Maren Henson

Work samples

9 E 71st St, New York, NY 10021 & 10050 Cielo Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

This video shows two doors from infamous characters in American history homes: the front door to Jeffrey Epstein's manhattan mansion and the front door to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski's home where she and others were murdered by the Manson Family. The images of both doors are run through a program that has the images shake and move at different speeds and opacities throughout the duration of the video. The sound is a recorded song written by Charles Manson and performed by his female followers. Installed, this is a four-channel video that is run through the program and never looks the same twice.
Wool & Water
These hand sculpted ceramic pieces depict lamb heads in the process of melting. This series is still in development, with each new stage showing more melting detail than the last. The work serves as an exercise in processing personal grief while simultaneously critiquing the intersection of religion and political manipulation in America.
Doom Town For The Birds

This video is collaged footage from atomic bomb testing in Nevada along with Audio of the first CIA Director, Allen Dulles, discussing the CIA, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Intermixed with this audio is a clip of a mockingbird chirping, referencing operation mockingbird.
Dead Birds & Empty Houses

About Maren

As the concealed artifacts behind historical conspiracies become public information, Maren Henson reexamines the role of conspiracy and how it has shaped American history and culture. These videos, drawings, and sound installations examine how cultural narratives are manipulated and controlled. She received her Master of Fine Art degree in the Mount Royal School of Multidisciplinary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017. In 2022, Maren was a Janet and Walter Sondheim… more

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Wool & Water

These hand sculpted ceramic pieces depict lamb heads in the process of melting. This series is still in development, with each new stage showing more melting detail than the last. The work serves as an exercise in processing personal grief while simultaneously critiquing the intersection of religion and political manipulation in America.

Wool & Water

These hand sculpted ceramic pieces depict lamb heads in the process of melting. This series is still in development, with each new stage showing more melting detail than the last. The work serves as an exercise in processing personal grief while simultaneously critiquing the intersection of religion and political manipulation in America.

Doomsday For The Birds

This video is a collection of footage taken from a mock neighborhood called “Doom Town". Portions of a second mock town, called “Survival Town,” was subjected to the Apple-2 test from Operation Teapot in 1955. These nuclear tests were vital to the propaganda machine that helped escalate & expand America's military industrial complex. An audio clip of the first director of the CIA, Allen Dulles, tries to justify the CIA's existence & its dynastic plans. This domination, under his command created the modern American political system we see throughout the world today.

Doom Town For The Birds

This video is collaged footage from atomic bomb testing in Nevada along with Audio of the first CIA Director, Allen Dulles, discussing the CIA, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Intermixed with this audio is a clip of a mockingbird chirping, referencing operation mockingbird.
Doom Town For The Birds

Mr. CIA, I Have Havana Syndrome.

Several CIA agents claimed that they were attacked by radio waves and pitches while in Havana. The sound in this video is what heard in their heads apparently drove many of them to illness like that of a hangover.

Mr. CIA, I Have Havana Syndrome.

Grassy Knoll, Full Installation

This installation is a recreation of the grassy knoll by which President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The drawing is of a portion of the wooden fence that is to be believed where the gunman was standing. The surrounding images in the drawing are of or closes ups of nuclear bombs colliding on themselves with the vague architecture of Dealey Plaza,the structure located next to the Grassy Knoll, containing the fence and the bomb throughout the middle of the drawing, this structure gives the fence a home while it deteriorates.

Grassy Knoll

Project We believe

This video is of a photo of the first "Unidentified Flying Object" in 1947. The sound is from an interview with the pilot that took the photo, manipulated through programming to create a chance of light and dark noise and speech. Based on research about Project Blue Book, the study of unidentified flying objects by the Air Force. Project Blue Book had two goals, to determine if UFOs were a threat to national security, and analyze UFO-related data. Taking that uncertainty in to play, the video was coded through processing and left up to the code to determine the end outcome of both the audio and visual elements in the code.