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CJ Hendry

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CJ Hendry
Born
Catherine Jenna Hendry

1988 (age 37–38)
StyleHyper-realism
Children3
Websitecjhendrystudio.com

Catherine Jenna Hendry (born 1988), commonly known as CJ Hendry, is an Australian contemporary artist known for hyper-realistic and large-scale renderings of luxury objects using a self-developed scribbling technique.

Life and career

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Hendry was born in South Africa and raised in Brisbane, Australia.[1] She studied architecture at Queensland University of Technology and finance at University of Queensland in Australia, before dropping out to pursue an art career in 2013.[2][3] Hendry lived and practiced in Brisbane prior to moving to New York in 2015.[3]

Hendry's practice started as a hobby. She has no formal art training and considers herself "not very creative."[4] Her works are primarily hyper-realistic, large scale ink drawings of luxury objects that sometimes take 200 hours to complete.[5] Working with ink on paper her pieces are achieved through layers of what she refers to as scribbles.[4][2][6] She uses photographs with edited saturated lighting, a ruler and a pen as a guide for their placement.[7] Hendry credits her fame to social media attributing her first sale in 2014, a depiction of RM Williams boots that sold for $10,000, to Instagram.[4] An executive from Australia's Macquarie Bank paid US$50,000 for a drawing of a rumpled Gucci shopping bag. More widely-known owners of her pieces include Kanye West, who bought a piece of a US$100 bill with a portrait of his face drawn on it alongside iconic fashion designer Vera Wang.[8]

In 2015 she dipped a pair of US$9,000 Nike Air Mags in a bucket of black paint in order to use as a study for a hyper-realistic drawing.[8]

In 2016 Hendry expanded her practice with the launch of a collaboration with fashion house Christian Louboutin.[9][10] The resulting exhibition, held in the Anita Chan Lia-ling Gallery at the Fringe Club in Hong Kong as part of the 2017 Art Basel, marked Hendry's first time working with colour and wax pencil.[11] The difference, the artist explains, is that "color is very difficult, because you've got to use multiple different colors to create one."[12]

Controversy

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In November 2025, Hendry used ChatGPT to generate 30-40 designs of her Juju toys that were made as a response to the Labubu craze. She was open about her use of AI on her Instagram and posted a video saying that "AI is like porn, it does a job, but it does not do the job."[13] Many people disagreed with her response, pointing out that AI is trained off of other people's artwork.[14]

In June 2026, during Hendry's Flower Market exhibition, the artist was criticized for the culture of consumption surrounding her work following scuffles and fights which broke out as visitors scrambled to grab as many of the plush flowers featured in the exhibition as possible to resell for inflated prices. [15]

Exhibitions

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  • Pastel (2026)[16]
  • Juju Market (2026)
  • Flower Market (2026)
  • Bargain Bodega (2024)
  • Flower Market (2024)
  • Public Pool (2024)[17][18]
  • PLAID (2023)
  • Cheese (2022)
  • Epilogue (postponed due to COVID-19 - early 2022)
  • Blonde (2021)
  • Straya (2021)
  • Rorschach (2019)
  • Monochrome (2018)
  • Complementary Colours (2017)[11][9]
  • The Trophy Room (2016)[3]
  • 50 Foods in 50 Days (2015)[19]
  • The Art Hunter (2014)[4][20]

References

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  1. ↑ Lacey, Stephen (24 March 2015). "The unknown Aussie artist fetching a year's salary for a single drawing". Executive Style. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 Rocca, Jane (27 July 2015). "Artist CJ Hendry an Instagram phenomenon". The Weekly Review. Archived from the original on 25 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 Ubaldi, Simone (4 November 2016). "Australian artist CJ Hendry tries New York on for size". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Fortescue, Elizabeth (2 August 2014). "CJ Hendry scribbles her way to success". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Ryall, Jenni (15 September 2014). "Artist Quit University to Draw — Now Kanye West Wants Her Work". Mashable. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Garnsworthy, Jasmine (2 June 2015). "Why Artist CJ Hendry is Catching the Eye of Everyone From Kanye West to Vogue". StyleCaster. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Tikos, Bill (7 October 2014). "ARTIST TO WATCH - CJ HENDRY". Watch-That-Label. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  8. 1 2 "Studio Visits: Cj Hendry". HYPEBEAST. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  9. 1 2 Lupica, Lilith Hardie (27 March 2017). "CJ Hendry on working with colour for the first time and originality". Vogue.com.au. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "An Interview With Australian Artist CJ Hendry". Harper's BAZAAR. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  11. 1 2 Chen, Vivian (29 March 2017). "Monochrome artist CJ Hendry turns to colour for Christian Louboutin". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  12. ↑ Lam, Teresa (23 March 2017). "Here's What Went Down at CJ Hendry x Christian Louboutin's "Complimentary [sic] Colors" Exhibition". HYPEBEAST. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  13. ↑ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
  14. ↑ Gossling, Bronte (14 November 2025). "This artist is a celebrated disruptor. But does she go too far?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
  15. ↑ Robb, Jackson (26 May 2026). "A plush flower exhibit leaves supporters frustrated and out-of-pocket". new.com.au. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  16. ↑ designboom, kat barandy I. (7 August 2026). "Cj hendry fills a new york gallery with beads and lets visitors invent the game". designboom | architecture & design magazine. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
  17. ↑ Beach, Charlotte (9 April 2024). "Cj Hendry Makes a Splash in the Desert with 'Public Pool'". PRINT Magazine. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  18. ↑ Article, Vittoria Benzine ShareShare This (11 April 2024). "Inside Cj Hendry's Project to Build a Pool in the Las Vegas Desert". Artnet News. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
  19. ↑ "TCH launches CJ Hendry's 50 Foods in 50 Days Exhibition in Melbourne". The Cool Hunter. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  20. ↑ Preston, Sammy (19 March 2014). "The Art Hunter". Broadsheet. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
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