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select exhibitions
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2017-2018
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, 2017
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, 2017
National Portrait Gallery, Outwin Boochever Exhibition (second place), Washington DC, 2016
Sweetbriar College, Amherst, VA, 2016 (solo exhibition)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Fusion: Art of the 21st Century, 2015
Camden Image Gallery, The Ones We Love, London, 2015
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Portraits Expanded, Brattleboro Museum of Art, 2015
Camera Club of New York, Annual Juried Exhibition and Competition (2nd Place), 2014
David Weinberg Gallery, This May Have Happened, Chicago, IL. 2014
Photo Center NW, Documentary: 19th Annual Photography Exhibition, Seattle, WA., 2014
Page Bond Gallery, View/Find, Richmond, VA. 2014
The Metropolitan Building, These Rhythmic Seasons, Queens, NY. 2013
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2013
Candela Gallery, Unbound II, Richmond, VA. 2013
Texas Women's University, Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition, Denton, TX. 2013
Page Bond Gallery, View/Find: The Photograph, Richmond VA. 2012
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about the photographer
Cynthia Henebry’s photographs have been exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sweetbriar College, The Houston Center for Photography, Page Bond Gallery, and countless other galleries and small museums throughout the United States. Her poetry collections include The Recovery House and The Abundance is Staggering in Flowerland—both self published by Itasca Books under the name Deaf Shell Press.
She previously worked as a 5 element acupuncturist and herbalist, and has led classes in creativity and meditation at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School for the Arts as well as the Richmond City Jail. She has a strong interest and investment in the connection between individual and community healing, and currently lives in Richmond, Virginia, the city where she was born.
about The Marriage Oaks
Made between 2011 and 2015, The Marriage Oaks is a photographic exploration of what it’s like to live between two homes. AKA be a child of divorce. The photos resulted from the intersection between their lives at the time and my own during those ages, living in an a similar environment a projection of past traumas onto the present moment. There was something about those kids that called me to them—they almost seemed lit from the inside. I was grateful and humbled that they (and their parents) said yes to being photographed at such a tender time (and with a strange large format camera).
But I cannot now reliably name what it was that drew me to them.
Only that once the work was finished, they became ordinary and beautiful children once more. Living their own lives, traveling their own paths. I moved on from that work. I started making simple pictures again, ones less imbued with the past. Ones to capture the present moment, as impossible as that is. Ones that just say, here.
So the creative impulse found its way into writing, and I wrote a couple of books.
In light of sharing new and different work, I’m grateful to look with fresh eyes at the pictures I made with the children (now young adults!). To gratefully say that I couldn’t make those kinds of pictures anymore. But to bow to the part of me (and them) that did. I hope they help you connect with the unseen children in you, too.