ABOUT
Ocean Park, CA 1975
I am the chancellor of the HENRY BROS STUDIO, an elastic platform from which I have been able to engage in a variety of art-making activities, of my own and with or for other artists, for the past 35 years. I received an M.F.A. in intermedia from the Otis Art Institute and have since worked mostly in film and video. My work deals with nascent and superficial aspects of thought in relation to language and images and has been exhibited in galleries, film and media-art festivals, and museums.
EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
2019 RECENT BEST IDEAS at as-is.la Curated by Tom Jimmerson
2019 The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE Curated by Matias Viegener with Exhibition Design by Jeff Cain with a video seclection by Anne Bray
2018 The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE Curated by Matias Viegener with Exhibition Design by Jeff Cain with a video seclection by Anne Bray
2017 A TOW TRUCK TOWING A TOW TRUCK, group show at as-is.la, Los Angeles, CA curated by Tom Jimmerson
2016 CINEMISTICA, Festival, Granada, Spain, Manuel Polls Pelaz, Director
2016 ANTIMATTER, media art, Victoria, BC, CANADA, Deborah de Boer, Curator, Todd Eacrett, Director
2016 XIV CINE POBRE FILM FESTIVAL, cine pobre.org
2015 CINESINÛ, muestra audiovisual, Monteria, Colombia, Carlos David Durango Peña, festival director
2012 SASSAS FIX-IT-UP SHOW at Blum & Poe, Culver City, CA
2011 PICTURE THIS, in the series PROJECTIONS at the Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by
John Pearson
2011 UNIVERSE CITY, group show, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Ca Curated by Jim Ovelman and Barry Markowitz
2010 AN EVENING OF LIGHT, SPACE, SOUND, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California.
Organized by Gabie Strong
2010 NOISE, experimental sound and images, composer: Gregory Lenczycki video: Doug Henry & Joe Potts,
organized by Wm. Harrington, Highways, Santa Monica, CA
2009 THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, festival director, Richard Peña, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
2009 ONE MINUTE film/video festival, Aarau, Switzerland
2008 MOGILITY, Doug Henry & Joe Potts Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA. Curated by Barry Markowitz
2008 SLOW LIFE AVANT-GARDE - LAFMS, Curated by T. Sakaguchi, Fukugan Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2008 STILL LIFE WITH DANCER, Joe Potts & Doug Henry at Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art, Culver
City, CA.
2008 THE LAMENT PROJECT, Viralnet.net, Center for Integrated Media, Cal Arts
2008 KRAAK Festival 2008, Brussels, Belgium
2007 ANTIMATTER Underground Film Festival, Victoria B.C., Canada
2007 HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW, Fst Forward, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 NEXT FESTIVAL 007, Vilnius, Lithuania
2006 PUBLIC STORAGE TEMPLE HOSPITAL, Curated by John Pearson, Mandrake, Los Angeles
2006 THE COLLABORATORS, Curated by Ron Linden, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro
2006 2006 WHITNEY BIENNIAL, DAY FOR NIGHT, Curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2004 VIPER BASEL, Kunsthalle Basel and Cult Kino, Basel Switzerland
2004 SPARK VIDEO INTERNATIONAL SYRACUSE: BEST OF 2003/4 Spark Syracuse, N.Y.
2004 INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE, Microcinema International, curated by Joel S. Bachar, San Francisco, CA
2003 NEXT 5 MINUTES Festival of Tactical Media, Coordinated by Rebecca Wilson, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
2002 NOCTURNAL VIDEO, Curated by Skip Arnold, Christine Koenig Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2001 Wet & Dry, Curated by Ian Haig and Dominic Redfern, Treasury Theatre, in association with The Centre
for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2000 REDundant Gothic Corridors, a set constructed in the gallery at
Harbor College, Director, Ron Linden, Willmington, CA
2000 THE Exploding Cinema, Programmed by Paul Tarrago, London, England
1999 Offline, Internet and Cable TV network www.offlinenetworks.org
1999 SON OF… Programmed by Peter Mitchell, 911 Media Arts, Seattle, Washington
1999 VIDEODROME, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Curated by Dan Cameron, New York, NY
1999 VOLCANO FESTIVAL, The Exploding Cinema, London, England
1998 ATTACK OF THE KILLER ART FILMS, 911 Media Arts, Programmed by Peter Mitchell Seattle,
Washington
1998 The Exploding Cinema, Programmed by Paul Tarrago, London, England
1998 IN MEDIA RES, The Pacific Film Achieve, Programmed by Steve Seid Berkeley, CA
1997/8 SUNSHINE AND NOIR, Traveling Exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Castello di Rivoli, Italy and the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art,
Los Angeles
1997 (SAMPLER 2), W 139 ARTIST SPACE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL, Organized by Bart, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1996 100 YEARS OF MOVING IMAGES THROUGH ART, Curated by Jim Shaw & Marnie Weber Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1996 ARTS FESTIVAL OF ATLANTA, Atlanta, GA
1996 NEW YORK VIDEO FESTIVAL, Programmed by Gavin Smith, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
1996 Video Cafe, Groningen, The Netherlands
1996 WORLD WIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL, The Haag, The Netherlands
1996 (Sampler 2) Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1996 SAMPLER 2 Curated by Diana Thater David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
1995 NEW CALIFORNIA VIDEO 1995-96 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1993 INTERATIONAL NETWORKER CULTURE, University of Texas, Richardson, TX
1992 AXLEGREASE, cable TV show, Buffalo Media Resources, Buffalo, NY
1989 ALTERNATIVE FILM AND VIDEO SERIES, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
1989 4th ANNUALE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1989 The American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1988 DVNTV, cable TV show Cable 6, Baltimore, MD
1980’s TVC I TOKYO GHOST BROADCASTS, Pirate TV transmissions Curated by
John Duncan, Tokyo, Japan
1987 NEW FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY
1987 X=ART, West HollyNvood, CA
1985 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1984 EZTV, West Hollywood, CA
1983 AL's Bar, Los Angeles, CA
1978 FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles., CA
Grants and Awards
1996 ARTMATTERS FELLOWSHIPArt Matters lnc
1993 OPEN CHANNELS PRODUCTION GRANT, Long Beach Museum of Art
1987 ARTIST ACCESS AWARD, Long Beach Museum of Art
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InterWeb
Videodrome New Museum 1999