON’, Australian Financial Review, February 2020
Kirstie Clements, ‘BILL HENSON’, Harpers Bizzarre, Summer 2019
Nathalie Herschdorfer, 2019, BODY. THE PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK, Thames and Hudson, London 2019
Christopher Allen, ‘Truth through the pinhole’, The Australian, November 2, 2019
Maxim Boon, 'Kindred spirits reunited and as fresh as ever', Brisbane Times, August 13, 2019
Ben Wilkie, 'LUMINOUS (AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA)', Limelight, August 13
David Cusworth, 'Australian Chamber Orchestra, Henson and Lior recreate Luminous in Perth', The West Australian, 17 August 2019
'A Profound Exhibition Offering Unparalleled Insight Into Bill Henson', The Design Files, 25 July 2019
Peter McCallum, 'Drawn towards the light', Sydney Morning Herald, August 19, 2019
Andrew Stephens, 'Bill Henson and ACO - a Luminous friendship of sound and stillness', The Age, July 19, 2019
‘The light fades but the gods remain’, ArtsReview, 23 July 2019
Victoria Pearson, 'Within and Without', Russh, Issue 88, June-July 2019
John Buckley, 'Bill Henson at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,' Saturday Paper, edition number 255, June 1 - 7 2019
Chloe Wollfson, 'Henson pauses time, suspends light in latest exhibition' Sydney Morning Herald, 5 May 2019
Jane Albert, 'Controversial Photographer Bill Henson Makes His Long-Awaited Return to Sydney', Broadsheet, published on 17 May 2019
Erin McFadyen, 'Bill Henson', Artist Profile, May 2019
'Bill Henson and the Sydney Art Quartet,' Spectrum - Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2019
Donald Mcdonald, ‘Culture buff by donald mcdonald', Spectrum - Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2019
'The Short List', Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 2019
'The Art Spot - Bill Henson', The Financial Review, May 2019
Jerico Tracy, 'The Return of Bill Henson,' Monster Children, 21 May 2019
Nick Galvin, 'A Sense of Proportion is Very important,' Sydney Morning Herald, 16 May 2019, pg. 5
Elizabeth Fortescue, ‘Bill Henson unveils new works in Melbourne’, The Art Newspaper, 24 April
Penny Grist, ‘Conduct becoming’, Portrait, issue 58, summer 2017-2018
Angela Smith, 'Bill Henson’s Greek Dreaming', Meanjin, Spring 2018
John McDonald, 'Art - Bill Henson', Brisbane Times, 25 May 2018
John Barnes, Light on Shade, Newcastle Herald, Feb 2018
Louise Maher, 'Bill Henson's operatic portrait series of conductor Simone Young back on show in Canberra' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 14 March
Nick Galvin, “Concert hall should be a 'safe house' for beauty”, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 2018
Nick Galvin, 'Australian Chamber Orchestra's Richard Tognetti on why beauty matters above all', The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 2018
Gabriella Coslovich, ''Be true to yourself' - Why #MeToo won't change Bill Henson', The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 April 2018
''WALL POWER London' at Somerset House, London', Blouin Art Info International, May 19 2018
William Yeoman, 'Ear meets eye as ACO raises its bar', The West Australian, 26 August 2018
Gabrielle Coslovich, ‘Out of the Darkness,’ The Age, April 2018
Stephen Todd, ‘The Gloaming,’ Habitus, issue 38 December – February 2018
Melissa Fyfe, Bill Henson: 'I am quite comfortable with the fact my pictures disturb people', February 10, 2017
Madeleine Dore, ‘Extraordinary Routines: Bill Henson’, The Design Files, March 20, 2017
Peter Craven, ‘Photographic beauty in an age of throwaway images’, The Age, 10 March 2017
Louise Maher, 'Bill Henson's operatic portrait series of conductor Simone Young back on show in Canberra' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 14 March
Sebastian Smee ‘Art Walks a tightrope’, The Monthly, April 2017
Christopher Allen, Bill Henson images reflect the dark past at NGV, The Australian Review, April 15, 2017
Christopher Allen, ‘Realm of Nocturnes,’ Weekend Australia, 16 April 2017
John McDonald, ‘A Master’s search for ineffable truths,’ The Age, June 9th, 2017
Alison Holland, 'Bill Henson In Conversation,' Photofile, issue 100, 2017, pp. 24 - 40
Humphrey Wine, ‘Bill Henson,’ The Burlington Magazine, December 2017
John McDonald, Art and the Ancients, Sydney Morning Herald, April 2-3, p. 8-9,
Monika Tan, Bill Henson on photographing the 'monumental' artefacts of ancient Greece, Art and Design, The Guardian (online), 8 April 2016
Oneiro:'Gods, Myths & Mortals' through the lens of Bill Henson, (online article), neoskosmos.com, 18 July 2016
Bill Henson, Editions Bessard, Pierre Bessard
Bill Henson: Oneiroi, Peter Craven, Scanlan Theodore
Ella Rubeli, 'Particle Mist: new book of photographer Bill Henson's early work', Sydney Morning Herald, 29 January 2016
Ella Rubeli, `Entries open now: Bill Henson to judge prestigious Bowness Photography Prize', Sydney Morning Herald, 2 July 2015
'Southbank contemporary,' Art Monthly Australia, March 2015, Number 277, p. 10
Barry Humphries,' Beauty and sadness of adolescence', The Australian, January 29 2015, p.12
Julia Irwin, `Photographer Henson speaks out against `unsympathetic' developments on Northcote's main strip,' Northcote Leader, 12 June 2015
Anna Harrison, `Bill Henson', Russh Magazine, September, 2014
Lorraine Rubio, 'artnet asks: Controversial Photographer Bill Henson', artnet, 13 August 2014
Bill Henson, 'Unfinished Symphony', The Weekend Australian, June 14-15, 2014
Alison Steven-Taylor, `Bill Henson chooses the images that define Australia', The Weekend Australian, March 8 2014
Ashley Crawford, `Bill Henson sheds new light in photography exhibition at the Monash Gallery of Art', The Age, February 6 2014
James Gorman, `Largest collection of Bill Henson works to be hung in AGNSW exhibition', Daily Telegraph, April 19 2013
Patrick Hartigan, “Bill Henson's Cloud Landscapes”, The Monthly, September 2013
Jackie Higgins, Why it does not have to be in focus, (United Kingdom; Thames and Hudson, 2013) pp. 130-131
John Mcdonald, `Body Issues', SMH, September 15-16, 2012
Deborah Stone, `With light must come shadown', SMH, September 18, 2012
Alexandra Spring, `New Bill Henson Exhbition', Vogue Australia, 18th Sept, 2012
John Mcdonald, Finding Form, Australian Art Collector, October-December, 2012
Lisa Omagari, Bill Henson, Concrete Playground, http://sydney.concreteplayground.com.au/event/80788/bill-henson-at-roslyn-oxley9.htmSeptember 2012.
John Mcdonald, `Edgy insights into the soul and self', Spectrum, April 9-10, 2011, pp 10-11
Helen Mcdonald, `It's Rude to Stare', Artlink, Issue 31 No. 3, pp. 24-27
Christopher Allen, `Metaphors of ephemeral beauty', The Australian, May 10, 2010
John Mcdonald, `Finding refuge in the landscape', Spectrum-SMH, May 15-16, pp. 14-15
Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art and Australia (eds.), Sydney, p144
Sebastien Smee, `Forget Me Not', The Weekend Australian, April 5-6, 2008, pp.18-19
Tony Stephens, `Bill Henson', Photofile, No. 81, Spring 2007, pp.69 - 71.
Marilena Astrapellou, `Bill Henson: In The Crepuscule of Desire', Next Level, edition 11, pp.62-69
Supercharged: the car in contemporary culture, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, published by Merrell Publications, London, England
Review of `Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney', The artlife
Sunandah Creagh, 'Bill Henson', in Open Gallery, Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 29-30, 2006 p.16
Sebastian Smee, `The shadowy existence of Bill Henson', Artist Interview, The Art Newspaper, No. 169, May 2006, p. 40
Robert McFarlane, `A playful eye charts `60s surrealism', in `Arts & Entertainment', The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday July 11, 2006 p.13
Sunanda Creagh, `It's all about the shadow play', in `Arts & Entertainment', The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday July 5, 2006 p.15
Kyla McFarlane, `Bill Henson: 3 Decades of Photography', Eyeline, no. 58 Spring pp. 37 - 39
10/21 - VCA at the Venice Biennale, exh. cat., Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Michael Reid, `Pictures worth more than a 1000 whirrs', The Australian, February 25, 2005
Charles Green, `Bill Henson, National Gallery of Victoria'
Helen McDonald, `Francesca Alfano Miglietti (FAM), Extreme Bodies: The Use and Abuse of the Body in Art', Art Monthly Australia, June 2005, p.12
Annette Larkin, Justin Miller and Damian Hackett, `going, going, gone…', Three auction house experts reveal their top 10 favourite Australian artists to watch…,' Vogue Living, May-June 2005, p.110
Dominic Sidhu, `Nocturne: The Photographs of Bill Henson', Interview with Bill Henson, EGO Magazine, August 29, 2005
`Bill Henson, photographer,' Box Magazine #6, Autumn issue, pp.30-35
Richard Kalina, `Report from Downunder: Down Under no more', Art in America, April 2005, pg.77
Justin Clemens, `3 Decades of Photography, by Bill Henson', The Monthly, May 2005
Gina McColl, `Dark lord of the camera', preview, The Sunday Age, April 17, 2005, p.4
Geraldine O'Brien, `Out of the Shadows', Melbourne Magazine, April 2005, p.60
Samela Harris, Addicted to art', Australian Art Collector, Issue 32, April, p.118
`Bill Henson photographer', Box magazine, Autumn, p.30.
Sebastian Smee, `Bill Henson,' Art & Australia, Autumn 2005, Vol 42, No. 3, p.396
Andrew Frost, `Bill Henson,' state of the arts, Art Now, Jan-Mar 2005, p.82
Joanna Mendelssohn, previews `Bill Henson,' Australian Art Collector, Issue 31, January -March 2005, p.173
Russell Smith, `Bill Henson: Three Decades of Photography', Contemporary Visual Arts + Culture, Broadsheet, Volume 34, No. 1, March-May 2005, pp.46-48
Christopher Allen, `Of waifs and chandeliers: photographs that reach into the mind,' The Australian Financial Review, 10th February 2005, p.43
John McDonald, `Bill Henson: 3 Decades of Photography,' Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 29th January
Bill Henson: Mnemosyne, Scalo (Berlin, Zurich, New York) and Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), artist monograph accompanying exhibition Bill Henson: Three Decades of Photography, 2005 (501 pages)
Bill Henson, brochure accompanying AGNSW exhibition with excerpts from essays in Bill Henson: Mnemosyne, except for Room 8, Michael Heyward, The photography of Bill Henson.
Sebastian Smee, `Touch of innocence,' Weekend Australian, January 22-23, (Review: Arts) pp.18-19
Charles Green, `Preview: Sydney, Bill Henson - Art Gallery of New South Wales,' ArtForum International, January 2005, XLIII, No. 5, p.98
Dominique Angeloro, `Thrill Bill,' Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 21 - 27, 2005, p.26 (Metro)
Rosalie Higson, `Emerging from the shadows,' The Australian, Friday, January 7, p.16
Ben Cubby, `Tenderness, fragility, violence, violation: images that stir the mind and rock the heart,' Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, January 7, p.7 (News)
Bec Dean and Robert Cook, `Bill Henson: Interview,' Photofile, #73, Summer 2005, pp.18-23
Jean Dykstra, `Review of Bill Henson at Robert Miller Gallery,' Art in America, December issue
Nellie Castan, `New York - The Armory Show 2004,' ART EXPO, p.30
Ingrid Woodrow, Auto Fetish, exh. cat., Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Nov 04 - Jan 05
Michael Heyward, `Untitled Series 1983-84,' Lumiere, Couture Show catalogue, 2004
Janet Hawley, `In the realm of the senses,' Good Weekend, The Sydney Morning Herald Magazine, December 18, pp.18 - 25
Judy Annear, `The Elusive Bill Henson,' LOOK, Art Gallery Society of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, pp.28 - 31
David Broker, `The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art,' Eyeline #54, Winter, p.44 - 46
Victoria Pederson, `Market File: Art of Darkness,' Art and Auction, May 2004, p.145
Chris Boyd, `Bill Henson's lightness of being,' The Weekend Australian Financial Review, May 29-30, 2004, p.36
Victoria Pederson, `Art & Auction Marketfile: Art of darkness - Bill Henson,' The New Yorker, May 2004, p.145
`Goings on About Town: Photography,' The New Yorker, March 8, 2004, p.18
Michael Fitzgerald, `Not Dying, Changing,' TIME, March 22, 2004, pp.62-63
Blair French, `Bill Henson: Darkness on the Edge of Town,' Eyeline #53, pp.34 - 37
Glenis Israel, senior artwise: visual arts 11 - 12, book 2, John Wiley & Sons, Qld. pp.170 -174
Charlotte Léouzon, `NirvanArt,' Jalouse, No. 66, December 2003 - January 2004, pp.78, 79, 83-85
Matthew Guy Nichols, `Bill Henson,' in Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, exh. cat., International Center of Photography, New York, 2003, pp.48-51
Ashley Crawford, `Bill Henson: Lux et Nox,' Art Monthly Australia, #164, October 2003, p.18
Isobel Crombie, `Bill Henson,' Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. Jenepher Duncan and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, p.91
Stuart Koop, `Same As It Ever Was: photography in the Collection,' Monash University Collection: Four Decades of Collecting, ed. Jenepher Duncan and Linda Michael, Monash University and Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, 2003, pp.40 - 44
Sebastian Smee, `When Night Falls,' ArtReview, vol. LIV, March, pp.98-99
Rosalin Sadler, `Reviews - Art on Television: It's only fiction,' Australian Art Review, Issue 2, July - October 2003, pp.93-94
Katarina Kroslakova, `Underground Realist,' State of the Arts, Australia and New Zealand, April - June 2003, pp.44-45
Margaret Plant, `The Journey from Field to Fieldwork 1968 - 2003,' Eyeline # 51, Autumn - Winter, 2003, pp.44-46
Jeremy Eccles, `The Portrait and the Market,' Australian Art Collector, issue 25, July - September, pp.66 - 69
Sebastian Smee, `Dark desires,' POL Oxygen, Issue 3, June/July, pp.66 - 75
Child in Time, exh. cat., Gemeente Museum Helmond, Helmond, The Netherlands, p.28
Stephen Naylor, `Getting into the Giardini di Castello: Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale,' Art & Australia, 40th Anniversary Issue, Winter, vol. 40, no. 4, pp.594 - 601
`FotografÃa: casi 16.000 personas han passado por la muestra de Bill Henson,' La Gaceta, (Local), 3 June 2003, p.12
José Ã. Montero, “La provocación y el misterio Ilegan a la Universidad con la fotografÃa de Henson,” La Gaceta, (LOCAL), 29 March 2003, Spain, p.13
Stuart Koop, `Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002,' Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 1, March, April, May, pp.8 - 11
Mixt(e), France, May - June, pp.22 - 23
`Bill Henson: Juventud Desnuda,' Ciudad Viva Salamanca, no. 6, Salamanca Ciudad Cultura, Spain, 4 April - 5 May
O.A.M, `Bill Henson,' Arte Y Parte, Spain, p.110
`9,000 personas han visitado la exposición de Bill Henson,' Tribuna, 1 May 2003
City of Whitehorse Art Collection, exh. cat., City of Whitehorse, Nunawading, Victoria
Ashley Crawford, `Books: Lux et Nox,' The Bulletin, April 9
Ciudad Viva: Salamanca, cover page, April - May, no. 6, 2003
RocÃo Blázquez, `Henson elige Salamanca para presenter en España sus perturbadores retratos,' ABC (Agenda Cultural), 29 March 2003
`Salamanca acoge la primera exposición en solitario del artista australiano Bill Henson,' Tribuna, 29 March 2003, Salamanca, Spain
Elizabeth Fortescue, `Bill's shutter sees signs in the shadows,' The Daily Telegraph (SydneyLive), Friday, March 28, p.102
John McDonald, `Light and Night: A man besotted by his own context,' The Australian Financial Review (Arts), Thursday 27 March
Miriam Cosic, `Twilight Zone,' The Weekend Australian Magazine, March 22-23, pp.28 - 32
Peter Craven, `Stares and whispers,' Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition (Spectrum), March 22 - 23, p.8, 9
Peter Craven, `Through a lens darkly,' The Age, Saturday, March 22, 2003
Sebastian Smee, `Light versus dark,' The Independent Magazine, March 15, p.8-10, 13
Anthea Loucas, `Melancholic must-have,' Sydney Morning Herald (Good Living), March 4, p.28
Lolla Stewart, `Bill Henson: Lux et Nox,' Australian Book Review, March 2003, p.21
Isobel Crombie ed., Flagship: Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, 1790 - 2000, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, p.75
Daniel Thomas, `S & D at NGVA,' Art Monthly Australia, no. 157, March 2003, p.27 - 32
Portrait #6, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Summer, p.13-15
Daniel Palmer, `Bill Henson: 50 Most Collectable Artists,' Australian Art Collector, Issue 23, January - March
Doris Krumpel, `Eine zeimlich wilde Mischung,' Der Standard, 27 February
Antje Mayer, `Wien: Die Sammlung Volpinum Zeigt,,Menschen,' Kunstzeitung, No. 77, January
Bill Henson: Lux et Nox, ed. Martin Jaeggi and Walter Keller, Scalo, Zurich, New York and Berlin
John McPhee, `City Life: De Sydney à Melbourne,' Paris Photo Magazine International, no. 22, Septembre/Octobre 2002, pp.124 - 131
Isobel Crombie and Jason Smith, `Bill Henson and Peter Booth - Untitled,' Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne, pp.72 - 77
Ross Gibson, `Poise: a brief meditation on the work of six photographers,' Points of View, exh. cat., University of Technology Sydney Art Collection, UTS, Sydney
2nd Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002, p.111 (pp. 104,105 detail)
Peter Hill, `Melbourne's art fair is a brush with envy,' Sydney Morning Herald (Metropolitan), Monday October 7, p.15
Magda Keaney, `In Fashion,' Photofile, no. 65, May
Dennis Cooper, The Photography of Bill Henson: Naked Youth, Artforum International, No. 6, p.94-97
Peter Timms, Images of Australian Men: Photographs from the Monash Gallery of Art Collection, A Monash Gallery of Art Travelling Exhibition, exh. cat., May
Robert McFarlane, `Obsession: its Depths and its Shallows,' Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November, p.18
'Bill Henson: Portfolio,' Photofile, #63, August 2001, cover and p. 18 - 22
Exhibitions: Critics Picks, `Bill Henson,' Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 30 - Dec 6, p.27
Helen McDonald, `Erotic Ambiguities, The Female Nude in Art', Routledge, London, England
McFarlane Robert, `The Child in Photography', Artlink, Vol.21, No. 2, pp.15 - 19
Blair French, `Bill Henson: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,' Artext, no. 70, August - October, p.85
Laura Murray Cree, `I am the Subject,' Oyster Magazine
Sebastian Smee, `Just out of shot,' The Sydney Morning Herald, March 18
Benjamin Genocchio, `Loss of innocence at twilight,' The Australian, March 17
Janet Hawley, `Through a glass darkly,' Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, March 11, pp.43,46
Andrew Frost, `Australia's 50 Most Collectable Artists,' Australian Art Collector, issue 11, Sydney, January-March
Laura Murray Cree, `I am the Subject,' Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 29
William McAloon, home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, 1999, pp.76-7, 136
Roberta Smith, `Gazing in a Mirror: The Omnipresent Camera', The New York Times, 10.9.99
Artist pages, Blind Spot, New York, Issue 13
Alison Holland, `Bill Henson,' Black + White, No. 37, June
Andrew Frost, `Australia's 50 Most Collectable Artists,' Australian Art Collector, issue 7, Sydney, January - March
Sebastian Smee, `The `ol Bill,' The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, May 22 - 28
Joanna Mendelssohn, `Pictures convey a painful beauty,' The Australian, Friday, May 22
John McDonald, `Shots in the Dark,' The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, May 23
Charles Green, `Bill Henson,' Artforum, New York, December
Adriana Alvarez, `Bill Henson: Untitled,' Revolver, May
Edward Scheer, `Deadly visions: at home in the abyss,' Real Time, 26 August - September
Myfanwy Warhurst, `Into the art of darkness,' The Age, October 3
Luminita Sabau (ed.), The Promise of Photography: The DG Bank Collection, Prestel, Munich
Craig McGregor, `The Prints of Darkness', The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, April 12
Body, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Christopher Allen, Art in Australia - From Colonization to Postmodernism, Thames and Hudson
Bill Henson, exh. cat., Australian Pavillion, 46th Venice Biennale 1995, Venice
Jenny Zimmer, Contemporary Craft Review, No. 1, Feb 1996, pp.6-10
Peter Timms, `A second home, where everything is innocent,' Art Monthly, No. 91, July, p.4 - 7
Ted Snell, `Bill Henson', The Australian, February 23
Michael Boodro, `Dealers Choice', Vogue, March
David Bromfield, `Works that Reach Beyond a Pretentious Audience', West Australian, March 9
Charles Green, `A Surfeit of Private Passions', Art Monthly, April
Joanna Mendelssohn, `Bill Henson, Debra Dawes', The Australian, 19 April
John McDonald, `Between Eros & Pathos', Sydney Morning Herald, April 20
Sally Fisher, `Shooting Star', Sun Herald, May 22
Michael Boodro, `Dealers Choice', Vogue, June
`Bill Henson, Works from the 46th Venice Biennale of Venice 1995,' Look Magazine, July, p.9
Robert McFarlane, `Henson's Garden of earthly pain', Sydney Morning Herald, July 16, p.16
Sebastian Smee, `Naked Vision', Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, April 19 - 25
Rebecca Lancashire, `The nightmares and dreams of Bill Henson,' The Age, 19 October 1996, pg.11
Christopher Chapman, `Bill Henson and Robert Mapplethorpe,' Globe E-Journal, http://www.arts.monash...be/issue3/bhrmtx
Isobel Crombie and Michael Heyward, Bill Henson, 46th Venice Biennale, Australian Exhibitions Touring Agency Ltd., Melbourne, 1995
Jo Litson, The Australian, The Weekend Review, 18-19 March
Donald Williams & Colin Simpson, `Bill Henson', Art Now : Contemporary Art Post 1970, pp.126 - 128
Sebastian Smee, `Naked Vision', Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, 19 - 25 April
Art Monthly, May 1995, No.79
Michael Hayward, `Bill Henson', Through A Glass Darkly, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales
Melanie Wright, The Australian Financial Review Magazine
Anna Long, `Photography: Venice sees Dark Visions of Oz', Business Review Weekly, 22 May
Robert McFarlane, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May
John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 June
Isobel Crombie, `Bill Henson For 1995 Venice Biennale', AETA News 5, June, pp.1 - 2
Stephanie Bunbury, `It's Dark Out There', The Age, 10 June
Paul McGillick, `Cazneaux and Henson', Art and Australia, Vol.32, No.4, Winter, pp.514 - 525
Stephen Todd, The Australian, 16 June
Judy Annear, `Art on The Water: Venice Biennale',The Age, Arts Extra, 24 June
John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 June
Terry Ingram, The Financial Review, 29 June
Paul McGillick, The Financial Review, Weekend Review: Arts, 28 July
Bernard Cohen, `Through A Glass Darkly', Photofile, August, No.45, pp.24 - 25, 49
John Jenkins, `Bill Henson's Moment: Australian Pavillion, Venice Biennale', Photofile, August, No.45, pp.49 - 50
Jennifer Spinks, `Inferno: Bill Henson's Divine Comedy', Siglo, No. 5, August
Anna Ward, `The Fortunes of Anatomy: 1895-1995 Venice Biennale', Artlink, Vol.15, No.2&3, pp.60 - 61
David Bromfield, The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September
Marcus O'Donnell, `Bill Henson: Photos, Faces, Fragments', Monument, No.9, pp.64 - 67
Meg Stewart, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October
Pat Hoffie, `On Private Gardens and Decadence', Art Monthly, October, No.84, pp.6 - 8
Clive Simmons, `Snapshots of a Hidden World' Adelaide Advertiser, May 2
Mary Lou Gelbart, `Images to Haunt', Herald Sun, May 5
Anna Clabburn, `Northern Exposure', Storm, May
Alan Riding, `Director Puts Body into Bienale', Sydney Morning Herald, June 13
Isobel Crombie, `Bill Henson', Vogue, June
Clive Simmons, `Seeking the Real Bill Henson', Canberra Times, July 9, p.21
`Bill Henson's Life in Venice', Artforce, June
Peter Weiniger,The Age, Melbourne, 28 April, p.18
Terry Ingram, Financial Review, 29 April
Michael Hutak, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 April
John Forbes, Bill Henson, May
Anna Johnson, `Shadow Play', Elle Magazine, April, p.76
Bill Henson: Paris Opera Project, exh. cat., Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, 5 June
Peter Craven, The Australian, The Weekend Review, 30 - 31 October
Diana Bagnall, `Framed in the Raw', The Bulletin, 16 November
Robert McFarlane, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 June
Evelyn Juers, `Works from Untitled 1992 - 93', Photofile, No.39, July, p.43 - 44
Nicholas Baume, `Bill Henson', Art + Text, No.46, p.75
Lynette Fern, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 March
Susan Hogan, Bill Henson, Photofile, No.37, November
Evelyn Juers, `Bill Henson', Art + Text, No.43, pp.72 - 73
Victoria Lynn, Dark Mirrors: The Photographs of Bill Henson, `Arts Magazine', September, pp.41 - 43
Ashley Crawford, Bill Henson: Quickening with the Eye, `Tension', No.14, pp.8, 10, 14
Van Assche, Christine and David, Catherine, Passages de L'Image, exh. cat., Paris
Gerard Hayes, `Bill Henson, Untitled 1987 - 88', Photofile, Summer, p.34
John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 March, p.76
Pam Hansford, `Artscribe', Summer, p.94
John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 March
Peter Schjeldahl, `Impressions of Henson', Scripsi, Vol.5, No.2, Melbourne, February
Bill Henson Photographs, 1974 - 1984, exh. cat., Deutscher, Gertrude Street
Jean-Francis Chevrier, Photokunst, exh. cat., Stuttgart
John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 November
Michael Heyward and David Malouf, Bill Henson Photographs, Pan Picador, Sydney (105 pages)
Laurie Duggan, The National Times on Sunday, Sydney, 18 January, p.26
Memory Holloway, Studio International, New York, January
`Bill Henson', Photo Magazine, Paris, February, pp.34 - 37,
1987 Aberdare Prize for Landscape, exh. cat., Brisbane, Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, August-September
Rob Horne, Bill Henson, exh. cat., Hobart, University of Tasmania, April
Tony Bond & Terence Maloon, Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, exh. cat., Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, October, pp.44 - 53
Helen Ennis & Keith Shipton, Australian Photography: Images of the 80's, Canberra, February, p.12
Kate Collins, `Medium Becomes the Message', The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, 11 October, p.12
George Petelin, The Australian, Sydney, 20 October, p.11
Arthur McIntyre, `Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, The Age, Melbourne, 27 October, p.12
Elwyn Lynn, `Australian Bicentennial Perspecta', The Australian, Sydney, October
Terry Smith, The Times on Sunday, Sydney, 22 November, p.30
Michael Heyward, Bill Henson Photographs, exh. cat., Melbourne, Pinacotheca, July
Laurie Duggan, The National Times on Sunday, Sydney, 17 August, p.32
Christina Thompson & Bill Henson, Time Magazine, New York, 20 August, p.65
Peter Weiermair, Prospect 86, exh. cat., Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, September, pp.97 - 98, 253, 299 - 300
Clinton Walker, Follow Me, Sydney, October - November, pp.182 - 187
Catrina Moore, `Dangerous Liasons', After Image, New York, September, pp.5 - 6
Barbara Dover & Reimund Zunde, Art Works, Melbourne, pp.32, 38, 147
Bill Henson - Untitled 1983/1984, exh. cat., Canberra, Australian National Gallery
Kate Collins, The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, 11 January , p.9
Phyllis Woolcock, The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 11 January, p.13
Sarah Follent, The Australian, Sydney, 26 January, p.8
Paul Taylor, `Civilization and it's Discontents', Flash Art, Milan, January p.68
Terence Maloon, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 16 March, p.9
Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, Sydney, 16 - 17 March, p.10
Donald B.Kuspit, `Australian Visions at the Guggenheim', Art in America, New York, No. 5, 5 March, pp.153 - 154
Achille Bonite Oliva & Paul Taylor, Isolaustralia, exh. cat., Venice, May, pp.11, 26 - 27
Michael Heyward & Peter Craven (edit), Scripsi, Vol.3, No.1, Melbourne, April, pp. 10, 16, 20 - 25, 54, 66, 71, 111, 158 - 164, 197 - 198, 214, 228 - 229
Andreas Muller-Pohle (ed.), European Photography, Vol.6, No.3, Gottingen, July, pp.19, 42
Memory Holloway, The Age, Melbourne, 6 July, p.11
Ronald Miller, The Herald, Melbourne, 18 July, p.26
Domus, Milan, August, pp.84 - 85
Michael Heyward & Peter Craven (edit), Scripsi, Vol.3, No.2, Melbourne, August, pp.190 - 194
Terence Maloon, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 27 - 28 September, p.49
Adrian Martin, `Bill Henson and the Devil Probably', Photofile, Sydney, Spring, pp.20 - 23, 34
Christine Godden & Martyn Jolly, The C.S.R. Collection, exh. cat., November
Ian Were, Adelaide Review, Adelaide, December, p.24
Arthur McIntyre, Pol International, Summer 1985 - 86, December, p.60
Mary McKay, Photofile, Sydney, Summer, p.32
Jennifer Phipps, `Entre deux Mondes - Australians in Paris', The Age Monthly Review, Melbourne, January, p.12
Mark Hinderaker, `Production spied through camera's eye', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 31 March, p.14
Ian McLean, `Work Surrounds the Viewer', The Examiner, Launceston, 9 May, p.40
Ann Scott Young, `Bill Henson', The Examiner, Launceston, 9 May, p.40
Memory Holloway, `Art Attack', Harpers Bazaar, Vol.1, No.1, September, pp.108 - 109
Rosslyn Beebie, `Paris, New York - One Day Melbourne', The Age, Melbourne, September, p.5
Paul Taylor (ed.), `Anything Goes', Art and Text, Melbourne, September, pp.134 - 135, 142
Diane Waldman & Memory Holloway, Australian Visions, 1984 Exxon International Exhibition exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, September
Vivien Raynor, `Art: Capturing The Essence of a Remote Australia', The New York Times, New York, 5 October
`Bill Henson - Faces in a Crowd', The London Magazine, Vol.24, No.8 London, November, pp.53 - 57
Eric Gibson, `Australians in Manhattan', Studio International, Vol.195, No.1007, New York, November, pp.45 - 46
Jean-Claude Le Magny, La Photographie Creative, exh. cat., Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, November, pp.288 - 291
Amei Wallach, Newsday, New York, 30 September, p.17
Bernice Murphy, `Australia', Express, New York, September, p.17
Kim Levin, Village Voice, New York, September, p.93
Tony Perry, ` Melbourne Photography', Photofile, Sydney, Jan, pp.2 - 3
Kay Larson, New York Magazine, New York, 8 October, pp.60 - 61
Le Pechoux (ed.), Australian Photography Year Book, Roscope, pp.128 - 129
Bernice Murphy & Janet Parfenovics, Australian Perspecta 1973 - 81, exh. cat., Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, April, p.120
Helen Innes, `Melbourne Galleries', Photofile, Sydney, Australian Centre for Photography, June, p.14
Leon Paroissien & Suzanne Page, D'un autre continent; l'Australie. Le reve et le reel, exh. cat., Paris, Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, September, pp.28, 115 - 118
Christine Godden, C.S.R. Photography Project; Recent Work, exh. cat., Sydney, C.S.R., September, p.3
Ian North, A Decade of Australian Photography 1972-82, exh. cat., Canberra, Australian National Gallery, October, pp.2, 6, 7, 10
Craig McGregor & Christine Goddon, `The Photographers - New Subjectivism', The National Times, Sydney, 21 March, pp.22 - 23
Neville Weston, `An Interesting Link', The Advertiser, Adelaide, March, p.7
Elwyn Lynn, Biennale of Sydney: Vision in Disbelief, exh. cat., Biennale of Sydney, April, p.55
Arthur McIntyre,'The Biennale of Sydney', The Age, Melbourne, 14 April, p.10
Virginia Hollister, `Pain and Pleasure- 4th Biennale of Sydney', Artlink, Vol.2, no. 3, Adelaide, July - August, p.4
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