In 1969, he became an associate professor at California State University at Long Beach in the School of Fine Arts.
By the 1980s, Hendler began producing work that featured painted words and textured grounds.
These works feature monochromatic and highly polished surfaces in a range of sizes and proportions.
2008 2001 2000 1999 Size Matters, Patricia Faure Gallery, Painting: Fore and Aft, ACME, Los Angeles, California 1998 Hendler/Kraal/Thurston, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, California, Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, California 1997 Some Lust, Patricia Faure Gallery, Painting Beyond the Idea, Curated by Bennett Roberts.
Manny Silverman Gallery, 1996 Seven Strangers, Patricia Faure Gallery, Red Painting, Newspace, Los Angeles, California Fifteen Artists, Patricia Faure Gallery, 1995 Murder, Curated by John Yau, Thread Waxing Space, New York, New York and Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, California, Very Visual Dialogue, Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, California 1994 1991 Art-Over-the Sofa, Curated by Jan Butterfield, Boritzer/Gray, Los Angeles, California, Not on Canvas, Asher/Faure, 1990 Group Show, Asher Faure Gallery, Hollywoodland, fiction/nonfiction, New York, New York, California A-Z and Return, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio 1987 Reduced Scale, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, California, Industrial Icons: Painting, Photography and Sculpture, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.