Henrot’s work has been enormously influential on contemporary art. Over more than twenty years of activity, her impact can be traced in new approaches across media and artistic practices. The wide range of inspirations that informs her vision spans literature, second-hand marketplaces, poetry, cartoons, manga, social media, self-help, and, ultimately, the banality of everyday life. Henrot is interested in systems of rules, structures and codes of conduct – and how to break them. Her practice speaks with clarity and humor, humility and bravery, about the complexity of being a private individual and citizen in a globalized and overstimulated world.
Camille Henrot was born in 1978 in Paris, France. She currently lives and works in New York.
In 2013 Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion for a promising young artist at the 55th Venice Biennale. She received the Nam June Paik Award in 2014 and the Edward Munch Award in 2015. She was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2013 and 2014 and a finalist for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2010. In 2013, she received the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington. Her residencies include Callie’s; Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen; Fondazione Memmo, Rome; Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington and the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York.
Henrot received widespread critical acclaim for her 2013 film Grosse Fatigue, made during a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. The film was recently ranked number 7 by ARTnews in a list of the 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century.
Henrot’s first theatrical production, Commedia dell’Arte, a co-commission by Performa, Aspen Art Museum / Wheeler Opera House, and LYRA Art Foundation, will premiere at the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR Festival, in July 2026. Her first public commission in New York City, with New York Public Art Fund, will be unveiled in September 2026 and will be on view in Central Park until August 2027.
Esther Schipper will represent Camille Henrot in partnership with Mennour and Hauser & Wirth.
photo © Brigitte Lacombe
