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Mishka Henner

Mishka Henner was born on the 8th June 1976 and is a Belgian artist living and working in Manchester, England.


Mishka Henner is an expert appropriator who uses the tools of the digital age to reveal information and archive imagery concealed within a sea of online data. Renowned for his Google Earth visuals—particularly his Oil Fields and Feedlots series

“There came a point where working with photography meant that most of my time was spent on the computer. It struck me that the screen itself could almost be a canvas, and that the internet holds within it an abundance of material.” Henner comments that this, along with literature on artists working with appropriation (notably The Pictures Generation) drew him to realize that the success of every artistic generation lies in its ability to embrace its moment through the technology and optics of its time and place. 

“There came a point where working with photography meant that most of my time was spent on the computer. It struck me that the screen itself could almost be a canvas, and that the internet holds within it an abundance of material.”

I think that his work ties into mine as he likes to blur out things and seeing this inspired me to do this, not so much blur things out but more getting rid of detail.


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