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