Adele Henderson received her BFA from the University of Nebraska
- Lincoln, and MFA from Arizona State University. She joined the
University at Buffalo (State University of New York) Department of
Art (now Visual Studies) in 1987, served as department chair from
1998-2004, and is currently the Director of Graduate Studies. Major
awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Works
on Paper); Constance Saltonstall Foundations for the Arts
Fellowship (Printmaking); Artists Projects: New York State Regional
Initiative grant; and residency fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo,
Brandywine, Roswell Museum and Art Center, and Open Studio
(Toronto). Henderson's artwork has been exhibited in over 30 solo
exhibitions across the US including the Hewlitt Gallery at Carnegie
Mellon, Anchor Graphics, Colgate University, and the Print Center,
Philadelphia, and in over 150 group exhibitions countries including
Australia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, and Slovenia. Her prints
and works on paper are in the collections of the Boston Museum Of
Fine Arts; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Albright-Knox Art
Gallery; Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art; National Museum Of American
Art; New York Public Library; the Kennedy Museum of American Art,
and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, among others.
