Bill Henson was born in Glen Waverley, in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs in 1955 and continues to live and work in Melbourne. Henson studied photography at Prahran Technical College in 1974 and as a 19 year old held his first solo show at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1975. Since then, Henson’s works have been exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas. In 1995 he represented Australia at the Venice Biennale. Henson is now one of Australia’s most highly-regarded photographers, and his work can be found in major public collections throughout Australia and overseas, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Henson was the subject of a major retrospective staged in 2005 by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Victoria.

(2014)