Ingrid Henderson (b. 1997, Berkeley, California) is a textile artist exploring societal dysfunction and embodied experience through fabric collage. She graduated cum laude from Wellesley College in 2019 and received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2023. In the same year, she was awarded a residency and exhibition at Kunstkollektivet 8B in Denmark.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has received honors such as the Friends of Art Prize for Excellence in Studio Art, the Slade Graduate Fellowship, and the Alice C. Cole '42 Grant, which will culminate in a show in October 2025. In 2024, she was awarded an ongoing residency with Youth Art Works, where she develops and teaches courses in textiles and fashion. She was also selected to attend a workshop on Garment Repair + Alteration at Haystack in summer 2025.
Her practice blends hand-dyeing, layering, and secondhand materials to create engaging dialogues around shared experiences, material histories, and the evolving role of textiles in contemporary art.
Her practice began with wearable art and has since expanded to large-scale textile pieces, a shift that deepened her interest in how textiles function across environments—whether worn on the body, installed in space, or hung as a composition. As a queer artist, she often returns to themes of belonging and displacement, questioning how materials and people are expected to fit into predefined spaces. She uses humor, juxtaposition, and disruption to complicate notions of value, permanence, and propriety.
