EDUCATION
MFA Art Practice in Interdisciplinary Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2014
Masters of Political Science/International Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 2000
Bachelors of Fine Arts / Painting and History of Art University of Houston, Houston, TX 1991
ART PROJECTS / FOUNDER / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
TODOS, Houston, TX., http://www.loccart.org/todos 2021-present An experimental film about artist citizenship and political theory.
THE BIO-ART BAYOU-TORIUM, Houston, Texas https://www.bioartbayoutorium.org/ 2018-present A socially engaged bio-art science laboratory/art studio situated on the banks of Buffalo Bayou in Houston’s Second Ward Hispanic neighborhoods. With sponsorship from the Buffalo Bayou Partnership.
L.O.C.C.A.: LAW CENTER for CITIZENSHIP and ART, Houston, TX http://www.loccart.org/ 2015-present A social-practice art project that serves as a law office and a collaborative platform for art and social justice.
THE ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT, Brooklyn, NY http://www.englishkillsproject.com/ 2012-present A socially engaged, bio-art project seeking ecological transformation of a Newtown Creek tributary in Brooklyn, NY.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The BioArt Bayou-torium @ Yolanda Black Navarro Nature Park, Houston, TX, Oct 1-16 2022
The BioArt Bayou-torium @ Yolanda Black Navarro Nature Park, Houston, TX, Oct 2-17 2021
The BioArt Bayou-torium @ Tony Marron Park, Houston, TX, April 13-28 2019
Underwaterscapes, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2018
Patriot Games, Civic TV Laboratories, Houston, TX. 2018
The English Kills Project Presents, The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, NY 2016
Sunview presents The English Kills Project, Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY 2016
Presenting the English Kills Project, Bushwick Open Studios site, Brooklyn, NY 2015
ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY 2014
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Climate Migration, Houston Climate Justice Museum, POSTHTX, Houston TX 2023
Ancestral Echoes: A Decade of Bio Art, School of Visual Art, Manhattan, NYC 2022
The More-Than-Human Anthropocene, Houston Climate Justice Museum @ Rice University 2022
Withstand: Latinx Art in Times of Conflict, Holocaust Museum Houston 2021
Outta Space, SITE Gallery / Silos @ Sawyer Yard, Houston, TX 2019
Lines Drawn, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX 2017
Dia De Los Muertos Festival, Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts, Houston, TX. 2016
Where Is The Art in Bio Art, SVA Flatiron Gallery, NY, NY 2014
AQUA-CULTURE, McKinney Avenue Art Center, Dallas, Texas* 2014
Greenpoint Film Festival, Woven Spaces, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 2013
Electronic Arts Intermix, MFA video screening, New York, NY 2013
Current Practice, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY 2013
Fictitious Truths: Exercises in Realism, Rooster Gallery, NYC 2012
Bushwick Film Festival, Microscope Gallery, The Church/BobbyRedd, Brooklyn, NY 2012
Returning Home, East End Studio Gallery, Houston, Texas 2010
OCTET, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey 2009
AUTHORED ARTICLES
From Darwin to Deepwater: Brandon Ballengée’s “Sculpting Endless Forms” at Redbud Gallery , https://glasstire.com/2023/02/20/from-darwin-to-deepwater-brandon-ballengee-sculpting-endless-forms-at-redbud-gallery/ Feb. 20, 2023
“Made In the Moment”, review of PULP at Jonathan Hopson Gallery, GLASSTIRE, https://glasstire.com/2022/07/23/made-in-the-moment-pulp-at-jonathan-hopson-gallery-houston/ Aug. 7, 2022
“Arts Funding in Pandemic Texas, Part 2”, GLASSTIRE, https://glasstire.com/2020/12/01/arts-funding-in-pandemic-texas-part-2-houston/ Nov. 23, 2020
“Arts Funding in Pandemic Texas, Part 1”, GLASSTIRE, https://glasstire.com/2020/11/23/arts-funding-in-pandemic-texas-part-1/ Dec. 1, 2020
“Slow down and Listen: Lina Dib’s Breakthrough At Space HL”, GLASSTIRE, https://glasstire.com/2019/06/24/slow-down-and-listen-lina-dibs-breakthrough-at-space-hl/ June 24, 2019
“A Vision for a New Houston Museum”, GLASSTIRE, https://glasstire.com/2019/06/03/a-vision-for-a-new-houston-museum/ June 3, 2019
“Who are the Houston Bio-Artists?”, GLASSTIRE, https://glasstire.com/2019/05/27/who-are-the-houston-bio-artists/ May 27, 2019
Contributor to GLASSTIRE’s Top 5: https://glasstire.com/2019/06/13/top-five-june-13-2019-with-henry-g-sanchez/ June 12, 2019
https://glasstire.com/2018/11/29/top-five-november-29-2018-with-henry-g-sanchez/ Nov. 11, 2019
CURATORIAL PROJECTS*
AQUA-CULTURE, McKinney Avenue Art Center, Dallas, Texas 2014 GEO-LOCO, Outpost Resources, Ridgewood, NY 2011 DATA DADA, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY. 2010 OCTET, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (assistant curator) 2009
CONFERENCE, LECTURE & PANELS
8th Annual Bayou Vermillion Symposium, Lafayette, LA. Mar. 31, 2023
Visiting Lecturer @ North Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Nov. 21, 2022
Dwelling Breathing, Dreaming: The Afterlife of Waste, Houston Climate Museum, Houston, TX. Jan. 29, 2022
LAS FRONTERAS: Houston Artists in Nature with Science, L.O.C.C.A., Houston, TX. April 7, 2019
Open Engagement Conference: “What’s the Plan? Artists, Planners and New Models for Civic Decision-Making” University of Illinois in Chicago, Chicago, IL., April 21, 2017
Naturally Hyper-Natural: Visions of Nature, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY Nov. 14-16, 2014
REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA NOTICES
GLASSTIRE Houston, http://glasstire.com/events/2018/03/05/henry-g-sanchez-patriot-game/ 2018
GLASSTIRE, http://glasstire.com/2017/12/18/a-conversation-with-henry-g-sanchez-at-diverseworks/ 2017
BRIC TV: Brooklyn Stories, Brooklyn Arts Media House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfS0xTDVW_M&feature=youtu.be 2016
MUSEE Magazine, Science & Technology Issue, No. 14, pp. 26-27 https://issuu.com/museemagazine/docs/musee_edition_14_final?e=0%2F34394358 2016
ASCI:Art & Science Collaborations Inc., Member of the month of March-April, http://www.asci.org/artikel1476.html 2016
ANTENNAE: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Winter 2015, http://www.antennae.org.uk/ 2015
Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents, 8 Artists to Watch from the Bushwick Open Studios, http://hyperallergic.com/212865/8-artists-to-watch-from-the-2015-bushwick-open-studios/ 2015
Bushwick Daily, “Art, Art Baby: Summer Art Shows to Keep you Sexy”, July 10, http://bushwickdaily.com/2014/07/art-art-baby/ 2014
HONORS
City Initiative Grant, Mayor Office of Cultural Affairs 2023
Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Buffalo Bayou Partnership 2022-23
Idea Fund Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation, DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, Project Row House, for TODOS (film project) 2021
SoA CAMP (School of Art Community Artist Mentorship Program), University of Houston, Artist Mentor during Spring semester 2021
Support for Artists and Creative Individuals, City of Houston’s Houston Arts Alliance 2020
Idea Fund Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation, DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, Project Row House 2019
For BioArt Bayou-torium at Tony Marron Park Let Creativity Happen Grant, City of Houston’s Houston Arts Alliance 2019
BOARDS
Arts Accountability Houston, Advisory Committee 2020-present HALA: Houston Alliance for Latinx Arts 2018- present Houston Latino Non-Profits Organization 2017 – 2019 Greater Houston Coalition for Justice 2017-2019