Background
Hendricks, Geoffrey was born on July 30, 1931 in Littleton, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Walter and Flora (Bishop) Hendricks.
Hendricks, Geoffrey was born on July 30, 1931 in Littleton, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Walter and Flora (Bishop) Hendricks.
Bachelor cum laude, Amherst College, 1953; postgraduate, School fellow, Yale-Norfolk Art School, summer 1953; postgraduate, School fellow, Cooper Union Art School, 1953-1956; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1962.
He is professor emeritus of art at Rutgers University, where he taught from 1956 to 2003, and where he was associated with Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, and Lucas Samaras during their time there in the 1960s. He has participated in Fluxus festivals worldwide and continues exhibiting internationally. He is renowned for students he has mentored over his 48 years of teaching, and his skill in preparing delicious macrobiotic meals.
In 2006, he had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario.
University of California, Santa Cruz; Galerie Esplanade, Bad Ischl, Austria. The Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov, Czechoslovakian Republic (through December 2006).
And taught "the Artist as Nomad" at the International Summer Academy, Salzburg. He recently performed "Headstands for Peace", in Washington Square Park, an event organized by Julie Evanoff.
Hendricks was married from 1961 to 1971 to fellow artist Bici Forbes (now Nye Ffarrabas).
He is currently partnered with artist Sur Rodney (Sur).
In 2002, he edited Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University, 1958-1972, a book that documents the seminal creative activity and experimental work developed by university faculty members of the 1960s such as Bob Watts, Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, Hendricks, and others
Married Beatrice Cobb Forbes, June 24, 1961 (divorced 1973). Children: Tyche, Bracken.