About Us
The Pleung Group, a New York based firm working in the museum, creative visual merchandising, and live event industries, is headed by Robert W. Henderson, Jr. He has been designing lighting and production managing live events since 2001.
He worked with exhibition designer MATTER Practice on Norton Museum of Art’s temporary exhibition High Tea: Glorious Manifestations East and West (opened February 2015) and Brooklyn Historical Society’s permanent exhibitions The Emancipation Proclamation (opened 2013) and In Pursuit of Freedom/Brooklyn Abolitionists (opened January 2014). He is currently working on Weeksville Heritage Center’s Weeksville: Lived Experiences (opening early 2017). Robert also designed the lighting for Arts Brookfield temporary exhibition of Heather Nicol’s Soft Spin – a sculptural and sound installation of six immense, swirling, fabric forms suspended from the top of the Winter Garden; as well as the Museum of the City of New York’s temporary exhibition, New York’s Yiddish Theater: From Bowery to Broadway.
Since 2011 he has been the lighting designer for Barneys NY Madison Avenue flagship store display windows and one of a select few designers for Tiffany & Co. Fifth Avenue flagship windows. Starting in 2005 he became the resident Lighting Designer for Theatre Three Productions in Port Jefferson, NY—designing a range of musicals and straight plays such as Les Misérables, Proof, Next to Normal, Doubt, Rent, The Laramie Project, among others. Additionally, he has designed lighting for New Sounds Live, Global Beat Festival and Mantra Percussion at Arts Brookfield, NY (2015); Fleur d’ Orange’s IDENTITY (2014) and the repertoire of Compagnie de Danse Jean-Rene Delsoin (2012), both as part of Center StageSM – a U.S. Department of State initiative; Khmer Arts Ensemble’s A Bend in the River and Royal Ballet of Cambodia’s The Legend of Apsara Mera—both as part of the Season of Cambodia festival in New York (2013).
Robert has worked internationally on productions including Stellar Whisper in Seoul, South Korea (2015); Opening Ceremonies for the 2012 International Arts Education Week for the Korean Commission, and Thirsting for Peace commemorating 70 years of UNESCO (2015), both at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France; Breaking the Silence in Rwanda, working with artists from Amrita Performing Arts in Cambodia (2012); and, Khmeropedies I & II in Amsterdam (2010).
Robert received his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Design. He is also a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.