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. trailer: https://vimeo.com/1177152433?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci, 2026
http://www.loccart.org/todos Bilingual, experimental film about artists and political philosophy.
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/ 2015-2022
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/ 2012-2016
A socially engaged, bio-art project seeking ecological transformation of a Newtown Creek tributary in Brooklyn, NY.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
norMAL and unreMARKable, 2-person exhibition with Heather L. Johnson 2026
The BioArt Bayou-torium @ Tony Marron Park, Houston, TX, KBR Kids Day, Oct 19th 2024
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, Texas 2018
The English Kills Project Presents, The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, NY 2016
Sunview presents The English Kills Project, Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY 2016
What Do You Want to See in English Kills?, Kings County Saloon, Brooklyn, NY 2015
Presenting the English Kills Project, Bushwick Open Studios site, Brooklyn, NY 2015
The ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY 2014
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Artist Breakfast, Ruth Street Projects and Stinson House, Houston TX 2026
The Space We Make, Throughline Collective Gallery, Houston, TX 2025
The BIG Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2024
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 in the East End, East End Studio Gallery, Houston TX. 2016
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 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
Bushwick Film Festival, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY 2011
Returning Home, East End Studio Gallery, Houston, Texas 2010
OCTET, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
AUTHORED ARTICLES
From Darwin to Deepwater: Brandon Ballengée’s “Sculpting Endless Forms” at Redbud Gallery Feb. 20, 2023
“Made In the Moment”, review of PULP at Jonathan Hopson Gallery, GLASSTIRE Aug. 7, 2022
https://glasstire.com/2022/07/23/made-in-the-moment-pulp-at-jonathan-hopson-gallery-houston/
“Arts Funding in Pandemic Texas, Part 2”,GLASSTIRE, Nov. 23, 2020
https://glasstire.com/2020/12/01/arts-funding-in-pandemic-texas-part-2-houston/
“Arts Funding in Pandemic Texas, Part 1”,GLASSTIRE, Dec. 1, 2020
https://glasstire.com/2020/11/23/arts-funding-in-pandemic-texas-part-1/
“Slow down and Listen: Lina Dib’s Breakthrough At Space HL”, GLASSTIRE, June 24, 2019
https://glasstire.com/2019/06/24/slow-down-and-listen-lina-dibs-breakthrough-at-space-hl/
“A Vision for a New Houston Museum”, GLASSTIRE, June 3, 2019
https://glasstire.com/2019/06/03/a-vision-for-a-new-houston-museum/
“Who are the Houston Bio-Artists?”, GLASSTIRE, May 27, 2019
https://glasstire.com/2019/05/27/who-are-the-houston-bio-artists/
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, New York 2010
OCTET, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (assistant curator) 2009
CONFERENCE, LECTURE & PANELS
norMAL and unreMARKable, artist talk with Heather L. Johnson, Dr. Weston Twardowski-moderator Jan. 17, 2026
Gulf Coast Connections, National Academy of Science and Rice University Center for Environmental Studies,
Galveston, TX Feb 6-8, 2025
Gulf Coast Scholars Program Conference Workshop, Rice University, Houston, Texas April 11, 2024
Advancing Science Communication and Inspiring Community Action Through Art Science Collaborations,
Gulf of Mexico Conference, Tamp FLA. Feb. 18-20, 2024
Lost and New Horizons: Re-Imagining Houston’s New Ecologies, (a conversation with Jaime Gonzales)
POST, Houston, TX Feb, 29, 2024
DASER, Wonder Workshops, Art and Gulf Futures, National Academy of Science, Jan, 11, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6o5vAo2W0s&list=PLLfdQrZVuMNUvYgiZ9BAnrwgkPTU7ejkV&index=10
8th Annual Bayou Vermillion Symposium, Lafayette, LA. Mar. 31, 2023
Visiting Lecture @ North Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona Nov. 21, 2022
Dwelling Breathing, Dreaming: The Afterlife of Waste, Houston Climate Justice Museum, Houston. Jan. 29, 2022
LAS FRONTERAS: Houston Artists in Nature with Science, L.O.C.C.A., Houston, TX. April 7, 2019
Contemporary Art Appreciation, Instructor – David McClain, Houston Community College 2017
Open Engagement Conference: “What’s the Plan? Artists, Planners and New Models for Apr. 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. 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfS0xTDVW_M&feature=youtu.be
MUSEE Magazine, Science & Technology Issue, No. 14, pp. 26-27 2016
https://issuu.com/museemagazine/docs/musee_edition_14_final?e=0%2F34394358
ASCI:Art & Science Collaborations Inc., Member of the month of March-April, 2016
http://www.asci.org/artikel1476.html
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 2015
Bushwick Open Studios, http://hyperallergic.com/212865/8-artists-to-watch-from-the-2015-bushwick-open-studios/
Bushwick Daily, “Art, Art Baby: Summer Art Shows to Keep you Sexy”, July 10, 2014
http://bushwickdaily.com/2014/07/art-art-baby/
Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Buffalo Bayou Partnership 2022-present
Idea Fund Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation, DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, Project Row House 2021
For TODOS, experimental film project
SoA CAMP (School of Art Community Artist Mentorship Program), University of Houston 2021
Artist Mentor during Spring semester 2022
Support for Artists and Creative Individuals Grant, 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
Throughline Collective 2024-present
Arts Takes Action Houston, Advisory Committee 2017-present
HALA: Houston Alliance for Latinx Arts 2018-2024
Arts Accountability Houston, Advisory Committee 2020-2025
Houston Latino Non-Profits Organization 2017–2019
Greater Houston Coalition for Justice 2017-2019