Delphine Hennelly

Born 1979 in Vancouver, Canada

Lives and works in Montreal, Canada

Born in Vancouver in 1979, Montreal based artist Delphine Hennelly earned her BA from the Cooper Union in 2002 and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2017. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Canada, including recent solo shows at Pt. 2 Gallery in Oakland and Projet Pangée in Montreal. Hennelly is known for drawn, painted, and printed works of art. Her work is characterized by the vibrancy of her colors and linework, with much of her art consisting of deceptively simple brushstrokes and subtle variations in hue, which together yield incredibly expressive images. This visual dynamism is paired with subject matter, often figurative or featuring natural motifs, that is emotionally evocative without being narratively explicit. Hennelly also frequently creates work incorporating eye-catching patterning, in some cases whole compositions of repeated floral forms rendered in her unique style, and in others injecting linearly repetitive geometry into representational scenes to break up and energize her compositions.

Exhibitions

Works on Paper on Fridges

Aug 12 - Sept 6, 2022

Education

2017
Masters of Fine Arts
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, NJ
2002
Bachelor of Arts
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

Solo & Two Person

2021
Beguiling Tedious Hours...
Projet Pangée, Montreal, Canada
2020
In The Garden, with Howard Fonda
Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Wandering Players
Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Pretty as She Goes, with Justin Olerud
Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
History Lessons, with Mimi Yung
Carvalho Park Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Two person show with Mickey McKenna
Projet Pangee Gallery, Montréal, Canada
Delphine Hennelly & Milo Moyer-Battick
Harpy Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Solo Thesis Show
Cooper Union 6th Fl. Gallery, New York, NY

Group

2022
Fluuuuuido
Cassina Projects, Milan, Italy
2021
New Ideal
Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
Chants of a Gorgoyle
Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium
2020
Swan Song
Projet Pangée, Montreal, Canada
Blast Over
Ruttkowski 68, Paris, France
2019
Biophilia
Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Vallery, CA
Buddy System
Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY
The Picture is a Forest
Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria
In Search of the Real
Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
Hyperlight
Underdonk Space, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Got it For Cheap
O-O.LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Juxtapose Clubhouse
Pt. 2 Gallery, Miami, FL
Drawing Show
Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Between the Acts with Ken Tisa, Sophie Larrimore
Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
A World of People
Underdonk Space, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Interrupting Lines
Part 2. Gallery, Oakland, CA
Inauguration Show
Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
2017
Pre-Verse
St. Charles Projects, Baltimore, MD
Paper Cuts
Tripp Gallery, Stavanger, London, United Kingdom
Borrowed
Spadeworks, Brooklyn, NY
Missing me One Place Search Another
TIArts, Brooklyn, NY
Action At A Distance, MFA Thesis Show
Mason Gross Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Got it for Cheap, traveling show
Macaulay & Co at Art Athina, Athens, Greece
Au Jus- All Female Pop up Show
Candy Studio, New York, NY
2015
Alumni Group Show
Warren G Flowers Gallery, Dawson College, Montréal, Canada
Pop Up Show
Renyi Gallery, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
2016
Welcome Back Show
Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
2014
Parallel Shift, residency show
NARS, Brooklyn, NY
Le Temps...Nous Winter Show
L’espace Fresque, Val-David, Canada
2013
Le Temps...Nous Summer Show
L’espace Fresque, Val-David, Canada
Reflexion, Massivart
Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Canada
2003
Painting’s Edge
Idyllwild Arts Parks Exhibition Center, CA

Awards

2017
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
John I. Bettenbender Memorial Performance Award, Rutgers University
Nominated for The Dedalus Fellowship, Rutgers University
Nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award
2016
Tepper Scholarship, Rutgers University
Robert Watts Graduate Memorial Scholarship, Rutgers University
Peter Stroud Scholarship, Rutgers University
2015
Tepper Scholarship, Rutgers University
2013
Shortlisted for 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames and Hudson, United Kingdom
2002
Actra Fraternal Benefit Society Grant
2001
Elizabeth GreenShields Foundation Award
1999
Elizabeth GreenShields Foundation Award

Residencies

2014
Nars International Artist Residency, New York, NY

Press

2019
Review of Wandering Players, Rebecca Storm
Editorial Magazine
Interview with Sangram Majumdar
Two Coats of Paint
2018
The Formality of Painting, Peach Doble
Metal Magazine
Tapestries, With Horizontal and Intersecting Painted Lines..., Christina Nafziger
ArtMaze Mag
Review of Two person show at Projet Pangee, Kara Wiliams
The Belgo Report
Anniversary Issue 10
ArtMaze Mag
Issue 2
Nut Publication
Winter Edition, Issue 6
ArtMaze Mag
Issue No.134, North East Issue
New American Paintings
2017
Three Painters at St. Charles Projects...
Consider What
Comes Before Words, review of Three Person show, Rebekah Kirkman
Baltimore Beat
Studio Visit and interview, Amy Boone-McCreeshe
Inertia
Interview with Jessica Mensch
Body/ Literature magazine online