Elle Hendrickson is an interdisciplinary artist based between Casey County and Louisville, Kentucky. Their work bridges performance and visual art, often merging collaborative, research-based processes with painting, installation, and moving image. Current projects explore the ecological crisis, human perception, and the metamorphic sublime.
They have collaborated internationally with the Open Program of the
Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski (Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, USA), Hyunji Park (Korea/Finland), Gianluigi Biagini (Finland/Italy), and Pietro Varrasso (Belgium). Recent highlights include exhibiting in the 2025 KMAC Triennial, staging an intervention with Varrasso at the University of Liège School of Architecture’s Borderscapes 2023, and presenting at the Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methodology conference at the University of Liège.
Hendrickson is also active as an educator. Since 2022, they have served as Drawing and Painting faculty at the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. They have co-facilitated workshops with Projet Daena and the Royal Conservatory of Liège off and on since 2019 and were Art & Design Artist-in-Residence at Campbellsville University in 2022–2023. They currently serve as Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the Kentucky College of Art + Design.
Their career remains rooted in cross-disciplinary dialogue, ecological engagement, and the transformative potential of art in both public and intimate spaces.
Hendrickson holds an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University.
Kentucky College of Art + Design
Kultur & Nöje (Åland, Finland)
Interview with Chantal Thomas for THE SCENE which aired on WRFI – Ithaca Community Radio, October 21, 2022
I am an unofficial member of the MEAM Network for Multi-Species Ethnography and Artistic Methodology
Elle Hendrickson 
