Inside the Art, Outside Ourselves is a series of workshops that each invite you to spend time reflecting on a specific artwork from our main exhibition, An Invisible Current: Engaging with History, curated by Epiphany Knedler & Tim Rickett. Through guiding prompts and conversation, we encourage you to dig deeper into the work, think meaningfully about the ideas presented, and to respond with drawing or writing exercises. Artists to be featured include Cody Henrichs, Leah Schretenthaler, and Cory Knedler & Young Ae Kim.
This month, we’ll be looking at Cody Henrich’s work “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” and talking about historical references, familial narratives, and contending with the past, present, & future simultaneously.
Cody Henrichs is a sculptor, curator, and educator from southwestern Minnesota. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Northwestern University in Saint Paul before completing his MFA in Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design as a Presidential Scholar.
While at RISD, Henrichs received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for a large-scale public installation in Providence, Rhode Island. Upon graduation, he signed with a New York gallery and was awarded an Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award from the International Sculpture Center.
Henrichs has exhibited his work in New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, New Orleans, and throughout the Midwest. In 2014, he returned to Minnesota, where he launched the non-profit Coffey Contemporary Arts, operated Lord Grizzly Gallery, and taught at both high school and college levels while maintaining an active studio practice.
In 2019, Henrichs became Head Curator and Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Washington Pavilion’s Visual Arts Center, an AAM-accredited institution, where he curated nearly 150 exhibitions. His leadership in exhibition strategy and arts programming continues to influence regional and national conversations on contemporary art.
Currently, Henrichs serves as the Executive Director of the Minnesota Community and Technical College Foundation while also teaching Sculpture and Art History at the University of Sioux Falls. In addition he is Co-founder and Co-curator of Norse Art Space in Sioux Falls.